17 years ago today

[ottawasub]

Sadly, the date doesn`t register with most people, even though it was one of the most tragic and horrifying events in Canada over the last 50 years.

Rest In Peace

 

[torE]

..having been born in Montreal, and living there for the first 18years of my life, I remember exactly where I was the day I heard the news report back in 1989.
A very sad day indeed.

~tori

 

[Neverenuff$]

Montreal..

 

[Svend]

Such a waste, there was so much potential in those bright young people.

 

[SPQR]

Its unfortunate that the city I live in has such a sorted past and sad stories.

All the lives that have been lost, even recently and going back to the days of the FLQ.

It's a shame.

 

[73455]

I Remember

I had just finished a night class at UofT, got into the car and heard the first reports on the radio as I drove home. The news just kept getting worse and worse. That night will always stick with me.

 

[LancsLad]

Lepine was a name he created for himself. His father was Algerian and in the stories attached to the links beat him and his mother.

 

[ottawasub]

. . . might well be almost everyone can name the guy who did it. But tell the name of the victims (even one or two)!!

Although I believe in a free press I really think, after the initially flurry of court cases, suicide/burials, or whatever that the name of those commiting such crimes, their memory should be relegated to the scrap heap in hell and never uttered or published again!!!

Thankfully he killed himself. I`d hate to think how tough it would`ve been for the families to have endured a trial had he lived. You just know the media would`ve turned it into a circus.

 

[tboy]

Thankfully he killed himself. I`d hate to think how tough it would`ve been for the families to have endured a trial had he lived. You just know the media would`ve turned it into a circus.

And couple that with the fact that he'd be in a private cell, with internet and colour tv, conjugal visits and be out in less than 3 yrs......

 

[Svend]

This tragedy affected even the perpetrator's family.

Lepine's sister became an addict and died of an overdose a few years after the shooting.

 

[K Douglas]

A tragic date in the annuls of Canadian history. I can't believe that was 17 years ago.