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https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pkyank/alberta-jason-kenney-considering-creating-civilian-militia-to-support-police
The reading of the motion can be seen here as well as a response from NDP MLA Rod Loyola.
http://assemblyonline.assembly.ab.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20200622/-1/13938?fbclid=IwAR3j3IzR6GSw4MvnkJWNzZ8SbJRb1E3o-c83Li-SJf_kUUtayfwYzcSYf38 set time stamp at 3:50:54 to hear the reading.
Motion wording is as such
"Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the Minister of Justice and
Solicitor General to explore options to establish a voluntary civilian corps to
assist law enforcement in Alberta."
What exactly would a voluntary civilian corp look like and what powers they may have was not mentioned but I share the same concerns that Rod Loyola brought up.
Did not see Alberta Militia on my 2020 bingo card
MWO: Adamski
War of 1812 but probably a decent amount. They did burn down parts of York (Toronto) after all and basically try to annex both Canadas for a couple years. The real question is if the anti-American sentiment would have died down by the civil war, but it's not unlikely that the rebels would receive a better welcome
Apparently they tased him and hit him with a beanbag gun which didn't work; they were yelling at him in English ... which he didn't speak. Crisis teams were already on other calls - there's only two in operation in that area at a time. The family are arguing they should have been able to go speak to him, but that seems really naive when he was that escalated and in possession of a weapon, seems like a solid way to get someone stabbed. Curious to see what SIU winds up finding.
'Asked if it would support calls to free up money from police budgets for more health-care-driven response teams, or removing police from the role of responding in crisis altogether, a spokesperson for Ontario's Minister of the Solicitor General pointed to $6.95 million in funding for new mobile crisis teams announced over the past year.'
If $6.95m is province wide that feels embarrassingly low. We keep saying it shouldn't be the police responding to these things, but at the same time in cases where there's a weapon involved, you're probably going to have to have the police involved so a mental health worker doesn't wind up getting stabbed instead of the participant getting shot.
edit: another one in BC too, with some video.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelowna-rcmp-surveillance-video-wellness-check-lawsuit-1.5623215
I think they are just straight up belligerently using the wrong tool and also not waiting, like how freaking hard is it to just maintain distance till others arrive than taking another PoC's life in under 5 seconds after breaking in through the balcony instead of letting the family say calming words through the front door. Take them off the task they are so clearly failing at and take the funding for it too, move it to specialist mental health man trappers and shields. Like at this point, almost every day Joe's off the street are more qualified than the cops at not killing people on a wellness check, its sickening when one really starts to poke into this horrifying history in Canada.
The guy has a knife and is alone in his home? Just wait him out ffs
I would rather gamble on the police trying to talk him out and he commits suicide, than them rushing in and putting everything and everyone at more risk.
MWO: Adamski
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I used to play broomball with an RCMP guy (or at least former RCMP, can't remember now if he was still working at the time) who talked about the dumb shit he'd had to deal with on some of his assignments. And I remember him describing one idiot basically getting drunk and taking his family hostage. And so they pull up at the front of his house at the end of the driveway and they are yelling at each other back and forth. And then they send someone around back and manage to sneak the wife and kid out the back door. And then they just ... waited. I remember him telling us, well, he was drunk, he's got a loaded gun, but there's no one else in the house with him anymore. so .... you just wait. He can't hurt anyone but himself, so why rush in? The whole story in fact was basically a joke about how they had to stay up all night waiting on this idiot and the guy fucking passed out on the couch at some point during the night and got to actually get some sleep.
Beyond just "Why are cops doing wellness checks in the first place?" issues, so many of these situations really do seem like you could just get everyone else out of harm's way and then just fucking wait it out.
Examples like these I have stumbled across is how I arrived at the idea:
I would welcome a western study on the subject but as you can tell, I've already gotten some notion they are effective. I don't know the exact origins but it seems to be a concept that has actually been around quite some time when it comes to dealing with an armed person.
So they are adding financial education from grate 1 to 8 with a focus on budget-making, savings, and financial planning. And they're adding programming from grade 1, including a portion on data collection and analysis.
This being the Ford alt-right government I expected a trap, but... those seem like really useful new things to teach that have been long overdue to add to the curriculum.
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as a mouthpiece for the student credit card predatory loan industry, i must say that educating students about finances and budgeting sets a dangerous precedent and robs them of the opportunity to learn about unrecoverable debt firsthand
Can we just re-deidcate it? Peter Falk deserves a province named after him.
I’m less concerned with their effectiveness and more concerned with giving police another toy that they can use in place of communication, patience, and understanding.
MWO: Adamski
Seems like it would be a good opportunity to get away from a two part name.
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Origin of the name British Columbia
Origin of the Columbia River name
Columbia Reiviva
Rename Baja California to Bass California, and Oregon and Washington are now combined into Alto California.
This plan is simple and orderly and paves the way to a unified Left Coast.
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Lol.
Also, using something from the First Nations is right out, 'cause there's more than one. As exemplified by the fact that the Fraser river has multiple names, and I had to use the good old trick of using the Latin translation of the meaning of one of them to solve conflict between languages.
(Acipenseridae Minor means "First things you traverse when travelling on the sturgeon river")
Prince Edward Island needs to get with the "New" picture already. Maybe go with "Baby Prince Edward Island"?
Salish-Shidhe Council
Was never part of that community (I googled it).
Question: Is Shidhe pronounced the same as Sidhe?
Then I looked it up, and of course, Shadowrun:
https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Salish-Shidhe_Council
what the fuck is this
The Provincy McProvinceface of the 90s.