The head found in Angrignon Park was indeed that of Jun Lin and the Gazette adds that there are no further remains to be located.
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More users are bringing things back late at the Grande Bibliothèque. In 2011 the library soaked users for over a million bucks in fines.
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Michel
Guilty. The wife borrows books and then forgets about them until we receive a call. Then *I* have to drop them off.
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Kate
They don’t mention losses from technical failures. I haven’t borrowed many things there, but twice I’ve had the auto-checkout demagnetize a book yet fail to register it as checked out to me. So that must happen fairly often.
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Stefan
It happened to me too once that I borrowed a book which was not marked as checked out. I told the helpdesk staff about it but they did not seem to care. Presumably because they are not able to fix that themselves. Also, another time a book had not been marked as returned when I returned it and I had to fill a form to start an ‘internal search’ (it was found then).
But once I had lost a book on the way home (carelessly stacked on the bicycle rack) and a few days after it was marked off my list, as somebody had returned it. That came unexpected and I found it very nice that somebody would pass there to return it.
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A prank call saying a boat had capsized on the St. Lawrence Tuesday evening off Baie d’Urfé brought out the Coast Guard and fire department rescue forces. The caller must’ve enjoyed the spectacle, because he tried again later in the evening.
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Alex
Jerks! -_-
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A party that turned into a brawl in Montreal North early Wednesday ended with 14 arrests and a seriously injured policewoman.
The CBC calls it an “illegal party” and the Journal a fête clandestine but neither explains what makes a party illegal.
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Anto
They were more than fifty?
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Rejean
This report said that it’s because there was alcohol being consumed by minors and maybe sold as well.
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walkerp
They didn’t announce their parade route ahead of time.
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Kate
Anto, walkerp: I see what you did there!
Rejean, your link’s not resolving. But I guess illicit alcohol sales would be a reason. I just don’t like our major media sort of implying “well, heh heh, any party in Montreal North, ya know?”
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Michel
From what I recall from the TVA news story, there was a party in an establishment. Too many people showed up, the owner called 911 because of the fire (too many people) hazard, so the lights of the cop cars made some revellers extra punchy.
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qatzelok
I like how the Gazette takes the “poor (female) policeman” angle. I guess we’re supposed to forget about pepper-spraying cops and how strong they can be.
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Ephraim 19:37 on 2012/07/04 Permalink
Hopefully this will give his poor parents some relief, albeit slight that it is.
qatzelok 22:47 on 2012/07/04 Permalink
The Libor banking scandal will cause a lot more misery than this one freakish crime. And yet Libor banking doesn’t have its own section in the Toronto Star, whereas Luka does.
Josh 01:26 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
International news never gets the space that local/national news does, qatzelok, and there are a number of reasons for that. Give it time, and editors will have to make space for your story I suspect. I know it led the CBC national radio news I listened to this morning.
But anyway, isn’t this thread about the Jun Lin murder?
Kate 01:33 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
You’re not a mod, Josh. Why are you trying to manage this thread?
qatzelok 08:27 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
@ Josh: “International news never gets the space that local/national news does”
Is this why climate change and war atrocities don’t get as much coverage as a single murder? Because these things are international and thus, don’t interest our provincial friends? Or is it mass media that finds “freak does bad” stories more interesting than “capitalism is bad” stories?
Kate 10:39 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
qatzelok, part of your answer is simpler and less open to paranoia. Local news covers local issues. If I want to read about climate change, war atrocities, the Libor scandal, etc., I don’t usually turn to La Presse, le Devoir or the Gazette (although I might occasionally read commentary on such issues in local media).
I’ll turn to the BBC, the New York Times, and other major international media players when I want a picture of a big international story. I don’t need local journalists to waste their time rewording them for me. In fact, I want the local journos to focus on the local scene: Quebec stories, city stories, even borough-level issues. I can’t find stories about those things from Reuters (unless something’s lurid enough to hit the wires, like a grisly murder).
It’s normal for a story like the killing of Jun Lin, because it happened here, to get a fair bit of attention here too. But why should our media put their efforts into duplicating what international media have already done? This is the internet age. The stories are out there. Begin with Google News.
Josh 10:49 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
So off-topic comments are now permitted then, Kate? Or am I missing some connection between a European banking scandal and Jun Lin?
Josh 10:52 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
And to further respond to qatzelok, part of the reason is simple resources. The Toronto Star has ample resources to cover most of the Jun Lin story, but have only a single foreign correspondent and aren’t exactly known for their business reporting. Yet you think they should be trying to tackle a massive European banking scandal?
Kate 11:07 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
Josh, you’re pushing me to outline detailed rules on this blog, but I’m not interested in that. Please stop acting like a forum mod, it’s getting tedious.
qatzelok 13:16 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
Kate, the Libor scandal also “happened here” in the sense that RBC is one of the banks being investigated, and the fallout will impoverish Montrealers as this fraud by Barclays (and friends) involves trillions of dollars of international capital.
Likewise, the Luka story isn’t really local. There’s nothing “Montreal” about decapitating your ex. This could have happened virtually anywhere and – more importantly – only affects a small number of people. Also, spreading around a story like this one has the effect of normalizing this kind of behavior. Mass media is causing more atrocities with its non-stop Luka coverage, but doesn’t care because all they care about is more profit.
Kate 15:14 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
OK, but would it be better to have hushed up the Luka story? Even if you could or should, once he fled and there was an international manhunt, there would simply have been no way to keep a lid on that.
qatzelok 20:26 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
@ Kate: “would it be better to have hushed up the Luka story?”
In my opinion, yes. It’s not like some Gazette reader nabbed him because of the coverage. And the public can’t really “learn” anything from this story except to be wary of weird people. And in times like ours, weird people are our only hope.
Kate 22:23 on 2012/07/05 Permalink
Let me see if I understand your position. What do you think should happen if there’s a murder? What if there’s a danger from someone who has killed and is not identified or caught yet?
I think I understand why you think grisly murders should be downplayed, but under the rule of law you can’t hush them up. If you kill someone, the act moves into the realm of public knowledge because the trial is prosecuted by the crown in public – and I think it should be. You’d prefer secret trials?
And I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing that people are interested in murder. Of course we are. That’s why there’s an entire genre of books, movies and TV devoted to the murder mystery. It doesn’t mean we’re morbid, it’s just a fascination with marginal acts most of us will never commit. And then someone comes along and acts out something more lurid than most TV – and you think the media could be convinced not to talk about it?
It would be far, far worse if the details were hushed up and then leaked out and passed around as rumours. No. Something like this happens, it has to be looked at and aired out. Then it can be put aside till the next atrocity occurs.
qatzelok 18:18 on 2012/07/07 Permalink
@ Kate: “And I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing that people are interested in murder.”
People aren’t interested in murder. Mass media puts murder (and all kinds of other low-culture stim) in their faces to keep them distracted from all the banking rip-offs and wars for resources. The media tells its audience that it is dumb and easily amused by simple moral tales. And the isolated suburban audience has no choice but to believe this about itself.
The media have an “Amy Winehouse”ing effect on the working class, keeping them dumb and scared.
Kate 23:23 on 2012/07/07 Permalink
I guess that’s what Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were trying to do with all that tragedy? Shakespeare and Marlowe were just distracting the public from the peccadilloes of the Tudors? Racine, doing a little misdirection for Louis XIV?
qatzelok 10:34 on 2012/07/09 Permalink
In the computer game Civilization, when your citizens become unhappy, you can create entertainers and this can avoid a revolution. Most fiction – even the “good” stuff – plays this role. But at some point, you’ve got to overthrow your oligarchy or you’re finished.