Asia Saddleback

Christie Blatchford is doing an amazing job of describing the social problems in the four-cornered Indian town of Hobbema, Alberta—such an amazing job, indeed, that one is almost lulled into forgetting she is there because of a crime. It was not alcohol, poor governance, or residential schools that shot a five-year-old child in the head while he was sleeping last week. Some specific person, still at large, had to pull the trigger.

Michael Chettleburgh, author of ‘Young Thugs,’ talks about the suburbanization of gangsters, what’s really going on in Metro Vancouver and the Harper government’s proposed gang legislation