Handsome Rob

How is that defined? Administrative.

Wow. So for a non-lawyer, how is this possible? That sounds indictable, and it sounds a lot like criminal law. How is it possible that the government of Ontario is empowered to do this without ultra vires applying?

Blind to the danger are you?

Now here comes my curiosity; I've only been a firearms owner for about 6 or 7 years, but never once signed for ammo. Some sort of store policy? Provincial law? (Is that possible?)

How much in credit derivatives were sold against Greek debt? It may turn out to be more than just German & French banks.

Can't say I really care for that database to be published for all either: http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/rapidfire/form.html

The whining is over spending a large sum, however great or small, on an error prone bureaucracy, which has only accomplished the goal of pissing off law abiding citizens and making criminals where none exist. I don't care if it's a thousand, a million or a billion, that money could be better spent funding health care, social services, overdue military acquisition, paying off the deficit, etc. A thousand and one of these million dollar programs is the foundation of a deficit. If it saves lives, by all means spend the money, but the registry definitely doesn't fit in that category.

Solution for that, however obtuse: http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt289/dankcincy/307863_10150344182269034_640864033_7882137_1382861663_n.jpg

It's like the bike helmet law. How do you police it? There are thousands of violations, and the cops have better things to do, by the time it gets invoked its too late and a school massacre has happened. Gun control resources need to be put into things like: -General anti-crime provisions. Education, socioeconomic improvement. Obvious answer. -Firearms act says a non restricted rifle in a plastic case with a pad lock under your couch is proper storage. It's not! Even moving beyond the obvious security and theft, the greater the barrier, the less likely it is to be used. A crappy-tire (un)safe should be the minimum, condition of issuance for a PAL. -Acquiring a PAL is too easy. Private instructor in your living room, "B, C, A, B....." It should be administered by the RCMP or similar, on a government controlled level. There should be a paid professional to say, "somethings not right here, attach a note on his file and do some digging." Instead it's, "He paid, answered all the questions, here's the signature." Lot's of examples like that, Canada's gun laws seem to be built on 'feel good' rather than 'do good.' Guns need to be treated with respect, not fear.

No, it doesn't. It says they can't be used in the firearm in their designed capacity, they're pinned to only accept the legal amount of ammunition. I've got a half dozen 30 round M-305 mags, pinned at 5. Even more 10 round+ 9mm mags. CBSA does not care, for their purposes a pin through the body is plenty sufficient. I do this because I'm a law abiding citizen, but it's a major PITA for things like IPSC. The law states: (4) A cartridge magazine described in subsection (1) that has been altered or re-manufactured so that it is not capable of containing more than five or ten cartridges, as the case may be, of the type for which it was originally designed is not a prohibited device as prescribed by that subsection if the modification to the magazine cannot be easily removed and the magazine cannot be easily further altered so that it is so capable of containing more than five or ten cartridges, as the case may be. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), altering or re-manufacturing a cartridge magazine includes (a) the indentation of its casing by forging, casting, swaging or impressing; ( in the case of a cartridge magazine with a steel or aluminum casing, the insertion and attachment of a plug, sleeve, rod, pin, flange or similar device, made of steel or aluminum, as the case may be, or of a similar material, to the inner surface of its casing by welding, brazing or any other similar method; or © in the case of a cartridge magazine with a casing made of a material other than steel or aluminum, the attachment of a plug, sleeve, rod, pin, flange or similar device, made of steel or of a material similar to that of the magazine casing, to the inner surface of its casing by welding, brazing or any other similar method or by applying a permanent adhesive substance, such as a cement or an epoxy or other glue. Tin snips puts an end to that. Getting HiCap mags is easier than finding 5.56 ammo.

I quite agree, but a mag capacity limit does nothing to prevent death. It's like saying a speed limit prevents fatal collisions because of lesser energy. Works great unless you speed, nothing to prevent you from doing it. If you're committing murder I'm fairly certain a citation and confiscation for a minor infraction such as this isn't really going to concern you.

That's like saying the gun registry prevents the person from owning guns in the first place. It still counts on the person acting in good faith. Even if Hi-cap mags didn't exist, or weren't importable, reloading is easy enough.

RE: Magazine capacity. On what basis? What purpose does it serve? It's essentially un-enforcable, hi-capacity mags are everywhere anyway, just pinned to comply with regulations. If somebody wanted to commit misdeeds, ignoring that regulation would take less effort than reading it in the first place.

How can you be in a position to discuss gun control in Canada when you're not even familiar with the most basic of firearms regulations?

http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/investor/reports.html Cost in millions: 2007 - Aircraft maintenance, materials and supplies 173 2008 - Aircraft maintenance 157 Getting paid money to save money? Where is the evidence that ACTS was profitable for them? It isn't Aeroplan. When MTE contracts expire in 2013, what is stopping them from moving much of it to a more cost friendly location? It's going to be ugly, but to save AC I think it is going to take drastic measures.

-You think operating costs in Montreal are cheaper than Calgary for HQ? YUL is one of the most expensive bases in the country. -Keeping three heavy maintanance bases open when one will do, and most US competition has none. (El Salvador) They were lucky to get to Aveos subcontracting, but it still costs more. -Guaranteeing french service for some 7,000 FA's that can only work 80 hrs a month isn't cheap. -Printing of all materials from in flight magazines that change monthly to in flight safety cards in two languages, no Aeroplan generic mass production, we need a custom order. Not going to start on cockpit materials like SOP/COM. -Settling of lawsuits from asinine passengers who weren't offered a 7up en francais. WestJet's profit in Q3 just over 30 million dollars, for an arbitrary number say 200 million a year. All these little things can add up very quickly to overtake the razor thin profit margins like that. Especially in a company encumbered by more DB pensioners than employees...

Are you old enough to have made a pension contribution? (I assume you're not referring to CPP) Doesn't seem like it.

Yeah...that 0.7% margin, they're killing it. $4 billion on $598, across 238 carriers. Wonder what it looks like with things like middle eastern state owned carriers removed. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-06/airline-profits-forecast-cut-54-by-iata-on-japan-quake-rising-fuel-costs.html

Yeah, worked out for AC when they hedged their fuel, and the price plummets. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=80c8a9a1-25e0-41b4-a707-05ce458a3420

I agree with you on principal, we in the west are all spoiled. However suggesting that it's just standard of living increasing in the developing world does not explain things like the suicide nets put up around FoxCon's factories. Not to suggest that every job shipped overseas results in that, but a good number of them certainly do.

What happened after Axel failed to show Guns N' Roses? Why did the monster trucks promise they're never coming back? How much does it cost to police the fireworks every year? This might be the worst, but it's not exactly new.

Air Canada was as of late, so short on liquid cash, 773's were rolling out of the factory, being repainted, and promptly re-leased to raise money.

Unskilled labor means anybody can be pulled in off the street and trained to do it in a manner of weeks. I don't begrudge them a penny with the roller coaster they've been through, and the crap they put up with on a daily basis, but it's still unskilled labor.

Well bollocks to that misinformation, pension dispute to go to arbitration. Suspect it'll mean the same thing in the end anyway.

On local radio, I was listening to a retired VPD cop with family still serving on the force. One sided, but he was flapping about budget and manpower cuts, and the boots on ground were desperate for more hands, but the powers that be wouldn't allow it. Would not surprise me at all, be interesting to see the report when it's done.