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TRAGEDY STRIKES MONTREAL'S DAWSON COLLEGE

There are three specific issues that I wanted to address this morning. I'm sure that you've all heard about the shootings at Dawson College in Montreal. Even those of you south of the border should have heard of it by now because it has been all over CNN and the rest of the news sources down there. Kimveer Gill opened fire at the college in downtown Montreal killing one girl and wounding nineteen others including five still in critical condition. Gill had a live journal on www.vampirefreaks.com that he updated just hours before he began the shooting and it pictured him with semi-automatic assault rifle and the caption read: Ready for Action.

This is very upsetting news to most of us and the thought going through everybody's mind this morning is why. The police had to kill him to stop the shooting so it will be hard to find out the answer to that very question. On the website he calls himself Trench and he said that you will come to know him as the Angel of Death. I particularly find this very upsetting and it's hard to believe that it has happened. I think that the most disturbing thing about it is the reports that say how cool and calm he was when he opened fire on the students. I am sure there is to be much speculation in the future on this as it is the major story on all news programs and is on the front page of the papers in Canada and the US.

On a much lighter note there are rumours going around that there might be something going on between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter MacKay. I remember seeing this on the news last night and thinking, "Are they seriously putting this on the news." Apparently most of the coverage is coming from the States. At least it means better relations with the US.

Jack Layton has decided to continue his reign as Bonehead of the Day which effectively makes him Bonehead of the Week. So after the NDP Conference over the weekend in which he made many bonehead comments he continues to make them including yesterday when he said that we should pull our troops out of Afghanistan and put them to better use patrolling our borders looking for illegal fishing boats.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be patrolling our borders keeping out illegal fishing boats and trying to protect our borders in the north but I don't see the need to do it at the expense of the efforts in Afghanistan. We are going to keep out the fishing boats whether or not we are in Afghanistan so I don't really understand what Layton is asking us to do. Oh well, he's the bonehead.

- DM

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