What a coincidence…..only one week before elections.
Like in Germany…
Just have a look to the countries in the western world. And each time it was the extrem right wing parties that could profit from these attacks. Putin is opening the champagne bottle
What people like Trump don't get or won't accept is that things like what happened in Vancouver last night are due to them. That guy didn't into that SUV and do what he did on his own. People don't go to schools and kill children on their own. Look in the mirror Donald, you're part of the problem!
Yup, Jeff loves this. More fuel for the next hillbilly taliban occupation of Ottawa. Bring those nazi flags and start terrorizing everyone who doesn't support White Nationalism and hate for any brown, black, gay, trans peeps. The right wing LOVES the violence.
We have to vote his hateful ass out tomorrow and begin deprogramming. I have no doubt that is part of the Liberal mental health plan. It has to be addressed or we will become the 51st.
And the evil that sits in the Whitehouse, spreads like a cancerous tumor to our allies, our neighbors. It hurts my heart to see this. Especially to another closely knit community.
Did you look up the previous conversation where another user and myself said we didn't understand the context? Or did you just rush to post the article just to be right?
Unfortunately yes and don't forget about the Freedom Convoy in 2022, with another hate group which the conservative leader basically took care of, while they were in Ottawa during their blockade.
But this driver is most likely mentally unstable.
During elections, a lot of hostile rhetoric doesn't help. Mentally unstable people get triggered by it.
Racism/Nationalism is worldwide. There were protests in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu for months before the Hamas attacks. Nazis gathered in Ireland yesterday. This is a worldwide problem.
Fear of the “other” when the “other” is simply us in brown skin. Humans have always migrated to find better living conditions, as they do now. We need to find ways to spread the wealth, counter the devastation of global warming so that humans can live purposefully and peacefully wherever they are.
"no evidence that it is a terrorist attack" as police investigate a 30 year old driver who may have mental health issues. It's not been released if he had a criminal record but the suspect reportedly was "known" to police.
Seriously dude? Use your common sense. Maybe if this happened multiple times a day, they would put in better, stricter restrictions for driving. For example, taking away your car/driving privileges if you were involved in any crime.
Seems like some wretched copycat terrorist imitation of what goes on to their southern border. 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Solidarities, Strength & Prayers for the fallen & their families; May they Rest in Peace and Power✝️🙏🏽🌎🕊️⚖️ The fight against Fascism is global; injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere. 🌎🕊️⚖️
This is where death penalties deserve to be considered. You kill 9 people. You die soon. Not 10 years from now, but in 2-3 weeks. Leave all your loved ones perplexed as to what made you do such a thing. And you think about that intensively. Or get a life without parole. And think some more. Scum.
It actually does. I am embarrassed to feel this way. It's down to the pain I feel for the killed people and all their loved ones. But the one who should be more embarrassed is the one who decides to kill 9 people out of hate in just a few seconds. How should they feel, I ask myself.
Killing that person is vengeance. It only inflicts pain on another family. I say this as the sister of a murdered young brother. In court, we saw the other family's pain. My sister hugged his crying, heartbroken father. 😢
We wanted justice, not revenge. I hope our nation always feels that same way.
If it changes even one person's perspective on compassion, I'm glad to share.
Also, the justice system is imperfect, especially for the poor and POC. If we had the death penalty, wrongfully convicted people like Guy Paul Morin would be dead, not exonerated. There'd be no way to right that wrong.
Our anger and shock will not save this community from their grief
The one who caused our pain is probably a messed up angry soul. The court process might give us the answers we are looking for?
Local MP was on the news talking about how to prevent this from happening again. Barriers were moved because the festival was being cleaned up.
An arrest has been made
Our answer to prevention will not be incarceration
And that's why I love your country. I was there as a tourist, and it made my life change. I just feel hurt by so many senseless deaths. Please don't mind me. A death penalty is nothing to wish for, to be honest. Just hurt talking...
MAGA became a thing 9 years ago, but the hate & anger has always been around. trump and his MAGA just embraced it, pulled it out of hiding, and gave it a celebrated voice. And most of America deeply apologizes for that.
I grew up in the philosophy, starting in the 1970s. The core group was there, waiting, for decades. I had already heard all of these rants 35 years ago. They sound just like my dad. We just have a name for the collective now.
🙏🏼 Thoughts with all those directly & indirectly impacted. …. And on this morning eve of a pivotal decision-making day for Canada, hope we vote for a true, morally-resolute, physically-strong, & respected nation …. Combat ‘Western alienation’, intolerance, & racism.
