An emotional commemoration marking the sixth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting was held on Sunday, January 29, 2023, for the first time in the same room where many of the victims were killed.
A charter challenge was inevitable for a law allowing judges to stack life sentences for mass killers. But using the Quebec City mosque shooter as the test case raises legitimate questions from the racialized group targeted in the attack.
The perpetrator of the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack — and his consumption of far-right media online — should remind us that social isolation and white supremacy are an explosive mix, writes Nora Loreto.
Thousands of Montrealers chanted for solidarity and loudly denounced Premier Francois Legault on Sunday, April 7, 2019, as they took to the streets to oppose the Quebec government's proposed secularism bill.
Mourners carrying signs bearing the images of six men who died in a Quebec City mosque shooting gathered outside a Montreal subway station on on Sunday, March 17, 2019, as they grieved the 50 people killed in another attack, half a world away.
The mood was dark; the recent inauguration of a certain president cast a long shadow over all of us. I was thinking about what National Observer’s lead story would be. For the life of me, I can’t remember what the choices were. And it doesn’t matter. Because just around dinner time, the first news alert came across my computer. There had been a shooting at a mosque in Québec City.
Politicians are quick to thank first responders in the wake of a tragedy. But paramedics and other front-line workers need action too: more resources, more support and more funding.