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Hostage situation at Calgary school

Crazed ex-student held secretary hostage

by Shanda Deziel on Thursday, March 4, 2010 6:03pm - 3 Comments

A man has been taken into custody after holding a woman hostage at the Calgary school he used to attend. According to police, the secretary of A.E. Cross School, “a woman in her mid-’40s,” was taken hostage in an office by a 25 year-old man who used to be a student at the school, and was demanding to see the principal about an injury he supposedly suffered when he attended the school. There was one other person in the office, a 13 year-old boy who currently attends the school; he managed to call the police and take refuge in an interior office, without being seen by the hostage-taker.

Calgary Herald

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I saw the boy and his mother on television this morning. Did anybody reading this article see “Bowling for Columbine”? This might be newsworthy to the local people, but this is not national news. Are we stooping to the American level of journalism which depends on fear to promote their particular media? I was disappointed to see this article in MACLEAN’S.

Anon

I think it is a testament to Canada that these types of things get national attention – it means they don't happen very often, if they did only the local hostage takings, school shootings etc would get attention. When these things stop appearing in national media it means they have become common place, thats when we have to start worrying.

Take for example homicide reporting in Canada versus the US. Every homicide that occurs in the GTA gets reported because there are less than 100 each year (usually). In a similar sized cities in the US, they don't report each one because it is no longer news due to the frequency of occurance.