Vancouver police just provided an update on the incident. The assailant is known to the police due to previous incidents involving mental health issues.
Likely more political hate than racial, then throw in previously documented mental issues, an emotionally unstable individual behind the wheel, and multiple easy targets, and one has a sure recipe for disaster.
We do not yet have any information about how or why this happened. Hold your judgement until we get some real information. "Known to police" does NOT mean he'd been in custody (nor that he hadn't). The police have said they don't believe it was terrorism. Just wait and see. You can't unsay stuff.
When Rabid Conservatives rail against " those people "what do they expect the results will be ? Horrible Tragic event in Vancouver ! Looks like Canada will fall into the hands of the Rabid Conservatives !
Who did it? WAIT!!! Let me guess. A white middle aged male with a mask on who votes for people who accept and encourage cruelty towards others without any consequences.
There you go, the oligarchs are enabling their patsy brigade to create division and let people fight on emotion rather than reason.... Stay strong Canada. Don't fall for the manipulation.
But conservatives will try to leverage this event. In Germany something similar happened. The AfD (far-right party) immediately jumped on a similar tragedy that happened close to their election and leveraged it for political purposes. Liberals must not let Conservatives win. Voting is very important
Luckily we don’t have an electable far right here due to the Westminster parliamentary system. Also, the Canadian Conservatives are toast this year thanks to MAGA.
The churches need to turn out and protest against hate/racism. It shouldn't only be when churches are burned or attacked. The Pope spoke up, others need to get a backbone and step up.
People like US President Donald Trump and Conservative Party candidate Pierre Pollievre give the dregs of humanity license to do violence on sane Canadians and Americans.
Social media and news organizations that incite violent behavior must be shut down for the survival of humanity.
AS alarming is that the CPC have parachuted some unfit candidates into safe CPC ridings. These bigots WILL be sitting in parliament and poisoning our democracy while we pay their wages and even pensions.
EVERY CPC politician and supporter who did not denounce them is complicit. Power before country
As usual MAGAts never tell the whole story, Dylan Adams will keep working to pay restitution to the Tesla dealership whose cars he vandalized.
I know some of you upset he wasn't sent to El Salvador to be beaten to death.
Perhaps you can find another 4yo with cancer to report to ICE.
You have no evidence of that. There have been reports though about him being known to police and having mental disorders. People do these things for an infinite amount of reasons.
Many in the US would love to see Rupert Murdoch & his ilk purged from the mediasphere, but bc our Constitution provides freedom of speech/the press, it will not happen here as in other countries.
Of course, with Trump as Mob Boss In Chief, the Constitution +$5 will get you a cup of Starbucks coffee.
There are laws for media though; parroting outright lies under the guise of news and inciting violence under the guise of news are NOT part of first amendment rights.
They're crimes still, but faux has found judges who will accept "no rational person believes us" as a defense in court...
I said not Biden or Trump. Murdock as well as Soros buying judges, prosecutors, etc. Don't forget globalists, corporations. It's not a one sided issue. Money talks.
Can you at least leave this alone for a day and quit trying to spin other peoples tragedy to make whatever shitty point you are trying to make. This was a mental health issue, nothing to do with politics so please just go away
Mark Twain or Will Rodgers said about you.
"Better to keep shut letting others think you a fool than to speak proving their suspicions correct"
My last and only reply to your Argle Bargle.
Why didn't the authorities protect those pedestrians from that type of attacks!😡
Since Nice 2016, dozens of deadly vehicle-ramming attacks have struck worldwide (Berlin to London, New-Orleans) causing 152 deaths + hundreds of injuries.This tactic remains a persistent global terror threat!
#Vancouver
The rise of extremism is a serious issue in western Canada. Western politicians are the maple version of republicans, and have been for 60 years. If the driver was known to the police, he'll be a conservative voter. The police get to know the mouthy, and the racist, pretty quick.
If the driver was mentally ill with many interactions with police and mental institutions --- maybe START THERE as to why this unstable person was allowed to drive and be in public. I'll wait until I see names/pictures to state who this "extremist" is, as too many times, it's wrong.
Oh I know. I live in the protest zone from the convoy. Where was that announced? Where was the little lady that announced it from?
Western extremism is on the rise, so is western white supremacy. A valid and worry some fact.
It’s not just Western Canada. That thought process is flawed. The 2 worst mass shootings in Canada were in Quebec. In reality, no province has the title of worst racists, because they all do.
The RCMP found a cache of illegal weapons among the truckers and upon arresting them discovered that the truckers "protest" was organized and funded by Idiocracy based right wing groups...
