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Vacouver Papers: Montreal Shooting

The Province wins the Montreal coverage. They give the entire front page to a really good cover - with a surprisingly small Province masthead, and a headline of "Madness in Montreal". Quite frankly and I don't mean to dwell on this in light of the story itself, but they should have this design as the cover all the time. The only problem is that both The Province and The Sun rely on the CanWest News Service, so it's alot of the same coverage. On the back it's all about Dave Nonis keeping quiet after he was duped by the Flyers Bobby Clarke.

When something really important happens in news, The Sun is still the closest thing to a real paper in the city to get it. Today's coverage of the Montreal shootings begins with a big "Cold-Blooded killer" headline and a photo of the aftermath. The CP article about the shooter's blog is interesting. In Sports its Canucks talk. Still talking about Ryan Kessler and Booby Clarks gambit to get him, then add the fact that Jason King opted to sign and play in Sweden with a one-way deal but remaining Canuck property, and lastly Anson Carter signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets for one year and $2.5 million. Really the Canucks couldn't cough that up?

I have to hand it to 24 Hours, they almost presented a completely serious cover today about the Montreal shootings. Headline and cover story photo both devoted to Montreal in shock. Although I'm not sure the article about how 600 members of the Vancouver Police department was coincidentally in a refresher course called "active shooter program". In other news booze hounds, Wine is now outselling spirits $4.2 billion to $4.0 billion per year.

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Posted by: Patrick Labay

September 16, 2006 02:39 AM

Kimveer Gill was a mentally sick individual. He sought acceptance in cultures where he could and Goth culture tries to be very accepting of people for the precise purpose of preventing people from becoming so disenfranchised or disconnected from society or reality, that they fall. This person was a fallen soul. He was full of hate. Kimveer looked for avenues to placate these feelings.. such as video games or music.. This did not work, because Kimveer Gill was sick. A mentally sick person is not a product of the culture they hide in. Charles Manson was not a hippie, Charles Whitman was not a conservative christian. Ted Bundy was not a yuppy. These people hide where they think they can dissapear, or in a place they find the most empathy, or in a place they feel they are perceived as normal.. But make no mistake about it... these people are sick in the head and in the heart and in the soul. No music, nor club, nor bands nor governments nor schools can fix what medicine and Doctors are still struggling to understand and cure.