Downtown Halifax is reported as having certain parts on lockdown this morning after sightings of a gunman wandering around - wth!

Nothing confirmed as yet, maybe a false alarm as people get panicked. No gun seen just an item wrapped in a blanket, or maybe a brolly

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/nova...town-1.2810019

Since that was a government operation, why would they?

They do. Stop watching Sun News and the other Ford Nation crap you look at, and look at some real news. Imams, Islamic community leaders, ordinary Muslims, were all over the TV and radio last night and this morning condemning the events. Yesterday's attack had about as much to do with mainstream Islam as the Branch Davidians at Waco had to do with mainstream Christianity.

It may be individuals attacking (it may not.... lets wait and see), but when the victims are seemingly random individuals who are targeted on Canadian soil solely because they wear a Canadian services uniform, I find it hard to rationalize it as anything other than an attack on Canada.

An attack on the military and/or the government would be a much better (and factual) description.

Pereonally I didn't feel attacked at all, did you?

Anyway, that phrase was just an example of the media wanking frenzy I saw on the telly yesterday.

Alan have you forgotten the fuss over Lee Rigby? It's normal, the news is their business.

The news showed RCMP at Ottawa War Memorial with a man they'd wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, maybe everyone's just a bit on edge. Yesterday's baddie just decided to do it, picked up a gun and left for Parliament Hill but what if it had been a well planned attack by maybe 5 or 6 with automatic weapons and bombs to blow the doors of the caucus rooms? Maybe simultaneous attacks to divert responders and secondary explosives to cause maximum damage? We can try to address the oversight of suspects but I doubt CSIS knows who all the radicals are and no-one wants our civil liberties suspended. If it was an offence to speak out against the government Novo'd already be in prison. We already put people going into Revenue Canada through a metal detector like at the airport - I can't see having to have sandbagged bunkers in front of City Hall, it just isn't like us.

I did, it was an outrageous act. Both of them.

A couple of years from now that could have been my kid as a cadet standing on guard at a cenotaph....

I guess Ive been drinking the coolaid for too long.

What if? Now this is just a thought, but what if there was a news black out on terrorist events, threats, actions ect???

My thoughts are that one of the 90 or so who got stopped from leaving Canada to fight or visit Nana gunslinger in Siria may look at the news and think wow!! I can fight for Islam here and save the air fare !!!

Id rather have a truly free press.

I didn't at all. In the same way I don't feel responsible for bombing middle eastern countries.

This kind of thing was inevitable given the kind of nutter they are dealing with. You should be angry with the government because they definitely knew attacks of this nature were imminent and it looks like they did nothing.

Canada will not be intimidated....but please don't wear your military uniforms in public...

One of the most frustrating factors in this is that the "intelligence" services obviously had no clue this was in the works. Even after the cops being run down last week, they lowered the terrorist threat.

They knew. They just did nothing.

Cops?