Toronto Star city columnist Rosie DiManno implores us to take a good, hard look:

It requires, increasingly, little empirical evidence to excuse the radicalism of pupa militants, including those who enjoy the benefits of our own generous, inclusive and hyper-tolerant society. This is the constituency that protects — tacitly encourages — the nihilism of those driven to violent distraction by what they see as endless victimization of their tribe, a purported world-wide Islamaphobia that can only be redressed by random atrocities.
How quickly, do you think, will these arrests — the judicial process only in its infancy — cease to be about them and become primarily about us? […]
Historically, there has been hardly any identifiable group that hasn’t believed itself ethnically or religiously or politically targeted for what it is.
But modern global jihad is a different animal. It is tearing the world apart. It is picking the fight. It is devouring its own adherents.
It’s killing us.
If not in this alleged plot, in Toronto, then by another misbegotten cabal, on another ordinary day, and you know who’ll be blamed.

As David Frum points out, the feeling that until very recently they were in the crosshairs of global jihad has given the Canadian media a certain lucidity lacking in reports from stateside news organizations, in which the goal of reporting the news as clearly and directly as possible has taken a backseat to obfuscating the facts in the service of political correctness (“mainly of South Asian descent”… ???)

But of course, not all possess DiManno’s forthrightness. Ed Morrissey defenestrates the “broad strata” balderdash:

The only broad strata at work is the network of multicultural apologists that will attempt to make themselves feel good by ignoring the obvious connection between these suspects, the one that even a child could detect from the list of suspects and their involvement in Islamist websites. That broad strata will go to their deaths rather than admit that radical Islam comprises a threat against Western civilization. Unfortunately, they will take the rest of us with them.

Canadians should be vigilant against this kind of willful ignorance seeping into their press corps. Remember how the BBC, at first shocked into using the word “terrorist atrocity” to describe the July 7th attack on London, later went back into the early reports and altered the text to “peacetime bomb attacks”?

Canada was not spared from a “peacetime bomb attack” — it narrowly escaped a terrorist atrocity. Early reports indicate that the Canadian media get this and will not forget it as long as they take DiManna’s advice and refuse to look away.