What The Heck Is Going On In Alberta?

   10 people are dead in 2 separate incidents this week. 9 of them in Edmonton, the other in Calgary, the city I grew up in. In Edmonton, the murders of 8 people and apparent suicide of one more seems to be an extreme case of domestic violence Monday. It was that city's worst mass murder in history, and spanned 3 different locations.
   Edmonton police say the weapon they say was used had been stolen from a location in B.C
   The New Years morning shooting in Calgary left 1 dead and 6 others injured in a quiet neighbourhood where my wife grew up. In fact, it was less than 3 blocks on the very same street in Killarney.
   Police in both cities say these were isolated incidents, and continue investigating. But both crimes come as a shock since, even though both cities are at or over 1 million population, violent crime is a mostly rare occurrence in both.

TTFN