colby-cosh-what-its-like-when-terrorism-comes-to-your-town

Sounds like things are coming together better in Canada than they are here in the USA.

No where in the article does it says groups traveled and stood at a rally.
---It definitely gives us no reason to be suspicious of or angry at our Muslim or Somali neighbours. When I heard the police cars and had the thought, “It’s our turn now,” it was not just terrorist violence I was thinking of. My mind was racing ahead to all the emotional theatre that always follows such an act: the sentimental salutes to the Edmonton spirit, the calls to “STAND together” against an effort to “divide us.”---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----I suppose the thing to say is that I still have not learned to perceive the seam between us that is there to be ripped open or exploited. Of course we “STAND together” with Muslims. Much of the time Edmonton, cold and utilitarian, presents itself to us as a laborious, common predicament, even a trap. We do not just STAND together: we are huddled together against Nature, practitioners of a civil religion involving block heaters and boot rooms and thermoses full of coffee. If you live this way, explicit talk of togetherness and community can feel like a faux pas. No doubt the truth is that I would just prefer to fast-forward to a time when we can do without it again.------ Just saying. If they do then good. I see very few times a year that they do go public to rally against an act like this.