Canada shooting: gunman kills 16 people after rampage in Nova Scotia | World news | The Guardian
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Gabriel Wortman suspected of shooting spree in the coastal town of Portapique before he died during standoff with police
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Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has far tighter gun control laws than the United States.
RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said: “We believe it to be one person who is responsible for all the killings and that he alone moved across the northern part of the province and committed what appears to be several homicides.”
List of massacres in Canada - Wikipedia
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This is a list of events in Canada for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers”. It also states that the term is used “in the names of certain massacres of history”. Thomas W. Gallant definition of Massacres; deliberate slaughter of a large number of people in a violent way, especially when they cannot defend themselves.[1][2] The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Canada and its predecessors. Some events in which numerous individuals were wounded are also included.