Sheila Gunn Reid and videographer Kian Simone ride the rails aboard the ‘Dope Train’, the crime ridden light rail transit system in Edmonton, Alberta, where the local government has imposed a media blackout in an attempt to cover up the tragedy unfolding on trains and in transit stations.
LRT.
Lefties, Rot, and Trash?
But I repeat myself.
In a free and mentally sane society, a directive to not film or report on some subject would result in everyone stampeding to cover that very subject. The only time a government will ever tell the press not to do it is if they have something to cover up.
Yet these lefties mouth words like “Democracy” … as if they have a clue to the meaning of the word
Seems like we are on our way to becoming a p!sshole, sh!thole, cesspool of a country. Thank you Turdoo. You and others of your kind (leftist loonies) are, for the large part, responsible for this mess.
It always comes down to the idiot voters, always.
Yes, sad to say but we have our share of brainwashed idiots.
No, it is Deadmonton! I grew up there, this is the result of decades of leftist, progressive rot/thought. I left in 1977 and have only visited a few times since (mostly to go to the West Edmonton Mall when my daughter was a teen-ager and we were living in Calgary)
Edmonton deserves this misery. That city keeps voting for leftist fools like Amarjeet Sohi. Elect an incompetent twit as your mayor and don’t be surprised at the bad results. Toronto is going through the same thing by electing the dismal Olivia Chow. And there’s only one reason that moron got elected; she is the widow of the not-dead-enough Jack Layton.
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I see you’v never been to terana lately.
“the not-dead-enough Jack Layton.”
What? Nobody drove a stake through his heart?
Had he died sooner, by now he would have been dead more.
Probably safe to assume that comrade Chow got some help from certain contributors who ran a GotV scheme…
Just like it was an “accident” that a school who had a polling place ran an advertisement for Chow on election day..
Dog Chow will just finish what John Tory started. Before becoming mayor, milquetoast Tory couldn’t even defeat the disastrous Mcguinty Liberals in Ontario. It was thought to be a cakewalk for entitled Tory until he managed to run such an uninspired campaign that even brain dead Ontarians decided they’d rather continue to be abused by Mcguinty’s syndicate.
I was in Edmonton for a concert a few weeks ago and took the LRT from the north side of the city to Roger’s Place downtown. There was a fairly heavy security presence and a few police. It was pretty clean and we didn’t encounter any serious weirdness. But I will say I wouldn’t let my daughter use it after dark if I lived there, there was lots of aimless loiterers hanging around.
Ditto re: not letting your daughter use it after dark. Our daughter was recently in Edmonton on business, staying downtown near Scotia arena. Commented to us how “unsafe” she felt walking back to hotel after dinner. Not good.
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It breaks my heart to hear this. I spent 6 great years in Edmonton… in the 1990s! It was such a great, safe place. I echo other commenters here and elsewhere, who look with dismay at how we ALLOWED to be destroyed this way. I have no excuses for myself: for years, while opposing the liberal (and “Liberal”) thought, I was ineffective in the struggle; I thought people would come to their senses. What a freaking naive thought! Now, gloves are out, I’m an activist at my workplace. Gathering friends and enemies along the way. And knowing that I may soon become unemployed. But, eff-u-ce-kay… better go down fighting. As Kate says: “This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio – “You don’t speak for me.”
What is the media getting to not cover this story?
The media are ok with what is happening to destroy our civilized lives.
This is what happens when the Edmonton electorate elects left wing municipal governments. San Francisco of the north. Pig stupid morons.
Please,Vancouver is the San Fran North, not Edmonton! In the race to the bottom, Vancouver is still ahead of Edmonton. You’ll have to try harder.
Oh what to do!!! There is only one answer, and it’s a violation of the dope addicts and street people’s Charter rights: lock ’em up until they are clean , and quit handing out narcan kits for every OD, let Nature take it’s course.
Edmonton consistently makes the lists of “best cities to live/visit” by luminaries such as CTV, Global News, The Hive, Forbes magazine… when I see this, I think they’ve paid for this inclusion like those who are named to any city’s “Best Of” lists which are advertised each year. Completely bogus.
