One jerk gets star treatment because he’s star Ontario PC candidate Rocco Rossi. Thought he’d deleted this, but apparently he hadn’t:
The other jerk, the National Post’s Steve Murray, is here. He thinks Hitler’s funny. Wonder what his paper’s readership thinks?
These tragedies tend to follow a sad pattern. First, the crime.
As the whole country knows by now, there was a fatal weekend shooting at Toronto’s crowded Eaton Centre food court, which saw a man killed, many hurt, and a boy critically wounded.
As in the 2005 shooting of teenaged Jane Creba — during a federal election campaign, no less, and a short walk from the latest killing — emotions ran high. There were popular expressions of shock and anger, and the death penalty was up for discussion once again.
Next, the politicians — conservative ones, almost always — seemingly rush to capitalize on it. Thus, Toronto’s mayor and Canada’s prime minister, wasted no time in condemning the violence at the Eaton Centre and promising swift and harsh justice.
They held her funeral today, sooner than I’d expected. I couldn’t get there on time. She was the original feminist nun, and such a remarkable person. I love her and will miss her very much.
Beatrice KEEGAN
KEEGAN, Sister Beatrice C.S.C.
(Sister Mary Francis Ann)
A Sister of Holy Cross, Sister Bea, daughter of Frank Keegan and Ann Anderson, died on May 31st, 2012 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital at the age of 85, having celebrated 68 years in religious life. In addition to her Holy Cross family, Sr. Bea is mourned by her sister Ellen Laverty (Frank), her brother Ernest Keegan (Fran), nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, and by the Kinsella and Shenahan families. Sister Bea was predeceased by her parents and by her siblings Edward (Marnie) and Denis (Margaret). Sister Bea’s special gift was the education of young children. Teaching the little ones endeared her to many who to this very day remember with great fondness their Grade One teacher! As teacher and as pastoral worker she ministered in Smithers, Lake Cowichan, B.C.: Renfrew, Ottawa, Alexandria, St. Catharine’s, ON; and in Montreal, P.Q., her birthplace! She was well-loved by those who knew her, especially by her aboriginal friends on Canada’s west coast. Visitation will be held at the Kelly Funeral Home, 2313 Carling Avenue, Ottawa from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, June 3. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, June 4, at 10 a.m. at St. Basil’s Church, 899 Maitland Avenue, Ottawa. Burial will be at the Sisters of Holy Cross cemetery in Montreal after a prayer service at St. Joseph Pavilion, St. Laurent. Donation in her memory to the Sisters of Holy Cross Missions would be appreciated.
Brought back from the U.S. of A. for Roxy, Canada’s Best-Loved Political Dog, by Katherine’s parents, Jane and Rick Stoneman! Reads: BARACK’S BEST FRIEND. Beyond awesome.
Roxy, like her master, is a yellow dog Democrat. Except she’s not yellow.
Here she goes on Twitter, again trumpeting the online meeting place for far-Right Canadian bigotry and intolerance:
“Fern Hill @fernhilldammit
Walking the walk. Way to go, Free Dominion! http://www.freedominion.ca/ @freedominion #BLACKOUTSPEAKOUT #cdnpoli”
What a bloody fool.
More concerned about newspaper wars than civil wars, the Edmonton Journal’s Stuart Thomson this morning tweeted that my call for Western military intervention in Syria was “glib.” I’ll leave it to others to decide whether the rising body count – and last week’s shocking murder of dozens of children in Houla – merits the sort of chronic misanthropic indifference assholes like Thomson traffic in, daily.
After his tweet came this one. Me, I think there’s a reason why some journalists are stars, and why some are pathetic nobodies, and will end their careers as pathetic nobodies. Cynicism.
