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CORE Hunter Education Course
CORE Hunter Education Course
Complete the BC CORE hunter education course and get your FWID. Required for your hunting licence and LEH applications. In-person and online options across BC. Book now.
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Episode 189 | Jun 30, 2026Wildlife artist Casey Braam gives his paintings away to strangers who track him down in the wild. He and Travis talk spring bear hunting and seeing the world clearly.
Episode 188 | Jun 16, 2026Get your Authorization to Carry guide: https://www.silvercore.ca/authorization-to-carry
Blair Hagen has spent 30 years fighting Canada's firearms laws, and now, days after the National Firearms Association lost its president Rick Igercich, he is the one holding it together. In this episode of the Silvercore Podcast, Travis Bader sits down with Hagen, executive vice president and now acting president of the NFA, for a clear-eyed look at where Canada's gun fight actually stands in 2026: the assault-style firearm confiscation, the Order in Council (OIC) bans, the handgun freeze, and the amnesty that keeps getting extended because almost no one is complying. Hagen survived two armed robberies behind the counter of a Vancouver gun store, then was refused a permit to protect himself. He explains why firearms in Canada get banned for how they look rather than what they do, why a serious gun charge is the first thing a prosecutor drops, why the numbers behind the confiscation do not add up, and the one thing every gun owner can actually do that works. What we get into: Why "assault-style firearm" is a political marketing term, not a legal one The "comply or become a criminal" trap inside the current buyback Estates, the handgun freeze, and how a widow loses a collection's value The NFA Save Firearms program and storing prohibited firearms legally Whether you can still buy and transfer a handgun in Canada, and where an Authorization to Carry fits in Whether you have owned firearms your whole life or have never touched one, this is a conversation about property, rights, and who decides what is yours.
Find the NFA: https://nfa.ca NFA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/national_firearms_association/ NFA on Facebook: https://facebook.com/NFACANADA NFA on X: https://x.com/CanadasNFA
Episode 187 | Jun 2, 2026Jeff Evely served 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He came home, retired to his hometown in Cape Breton, and within months found himself arrested at a war memorial he was trying to guard, then later fined nearly $29,000 for walking in the woods during a Nova Scotia fire ban.
He fought back. And he won.
In this conversation, Travis sits down with Jeff to unpack the $29,000 ticket, the court win against the Nova Scotia government, the trucker convoy and Rolling Thunder arrests, and what it actually takes for one person to push back against institutions that have stopped listening. They also get into the Fourth Turning, stoicism, Carl Sagan and skepticism, the limits of the courts, why politics is downstream from culture, and the deepest personal cost Jeff has paid for standing on principle.
A conversation about courage, consequences, and what it costs to hold the line.
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