I mean, if that’s all the information they want to tell us, this news is useless. That’s exactly my complaint. Why would I need to know even that much? The fact they publish it at all implies there’s something newsworthy about it, but if there is, they aren’t sharing it.

Yeah I understand the publication ban in place on the victim’s identity which the victim willingly bypassed as well as the ban on the attacker’s identity. I would think they could tell us more about the why, not the who, though. And if not, I would expect them to be clearer about the extent of the ban. But yes you’re right, I am being a bit too harsh on CBC regardless… Its just frustrating to read that whole thing and not have any idea if the news means something substantial or is a very isolated incident.

That’s a lotta words in this article to manage to not say one single thing about WHY it happened, or even address that one might wonder why this happened, or the extremely peculiar circumstances surrounding how it happened. So the boy came to this news group to, what, say “these guys beat me up” and they were just like “wow great can you tell us about what the hospital was like?”

Quite possibly one of the most worthless pieces of news I’ve ever read. Was it a hate crime, a drug deal, extortion, punishment for failure to exchange nuclear codes, infighting among Martians disguised as humans? Who knows, but thank goodness I got to hear from so many people how craaaazy wacko unexpected it is! Yeah, something tells me this kid isn’t as surprised by this as the rest of us. All we get is:

"The family said the incident stemmed from an earlier dispute between Sylas and another student, which he thought had been resolved. "

Ohhh so the incident was caused by an incident. Wow let me nominate you for a Pulitzer