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George Washington's "last great experiment" faces an existential litmus test beginning on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as the bristling polarities of an energized, outraged and well-armed body politic finish weighing in on who should be the next American president.

A newly released document details warning signals of paranoid behaviour and unusual stockpiling of guns and gasoline by the man who went on a rampage that killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last month.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his assault-rifle ban on Sunday, May 3, 2020, and promised to go even further by targeting handguns and tightening border security with new legislation introduced in the Parliament.

The federal government is poised to begin fulfilling a key electoral promise by banning a variety of assault-style rifles, including the type used in the 1989 mass shooting in Montreal.

Police say the man who went on a murderous rampage through five Nova Scotia communities was likely using unlicensed firearms, and investigators are trying find out how he obtained illegal weapons.

As a new year dawned, the government's throne-speech commitments, unfurled just weeks earlier, were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers.

As a child growing up in Toronto, Dr. Melissa Lem was dubbed a tree hugger thanks to her passion for the environment. It's a label she fully embraces as a family physician pushing for political action when it comes to the link between health and climate change, a major issue during the federal election campaign.

A strike that would have closed hundreds of schools across Ontario was averted on Sunday, October 6, 2019, night as the province reached a tentative deal with the union representing thousands of education workers.

What police were calling an "ambush-style" shooting in the Toronto area that left one teenager dead and five other people injured saw federal party leaders swiftly move to offer condolences on Sunday, September 15, 2019, but little in the way of new ideas to address gun violence in Canada's cities.

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.

The Liberal government says no options have been ruled out to clamp down on guns "designed to hunt people" as it weighs new measures against assault-style rifles and handguns.

The Quebec government is crediting its new gun registry law for a major spike in the number of long guns voluntarily handed over to police for destruction.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an emotional clarion call on Monday, March 18, 2019, as he urged people of all political stripes to turn the page on hateful ideology and condemn the sort of intolerance that fuelled the brutal killing of 50 Muslims in New Zealand.

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.