Because the Biden administration refused to put a stop to it, the US exports insurrection openly now.
It is not as flawed as you think. I live in Alberta. From my house it is less than a 45 minute drive to a church that displays the SS insignia. Less than 2 hours from where RCMP took down a white nationalist ring. Where guns, ammo and bombs were confiscated.
I don't think I said flawed, I think I referred to rising crime statistics in the hate crime category.
Have I mentioned I feel the same about churches as I feel about Nazis? I have a thing against white supremacy, in all it's organized and disorganized forms. Glad the RCMP works out there eh.
And? You don’t think this happens in other parts of Canada? Because it does. I also live in Alberta. I’ve also seen the same kind of hate you mentioned here in Northern Ontario, the southern coast of B.C, and Nova Scotia. It’s everywhere white people live. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
So you have seen the SS isigna at churches? Or the Nazi flag flying on properties? The 3% logo at bars? It might happen in other parts of Canada, but not in the same way it happens in Alberta. We have sun down towns.
No, I haven't. I have FNs family, and my mother and her twin sister were raised in a residential school in Quebec. So I have personal bias against organized colonial religion, and the white supremacy that drove it.
Have you been to northern Ontario? You know there is a faction of right wingers in southern B.C that post the most vile extremist content on social media? It’s not just Alberta. Any place planet earth with an abundance of white people, there are Nazi’s, racists and white nationalists. Full stop.
Racism isn't uniquely American. Look at the group it's coming from. They gathered in Ireland yesterday. They attacked the US Capitol 6 Jan. They are rising in Britain and plowed through people in Vancouver. Nazis are worldwide.
"He said crews lifted a barricade that had been blocking traffic to allow a vehicle to enter. While some cars were being guided carefully through the crowds, Pangilinan said one car suddenly plowed through...." NO CARS CAN BE ALLOWED
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Well, he’ll have all that time while they prosecute him & convict him and while I don’t necessarily condone that treatment, what do you think is happening in El Salvador?
El Salvador continues along its historical journey of U.S. backed dictatorships .. foreign agricultural control .. repression, torture and state sponsored murder.
30,000 here
70,000 there
Bukele is just following in his forebearers footsteps.
To the people of north America. It has become increasingly clear that many nations are trending toward white nationalism. Do with this information what you will. Protect your family and loved ones and do what you can to leave
My mistake i failed to look deeply into this post but it has become increasingly difficult to just tell apart all of this chaos that seems to happen every other day. It feels as though our people have been placed in a boiling pot slowly heating up.
You can’t take the actions of a handful of individuals and generalize an entire population. If we could then you undoubtedly have schizophrenia
In Canada most instances like this the underlying cause is mental illness that just happens to have a component of racism.Racism just makes better headlines
Honestly my brother from the North, Canadians are good people. There's no way you can tell how tRumps racism is making it ok for racists everywhere to be out in the open.
You don't see it because you have a good heart which can't understand tRumps duplicity.
A tribal human that is opposed to tribal isolation in his nation. A group apart:reminds me of gallery networking in 1995 LA; as I drive,every few blocks,is another 'nation' of humans in America: Hisidic Jews,East Africa, Mesoamerican,others I cannot recall,all in a relatively small space; unsettling
Does it really matter? Terrorism laws serve no useful purpose, give unwarranted powers to the state, and erode safeguards that are meant to protect against state abuse of those powers. Is Luigi Mangione a terrorist? Not if he had shot a poor man.
Weird…this type of attack the day before elections. Feels an awful lot like the the attacks in Germany, trying to influence the election there. Guess what security forces there are investigating? Russian influence. This is hybrid warfare. When will the media call it out as such?
So let me ask everyone commenting "Hatred spilling north over the border"
Is every bad or terrorist event that happens anywhere else in the world going to be blamed on the U.S. now? The psychopath that did this, is a Vancouver citizen, not an American.
Blame the lack of treatment for mental illness
Look at police statistics regarding hate crimes around the world over the last years. They have gone up. Take a guess what it coincides with? There is no doubt a correlation to Canada’s neighbours’ leader inciting hate and violence.
No need to guess. Stop blaming the U.S. for every psycho terrorist event that happens in the world. Even though evil leadership exists here now, terror has happened long before, and will continue to happen long after he's gone
I agree it’s happened before and will after him, however, you cannot deny that Trumps inciting hate and violence has contributed to increased hate crimes in Canada.
