![The Shootings at Parliament Hill in Ottawa](https://www.torontomike.com/images/blog/ottawa.gif)
Like many of you, I was glued to the television and radio while the story unfolded in Ottawa yesterday. I watched CBC News Network and listened to CBC Radio One, and found the coverage anchored by Peter Mansbridge and Anna Maria Tremonti to be outstanding. There was a wonderful and refreshing lack of speculation and hyperbole.
We now know there was a single shooter, an angry young man who took the life of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, a reservist based in Hamilton with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, who was shot while on honorary guard at the National War Memorial, had a son in kindergarten.
Some media outlets will speak of the terror and fear, but I prefer to focus on our national sense of loss at this pointless, cowardly act. We are not afraid, we did not awaken this morning with a sense of terror. This is Canada.
I can't turn a phrase like Rex Murphy, so here he is on last night's The National sharing sentiments I agree with.
In Pittsburgh last night, where the Penguins faced the Flyers, they honoured Canada and sang our national anthem.
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I'll close this entry with Bruce MacKinnon's touching editorial cartoon for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
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