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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Just Up The Road From Corner Gas
As I write this, RCMP near Dundurn are on a manhunt on for 3 persons in a late model Pontiac. They are searching by both ground and air and have called for assistance from Saskatoon police. The car had pulled alongside a truck on the highway and opened fire, forcing it into the ditch where it overturned. The driver is in the hospital, with injuries from the rollover.
Yesterday a Hell's Angel threatened a news cameraman outside the funeral of Saskatoon's fifth murder victim of the year, killed in a drive-by
shooting on Preston Avenue last week. (Just a friend of the family.)
In March of 1998 Patrick Ryan was in a shootout in Calgary in a Brinks truck holdup. He was charged with attempted murder and robbery. He walks out of a Regina halfway house today on full parole. That'll teach him.
Just three news stories to come over the airwaves in Saskatoon since I returned home yesterday from Rio De Janeiro. And to think that my friends and family were concerned about the drug wars down there.
Posted by Kate McMillan on April 21, 2004 | Permalink
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Sounds like the wild west. We have that here in Toronto, too.
Posted by: Tim G | 2004-04-21 1:14:03 PM
What is going on in Saskatchewan? I can't not
see this happening there, and find it strange to
think be something biker type of violence.
It will be interesting to find out why this
drive-by shooting occurred.
Posted by: Carole | 2004-04-21 9:42:39 PM
There is an important story here largely under-reported by the SOM (Southern Ontario Marxist) media, or simply reported through their "Westerners=racists" prism. The furor over the Saskatoon Police earlier this year failed to mention some of the structural economic issues that underlie what is happening - poor natives creating an urban economic underclass; corruption and degradation on the reserves; 'white flight' and accelerated decline in central Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg; acclerated out-migration to Alberta, BC, Ontario, etc.
Posted by: JGS | 2004-04-22 6:20:55 AM
And a follow-up, lest I be accused of racism. No small part of the problem is the tradition of prairie socialism that keeps people looking to the NDP as the solution, an affliction that can scarcely be blamed on native people.
Posted by: JGS | 2004-04-22 6:23:25 AM
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