Exactly 100 days after Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, I was asked to speak at a rally at Toronto’s city hall, to call for the release of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas. I appeared before a crowd of a couple hundred people, tops. My colleague Brian Lilley was there, too, covering the event . It was bitterly cold, so Brian and I headed a few blocks East towards Yonge Street, to warm up. Almost immediately, we could hear lots of chants and noise.  The clamour w

Mass shootings happen often in the United States, so - naturally - there are people who collect data about the subject . More than 95 per cent of the killers are male.  More than half of them are white. About a third of the mass-murders happen in workplaces, and about a quarter of them in schools. Handguns are used 75 per cent of the time, followed by rifles (33 per cent) then shotguns (15 per cent). The killers tend to be 35 years of age, on average. In that troubled country