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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (9055)	8/3/2008 1:09:43 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12246

"proportional representation" So does this mean really big fat people get disproportionate representation while thin people are on the skinny?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (9055)	8/3/2008 1:19:11 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12246

WINNIPEG -- The family of Tim McLean Jr. spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since his horrific slaying aboard a Greyhound bus west of Portage la Prairie, Man., last week. The seemingly random attack, in which McLean Jr. was stabbed repeatedly by a fellow passenger and beheaded, has sent shockwaves around the world. Flanked by family members, Alex McLean, the 22-year-old victim's uncle, said his nephew was "a little guy with a heart bigger than you could know." He said the young Winnipeg man, who spent part of his childhood in Elie west of the city, was known as Timmy to his friends and Tim Jr. to his family. "He made friends effortlessly, disliked no one and accepted everyone for who they were. Tim spent his life travelling and meeting new people and always saw the good in everyone," said Alex McLean. "He had the most infectious giggle and you could hear him laughing a mile away." Tim McLean Jr. was on the bus returning to Winnipeg from many kilometres away, having worked as a booth operator at the Capital EX festival in Edmonton. His uncle told reporters his free-spirited nephew was looking forward to spending time with his friends and family upon his return to Winnipeg. Alex McLean expressed the family's gratitude for the outpouring of love and support from not just friends and familiar faces, but also complete strangers nationwide. He said "this is obviously a most difficult time for us all" and asked the media and public to respect the family's need to grieve for McLean Jr. privately. McLean Jr. was apparently sleeping on the bus when a man sitting beside him suddenly started stabbing him in the neck and chest with a large hunting knife. Passengers said the attacker, who was locked in the bus alone with the victim, then cut off his head and held it up to the window. Forty-year-old Vince Weiguang Li, an Edmonton newspaper carrier, has been charged with second-degree murder. Li, who boarded the bus in Brandon, made his first court appearance in Portage la Prairie on Friday morning and is slated to appear in court again Tuesday. Many thousands of well-wishers have already paid tribute to the young man via the Internet, including numerous tribute pages on Facebook, a social networking website. One memorial page called "R.I.P. Tim McLean" had nearly 50,000 members yesterday evening. On her Facebook profile, McLean Jr.'s stepmother Nadine McLean said she is overwhelmed and thankful for "the love and support from everyone." The Facebook profile of one the victim's sisters, Katie McLean, said she was also thankful, while her "heart is breaking (and) things will never be the same ..." edmontonsun.com