MSM Reporting Gap........

Three arrested in Rideau Canal deaths

Updated: Wed Jul. 22 2009 10:34:20 PM

CTV.ca News Staff

Police in Kingston, Ont., have arrested three people in connection with the deaths of four Montreal women, who were found dead in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal last month.

Sources told CTV News that Kingston police made the arrests Wednesday morning.

Kingston police Const. Michael Menor would not "acknowledge or deny" the arrests, but said investigators will update the public at a news conference on Thursday afternoon.

Watery graves [Mark Steyn]

Three or so weeks back, a submerged car was found in the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ontario, containing the bodies of three teenage girls and their aunt - a story initially reported as Mysterious Death Of 4 Quebecers Baffles Kingston Police. When it emerged that the four female Quebecers were, in fact, Muslim, the tearful parents offered up a strange tale of an impromptu driving lesson gone tragically wrong (Driving Lesson May Have Led To Drowning).

La Presse is now reporting that the girls' father, mother and brother have been arrested en route to Montreal Airport, and that the deceased "aunt" or (alternatively) "cousin" was, in fact, the girls' father's first wife. The words "crime d'honneur" are beginning to creep into newspaper accounts.

Meanwhile, the blogger Scaramouche suggests that, while they're looking into honour killings in the Kingston area, the constabulary might take a gander at another curious aquatic accident this month:

Police say 14-year-old Kinza Kaianad died Monday evening at Kingston General Hospital as a result of injuries she sustained Saturday in a hotel pool in Gananoque, roughly 30 kilometres east of Kingston.

Her mother, 43-year-old Naila Yasmin, died in hospital on Sunday.

Yasmin, Kaianad and another daughter, age 11, were found unconscious in the indoor hotel pool just before 9 a.m. Saturday.

There would seem to be a statistically improbable number of multiple drownings of female members of Muslim families in Kingston this summer. If you're a young female Muslim, and you have any say in the matter, you might want to vacation elsewhere.

07/23 12:03 AM