Cohen: When disaster strikes a world away but hits close to home

Before the religious massacre in New Zealand – a millennium ago in the revolutions of the news cycle – there was the airplane crash in Ethiopia. Before the evil of mass murder in a crowded mosque, there was the whim of fate on a barren plain.
When I heard of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, I paused, winced and shrugged. It’s Ethiopia, I thought, far from home. It’s a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, I thought, not London to Toronto. It was an accident, I th