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Megapundit: Rebranding the NDP
WEEKEND ROUNDUP Must-reads: Graham Thomson and Scott Taylor on Afghanistan; Dan Gardner on missile defence; George Jonas on the wrongfully convicted; Norman Spector on climate change politics. Power to...
View ArticleMegapundit: Aftershocks from the blowback of the tsunami
Must-reads: Don Macpherson on Mario Dumont; Murray Campbell on how politicians shouldn’t deal with gun violence. Shuffling towards liberty Who will be in Stephen Harper’s new cabinet? And will they be...
View ArticleWhat’s the matter with Arizona?
Having recently returned from Washington, where she was sworn into her third term in the House of Representatives, Gabrielle Giffords and her aides arrived at a Tucson Safeway to meet and greet her...
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Aurora shooting sparks ignorant responses online
After a mass shooting in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado killed 12 and injured 59 people, the response was immediate. There was everything from outpouring of grief to estimations of why 24-year-old...
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Ontario’s locked-door policy in schools doesn’t add up
Carlo Allegri/Reuters Canada is not the United States. It shouldn’t be necessary to make such an obvious observation. But with the premier of Canada’s largest province apparently overlooking this fact,...
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A former NRA man on his conversion to gun control
Logan Mock-Bunting/GETTY IMAGES This article was originally published in April, 2013, after the Newton, Conn., school shooting Tom Diaz, 72, is one of the most prominent gun control advocates in the...
View ArticleFerguson fallout: Lawmaker asks for controls on military giveaways to police
WASHINGTON – A Democratic congressman plans to introduce a bill to restrict a Defence Department program that provides machine-guns and other surplus military equipment for free to local law...
View ArticleMissouri governor declares state of emergency, curfew in Ferguson
FERGUSON, Mo. – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Saturday in a St. Louis suburb where police and protesters have clashed in the week since a black teenager was...
View ArticleCalgary police unsure if New Year’s shooting victim was targeted
CALGARY – Calgary police say they still don’t know what prompted the gunfire at a New Year’s house party that killed one man and injured six other people, and say they don’t have any suspects. Police...
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Gunned down, not run down: The new face of American fatalities
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images The year 2015 may well be the first in recent U.S. history that firearms fatalities exceed traffic fatalities. Gun deaths by homicide, suicide or accident have been steadily...
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“Enough is enough,” Obama says of Planned Parenthood shooting
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The items that a gunman brought to a deadly, five-hour standoff with police at a Planned Parenthood clinic are no longer a threat, police said Saturday, while President Barack...
View ArticleWatch: Barack Obama’s remarks on gun violence
WASHINGTON — Tears streaking his cheeks, President Barack Obama launched a final-year push Tuesday to tighten sales of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the absence of tougher gun...
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Shooting holes in the self-perpetuated myth of the NRA
Shayanne Roberts looks at rifles in the trade booth area during the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee April 11, 2015. (Harrison McClary/Reuters) The greatest feat of...
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How America armed itself
THE GUNNING OF AMERICA By Pamela Haag “There is a tragic inevitability of timeliness when one writes a book about guns,” notes Haag, who started work on her detailed and devastating history after Sandy...
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Katie Couric takes on America’s gun problem at Hot Docs
A still from Under the Gun/Hot Docs Isla Vista, Calif.; Newtown, Conn; Aurora, Colorado; San Bernadino, Calif.: They’re just a few communities forever etched in North America’s collective...
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America’s mass delusion
Police investigate a shooting scene after a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington in Alexandria, Virginia, June 14, 2017. (Joshua...
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How the Las Vegas shooting compares to the five most deadly gun rampages...
On Sunday night Stephen Paddock, a Nevada resident, fired multiple gunshots from his hotel room in Las Vegas into a crowd of people attending a country music show. The horrific attack, which claimed...
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2017 is the deadliest year for mass shootings in U.S. modern history
After a gunman sprayed bullets into a crowd at a country show on the Las Vegas strip, more than 50 people are dead, hundreds more are injured and thousands more are recovering from the shock. The...
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Gun violence isn’t just a U.S. problem—and Canada isn’t immune
A man watches on at a crime scene following a shooting in Scarborough, a suburb in east Toronto, July 17, 2012. Two people were killed and at least 19 injured in a shooting at an outdoor party in...
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The domestic murders in Renfrew County are not an anomaly
Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam and Carol Culleton were murdered by Basil Borutski in 2015. Warmerdam photo courtesy of COPKA. Kuzyk and Culleton photos via Facebook. On a clear September morning...
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