Based on Statistics Canada population estimates, age- and sex-specific rates per 100,000 population with 95% confidence intervals were calculated for firearm-related deaths, hospitalizations, and ED visits for a pooled 5-year period, 2016 to 2020. Age-standardized rates per 100,000 were directly...
Canada has had far fewer mass shootings than the U.S. in part because of a lack of easy access to guns, though the U.S. population also is far larger than Canada's. The Reuters news agency notes that Canada's rate of homicides involving firearms is 0.5 per 100,000 people, compared ...
Newfoundland was the highest in the country at 17 per cent, but it was also high in Prince Edward Island, with 16 per cent fewer officers than the province has contracted for. Alberta and the Northwest Territories were missing 15 per cent of their officers. The vacancy rate was 13 per cen...
Toronto— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government introduced legislation Monday that would put a freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns."We are capping the number of handguns in this country," Trudeau said.The regulations to halt the growth of personally owned handguns is exp...
This event, along with the later mass shootings at Quebec’s Polytechnique Montréal in 1989 that left 14 women dead and in Nova Scotia in 2020 (the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history) that left 22 dead, sparked a lengthy debate over gun control in the country. Response to the U...