Here are some of the deadliest mass murders in recent Canadian history:
April 23, 2018: A man drives a white van for about a mile along a crowded Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 people and seriously injuring at least 13 others. Police arrest suspect Alek Minassian. The motive remains unclear.
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Toronto van attack suspect charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder -
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Toronto van attack witnesses recount stories from scene -
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Overcoming tragedy in Toronto after van attack -
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Toronto officer praised for not shooting van attack suspect -
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Officer praised for arrest of Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian -
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‘I’m angry’: Friend of Toronto van attack victim Chul Min Kang speaks -
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#TorontoStrong: Citizens support each other after van attack -
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Woman describes seeing person hit during deadly Toronto van attack
Jan. 29, 2017: Six people are killed and eight injured when a man goes on a shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque. University student Alexandre Bissonnette, who had taken far-right political positions on social media, pleads guilty.
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‘Medium’ risk Quebec mosque shooter will reoffend -
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Victims of Quebec mosque shooting continue to testify -
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Quebec mosque shooting sentencing arguments continue -
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Justin Trudeau remembers anniversary of Quebec mosque shooting -
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Kingston’s Muslim community reflects back on last year’s mass shooting at a Quebec Mosque -
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Community raises money to support paralyzed Quebec mosque shooting victim -
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Media allowed first look inside Quebec mosque where deadly attack took place
Dec. 29, 2014: In the worst mass shooting in Edmonton, a man suspected of domestic violence shoots and kills six adults and two young children in two different homes. Phu Lam then killed himself in a restaurant where he worked.
June 4, 2014: A man uses a semi-automatic rifle to fatally shoot three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and wound two others in Moncton, New Brunswick. The attack by Justin Bourque was the deadliest attack on the RCMP since four officers were killed by a gunman in the western province of Alberta in 2005.
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Prosecutor seeks maximum fine against RCMP in deadly 2014 Moncton shooting spree -
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Trial of RCMP on labour code charges after Moncton shootings pushed back one week -
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‘A super special experience’: Moncton shooting widows on monument -
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RCMP announces changes to protect officers after 2014 Moncton shootings
April 5, 1996: Angered by his wife’s divorce action, Mark Chahal kills her and eight other members of her family in Vernon, British Columbia, before shooting himself.
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Sept. 18, 1992: A bomb kills nine strike-breaking workers at the Giant Yellowknife gold mine in the Northwest Territories.
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Dec. 6, 1989: A man with a semi-automatic rifle storms into an engineering classroom at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, asks men to leave and then kills 14 women before turning the gun on himself. Gunman Marc Lepine says he was “fighting against feminists” he blamed for his troubles.
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Polytechnique shooting: 28 years later -
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Polytechnique, Order of the White Rose honours engineering student -
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Quebec gun group plans rally at Polytechnique memorial -
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Polytechnique, Dawson shooting survivors receiving pro-gun messages -
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Justin Trudeau lays down white rose in honour of victims of École Polytechnique -
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House of Commons rises for minute of silence for victims of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre -
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Focus Montreal: Polytechnique survivor speaks out against pro-gun rally
Sept. 1, 1972: An arson attack on a downtown Montreal night club kills 37 people and injures 64. Gasoline was spread on the stairway of Blue Bird Cafe and then ignited. Most of the deaths occurred in the Wagon Wheel country-western bar upstairs. Three young men from Montreal who had earlier been denied entry for drunkenness were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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