I’ve only had bad experiences in Edmonton, which I’ve already spouted off about here at SDA.
I say it’s a dump, and I’m quite pleased it was chosen to be the capital of this province, because where else would you want a provincial gov’t, than in your greatest dump?
I applaud Premier Smith directing provincial sheriffs to the Edmonton, but if I saw an average citizen stabbing one of the local drug addicts in the neck and watched them bleed out, I’d take the stand in court to say how the average citizen was threatened with death and while there was no sign of security, had to defend themselves with what they had.
And I think I’d be telling the truth.
*Haven’t been working in downtown Calgary in the past 4 years, which I hear has changed in the past few years, especially on the C-trains I used to take. I’ve mentioned just a few days past how my “situational awareness” has returned, and expect anyone else would be doing the same here.
The federal gov’t, and in some of the other provincial governments have seriously dropped the ball on drug importation, drug sales, allowing widespread and open drug use, and perhaps if tier 2 Canada’s various justice participants weren’t so crappy, we wouldn’t be stuck in this mess.
I blame them all. The “learned judges”, the unionised police, the minister’s in charge who all use “honorable” in front of their names as though it actually means something, those social worker types “working” to rid the cities of this menace…
I blame them, and especially Canada’s garbage PM Trudeau
Bernhard Goetz had it right
Yes, Calgary went downhill alarmingly far and fast when lockdown hit. If anything it’s improved a bit in the last year. But it’s not quite like it was. We didn’t used to see broken windows in the courthouse.
Don’t let Saskatoon city council see this video. They’ll want to build an LRT.
Saskatoon city council are a bunch of dimwits
Dimwits is far too kind.
At least Darren Hill is calling it like is on the ‘wellness center’ run by the STC & Arcand.
Unlike our actual councillor Kirton.
What do you expect.. Social decay to stand outside like smokers?.. Your choice is get a car or better yet move to America and get a car and a gun.. Honk honk.. Furthermore, run your errands first thing in the morning.. Low lifes are not morning people.. If its all possible avoid being around densely populated areas.. By that I mean 10 apartment buildings in a small area.. Any shopping mall within walking distance of that is going to be a welfare trap.. You have a car, use it properly to reduce your risk..
I guess we can also add transit stations to that.. I remember when that used to be a plus.. Social decay..
OK, I lived in Edmonton for 35 years ( I know, my bad, having been born and raised in northern ontario).
However, when I used the Edmonton LRT back in the 1980s and up to the early 2000s, it was a boring and underused system.
Even during “spike” times between downtown and the U of A, the cars were filled with students in parkas reading books, and a few old folks going downtown.
I recall those places that Sheila was reporting from being empty echo chambers, with maybe the odd busker playing a cheap guitar.
I even appreciated the extensive connected “tunnel” system downtown, when I worked in the city. You could use it to get around in the winter without freezing your face off outside on the windy streets.
And, again, the system was bereft of zombies back then. Just normal citizens.
In short, seeing what Sheila showed there, I am grateful to have escaped Edmonton in 2014, and to have landed in a semi rural enclave in the Okanagan.
Oh, and Edmonchuk always sucked, for many reasons. But sure sucks more now, eh?
Back in the 1970s I spent lots of time in downtown Edmonton at night without one unpleasant incident. I took buses, I hopped bars, went to movies, etc. In those days they still had nuthouses for crazy people, homes for retards, and prisons for criminals. Nowadays I don’t like to drive through downtown at night.
I quit transit and walked 3.5 km each way to work downtown Calgary for 7 years.
Covid & consequences put the nail into a lot of “ways of life”.
Glad to be out of the rat race.
Every village needs an idiot!
Edmonton has 13 of them and they are called City Council. If ‘They’ and their accomplices had to ride the LRT back and forth to city hall each day or maybe their bicycles, perhaps things would change? Right Ashley??
Maybe?
Councillors and bureaucrats should be made to ride their wet dream trains. No exceptions.
If you build it they will come, the left make a career out of enabling addicts alas their jobs depend on their numbers to grow. Everything they touch they poison, normalizing drug use harms addicts but you can’t talk to progressives because their jobs depend on addicts existing.