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13-Apr 09: Time to Scrap the Gun Registry
Category: General Posted by: ryan
The debate over the Federal Firearms Registry has been reignited and there may finally be an opportunity to see the end of the ineffective and expensive program that has victimized and criminalized Saskatchewan firearms owners since the 1990s.

The Registry was imposed upon law-abiding gun owners by the federal government despite strong opposition from Saskatchewan. One of the strongest voices in opposition to the Registry was the Saskatchewan Liberal Party under the leadership of Dr. Lynda Haverstock, and that opposition remains to this day.

Individuals across Canada are being given the false impression that firearms registration means less family violence, less suicide, less accidental death and injury, and less crime committed with firearms. Another excuse used to justify the Registry is that it will protect their lives and their property.

Presenting the firearms registry as an effective mechanism to accomplish these objectives is deceptive and malicious. It creates a false sense of security and results in greater cynicism, anger and resentment among gun owners and taxpayers alike. There is no evidence to suggest that the Registry has been able to reduce crime and make our streets safer. Instead, it has created yet another bureaucracy with excessive public spending that would even make the overspending, big-government Saskatchewan Party or NDP blush.

Law-abiding Canadians should have the right to enjoy the use of guns that they own if those firearms are acquired legally. Guns are property owned by individuals that should be entitled to the same protection under the law as any other legally-obtained property. The Gun Registry has turned law-abiding gun owners across Canada into criminals, and has made them suspect in the eyes of the federal government for owning legally-obtained property.

The real travesty is that we are not addressing the real causes of crime. The Gun Registry is not only a waste of time and resources, but is yet another example of authoritarian approaches to solving problems. Addressing the root causes of crime would be a far more effective use of taxpayer dollars.

This debate has been used to polarize rural and urban voters against each other. Comparisons between handguns in urban centres and the use of long guns on the prairies are outlandish. Firearms have been used as tools in Saskatchewan for decades. Our province has a disproportionate number of firearms that have been used for a wide variety of purposes due to our disproportionate number of farm families and Aboriginal people compared to the rest of Canada.

All parts of Canada are not the same. We have similarities, but we also have individuality and differences. Unfortunately, when it comes to the Registry, there has not been an appreciation of those differences. The massive majority of people who are firearms owners in Saskatchewan are law-abiding citizens who would probably support the program if they actually believed it would improve their personal safety and quality of life. Instead, Saskatchewan firearms owners are victimized and criminalized as ‘gun-toting rednecks’ by a paternalistic government.

It is time for all of our federal parliamentarians to come together to abolish the Gun Registry once and for all.

It is time to revisted this!

This issue needs to be revisted, again, again until it comes too be Station 20 West
Here is an Update

Station 20 West is back on track and moving forward. The support of thousands of people across Saskatoon and beyond has made the difference.

SUN support for Station 20 West
Station 20 West presents the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) with a commemorative picture in recognition of their $100,000 donation.


With a renewed energy and commitment to our goal of building an integrated service centre that includes the Good Food Junction, a locally owned grocery cooperative, we will break ground in May 2009.

Station 20 West remains the engine for economic renewal of Saskatoon’s Core neighborhoods—balancing financial sustainability with enhanced social and environmental outcomes.

The Building and Grounds
Phase 1 is a 19,000 square foot, two storey building with an estimated cost to the shell of $3 million. The grounds will include welcoming green spaces, an open air stage and places for people to gather and connect with each other as they visit the library, buy groceries or participate in one of the many programs and services that will be delivered at Station 20 West.

Phase 2 will be the addition of a multi-purpose community room on the east side of the main building.

The Affordable Housing Development with 55 units, immediately north of the Station 20 West site is almost complete with occupancy slated to begin very soon. Contact the Saskatoon Housing Authority for more information at 668-2700. The new Branch of the Saskatoon Library will be located on the main floor of the housing development.

Come on Board as we head into the station—Station 20 West. Make a donation and be part of shaping Saskatoon’s future.

Hey Saskatchewan ! I was born here I am getting paid to stay here too?

Alot good press Mr. Wall The East know where we are!it looks good. Now starting helping the those who need it.

Saskatchewan on the big stage ! look at this http://www.thestar.com/article

Sask. Premier recruits at Toronto job fair
TAMARA KING

The Canadian Press

April 2, 2009

TORONTO -- What do an unemployed coffee shop waitress, a laid-off truck driver and a recently certified welder have in common?

They are all from southern Ontario, they are all looking for work, and they are all considering a move to Saskatchewan to find it.

Desperate job seekers lined up in droves yesterday at a Toronto job fair that had a high-profile visitor: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.

At a time when other provinces are seeing massive layoffs, analysts forecast job growth in Saskatchewan this year.


The message is one Mr. Wall is keen to spread in hard-hit Ontario; it's his second visit to Toronto in six months to recruit workers.

He had a captive audience. Thousands of people lined up at a downtown convention centre for the career fair, which was full of Saskatchewan employers.

For Robert Smith, a truck driver who's been laid off since November, it doesn't take a visit from the Premier to convince him to move west.

"That's where the jobs seem to be," said Mr. Smith, 59. "There's nothing here anymore."

The small trucking company he worked for once employed 10 drivers. It's down to two people, he said.

"That's it. He had to lay all of us off because there's just no work. He can't get any contracts to keep the people working."

Preston Newman, 40, a recently certified welder, has been looking for work for six months without any luck. Mr. Newman has considered leaving his wife behind in Toronto to move to Saskatchewan.

"If I have to do it to make the money, I will have to do it," he said.

Saskatchewan has added appeal for Mr. Newman because the provincial government recently changed a tuition rebate program to include recent graduates from out-of-province.

Under the plan, some graduates can receive up to $20,000 in tax rebates over seven years.

"We've been very generous with sharing our citizens with the rest of our country; we'd like them to come home," Mr. Wall said.