Aid for stranded and suffering begins to trickle in on fifth day (Canada)

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=08bda19e-1539-4c76-a8ef-af627d9d4b54&page=1

One woman, 82-year-old Erma Jackson, lay slumped over and unresponsive in a laundry basket on wheels. Her daughter said she had suffered a stroke.

Deployed across the street were hundreds of armed soldiers and police officers, some with rifles raised in a scene that looked more like an armed standoff than a humanitarian rescue effort.

"Why are they treating us like we are some kind of enemy? They are putting a perimeter around us," said Gary Kinard, 41, who was at the convention centre for three days with his wife and five children.

"There ain't no way in the world this is supposed to happen in America. Not in America," said Kinard. "They go way overseas and take care of somebody overseas, but not down here. That is messed up. You are not supposed to do that."