One may smile and smile, and yet be a villain . . .
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A true sociopath, I think.
Does Williams’ military rank affect the way in which he will be tried? Does the military have any jurisdiction, or will it be an ordinary, civil trial (in as much as anything about the allegations can be said to be ‘ordinary’)?
I am pretty sure that this will be a civil case - the [alleged] crimes were not AFAIK committed on duty or on military property.
An easy mistake though. For well over a hundred years, the Globe was a Toronto paper, and it is still based in that city. While it went national back in (IIRC) the 1980s, there are still many who regard it as “The Toronto Globe and Mail.” Incorrect, but understandable.
He’s being tried in the Ontario court.
And well, let’s face it. The Globe is awfully Toronto-centric.
Canadian Forces Air Command uses “wing” to denote a base. In British and American usage (and once in Canadian usage) it just meant a few squadrons, which might or might not have taken up a whole base.
<Torontonian>I never noticed anything odd about it…</Torontonian>
Actually, it always seemed much less Toronto-centric than many of the other papers around here. Mind you, these other papers include the Toronto Star (can’t we do somerthing about the plught these poor people are in?), the Toronto Sun (Beer! Tits! Crime! Stereo ads! Our cops are tops!). The National Post (We’re Christian!) is the other paper that aspires (or aspired) to national status.
Yes, but if you’re quoting facts, you’d think you’d check your sources so you don’t end up doing what those Bangladeshi newspapers did last year and reprint an Onion article as real news by mistake.
The paper has never been known as the Toronto Globe and Mail except by critics who make fun of it for being too Toronto-centric. However, it may have been a coding error and the website meant to say Toronto-based Globe and Mail. Either way, the paper/site has no report of a confession.
I always get a kick out of the ads for Toronto businesses that are obviously aimed at Torontonians and that appear in the Alberta edition of my Globe (“Hey, according to this, there’s a one-day sidewalk sale at Yorkdale tomorrow.”). We don’t get the “Toronto” section of the Globe out here, but the news and op-eds often contain items and columns about concerns to Torontonians that mean little elsewhere. Entertainment reviews will often mention that a show is playing at the Canon or the Royal Alex; book reviews may mention that an author will be appearing at Indigo at the Eaton Centre. Lots of attention paid to the Leafs, Jays, Raptors, and Argos; comparatively little paid to the pro hockey and football teams in the rest of the country.
Doesn’t bother me. It’s kind of interesting, in a way. I’ve read the Globe for years, and if there is little of local (to me) interest in it, I find that it is still a good read.
At the risk of perpetuating a hijack…
I guess you’re forgetting the days when Izzy Asper, who was Jewish, ran the National Post. One day’s big news story would be treated in the headlines like this:
Globe and Mail: Federal Budget Released
Toronto Star: Budget Cuts Child Benefits; Single Moms and Kids to Suffer
Toronto Sun: Budget Cuts Taxes; More Money in Your Pocket
National Post: Suicide Bomber in Jerusalem Kills 14 Israelis
It wasn’t so much that Asper’s Post was pro-Israel as much as it buried news stories that were much more germane to the average Canadian than were stories about Israel.
Okay … back on topic
Bernardo angle?
http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/11/12845796.html
This is all just fucked up. I’m ex-Air Force, and a (then base) wing commander is GOD. All-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful. Folks in Trenton must (still) be reeling right now.
He was an instructor whilst I was 32U - never had him, but many buds did… wild.
But the Bernardo thing - wow… what if?
Wow, this whole story just gets weirder by the day.
Next we’ll find out he’s dating Karla Hamoka!
This one just gets wierder and wierder. And it started plenty wierd.
… and they were living together on a pig farm…
I don’t find it all that weird; I think the sort of people with the type of drive to be a big kahuna are more likely to be psycho- or sociopathic, and also likely to be so arrogant as to believe they can get away with it. But for that craziness to extend to serial-killing is, thankfully, not common.
So people with a lot of drive and ambition are more likely to be sociopaths?
I see.
Phew! That means I’m out of the psycho club… now, back to being a slothful underachiever.
Not by definition, no, but those with excessive amounts of it might have some overactive bees in their bonnets, yes.
Personally, I think the Bernardo angle is tenuous at best, at least in terms of what’s been presented in the linked article.
I partied with plenty of people in university ten years ago, and I’d probably be hard-pressed to remember more than a dozen of them at this stage.
The fact that they were both in the economics program doesn’t mean much, either. There were ~200 of us with my major in my graduating class, and I don’t remember anyone. Hell, I had several smaller classes (like, under 15 students), and I can’t even remember even a single classmate’s name from those.
Yeah, it’s totally plausible that they’d have crossed paths on campus and might even have been in the same room at the same time on more than one occasion, but they’re going to have to find something more solid that “they partied together” as a sign that they were Serial Killer BFFs.