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Back in the day, when Karla Homolka was testifying at the murder trial of her former husband Paul Bernardo, I fantasized that if I were independently wealthy, I would spend the rest of my life documenting the rest of hers.

It would be called Karla Watch, and sometimes there’d be nothing to report — just a recent picture of her and maybe a line saying “status quo” — but sometimes, there’d be lots.

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It would have been my contribution to reminding people of just what she did, and her sweet plea bargain.

As it turns out, if I was right about nothing else, I was right that people would need reminding. Homolka bobbled to the surface of public consciousness again this week, as she periodically does, amid a controversy that she’d been volunteering at the private Christian school her three children attend.

While the school brass apparently knew about and were accepting of her criminal past, some of the parents didn’t and weren’t.