I noticed at last night’s World Cup hockey game between Russia and Canada the Toronto arena announcer called for a moment’s silence in tribute to those killed during “the recent tragedies” in Russia. Slaughtering children at school, planting bombs in airliners and suicide bombings outside subway entrances are certainly tragic events but they certainly weren’t acts of nature like Hurricane Frances. I wonder why the word “terrorism” was not used. I hope it was just an oversight and not a case of political correctness. If shooting schoolchildren in the back cannot, without hesitation, be called “terrorism” then I’m afraid the West is done for.