farorescourage:

awkward-teabag:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Uh, the article says the riot vehicle this is replacing was deployed about 500 times in the last year. What the hell is going on in Calgary where a heavily armoured military vehicle is needed ~1.46 times per day???

I sure wouldn’t want to pay that fuel bill. Oh wait…

You know what’s happening here? Environmentalists and our local anti-racist-action groups are mobilizing. That’s why they’re pulling this fucking thing out. I wish I was joking.

The old riot vehicle was a monolith. The police here are incrasingly relying on police-state intimidation tactics (things like changing the cop vehicles from white to black [this has psychological data around it], giant vehicles like hummers, massive trucks, etc, as STANDARD POLICE VEHICLES, veiled threats to citizens, etc). This is no shock.