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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. An interim report into last year’s Bondi Beach mass shooting advises increased security around Jewish public …
Read More »Police probe gun, SUV used in Ryan Wedding-linked homicide for ties to unsolved cases
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. — purportedly …
Read More »Video appears to show moment Palestinian activist was killed in West Bank as Israeli settler fires gun
WARNING: This story contains a video appearing to show a shooting. New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, says …
Read More »In rural Alberta, federal gun rules seen as ‘gong show’ as byelection approaches
“Come on, you old fart.” Dave Collins opens a gate and lets his 13-year-old yellow lab Tucker plod into his front yard. Collins and Tucker are tied at the hip, living in the “big city” of Morrin, Alta., population a little more than 200. Morrin sits in the rural riding …
Read More »Surge in young gun owners hitting voting age amid calls in firearm circles to loosen bans
Canadian-born Hashim Akbar first shot his grandfather’s gun as a child while visiting Pakistan. “It was obviously scary. I was a small child, but it was also very exciting as well. There’s … a lot of adrenalin that goes through someone’s body,” said Akbar, 23, vice-president of the Simon Fraser Sports …
Read More »Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and Batman Forever, dead at 65
Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favourite Iceman in Top Gun, donned a voluminous cape as in Batman Forever and portrayed Jim Morrison in The Doors, has died. He was 65. Kilmer died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, …
Read More »Manitoba traffic stop leads to seizure of gun, cocaine, cash: RCMP – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two Ontario men have an upcoming court date in The Pas, Man., after a traffic stop Saturday in Chemawawin. RCMP said they were contacted by local safety officers about a suspicious video that had been spotted in the northern Manitoba community. Police …
Read More »Joe Biden pardons son Hunter of gun, tax convictions, despite promise he wouldn’t do so
U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday night pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. The Democratic president had previously …
Read More »Gun violence is on the rise in Canada. In parts of the Greater Toronto Area, it’s a record-breaking year
Melanie Ward remembers the moment she learned her son was dead with haunting clarity. “I just dropped to my knees and screamed,” she said. Her son, Alexander Circiumaru, was on his way to an appointment in downtown Hamilton earlier this year but never made it. The 19-year-old was shot multiple times in broad daylight on …
Read More »Man with loaded gun arrested near Trump rally in Coachella, Calif.
A Nevada man with a shotgun, a loaded handgun and ammunition in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside Donald Trump’s rally Saturday night in the Southern California desert, authorities said Sunday. He was released Saturday on $5,000 US bail. The suspect, a 49-year-old resident of Las Vegas, …
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