Amazon and Walmart Canada have so far ignored the NDP government’s requests to restrict the online sale of machetes to Manitobans, the province says.
The major distributors haven’t responded to two letters from the provincial government — issued Dec. 6, 2024, and Feb. 6, 2025 — asking them to “comply with the intent” of provincial legislation when selling machetes and other long-bladed weapons online, the government confirmed.
The new provincial rules, which came into effect Dec. 31 and only apply to in-store sales, require businesses to sell the items only to adults with photo identification, and to keep records of their sales for two years.
They must also keep the items stored in a way that prevents shoppers from accessing them without assistance.
Yes, I already knew that and there is nothing wrong with that.
That is because they are outdoor sporting items that basically every single person should carry when going into the wilderness along with other survival equipment.
“The new provincial rules, which came into effect Dec. 31 and only apply to in-store sales, require businesses to sell the items only to adults with photo identification, and to keep records of their sales for two years.”
Tell me how the new law safeguards people from machete attacks, and then explain why baseball bats, pocket knives, kitchen knives, golf clubs, scissors, etc, etc, etc aren’t being restricted in the same way for “safety” reasons when all of those items are commonly used in attacks.
Because Winnipeg has massive issues with machetes being used to assault and murder people.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/machete-attack-north-kildonan-winnipeg-1.7365355
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-machete-attack-youth-1.7293946
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/machete-attack-elmwood-1.7419911
https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/arrests-made-in-machete-attacks-involving-youth-winnipeg-police/
https://winnipegsun.com/news/crime/man-attacked-with-machete-bear-spray-in-a-park-near-main-street
https://retirement-republic.com/machete-attack-erupts-over-rent-dispute-in-winnipeg-suspect-arrested-for-assault/
https://globalnews.ca/news/10091659/manitoba-rcmp-machete-assault-home-invasion/
https://winnipegsun.com/news/local-news/kenora-man-arrested-for-machete-attack-near-bus-stop
https://winnipegsun.com/news/crime/15-year-old-boy-charged-with-aggravated-assault-after-youth-stabbed-seriously-injured
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2551460351639872&id=100064335803941 (FB post from Winnipeg Police)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/second-degree-murder-canon-beardy-1.4445641
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-homicide-rates-2021-statistics-canada-1.6659655
I do not think machetes are the problem, but you do you.
Herein lies the problem. There are facts in the news article that you seem to be ignoring.
Like the fact that if you take away machetes people from Manitoba can and will find a way to kill one another, because they have the number 2 homicide rate in the country, so wasting time on banning a single possible weapon is pointless when it obviously isn’t the issue?
Where in the article did you see that Manitoba wanted to ban machetes?
I’ll wait.
Move that goal post you keep shuffling around into the middle of the street and play net if you want to make the world a better place. Works better than senselessly arguing with someone online about the merits of “Documenting sales and keeping age restricted items behind the counter” to solve deeply ingrained social issues.
You don’t have much to say now I guess.
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I like the Voyager app because it lets me add a private label to accounts. That way I can label accounts that are obviously trolls or fascists or w.e, but not so far off the handle that I feel the need to block them. Like the person you replied to! I labelled as “Daft C**t” with their own personalised colour for the tag months ago.
That way I can see right away that whatever I’m about to read is gonna be wild, and feels intentionally contrarian! Like this! Guy asks how laws passed to track who is buying machetes could possibly have an impact on curbing machete attacks. It feels like our erstwhile friend here is being intentionally thick. But it almost always does.
Handy feature that.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/man-attacked-with-baseball-bat-1.964745
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-beating-death-nets-life-sentences-for-2-men-1.3001720
https://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/brandon-man-charged-after-random-baseball-bat-attack
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-rcmp-the-pas-stabbing-injuries-1.7089921
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lockdown-lifted-violent-night-northern-first-nation-1.7297629
Sure are a lot of attacks with other weapons.
“In order to curb violence, he said there needs to be more social supports, job opportunities, anti-violence training and community support.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-homicide-rates-2021-statistics-canada-1.6659655
When you are the number 2 province in homicides, restricting individual items that are used as weapons is a colossal waste of time and resources. Silly goose.