Carlos Osorio / Toronto Star ) Order this photoCanadian soldiers in the streets of Toronto caused a stir on social media Monday night. The furor began when Toronto Police tweeted a public safety alert that soldiers were conducting drills with “training rifles” “all over (the) city” but “we are not being invaded.” Toronto Police spokesman Const. Keith Maxwell, professing to have spent 41 years in the military, claimed that the army doesn’t have “training rifles.” “Soldiers train with real weapons,” Maxwell claimed. Wattie, however, says the military does train with what they call “rubber rifles” as part of the fitness marches. “Canadian forces conducting armed simulated training exercises in the Beaches area,” Toronto Police tweeted.

Source: thestar March 21, 2017 21:39 UTC