September 13, 2006: someone walks into a CEGEP school in Montreal and opens fire in a cafeteria. 20 are injured by the blasts, two dead, including shooter, no count on the psychological damage, it's there though, I know. Why did this happen, where was the security? There is sensational news coverage, eye witness reports, minute-by-minute coverage. Was it because it was a rainy 13?October 18, 1975: Robert Poulin (Nepean) has an interesting day. He kicks off with raping and murdering a 17 year old friend. He then sets his house on fire and bikes to St. Pius X High School. There he kicks open the door of the grade 12 religion class and opens fire - my friends are injured, my friend was killed, pyschological damage? You bet, lots of it. Poulin ends it with a blast in his own mouth. No explanation about what made him do it. Why did this happen? There was no security. There is sensational coverage, the papers are all over it for a while.
In other news reported today....wait for it. Time Squares' Naked Cowboy is going to make an album. Yep, there it was reported as one of the featured stories on MSN. Can't wait to pick up that little ditty. He has only one song actually, but he can twang it up at least 20 ways.
What's news? You tell me.
3 comments:
As I remember it there really wasn't much news coverage after the first journalistic belch. Certainly nothing like the news hounds do it today! I was in my last year at Glebe, where Kim was a student. A large chunk of Glebe's 1975 Remembrance Day assembly was devoted to her. As to the shooter - Robert Poulin doesn't even show up on most searches of the school shooting topic. The timeline map which Canadian Press produced today doesn't even show the St. Pius X incident that year.
Mike H
Conception Bay South, NL, Canada
Mike, it was a terrible time - but without CNN and Fox blasting it 24/7 to the world and asking us how we felt - in real time over our cell phones - we were able to grasp the reality of the event much easier. And to grieve and heal faster. I belive anyway.
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