Global News published this video item, entitled “Canadian racism, homegrown extremism also in focus in after Buffalo supermarket shooting” – below is their description.
It may be an American tragedy, but the mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. is highlighting Canada’s own problems with domestic terrorism.
In 2017, a gunman opened fire inside a Quebec City mosque, killing six people. And then 11 people died in Toronto in 2018 in a van attack motivated by an incel ideology.
Abigail Bimman explains the state of hate in this country, how CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — is trying to track domestic extremism, and the growing calls for Ottawa to do more.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, is a major Canadian city along Lake Ontario’s northwestern shore. It’s a dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers, all dwarfed by the iconic, free-standing CN Tower.