Beyond broken, Canada is close to being dead as a country
There is nothing normal about being mowed down by a car at street festival, people pointing guns at police or being hit with stray bullets
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Apr 27, 2025 • Last updated 5 hours ago • 4 minute read
In Vancouver, as a result of the reality of life in 2025, so many innocent people are dead. Canada is well on its way to being dead too.
Vancouver police investigate a crime scene after a man drove into pedestrians at the annual Lapu Lapu festival celebrating Filipino culture, at East 43rd Avenue and Fraser, in the south of Vancouver on April 26, 2025.
This country has lost its way and is on life support.
When people are not safe at a family street festival or waiting for a bus or going to the mall, it’s time to admit the truth. It’s hell on Earth here now.
When you look at those innocent people mowed down by a car at a community event in Vancouver, please tell the truth about what you see.
Canada is no longer recognizable. It’s spinning out of control, and no one in charge seems to have any answer.
No matter how it’s spun, Canadians are no longer safe anywhere. This is the reality as people struggling to make ends meet go to the ballot box on Monday to decide just who is best to clean up this horrible mess.
Maybe it’s too late.
But it’s a choice between a new coat of paint on the group who has seen it all deteriorate on their watch and new crowd who are called too angry for pointing out how insane things have become. But everybody should be angry. And no one should accept what this country has become.
It’s interesting all the parties are selling themselves as the agents change. It has to change. It can’t stay like this or get worse.
Whatever governments are doing now, is not working. We have to look in the mirror and accept it. And look at the names and faces of the innocents dying on our watch. There’s no sugar coating it. Things are so dangerous now.
Drug overdoses, carjackings, store robberies, shootings, stabbings, sexual assaults, mental heath episodes involving weapons. Stray bullets.
Carnage is commonplace. Expected. Tolerated. It’s normal now to have a country that is no longer normal.
It was like that before the beyond-the-pale car attack incident in Vancouver Saturday which saw 11 people murdered at the Lapu Lapu Festival. What happened there is a national disgrace.
About 24 hours after the attack, Vancouver police said the “B.C. Prosecution Service has now charged Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, with eight counts of second degree murder” with more charges expected since there were 11 homicide victims between the ages of “5 to 65.”
Global figures offering condolences included King Charles and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Innocent unless convicted, Lo, a Vancouver resident, remains in custody after making a court appearance Sunday. Police would not comment on what investigators believe is the motive for the crime.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he is “shocked, devastated and heartbroken.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre went to a Filipino church in Mississauga to grieve and mourn with members of the community.
“Just wanted to be here today with you in solidarity after the terrible attacks that we witnessed in British Columbia. I know many of you are shocked and heartbroken and saddened by this senseless act of violence and by the innocent and treasured lives that have been lost,” Poilievre said at the Christ the Living Stone Fellowship in Mississauga where he and his wife, Anaida, attended. “All Canadians are united in solidarity with the Filipino community.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who was at the festival, said, “I am horrified to learn of an incident at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day celebrations that injured and killed innocent people. As we wait to learn more, our thoughts are with the victims and their families – and Vancouver’s Filipino community, who were coming together today to celebrate resilience.”
Nice words. Heartfelt from all. Appropriate. But it won’t fix what’s broken.
Words won’t be enough to pull Canada out as the country falls deeper into the bowels of hell.
We feel Vancouver’s pain. But it’s not enough.
Sources told me while Lo had not only had more than 100 interactions with police, there was one in the hours before the mayhem. Hate is hate. Dead is dead. A ticking time bomb is a ticking time bomb.
Meanwhile, there are already Monday morning quarterbacks talking about how the festival area needed to be better cordoned off from such an attack. While that may be true, perhaps we should be looking at putting structures in place to make sure mentally ill people who may be prone to violence are in a secure mental health facility.
It’s a sad state of affairs when a benign community festival needs military base style security measures to keep families and their children safe.
But when will one of these governments end the madness? End the fentanyl use, crack down on the actual criminals instead of hunters, lock up the bad guys instead of the truckers, invest in drug treatment to get people off of the deadly chemicals that are destroying the country and deal with the rising levels of mental health patients in hospitals instead of leaving them on the street?
It’s like Zombieland in urban centres now. Small towns, too. Homeless encampments are routine. Break and enters common.
It’s mind blowing how nuts things have become.
Over the weekend I wrote about the long food lines, the two incidents in which young men in traffic incidents pulled guns on police and were shot, the numerous counts of jewelry store robbers, carjackings and endless antisemitism. Just look at what the GTA police have had to deal with this weekend.
In Vancouver, as a result of the reality of life in 2025, so many innocent people are dead.
Canada is well on its way to being dead, too.
In Vancouver, as a result of the reality of life in 2025, so many innocent people are dead. Canada is well on its way to being dead, too.
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