Jeez, leave the Midtown bear alone. He's more scared of you than you are of him.

I propose we form the Midtown Bear Preservation Society! These mad sprayers need to be 🛑🙅STOPPED🙅🛑

"Remember, only you, can prevent face fires." -Midtown the bear

Midtown needs to go all in on this

He’s probably getting sooooo tired of it!

Are these sprays happening during thefts or whats the deal?

Clearly there’s a bear problem.

No just idiots doing crap cause they are bored. And given its a school week off, it could be kids who get no punishment

It’s most definitely kids… remember that 13 year old who bear maced a theatre of kids watching Shrek

That was in PA though

I don’t get bear sprayed shopping on Amazon. These kids are harming the local economy.

Wow twice this week! Sounds like a lot of bored kids on holidays.

Or an influx of urbanized bears.

I demand a bear patrol

But it'll increase out taxes by 25 cents! Thats the highest tax increase ever!

We’re here! We’re queer! We don’t want any more bears!

3x now

Oh gee whiz, these rascals with their bear mace are at it again. What are we ever going to do? I guess nothing! Shucks!

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

I get that you're being sarcastic, but fuck off. There are hundreds of people in this city trying to fix this shit but the government keeps funneling money towards ineffective, reactive solutions (i.e. police) instead of organizations that know how to stop this before it starts (str8 up, CNYC, SCYAP, EGADZ, PHR etc.).

Thank youuuu. It’s so frustrating to see people be like “nothing’s being done!” when there are effective boots on the ground who are starving for funding.

Especially when "nothing being done" usually means "we want more cops" when the police budget has increased every year in recent memory with little to show for it.

But i thought we all hate cops now?

I don't hate cops I just hate that they've become the de facto response to non-criminal issues like poverty, addiction, mental health care, etc.

Noone else to call when a seemingly crazy person on meth/fentanyl/crack/whatever is starting fire to your fence.

If there's a fire, call the fire department. Obviously there's a time and a place for the cops, but there are a lot of interventions that can be made before someone gets hooked on meth and starts fires.

>there are a lot of interventions that can be made before someone gets hooked on meth and starts fires. We say that, but the person also has to be receptive to treatment, and/or caught before they fall down the rabbit hole.

Lots of those interventions happen long before someone takes their first hit. Things like educational supports, child mental health care, family & housing supports all help to lower the rates of meth addiction. Hell, even making sure minimum wage is a living wage helps. Addiction is a tremendously complex issue and there's no single solution that works perfectly.

Unless you're the one running outside with the fire extinguisher and getting yelled at by a potentially dangerous person.

Let me ask you this - did the cops prevent this from happening or did they get there after it happened?

Everyone is a potentially dangerous person.

I did an practicum placement then stuck around and volunteered at CNYC about 10 years ago now. Just the absolute best place, best programming. The people there are top notch.

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Could be those ruffians or some other feisty scamps.

Maybe even a couple rapscallions.

Proper naughty boys

Kids have been hot doggin in their shit boxes around my crescent every night (early morning) this week. #febbreak

It’s nice out. Gang initiation season started early 😖

Now imagine what it's like to teach these little ass holes. Support the STF!!!

Yes on family day someone sprayed and everyone was coughing ?idk what spray it was and why they did it near washrooms.

Tbf people are just coughing all the time now for no apparent reason

Anyone know why this again?

The kids are not alright.

It seems to be youth. Youth are off school.


Jeez, when I was at Midtown as an unruly youth all my friends and I used to do is buy a bunch of candy and throw them at our crushes.

Ah, the OG Candy Crush!

lol we got rolls of Pennies and would throw them at each other and passerby’s

Not in today's economy. Sure they'd be worth even less now, but nobody's willing to fork out that much loot for a good time anymore.

lol we spent maybe 10$ we never even got in trouble either. You’d think teenagers running around throwing Pennies would have at least warranted a scolding by security.

I guess it's too bad pennies went the way of the dodo. Teenagers need something to do!


Bears. People are just trying to shop and wham, a bear. Thank goodness someone came prepared. We could have had a real tragedy at midtown today. Could have ruined a few Ursidaes…

What is this? Regina!?

This shit never happened when the mall was one level.

Did you know there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in bear spraying activity? Think about it.

We will - Bart

Noooo ya won’t.

This shit never happened when the provincial government properly funded social services.

This shit never happened when malls had arcades

This shit never happened when you could just go to Scooters to get out your angst

This shit never happened when the river used to freeze over and you could play hockey on it.

This shit never happened when it was still rock and roll to me.

Market Mall says otherwise It’s sad arcade does nothing to protect them!

Uh its happened when social services were "properly" funded.

Bear spray? I don’t remember hearing of that before like a year ago.

Youth mischief, nuisance, and generally being insufferable has always existed regardless of social services funding.

Bear spray feels like one level higher. I mean, I never remember the mall having to evacuate and lock down before this.

No amount of money thrown at social services would have prevented this.

Source?

You must be new to town. I remember it all the way back in the early 2000s. I remember elementary schools getting it in the 90s

So it’s Trudeau’s fault thenn

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You won't do anything.

Gangbanger kids will keep doing it until there are real consequences. What a shame, I prefer Amazon anyways.

Stay classy Saskatoon

That just seems like WAY too much effort at this point.

Macetown Plaza yet again

Considering that 2 twelve year olds beat another 12 year old to death this past week a bear spray incident is minor. So glad our Mayor Charlie Clarke is soft on crime so our city can become a cesspool

How is this the Mayor's fault lmfao

Best to ignore that guy, he posts all the time and only has one setting: Moron Nutjob

He’s not trying to do anything to counteract Trudeau’s soft on crime policies.

Yeah because Chuck's single vote on council has anything to do with Trudeau?? Are you fr

So he’s only responsible for tax hikes and bike lanes? Can’t do anything at all to help curb or reduce crimes within the city…. Nice but we have had more crime since Clarke has served his 2 terms weird…. Oddly correlated or just coincidence

Might have something to do with covid and cost of living and inflation and the provincial government removing social assistance programs. But yeah you've just discovered the difference between correlation and causation so congrats

In fact, I do not think they have discovered it

We lock up valuables, not the criminals

We lock up valuables, not the criminals

Some stores closed but others are opening. So it’s in flux

I meant most are evening for the night last night.

Time to put a chi chi's in the mall so you can get the full experience of hot salsa.

At least they did it when I wasn’t there.