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Opinions of the Hour

Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor “You are horrible people” — Scott Gilmore, Macleans Gilmore’s piece is a blunt and brief letter of frustration towards people who were complaining online about being woken up by an Amber Alert on their phones in Ontario just around midnight. Despite the alert working as intended, by informing people of a missing child so that they could help the police and her parents if they see her, Ontario’s social media was more upset at the police playing a loud alarm over their phones. Gilmore describes the people annoyed at this audible Amber Alert as…

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