gun violence

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police won't be supporting a call for a ban on handguns despite concerns about gun violence in a number of major cities including Toronto.

Crime Reduction Minister Bill Blair says more must be done to address gun violence, but he's also signalling that no new measures will be taken before the fall election.

Fourteen beams of light shone into the night sky from Montreal's Mount Royal on Thursday, December 6, 2018, evening in memory of the 14 women who died at the Ecole Polytechnique engineering school 29 years ago.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he wants to tackle a surge of gun violence in Canada by targeting criminals who use weapons illegally, rather than supporting an outright handgun ban.

A second man has been charged in connection with a brazen daylight shooting at a Toronto playground that wounded two young sisters earlier this summer, police said on Thursday, August 23, 2018.

It’s willful desensitization: the sheer amount of tragedy in the world forces our inundated culture to select exactly what we want to be the target of our outrage.

Officers who rushed to the scene of a deadly shooting in Fredericton likely saved the lives of others, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, August 10, 2018, as Canadians reeled from news of early-morning gunfire that claimed the lives of four people, including two members of the local police force.

Canada is willing to consider any possible measures that might reduce gun violence and organized crime, but will stay the course when it comes to border security, says the federal minister who's now overseeing the Liberal government's approach to all three.

In Canada, gun ownership requires background checks that go five years into an applicant's past to look for any criminal convictions, mental illness associated with violence or a history of violence and threats. How did the Toronto suspect get a gun?

Mayor John Tory met with three prominent members of Toronto's hip-hop community on Friday, July 6, 2018, to discuss possible solutions for the recent spate of gun violence in the city.

Toronto Mayor John Tory says there is "no easy answer" or magic wand to reduce gun violence in the country's largest city, which has claimed 22 lives so far in 2018.

An up-and-coming rap artist was one of two people killed in a brazen daylight shooting in Toronto's bustling entertainment district, police said on Sunday, July 1, 2018, marking the latest deaths in a surge of high-profile gun violence on the city's streets.

Criminals are using the darker corners of the internet, hard-to-track digital currency and creative shipping techniques to sell illicit guns to Canadians, the RCMP warns.

Kat Schamel did not vote in the last American election, because her 18th birthday happened to fall on Nov. 9, 2016, one day after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. She promises she won't let it happen again.

Gun violence is becoming the common denominator between several high profile, rights-based movements.