General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[Rainrider22]

Maybe with proper messaging, even these can be good reminders. I don't like seeing guns or military items on display because it feels like glorifying combat.

I do follow politics enough to know that in Parliament with the speaker, there is a mace, meant to show order and rule-following, but indeed it is a mace, a weapon. If things like this LAV are shown in ways that suggest "we are glad to retire this and its children from use", that's one thing. It's a bit harder when it looks like it could rightly just drive off into a battle any second.

I do agree.  But Armed Forces gifting these for monuments is still a whole lot better than gifting them to local police departments.  (And that is routinely done in, ahem, some other countries.)

Seriously ? Please provide one example in Canada where a police service has been provided an archaic machine decommissioned by the military....  If it isn't good enough for the military now, it certainly isn't adequate for police work...