Is Sun News feeling a little sheepish

[mustardman]

Sun news is not Journalism , it like Fox news and John Gormley it is simply rumour,gossip and lies, entertaining BUT not NEWS.
Does more harm than good spreading Misinformation. Unfortunately many of the American problems can be traced back to lies on foxy. Hopefully we are Smarter here.

[charliep]

Should leave alone but I wonder 10 years from now what the defining moment and memories of this tragedy will be? The removal of guns from some homes? The devastation it caused families in the impacted communities? The way people responded in helping their neighbors? The way people responded in rebuilding their lives after what is likely almost the ultimate human tragedy - loosing a home? There will have been mistakes made but ultimately, 95 % plus will have been good decisions in world of no perfect answers. The 5 % or whatever will be things that can be learned from.

[burnt]

charliep, you made a very reasonable comment.

I'm sure that the scope of the tragedy will always overshadow what were some bad decisions made by a few in the pressure of the moment.

Not sure how one would trust again when we see how easily things that we take for granted - life, liberty and the enjoyment of one's property - can be taken away so suddenly.

[burnt]

Oops, except now that the RCMP has raised the stakes in the game they started.

A pox upon their houses.

[cottonpicken]

Well its illegal for children to sell lemonade in some
parts of north america.

It will probably take something you lose personally to
change your bias on what powers the state should
have.

[ColevilleH2S]

I wonder if the RCMP realize how much
goodwill and social license they pissed
away with these break, enter, and
seizures. The harm they did to their
brand, far outweighs any theoretical
crime they prevented.

[wd9]

I wonder if they also realize how their
actions could affect future evacuations
where people will spend time hiding their
shit from a home invasion by the police
rather then getting out and living?

[charliep]

You mean like their pot plants? That would go along
ways to explaining every paranoia here. They tell me
smoking too much weed contributes to schizophrenia.

[parsley]

I Do. Not. Approve. of RCMP bashing down
doors without search warrants charliep, and my
opinion is neither enhanced nor diminished by the
plants you reference; I've never smoked weed,

Not surprising that those told to defend the AB
govt's order to invade homes will pull out the old
humiliation and alienation tactics.

Unfortunately,applying scarlet lipstick on the
Alberta pig that sent the RCMP out rooting
through flooded homes aint pretty, but instead
made a lot of Canadians shudder in horror.

[charliep]

To remind you the primary goal at that time was to establish whether people were still in their houses when an evacuation notice had been given under the powers of the Emergency Measures Act. I highlight the pictures of people being rescued from their houses by combine, gravel truck, etc. The town had a mandatory evacuation notice that was being enforced. The risk was people being left behind in very unsafe conditions and perhaps paying the ultimate price of stupidity. From wd9 standpoint, any stupid enough to do that deserves to die (Darwin's theory) but that is another debate.