Canada mass shootings – how many gun attacks have there been and how many people have been killed?
The gunman attack in Toronto on July 22 is not the first time the Canadian city has seen mass killings
CANADA has been rocked by several mass shootings over the past few years.
Here’s the lowdown on the gun attacks in the Commonwealth nation.
How many gun attacks have there been in Toronto?
Gun crime is on the up in the Canadian city with isolated incidents and mass shootings.
The number of shootings for 2018, calculated as 208, has already exceeded the 2013 figure of 202.
July 22, 2018 A man in his thirties killed one woman and shot 13 others on Danforth in the city’s Greektown area.
Emergency crews were dispatched to near Christina’s restaurant on Danforth Avenue shortly before 10.20pm on Sunday night (local time).
June 14, 2018 Two girls, aged five and nine, were seriously injured after a shooting in a Scarborough playground
June 2, 2012 Christopher Husbands, 23 at the time, open fired in the city’s Eaton Centre, a shopping centre, in the Urban Eatery food court.
Ahmed Hassan died at the scene while Nixon Nirmalendran died later in hospital. A further five people were shot.
Husbands was sentenced to 30 years-to life imprisonment on April 2015.
Have there been other attacks in Toronto in 2018?
On April 23, 2018, a man drove a white van for around a mile along a Toronto pavement, killing ten people and seriously injuring 13 others.
Police arrested Alek Minassian and charged him with ten counts of first-degree murder
The motives remain unclear.
How many mass shootings have there been in Canada in recent history?
August 10, 2018 Four people were killed including two police officers when a gunman opened fire in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
January 29, 2017 Six people were killed and eight injured when a man went on the rampage at a Quebec mosque.
University student Alexandre Bissonnette pleaded guilty.
December 29, 2014 A man shoots and kills six adults and two children in two different homes.
Phu Lam then killed himself at the restaurant where he worked.
He was reportedly angry after finding out the the eight-year-old boy he and his wife were raising was not his biological son.
June 4, 2014 Three Royal Canadian Mounted Police were fatally shot and two others wounded in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Justin Bourque, 24 at the time, pleaded guilty.
He was given two concurrent life sentences for the two attempted murders and for the three actual murders concurrent 25 year minimum sentences.
December 15, 2011 Derek Jensen killed three people at the side of an Alberta road before killing himself.
Jensen was reportedly angry with his ex-girlfriend, Tabitha Stepple, who was with her friend and two other men in the car.
September 13, 2006 Kimveer Gill, 25, started firing outside the entrance to Dawson College, Montreal, before continuing in the main atrium.
One person died at the scene, and 19 others were hurt. Eight of them suffered serious injuries.
He was shot in the arm by police before shooting himself in the head.
June 14, 2002 American Peter Kiss, 30, forced his way into a home in Grimsby, Ontario, and shot his ex-girlfriend, Shannon Cruse, her daughter and her parents before killing himself.
April 5, 1996 Mark Chahal kills his wife and eight other members of her family in Vernon, British Columbia, before shooting himself.
He had become angered over her plans to divorce him.
August 24, 1992 Engineering professor Valery Fabrikant killed four of his colleagues and injured one more at Concordia University.
December 6, 1989 Gunman Marc Lepine stormed into an engineering classroom armed with a semi-automatic rifle at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal.
He asked the men to leave before killing 14 women and then turning the gun on himself.
Lepine said he was “fighting against feminists”.
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What are Canada's gun laws?
It is legal to own a gun or rifle in Canada.
It takes at least 60 days to buy a gun there and there is a mandatory licence for gun owners.
Gun owners pursuing a licence must have third-party references, take a safety training course and pass a background check with a focus on mental, criminal and addiction histories.
Canadian civilians aren't allowed to possess automatic weapons, handguns with a barrel shorter than 10.5cm or any modified handgun, rifle or shotgun.
Most semi-automatic and all fully automatic weapons are also banned.