Shock! Horror! American gun lobby group helps Canadian counterparts!
By Michael Petrou - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 0 Comments
Last night the CBC reported that America’s National Rifle Association has cooperated with Canadian lobby groups opposing the gun registry. The NRA hasn’t spent any money in Canada, but Canadian gun advocate Tony Bernardo says it has given “logistical support” to a Canadian lobby group and “they freely give us anything else,” although he did not elaborate.
How did CBC’s Senior Investigative Correspondent Diana Swain uncover this scandalous bit of information? Bernardo said so in a published interview a decade ago. Continue…
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Excusing the men who ran away
By Mark Steyn - Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM - 225 Comments
The new film ‘Polytechnique’ sidesteps the old norm of ‘women and children first’
On the annual commemoration of the “Montreal Massacre,” the Quebec broadcaster Marie-France Bazzo remarked how strange it was that, after all these years, nobody had made a work of art about what happened that day at the École Polytechnique.
I wonder, in the two decades since Dec. 6, 1989, how many novelists, playwrights, film directors have tried, and found themselves stumped at the first question: what is this story about?
