On the kind of sunny spring day we’ve longed for, a young man driving a white rental van allegedly plowed through pedestrians, killing 10 and seriously injuring another 14. These seemed to be the three morally urgent stages of how we first dealt, individually and as a city-a large sprawling and diverse one at that—with Monday’s horrific van attack in North York . Cue the online social theorizing, everything from young men need to be taught that “young women don’t owe them sex,” to references to the 1989 mass shooting of 14 female engineering students at Montreal’s “L’Ecole Polytechnique. Nor Jivani’s thoughts expressed on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning that we should take our time to discuss this violent crime and city tragedy. We tried with words, searching on social media for the correct term to describe what happened--an attack filled with terror but perhaps not terrorism.

Source: thestar April 24, 2018 22:52 UTC