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Jul 27, 2018  Violence is a public health issue: weekly news roundupSophia Reuss In the wake of the Danforth shooting and recent mass violence in Toronto, might Canadians do better to approach violence as an issue of public health, rather than public safety? |
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Nov 9, 2017  Majority of mass shootings connected to domestic violenceThe mass murder in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was a horrific crime. It was also horrifically predictable, and emblematic of the systemic problem we have with guns and violence in the United States. |
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Oct 3, 2017  Las Vegas attack not merely terrorism, but symptom of failed stateDavid J. Climenhaga After nearly 530 were injured and 59 killed in yesterday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, the United States looks more and more like a failed state. |
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Jul 21, 2016  Welcome to the Republican National Convention, where guns are acceptable but tennis balls are notThe Republican National Convention is a highly scripted, elaborately staged and lavishly publicly funded private party. Scores of Trump supporters have proudly shown up with their guns at their sides. |
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Jun 23, 2016  Historic sit-in on floor of U.S. Congress calls for gun controlThe gun control debate took a historic turn Wednesday, as Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives staged the first sit-in in Congress history. |
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Jun 16, 2016  Twenty years after Port Arthur Massacre, Australia shows gun control worksThe largest massacre in Australia's post-colonial history so shocked the nation that within 12 days, comprehensive gun-control law was brought in. There has not been another mass shooting since. |
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Jun 14, 2016  Orlando mass shooting fueled by anti-gay bigotry, unbridled masculinity and misogynyFeminist Current In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with lesbian feminist journalist, Julie Bindel, about the mass shooting in Orlando and why anti-gay bigotry still exists today. |
 The United States Congress has been blocking research into gun violence since 1996!3 Minute Action Sign this petition to demand the ban be lifted |
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Dec 5, 2014  Thug life in EdmontonJ. Baglow In which police impunity is taken to the next level. |
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Aug 29, 2014  America the Beautiful: Deluxe Ferguson EditionJ. Baglow Nothing has been resolved in Ferguson -- or in the rest of a deeply racist America. What is to be done? |
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Aug 15, 2014  Ferguson: The Trayvonning of Michael BrownJ. Baglow It's a familiar scenario. A black kid is gunned down by the forces of law and order. And his character, not the killing, becomes the story. |
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Aug 9, 2012  The politics of gun control in the U.S.Another mass murder, another shooting spree, leaving bodies bullet-riddled by a legally obtained weapon. This time, it was Wisconsin, at a Sikh temple, as people gathered for their weekly worship. |
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Jul 26, 2012  The need for better gun control laws in the U.S.Perhaps, if sane laws on gun control, including the ban on high- capacity magazines, were in place, many in Aurora who are now dead or seriously injured would be alive and well today. |
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Jul 24, 2012  T.O.: Youth get shot, cops get cashSyed Hussan Ontario just gave Toronto Police $5 million and the provincial police $7.5 million to "combat gun violence," the money directly going into a program called TAVIS. |
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Jul 18, 2012  Austerity, racism and structural violence: Putting the Scarborough shooting in contextEvan Johnston As Toronto has begun to reflect on this terrible tragedy, a racist discourse has emerged in the public discussion of the event, with social media buzzing with various forms of victim blaming. |
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Jun 30, 2012  The Eaton Centre, Little Italy and the construction of violenceSpeaking Aloud An audio commentary examining the way that violence is framed in the media and elsewhere, focusing specifically on two incidents of violence that occurred in June 2012 in Toronto. |
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Oct 25, 2011 Harper government fast tracks dismantling of long-gun registryCoalition for Gun Control Police, safety and suicide prevention experts and victims of gun violence are outraged at the government's introduction of Bill C-19. |
