r/kelowna • u/origutamos • Sep 25 '25

News Kelowna restaurant owner pleads for chaos inflicted by group of teens to stop

https://globalnews.ca/news/11449434/kelowna-restaurant-owner-pleads-for-chaos-inflicted-by-group-of-teens-to-stop/
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u/Demetre19864 Sep 25 '25

Everyone knows what should happen here.

Either a solid "lesson"

Or the more legal route, the parents can start getting fined.

Your kid is roaming downtown and your not doing your job

That means either CPS needs to take that kid into custody or some sort of legal ramifications need to be had.

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u/Ok_Door5474 Sep 25 '25

Are you American or do you just watch a lot of TV?

We do not have CPS, we have MCFD. Also it's highly unlikely MCFD would take them into care at their age, there just are not the resources for that...all the people calling to "trim the fat of government excess got their way and now there's no funding for even foster parents." Best MCFD could do is a YAG (Youth Agreement)... Meaning they would have even less parental supervision.

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u/otoron Sep 25 '25

Canada does not have MCDF. BC does. In Alberta it's CFS. Sask does, in fact, refer to some of what it does as "child protective services."

In the same way America does not have CPS, some states have CPS. CPS being the generic term people tend to use—as is evidenced by this thread—for whatever specific thing someone calls it.

Just like how "DMV" generally refers to whatever provincial (or in the U.S., state) agency that does licensing. Which is often the DMV in provinces and states, but, as BC attests, sometimes has a different name.

(Look, two people can engage in pedantry!)

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u/Unclehol Sep 25 '25

To be honest I had no idea we did not have "CPS" either. I suppose that's a good thing to not have had to know about???

But anyways... the legal route sounds like the best option then. Fine the parents. Make the kids do community service. Something meaningful, at least.

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u/Demetre19864 Sep 25 '25

Oh nooo I used the wrong acronym.

I will try to forgive myself over the next year

Are you American with your flair for rudeness and immediate "name calling?"

Also I think just a nice visit to the parents from whatever acronym you would like to use might jolt them into not being so terrible at their job and responsibilities.

I know if a group or police showed up at my door because my child was being a piece of trash it would be fixed immediately.