It must have been when he was shut in the bus by himself, before the police arrived (about ten minutes.)

This is all over the news here obviously. Most memorable quote: “I tried to lay down at 4 o'clock this morning and I was up 10 minutes later, because every time I close my eyes I see this man in the window with some guy's head I just smoked a cigarette with an hour before,”

My favourite quotes involved the maritimer referring to the deceased as "buddy".

The attacker was on the bus alone for about four hours after the stabbing as police tried to negotiate with him. During that period, as I understand it, he was seen eating pieces of the corpse. Latest update here


My brother is the G&M bureau chief for Winnipeg. Although he is heading back to Toronto to be the national Aboriginal beat reporter in about two weeks.

Bet he wishes he'd already gone...

Possibly. Although getting the front page for a couple of days in a row is pretty addictive for journos...

That's a very complete story.

The perp has a rather unusual name, and the "knife registry" idea is insane.

The perp has a rather unusual name

How so?

The "knife registry" idea smacks of spur of the moment "i-need-a-question" from one of the Ottawa hacks at Stockwell Day's Press Conference.

Except that all the references I've seen to it says that the idea came from an MP (presumably one of the more brain-dead Liberals). Haven't been able to figure out which one though.

And it's unlikely anyone will be able to I should think.

Amor, I found the juxtaposition of "Vince" with "Weiguang Li" to be jarring. The US convention among people of Chinese heritage who have also taken "Western" names is to use one or the other, not both, depending on the audience (or to put the Western one in square quotes).

Is that kind of amalgam common in Canada?

Ah, yes it is a bit unusual, in effect it duplicates his given name. It could be inadvertent, or a transcription error too I suppose.

That was a really good article.

Though I found the mention that the victim was "An aboriginal man" kind of strange. Then again, I don't read about people being aboriginal all that often. Unless I'm mistaken, it's the only mention of someone's race in the article.

Last night one of the witnesses on TV said the killer was aboriginal or Chinese, he wasn't sure which but that he was quite a large man. Maybe that's where it came from, it seems as though there's some confusion.

Judging by the photo on the BBC News page, the victim was a white kid and not aboriginal.

This story has been rattling around in my head all day. It's so savage and grim.

I agree. Sometimes I think it'd have been better for the young guy's identity to have stayed private, to accord him some dignity after such a terrible death, but that was probably never going to happen in the Internet age anyway.