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Flowers and teddy bears: Makeshift memorial started for 11-year-old Calgary boy
Hundreds of police and volunteers joined the search as Parker’s disappearance prompted an Amber Alert and renewed calls for changes to emergency alerts.
- On Wednesday, searchers found the body of 11-year-old Parker in a pipe connected to a culvert under Calgary's Deerfoot Trail, ending a two-week search after the autistic, non-verbal boy wandered from a daycare home.
- Hundreds of police and volunteers checked homes, boats, and garages across the city. Searchers employed unconventional methods, playing Disney songs from patrol vehicles and leaving out Goldfish crackers, because the boy might hide when frightened.
- In Laycock Park, residents gathered Thursday to honor Parker, leaving flowers and stuffed toys on a footbridge. One handwritten note read, "Parker, reads one, you are Calgary's boy now."
- Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Parliament Mike Lake, both parents of autistic children, called Thursday for changes to public alerts, stating "Parker's death has also exposed a serious gap in how Canada responds when vulnerable children go missing."
- While Amber Alerts are typically reserved for abductions, authorities issued a special exemption for Parker on the search's second day. The National Autism Network called for "urgent change" to emergency systems, stating "No child should be lost because the world does not yet know how to find them.
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