So I just got back from Paris.

If you think traffic in the US is insane, try getting from one side of the city to the other. There's no traffic flow; everyone just goes when they want. And peds are the worst. They will step out on the street whenever, instead of waiting for the "green man" (the 'ok to cross' light), and damned whoever is driving on the road at the moment.

The first day I was there, I saw the body of a struck Frenchman laying in the middle of the road by Ecole' Militaire (sp). In America, this would have drawn a huge crowd. In Paris, no one even slowed down.

Don't get me started with bikes in Amsterdam, either.

Well it's 9:56 PM here, the entire area around Dawson college has been shut down by the police since the incident. They are still posted out there. So far they reported 20 people at various hospitals around Montreal, one person so far has died. At first it was thought 4 people were involved but thats narrowed down to one suspect who was shot, by police near Dawson. Seems the incident was contained very quickly as police arrived 4 minutes into the shooting. The streets are really empty and sirens are still going off.

This is really messed up especially since this is the start of the Fall semester and this is the event that starts. The previous weeks were marked with frosh and oreintation events for students arriving at Concordia, Ecole Poly, McGill, Dawson, UQAM... all schools close together at the heart of montreal.

I don't understand how the school administration and the teaching staff did not diagnose this earlier, while the suspect was in class and did not yet act out.

In Columbine it was different, it was two people who pschologically pushed themselves to this event, when its one person, that means that this individual had to have been really off the bleeding edge.