Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan...

[dewline]

Got the Labour Day Classic - Canadian Football League match between Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers being played in Regina - on the TV for background noise. I've been a Riders fan almost since I started walking, because of my upbringing.

Meanwhile, there's a three-province police search underway for two suspects in a case of multiple-homicide - 10 dead, 15 injured - that started in a First Nation and a neighbouring settler-founded community a ways north of Saskatoon. The crimes and the search they've triggered have made the news as far away from Saskatchewan as the UK (The Guardian), Germany (DW News), and Australia (ABC News) by now.

There is a severe dissonance here when I look at these two things together in the same posting...

Comments

[sabotabby]

Horrible about Saskatchewan. Who the fuck does something like that?

[dewline]

Someone who's become very Wrong. How they got there...? If it is the people named in the Dangerous Persons Alert notice, I expect we'll find out at least part of the "how", and possibly some of those who know them best and still live may be able to share it.

[naath]

the BBC had the dreadful news this am, my oqnly association with Saskatchewan has hithto been the pirate song... I didn't want a new bad one. it is so awful

Sidebar on Pop Culture Stuff?

[dewline]

There's also the original version of Puck from Alpha Flight...he was from Saskatoon, specifically.

And while this crosses the line between reality and fiction where crime stories are concerned, one of my current favourite authors is Gail Bowen, creator of the Joanne Kilbourn(-Shreve) mystery novel series...most of which is set in Regina, but visits other parts of Saskatchewan occasionally.

[cmcmck]

The mass stabbing has made the mainstream news here.

[dewline]

I'd noticed that coverage...

[moonblossom]

What's happening in SK right now is fucking insane!!