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Excellent, excellent journalism. My takeaways: 1) The Canadian government has more holes in it than swiss cheese. The level of detail leaked to the public in t

Excellent, excellent journalism. My takeaways: 1) The Canadian government has more holes in it than swiss cheese. The level of detail leaked to the public in this one article makes a mockery of the Canadian government's attempts to keep things confidential. 2) The gunman really wanted to be a cop and seems to have possibly obtained the ability to do cop-like things by providing information about criminal organizations in canada (Hells Angels) 3) The gunman appears to have been wired $400,000 by the Mounties in relation to this work. 4) At some point he lost his mind and killed a bunch of people for some reason, and the Mounties are saying that they had nothing to do with this guy, despite the evidence that he was paid $400,000 on surveillance camera by a source that can likely only be the Mounties.

lambdasquirrel 6y ago
Would it be better to have it in other countries where the government has tight control over the press and social media though?
bawolff 6y ago
For 1) while the narrative is compelling, it doesn't seem like that much was leaked. Just that he managed to withdraw a lot of money in an unusual fashion. The rest is conjecture. Compelling conjecture but still conjecture (I'm assuming that the way paying CIs works is not a secret, they just needed someone to quote to back it up)
catalogia 6y ago
I'm curious where all that cash ended up. Did they find it? The preceding article on this matter says > It is not clear what happened to the money from the moment the killer took it out of the Brink’s location to the time he was shot by RCMP officers during an attempted arrest at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., on April 19. The lawyer for family members of the killer’s victims said Wednesday that the estate filing at probate court lists a large sum of cash, which he believes was recovered by the RCMP. “I assume the public trustee has it,” said Robert Pineo, who is suing the estate.
Mumps 6y ago
out of curiosity, why do you change the value from $475,000 to $400,000?
- sushshshsh 6y ago
  Sorry sorry, just sheer laziness :) I read the article in full first on mobile before I wrote my comment, and remembered the number as being $4xx,xxx, basically I could only remember the first significant figure!
cannabis_sam 6y ago
I think 1) is actually a win for the canadian populace. Any democratically elected government that is trying to hide any conduct from it’s constituents is grave affront to democracy, (no matter how loud the people involved scream “national security”.)
blisseyGo 6y ago
Small correction. The money was $475,000. The important thing to note in the article is this: > "The RCMP Operations Manual, a copy of which was obtained by Maclean’s, authorizes the force to mislead all but the courts in order to conceal the identity of confidential informants and agent sources. > “The identity of a source must be protected at all times except when the administration of justice requires otherwise, i.e. a member cannot mislead a court in any proceeding in order to protect a source.” So RCMP isn't even telling the truth to the public quite possibly.
- sushshshsh 6y ago
  What's an extra $75,000 between friends? Wonder if it's taxable :)

lambdasquirrel 6y ago

Would it be better to have it in other countries where the government has tight control over the press and social media though?

bawolff 6y ago

For 1) while the narrative is compelling, it doesn't seem like that much was leaked. Just that he managed to withdraw a lot of money in an unusual fashion. The rest is conjecture. Compelling conjecture but still conjecture (I'm assuming that the way paying CIs works is not a secret, they just needed someone to quote to back it up)

catalogia 6y ago

I'm curious where all that cash ended up. Did they find it? The preceding article on this matter says > It is not clear what happened to the money from the moment the killer took it out of the Brink’s location to the time he was shot by RCMP officers during an attempted arrest at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., on April 19. The lawyer for family members of the killer’s victims said Wednesday that the estate filing at probate court lists a large sum of cash, which he believes was recovered by the RCMP. “I assume the public trustee has it,” said Robert Pineo, who is suing the estate.

Mumps 6y ago

out of curiosity, why do you change the value from $475,000 to $400,000?

sushshshsh 6y ago
Sorry sorry, just sheer laziness :) I read the article in full first on mobile before I wrote my comment, and remembered the number as being $4xx,xxx, basically I could only remember the first significant figure!

cannabis_sam 6y ago

I think 1) is actually a win for the canadian populace. Any democratically elected government that is trying to hide any conduct from it’s constituents is grave affront to democracy, (no matter how loud the people involved scream “national security”.)

blisseyGo 6y ago

Small correction. The money was $475,000. The important thing to note in the article is this: > "The RCMP Operations Manual, a copy of which was obtained by Maclean’s, authorizes the force to mislead all but the courts in order to conceal the identity of confidential informants and agent sources. > “The identity of a source must be protected at all times except when the administration of justice requires otherwise, i.e. a member cannot mislead a court in any proceeding in order to protect a source.” So RCMP isn't even telling the truth to the public quite possibly.

sushshshsh 6y ago
What's an extra $75,000 between friends? Wonder if it's taxable :)