Hmmm think for a sec before commenting on the whole fuel emergency thing. Lets say they had flown from YYZ-YYC with YEG as an alternate. Fight slightly higher than forecast winds enroute then do an approach. Obviously they damaged the plane on the miss and would not have wanted to go to YEG or even if they had, the fuel burn would have been much higher due to possibly having to leave the gear down or the flaps down. Add all this up and you could easily be a big tight on gas.
Canadian Beech, you obviously have no experience with no alternate IFR or you wouldn't have made that comment. To go no alternate IFR you need weather mins much higher than the YYC weather was.
If you chose to not let your family fly on any airline that has had an incident, then I guess after the accident at YFC, the accident in YEG and the incident involving a 737 taking off with no flaps, you don't have too many choices left for air travel in Canada.