PUBLICATION:        The Ottawa Citizen

DATE:                         2003.06.07

EDITION:                    Final

SECTION:                  News

PAGE:                         B7

SOURCE:                   CanWest News Service

NOTE:                        Short Cuts

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Firing too many blanks

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The Provinces: Excerpts from editorials that appeared this week in CanWest newspapers across the land.

Muzzle the Gun Registry

Vancouver Province: A thumbs- down to the federal firearms registry, which continues to fire blanks while racking up millions more dollars in massive cost overruns.

Solicitor General Wayne Easter admitted this week that recent computer crashes may have deleted some gun owners' names from the registry. Earlier this week, Ontario and Nova Scotia joined Alberta, Saskat-chewan and Manitoba in refusing to prosecute gun owners who break the law by failing to register their weapons.

Maybe, it's time to muzzle the entire project.

 

PUBLICATION:              Calgary Herald

DATE:                         2003.06.09

EDITION:                    Final

SECTION:                  Opinion

PAGE:                         A10

SOURCE:                   CanWest News Services

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Other Voices: Excerpts from recent editorials in CanWest papers

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Muzzle the gun registry

A thumbs-down to the federal firearms registry, which continues to fire blanks while racking up millions more dollars in massive cost overruns.

Solicitor General Wayne Easter admitted last week that recent computer crashes may have deleted some gun owners' names from the registry. Earlier in the week, Ontario and Nova Scotia joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in refusing to prosecute gun owners who break the law by failing to register their weapons.

Maybe it's time to muzzle the entire project.

Vancouver Province