The Global War on Terror 5.0: Putin on the Risk

[SteveP]

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Question for you, Steve. How armed are regular Canadian beat cops? Do they have a sidearm or not? Just wondering. Thanks.

Patrol officers carry semi-auto sidearms. It's been 21 years since I left the Toronto force, so some agencies may now have patrol officers with shotguns and MP5 or other rifles. The last couple of years I worked I carried a shotgun in the trunk. Not sure, but the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary didn't carry sidearms, but that may have changed.

Ooops -- Thanks Wiki --- As a result of the recommendations of the Select Committee on the Arming Policy of the RNC, members on operational duty were permitted to wear sidearms starting June 14, 1998.

Watching BBC on the TV. Avoiding US taking heads

I already want to reach through the TV and strangle Shep Smith.

[MountieBoyOz]

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Question for you, Steve. How armed are regular Canadian beat cops? Do they have a sidearm or not? Just wondering. Thanks.

[joecct]

Streaming CBC radio coverage here.

The former President approves

@dick_nixon: The CBC coverage of the Ottawa shootings is everything that an American broadcaster would not do. Cold, patient, factual.

[MountieBoyOz]

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I just saw vid from the Globe and Mail of the shootout. Wow. Chilling.

Kepler, I switched to CBC radio during my errands.

[joecct]

Streaming CBC radio coverage here.

Watching BBC on the TV. Avoiding US taking heads

[Kepler]

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Streaming CBC radio coverage here.

[MountieBoyOz]

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NHL postpones Leafs-Sens game. Right move.

BTW, the video of the shooting in the hallway of the Parliament building -- the Conservative and NDP parties were caucusing on either side of that corridor.

I listened in on the radio because I enjoy the Canadian music stations. Wow. Just awful. I hope they get the parties responsible and everyone is safe.

[SteveP]

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NHL postpones Leafs-Sens game. Right move.

BTW, the video of the shooting in the hallway of the Parliament building -- the Conservative and NDP parties were caucusing on either side of that corridor.

[JF_Gophers]

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NHL app has tonight's Sens game as postponed.

[SteveP]

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Government confirms that the soldier shot at the War Memorial has died.

[SteveP]

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From Leafs radio guy Joe Bowen.

What is truly sad is that Parliament Hill will now become as secure as the Capitol.

These Colours Do Not Run! True North Strong and Free!!! pic.twitter.com/WynfFl3z3g

— Joe Bowen (@BonsieTweets) October 22, 2014

[SteveP]

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Purely speculation on my part, but who wants to place odds on the impetus for this attack being a retaliation for Canada adding its six F-18 and entire pea shooter collection to the fight against ISIS?

No doubt -- ISIS called on jihadis to kill infidels, including we Canadians.

According to Tarek Fatah, three female jihadis are back in the country and running loose in my hometown.

Lost in the horror of these murders that some are still referring to as a “possible” terrorist attack, was the news on Saturday that three Muslim girls of Somali heritage, who wanted to travel to the Mideast and join ISIS in Syria as wives of jihadis, were back home and free.

The Toronto Star reported the teenage girls’ parents had tipped off the RCMP, who arranged to apprehend the teens in Turkey and return them to Toronto.

What was particularly disturbing was that instead of arresting and charging these three ISIS recruits, the RCMP simply sent them back into the community, under the care of their parents.

[Kepler]

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Reports now of three separate shooting incidents

This report suggests the same gunman who did the War Memorial shooting then ran to the Parliament, which from Google Earth looks only a block away. I don't know how far the Rideau Center, where the third shooting took place, is from the Parliament Hill complex.

Edit: The Rideau Center is a short distance away on the same street (Wellington).

[joecct]

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Canada government confirms that the soldier shot at the War Memorial has died.

http://youtu.be/Az7vnIf2nXs

[St. Clown]

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Purely speculation on my part, but who wants to place odds on the impetus for this attack being a retaliation for Canada adding its six F-18 and entire pea shooter collection to the fight against ISIS?