Shooting in Canadian Parliament - multiple shooters/shootings

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle21217602/

So this thing is on-going and apparently involving up to 3 shooters.

One soldier has been shot guarding the War Memorial, and there are reports of somebody (maybe a perpetrator) being shot down outside the parliament library.

With the risk of becoming a sensationalist, might there be a connection to the killing of a canadian soldier and the injury of another earlier this week?

Situation developing as we speak.

Been hell of a dramatic week generally so far.

Update:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parl...rial-1.2808710

So it now seems to be confirmed that the guy neutralized inside the parliament building was a gunman. Also, the soldier has passed away from his injuries.

[Flavius Julius Nepos Augustus]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...and-run-quebec

witness (of the parlament shooting) on BBC says he looked arab and had a small beard

[Phier]

I'd hold off on eye witness racial judgments for now.

[Flavius Julius Nepos Augustus]

drive by was also just a everyday normal guy?

[Caligula's_Horse]

Multiple shooters suggest it was a terrorist cell running on some ideological or religious motive as opposed to some random nut job. While Islamic terrorism isn't confirmed at this stage, its currently the safe bet, especially given the recent involvement of Canada in Iraq.

Either way, looks like the Canadians need to ramp up their security, both physically and in terms of internal intelligence. Sounds like the gunmen practically walked in.

[trance]

Is it confirmed that the soldier shot at the war memorial is dead? Information seems sparse/conflicting depending on new source. What news pages are considered reliable/of high quality in Canada?

[Stavroforos]

Globe and Mail is usually my go-to Canadian newspaper.

So, was it the Russians?

[Papay]

Lets hope we wont have more victims. I remember last time with Breyvic news claimed that 12 people were killed and suddenly the toll jumbed to 70

[Davius]

I'm sure there will be no surprises as to the ideaology behind this.

[Papay]

I'm sure there will be no surprises as to the ideaology behind this.

You mean far rightists like Breyvic?

[Portuguese Rebel]

There is some footage of this incident at the beginning of a sweep and i must say, the police officers looked completely unprepared for this crap. The way they moved... Specially one particular female cop i saw in the video. I wouldn't trust them to keep my street safe (small suburbia quiet place with nothing going on), much less an important spot. This seems a group action, and that means some sort of agenda, as opposite to a random nut.

Condolences to the soldier's family.

[Phier]

drive by was also just a everyday normal guy?

Picking Islamic terrorism as the culprit in this sort of thing is just playing the odds, but there are other possibilities.

[Papay]

Countless mass shootings have occured in US for various reasons. If a Muslim does this then the issue is transformed to "Islam is responsible"

[Sphere]

Most likely a disgruntled Leafs fan.

[Father Jack]

I like how this thread isn't yet a page long and TWC appears to have intelligence and security analysts commenting on this.

Phier is correct, it is too early to exactly tell who is behind this. The hipster in me wants it to be a white middle class paraplegic atheist lesbian, Islamic terrorism is too mainstream.

Either that or mayor Ford has decided to go out in style.

[Aymer de Valence]

The religion of peace strikes again

[Gertrudius]

The religion of peace strikes again

I'm sure that fits the narrative used to construct your world view, but some of us rely on this archaic concept known as evidence before reaching such conclusions.

[Aymer de Valence]

but some of us rely on this archaic concept known as evidence before reaching such conclusions.

Well congratulations on that old chap, but you're wasting your time waiting. It's obvious who has done it.

[Portuguese Rebel]

We should really wait until there is more info. Or some of us can make fools out of ourselves by betting in the wrong horse.

[Denny Crane!]

Heh its Canada not America of course the cops weren't prepared.