Wednesday May 28, 2014 – 11am
Posted May 28, 2014 02:49:23 PM.
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11:00- Ray Boudreau, Head of Security at MacEwan University in Edmonton, 1 of the institutions in the project
A group of Alberta post-secondary education institutions have launched an initiative to educate staff and students about how to respond in an active shooter situation. An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. “It is extremely unlikely that any member of our communities will get caught in an active shooter situation,” says Philip Stack, Associate Vice President of Risk Management at the University of Alberta and chair of the Campus Alberta Risk and Assessment Committee. “But we need to recognize that unthinkable things like this can happen anywhere.” The instructions stress three courses of action: escaping when possible; hiding and barricading when necessary; and, as a final resort, using force against the assailant. “The messages are blunt and the dramatization is intense,” says Stack
11:30- Peter Goldring, Member of Parliament for Edmonton East
The premier of the Turks and Caicos didn’t make a plea to join Canada during his visit to Parliament Monday, and Canada is loath to even speak of annexation with its implication of neo-colonialism. Conservative MP Peter Goldring, who has championed the cause of the Turks and Caicos joining Canada for the past decade, also shies away from the word annexation. Instead, Goldring said he’d prefer that Canada offer the Caribbean island chain, now a British territory, provincial status. Goldring doesn’t believe making the Turks and Caicos a province would require a constitutional amendment, citing the example of the former British dominion of Newfoundland, which joined Confederation in 1949 using only a territory-wide, and very close, referendum.
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