Prominent firearm-control advocates are urging the Liberal government to abandon plans to allow provinces to ban handguns, saying regional measures will lead to a disastrous patchwork across Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled on Friday, February 19, 2021, the federal government won't let provincial opposition stand in the way of municipalities that want to work with Ottawa to ban handguns.
Montreal's mayor is calling on Ottawa to take stronger action on banning handguns after a 15-year-old girl died in a drive-by shooting in the city on Sunday.
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.