'Our Alberta' counters hate after last month's Edmonton attack on police, pedestrians

A month into the semester, undergraduate and graduate students taking John McCoy’s “Modern Terrorism” course at the University of Alberta got a learning opportunity in their own backyard.
The class is participating in the Peer-to-Peer Facebook Global Digital Challenge program, countering hateful or extremist narratives responding to local issues.
McCoy said their campaign aims to tone down hyper-partisan rhetoric, and instead speak to people in an individually in a calm, p