This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. It goes without saying that top of mind this morning is the mass shooting in a small community in B.C.’s Peace Region. And for those traumatized by the mass shooting in La Loche, which just recently marked the ten-year anniversary of that terrible day in 2016, I hope you have means and access to mental health support in the event this latest tragedy resurrects feelings and memories. Unfortunately, a sign of our times is that we now have generations of children who didn’t grow up just learning how to exit a school in an orderly manner and muster in a preset location when doing a fire drill. They learned what to do during a lockdown. Some children as young as five learn “sheep, shepherd, wolf” Where they are the sheep and the teacher is the shepherd while a dangerous person is the wolf. Of course, it is not only children it is also teachers and staff who must learn what to do in an active shooter emergency. Learning to barricade doors to classrooms, learning to stay quiet to be undetected. Frankly its horrifying. But apparently, as yesterday again shows us, it is necessary.