Editorial: Crowd control shouldn't be this hard

Ceremonies to mark major events in Canada’s history should be about more than colourful photo ops for political leaders. Apparently, however, they are not.
Canadians learned that in stark fashion on Canada Day, when tens of thousands were trapped in and around the parliamentary precinct trying to get on to Parliament Hill to celebrate the sesquicentennial in patriotic fashion. Instead, they were stuck in long, chaotic lines that led nowhere, or given wrong information about the delays, or