CANADA PERSPECTIVE

Ottawa covers the bombardment of Lebanon with the humanism that characterizes Canadian press — and this time it takes the form of a baby. The Globe and Mail opens with the story of Aline Saeed, age 7, wrapped in bloodied bandages, who had survived the first strike that killed her father. Returning for the funeral, a second strike killed her infant sister and other relatives. The narrative is constructed as an indictment: the precision of details (age, bandages, funeral) transforms a fact of war into an individual crime. Canadian press does not comment on Israeli military strategy — it shows what it produces. This narrative approach is a powerful editorial choice: by personalizing victims, the Globe and Mail makes abstract reading of "18 dead in strikes" impossible. Every reader in Toronto now knows that a baby died during her father's burial.