Talk:Mayerthorpe tragedy

message: As the trials of the two newly accused have just begun, perhaps this should be tagged as a current event?--Pyg 19:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Current event?

message: The article as written is nonsensical.  It says it is the biggest loss to RCMP since 1962, when three officers were killed.  But obviously it was bigger than that one too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.154.211.216 (talk) 07:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The CBC documentary that is cited as a source in this document claims that this is the worst incident of RCMP deaths in 100 years. — A lizard (talk) 06:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Largest loss since 1962

message: This article needs more sources about the legalization of marijuana. The "aftermath" section is a dog's breakfast of opinionated statements and unsourced statements about how anti-marijuana elements in government supposedly seized upon this incident as an opportunity to stop the drive to legalize pot and how so many pro-marijuana advocates said that this incident never would have happened if pot was legal in Canada. First, at least name some people who said something. Better yet, cite a source and include an actual quote from somebody who linked the marijuana legalization debate to this incident. I would be very surprised to hear if any of this actually happened in the mainstream press or even if it was extensively discussed outside the pot-smoking community. — A lizard (talk) 06:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, we can stick to what we know. One fact is that the legislation was shelved, and we know the dates that the Mayerthorpe shooting occurred in relation to the shelving of the legislation. We can leave it at that in the absence of sourced info.139.48.25.60 (talk) 15:54, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My interpretation of the shelving has always been more that it was under pressure from the U.S. which, particularly under the born-again Bush admin, was not happy about Canada relaxing its pot laws. Maybe elements of this incident were used to justify shelving the reforms, but I don't recall ever hearing this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.175.79 (talk) 02:43, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited sources on pot

message: "tragedy" is too subjective and non-specific. In line with other articles eg 2014 Moncton shootings it should be given an objective and descriptive title. The fact that it was a terrible thing and people in the town call it 'massacre' etc etc is really not the point. An encyclopedia should be objective, factual and informative.81.202.188.33 (talk)
:Though tragedy was an improvement over massacre back in 2011 (see above move discussion), I could support Mayerthorpe shootings seeing what we now see in subsequent articles about encyclopedic shooting incidents in Canada (e.g. Moncton and Parliament Hill). I do not support adding "2005" in front of "Mayerthorpe shootings" however. It is unnecessary disambiguation and is speculation to think there will ever be another encyclopedic shooting incident in the future that would necessitate disambiguation. Hwy43 (talk) 08:14, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say the title of this should be brought into line with the titles for the Ottawa and Moncton events, but also note that a heated discussion about and against 'shootings' is underway re the Ottawa events, with some lobbying for "attack" as in "terrorist attack"...a term that media and police and govt have avoided when describing the Moncton shootings.Skookum1 (talk) 05:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name (revisited) 

message: For those interested, please see Category talk:Massacres in Canada#Inclusion criteria. Hwy43 (talk) 05:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Massacres in Canada]] inclusion criteria 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)  Jerium (talk) 16:15, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Mayerthorpe Tragedy →  – Extraneous capital on the t Bremps... 04:12, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

text: Support per nominator. Killuminator (talk) 06:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 19 June 2023