Shooting at a mosque in Quebec, multiple casualties reported

Police confirmed a shooting occurred at a mosque in Quebec, Canada (Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec). During an interview, the Director of the Islamic Center stated that at least five people were killed in the shooting. 40 people were believed to be in the mosque during evening prayers. Radio Canada reported two gunmen have been arrested. A third gunman may have […]

Former Navy SEAL gives his top tips for surviving the apocalypse

With a winter apocalypse upon us here in the lower Midwest, where the temperature has plummeted precipitously to the teens and the snow is piled high enough to bury an overly tall mushroom (a “snowfusion” of over three whole inches!), one’s mind begins to wander toward how to survive such an onslaught of nature. Worse […]

Has a ‘missing nuke’ from 1950 been found off Canada?

A diver hunting sea cucumbers may have found the so-called “missing nuke” jettisoned by a US bomber in 1950. Canadian coastal defense forces will investigate water around Prince Rupert, in British Columbia, after diver Sean Smyrichinsky found a mysterious object on a recent trip, officials told CNN. “I came out from the dive and I […]

Two Canadian schools on lockdown after two people stabbed

Two high schools in Abbotsford, Canada were on lockdown today at 2:30 p.m. (local time) after two people were reportedly stabbed. One female student has been reported as having succombed to her injuries, the extent of the injuries to the other student is unknown at this time, but at least one person had to be flown to the nearest medical facility. […]

Alert: life in Canada’s northernmost military base

Day-to-day functions that are taken for granted elsewhere become extraordinary achievements at the most northerly permanently inhabited place in the world. Canadian Forces Station Alert is many things to many people: a signals-intelligence listening post, a geolocation facility, a weather station and climate-change monitoring post, a search-and-rescue base, a cold-weather campus for Arctic researchers and […]

Canadian SF officer ND’s his rifle in Kurdistan

The commander of the country’s elite special forces has pleaded guilty to accidentally firing his weapon during a visit to the front lines of northern Iraq late last year. Maj.-Gen. Mike Rouleau was tried by court martial on Tuesday over an incident that took place last December as he visited troops involved in training Kurdish fighters, […]

Extremists are getting younger: Canadian counter-terrorist police investigated minors as young as 13

One of the extremists who had communicated online with Aaron Driver, the would-be suicide bomber killed by police in Strathroy, Ont., on Aug. 10, was a British 15-year-old, he said. The youth has since been convicted for his role in a terror plot in Australia.

Juvenile terrorists are not new. Four members of the Toronto 18 terrorist group, arrested in 2006 for plotting bomb and gun attacks in Ontario, were minors. But Cabana said the trend has worsened over the past two to three years.

Three killed in crossbow attack in Toronto, say Canada police

Three people have been killed in an attack involving a crossbow in Toronto on Thursday. A man was taken into custody and police later evacuated a building over a suspicious package in a related incident, Detective Mike Carbone said, without giving further details. In the initial incident, police responding to a report of a stabbing […]

IS supporter dead after anti-terrorism operation in small Canadian town

A man believed to be a supporter of the Islamic State was killed during a police standoff in a small Ontario town Wednesday evening, after Canadian federal police said they received “credible information of a potential terrorist threat.” CTV News first reported that 23-year-old Aaron Driver was killed inside a home in Strathroy, Ontario. Driver made headlines […]