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Like in Germany…
Just have a look to the countries in the western world. And each time it was the extrem right wing parties that could profit from these attacks. Putin is opening the champagne bottle
And the evil that sits in the Whitehouse, spreads like a cancerous tumor to our allies, our neighbors. It hurts my heart to see this. Especially to another closely knit community.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/what-we-know-about-attacker-who-drove-suv-into-crowd-killing-several-at-canadas-vancouver-street-festival/articleshow/120661850.cms
Silly
No I didn't look it up.
I just woke up.
Chill
if columbia was in britain it would be called something stupid probably
During elections, a lot of hostile rhetoric doesn't help. Mentally unstable people get triggered by it.
We have no king! and due process is a thing !
If our Congress won’t take action we will !
Talk is cheap take action !
May 1st !
We have no king! and due process is a thing !
If our Congress won’t take action we will !
Talk is cheap take action !
May 1st !
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjrwumBP/
40 injured and 9 dead
This should embarrass you.
We wanted justice, not revenge. I hope our nation always feels that same way.
Also, the justice system is imperfect, especially for the poor and POC. If we had the death penalty, wrongfully convicted people like Guy Paul Morin would be dead, not exonerated. There'd be no way to right that wrong.
The one who caused our pain is probably a messed up angry soul. The court process might give us the answers we are looking for?
An arrest has been made
Our answer to prevention will not be incarceration
Unless designated a dangerous offender .. then it is life.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Whatever this means in the end, it's not indicative enough of the reasons deaths like this happen. I don't like so-much-things in my life but I let them be. Not plow into people and kill them.
I understand your grief
The driver is most likely mentally disturbed.
They are evil motherfuckers.
"Investigators had ruled out terrorism as a motive, Vancouver police said in an email"
How’d I do?
@ncronline.bsky.social
Social media and news organizations that incite violent behavior must be shut down for the survival of humanity.
And the US federal government is one of the worst... It funds and arms a lot of them.
Instead PP sided & encouraged the domestic terrorists that occupied Ottawa in January 2022 who wanted to overthrow the Canadian government.
EVERY CPC politician and supporter who did not denounce them is complicit. Power before country
I know some of you upset he wasn't sent to El Salvador to be beaten to death.
Perhaps you can find another 4yo with cancer to report to ICE.
You left readers with the impression Adams got off.
Anyway, NEVER again!
Of course, with Trump as Mob Boss In Chief, the Constitution +$5 will get you a cup of Starbucks coffee.
They're crimes still, but faux has found judges who will accept "no rational person believes us" as a defense in court...
lol
"Better to keep shut letting others think you a fool than to speak proving their suspicions correct"
My last and only reply to your Argle Bargle.
You were never ready for a real discussion.
Scat.
Since Nice 2016, dozens of deadly vehicle-ramming attacks have struck worldwide (Berlin to London, New-Orleans) causing 152 deaths + hundreds of injuries.This tactic remains a persistent global terror threat!
#Vancouver
Western extremism is on the rise, so is western white supremacy. A valid and worry some fact.
Haven't been to Brampton or Surrey lately, have you?
Because the Biden administration refused to put a stop to it, the US exports insurrection openly now.
Biden's dereliction of duty is on full display right now.
And you are showing us why do-nothing democraps are able to stay in office term after term.
Have I mentioned I feel the same about churches as I feel about Nazis? I have a thing against white supremacy, in all it's organized and disorganized forms. Glad the RCMP works out there eh.
You really need to check yourself
The facts are not in yet.
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/what-we-know-about-attacker-who-drove-suv-into-crowd-killing-several-at-canadas-vancouver-street-festival/articleshow/120661850.cms
I'll wait.
It's no different than a shooting or bomb in a trash cam or a Sept 11th plane
May he or she spend the rest of their miserable lives in a dark, dirty cell.
Give them lots of time to think about what they did to a bunch of innocent people.
We're better than that.
El Salvador continues along its historical journey of U.S. backed dictatorships .. foreign agricultural control .. repression, torture and state sponsored murder.
30,000 here
70,000 there
Bukele is just following in his forebearers footsteps.
In Canada most instances like this the underlying cause is mental illness that just happens to have a component of racism.Racism just makes better headlines
Big tech is turning to old reactors (and planning new ones) to power the energy-hungry data centers that "AI" systems need.
https://bsky.app/profile/conspiranon.bsky.social/post/3lnsawdl2fs2x
You don't see it because you have a good heart which can't understand tRumps duplicity.
Is every bad or terrorist event that happens anywhere else in the world going to be blamed on the U.S. now? The psychopath that did this, is a Vancouver citizen, not an American.
Blame the lack of treatment for mental illness