Top Canadian military official charged with murder

[DontSayBanana]

*waits for the inevitable Kentucky Colonel joke*

[dps]

I know it's Canada, but does a colonel really count as one of Canada's top military officials? 

Do you think that if a person of similar rank in the US did this it would not be big news?

Of course it would be huge news, it just wouldn't be correct to call him a top military official.

Once again, he's a top military official not because of his rank, but because of the job that he held - base commander.

In a country with a real military, the commander of an important base would be a general.

[Neil]

In a country with a real military, the commander of an important base would be a field marshal.

Fixed.

[Syt]

What a major asshole.

What about his cousin?

[dps]

In a country with a real military, the commander of an important base would be a field marshal.

Fixed.

Field marshals should be leading field armies, not commanding bases.

[Grey Fox]

I know it's Canada, but does a colonel really count as one of Canada's top military officials? 

Do you think that if a person of similar rank in the US did this it would not be big news?

Of course it would be huge news, it just wouldn't be correct to call him a top military official.

Once again, he's a top military official not because of his rank, but because of the job that he held - base commander.

In a country with a real military, the commander of an important base would be a general.

He was the commander of a base of our version of the Chair Force, ffs.

[katmai]

I know it's Canada, but does a colonel really count as one of Canada's top military officials? 

Do you think that if a person of similar rank in the US did this it would not be big news?

Of course it would be huge news, it just wouldn't be correct to call him a top military official.

Once again, he's a top military official not because of his rank, but because of the job that he held - base commander.

In a country with a real military, the commander of an important base would be a general.

I guess Neil is right and US Air Force isn't a real military.

[Malthus]

This just in: the colonel partied with, of all people, Paul Bernardo:

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/11/12845796.html

[jimmy olsen]

This just in: the colonel partied with, of all people, Paul Bernardo:

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/11/12845796.html

Never heard of that guy before, but damn, that's weird. What are the odds of two guys like that meeting and becoming close enough friends that they'd let the other know what they're doing?

[DontSayBanana]

This just in: the colonel partied with, of all people, Paul Bernardo:

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/11/12845796.html

Never heard of that guy before, but damn, that's weird. What are the odds of two guys like that meeting and becoming close enough friends that they'd let the other know what they're doing?

As I read the current timeline, 249:1.

[PRC]

This just in: the colonel partied with, of all people, Paul Bernardo:

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/11/12845796.html

Now that's fucked up.

[Malthus]

This just in: the colonel partied with, of all people, Paul Bernardo:

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/11/12845796.html

Never heard of that guy before, but damn, that's weird. What are the odds of two guys like that meeting and becoming close enough friends that they'd let the other know what they're doing?

He's one of Canada's most notorious psychopaths. He and his wife are infamous for making sex tapes of the pair raping little girls, then murdering them.

[Ed Anger]

*waits for the inevitable Kentucky Colonel joke*

mew.

I, Col. Ed have not killed anybody.

[Razgovory]

I guess Canada is really just like a small town.  Everyone knows each other.  Even the murderers.