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Toronto van attack

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The Toronto van attack was a vehicle-ramming attack that occurred on April 23, 2018, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]

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Air India Flight 182

Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Toronto–Montreal–London–Delhi route.

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Andrew Scheer

Andrew James Scheer (born May 20, 1979) is a Canadian politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle since 2004 and as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Official Opposition since 2017.

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Attempted murder

Attempted murder is a crime of attempt in various jurisdictions.

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École Polytechnique massacre

The École Polytechnique massacre, also known as the Montreal massacre, was a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that occurred on December 6, 1989.

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Barbara Hall (politician)

Barbara Hall (born 1946) is a Canadian lawyer, public servant and former politician.

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Beta male (slang)

Beta male, or simply beta, is a pejorative term derived from the designation for beta animals in ethology.

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Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Canadian Armed Forces

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; Forces armées canadiennes, FAC), or Canadian Forces (CF) (Forces canadiennes, FC), are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces." This unified institution consists of sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).

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Canadian Army

The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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CFTR (AM)

CFTR (680 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station serving the Greater Toronto Area.

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Chad (slang)

Chad is a historically derogatory slang term referring to a young urban white man, typically single and in his 20s or early 30s.

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Chevrolet Express

The Chevrolet Express and its mechanically identical twin GMC Savana are full-size vans from General Motors.

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CN Tower

The CN Tower (Tour CN) is a concrete communications and observation tower located in the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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CP24

CP24, formerly CablePulse24, is a Canadian English language Category A specialty cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE, Inc. Based in Toronto, the channel focuses on local news from the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario, while also covering national and international news.

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

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CTV News

CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada.

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Department of National Defence (Canada)

The Department of National Defence (Ministère de la Défense nationale), commonly abbreviated as DND, is a Canadian government department responsible for defending Canada's interests and values at home and abroad.

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Detention (imprisonment)

Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing his or her freedom or liberty at that time.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Finch Avenue

Finch Avenue is an arterial thoroughfare that travels east–west in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Group of Seven

The Group of Seven (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Half-mast

Half-mast or half-staff refers to a flag flying below the summit on a pole.

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Imageboard

An imageboard or image board is a type of Internet forum which operates mostly via posting images.

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Incel

Incels (a portmanteau of "involuntary celibates") are self-identifying members of an online subculture who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, a state they describe as inceldom.

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Islam in Canada

According to Canada's 2011 National Household Survey, there were 1,053,945 Muslims in Canada, or about 3.2% of the population, making Islam the second largest religion in the country after Christianity.

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John Tory

John Howard Tory, (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian politician who is the 65th and current Mayor of Toronto, in office since 2014.

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Jordan

Jordan (الْأُرْدُنّ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River.

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Julie Payette

Julie Payette (born October 20, 1963) is the current Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.

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Justin Trudeau

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada since 2015 and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.

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Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen O'Day Wynne (born May 21, 1953) is a Canadian politician who served as the 25th Premier of Ontario and Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018.

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La Malbaie

La Malbaie is a municipality in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, situated on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, at the mouth of the Malbaie River.

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Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)

The Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition (Chef de la loyale opposition de Sa Majesté) is the leader of Canada's Official Opposition, the party possessing the most seats in the House of Commons but is not the governing party or part of the governing coalition.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

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Maple Leaf Square

Maple Leaf Square is a multi-use complex and public square located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mayor of Toronto

The Mayor of Toronto is the leader of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mel Lastman Square

Mel Lastman Square is a public square at North York Civic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mobile app

A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch.

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Municipal government of Toronto

The municipal government of Toronto, corporately known as the City of Toronto, is a public corporation providing services to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Nathan Phillips Square

Nathan Phillips Square is an urban plaza in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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North York

North York is an administrative area and former city in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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North York City Centre

North York City Centre is a central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the district of North York.

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Olive Square Park

Olive Square Park is a park located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near the intersection of Yonge Street and Finch Avenue in the former city of North York.

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Online youth radicalization

Online youth radicalization is the process of by which an young individual, or group of people comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of the nation.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ontario Court of Justice

The Ontario Court of Justice is a provincial court of record for the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Philippe Couillard

Philippe Couillard (born June 26, 1957) is the 31st and current Premier of Quebec, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and a former university professor and neurosurgeon in Quebec, Canada.

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Premier of Ontario

The Premier of Ontario (Premier ministre de l'Ontario) is the first minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario and the province’s head of government.

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Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

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Prison uniform

A prison uniform is the unified outward appearance of detainees in a situation of imprisonment.

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Private (rank)

A private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in).

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quebec City mosque shooting

The Quebec City mosque shooting (Attentat de la grande mosquée de Québec) was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of January 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of Quebec City, Canada.

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Reddit

Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Richmond Hill, Ontario

Richmond Hill (2016 population 195,022) is a town in south-central York Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Rogers Centre

Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated just southwest of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario.

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Ryder

Ryder System, Inc., or Ryder, is an American provider of transportation and supply chain management products, and is especially known for its fleet of rental trucks.

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Scotiabank Arena

Scotiabank Arena, formerly named Air Canada Centre, is a multi-purpose indoor sporting arena located on Bay Street in the South Core district of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Seneca College

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is a multiple-campus public college located in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.

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Sheppard Avenue

Sheppard Avenue is an east–west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Soft target

A "soft target" is "a person or thing that is relatively unprotected or vulnerable, especially to military or terrorist attack.".

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Special education

Special education (also known as special needs education, aided education, exceptional education or Special Ed) is the practice of educating students with an IEP or Section 504 in a way that addresses their individual differences and needs.

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Suicide by cop

Suicide by cop or suicide by police is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner, with intent to provoke a lethal response from a public safety or law enforcement officer.

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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), known simply as Sunnybrook or Sunnybrook Hospital, is an academic health sciences centre located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Terrorism and social media

Due to the convenience, affordability, and broad reach of social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, terrorist groups have increasingly used social media to further their goals and spread their message.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thornhill, Ontario

Thornhill (2011 population 110,430) is a community in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada.

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Thornlea Secondary School

Thornlea Secondary School is a public high school that opened in 1968 and is located in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, on the north east corner Bayview Avenue and Willowbrook Road, just south of Highway 407.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club) are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Toronto Police Service

The Toronto Police Service is the police force servicing Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Toronto subway

The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

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Toronto Sun

The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Transit Commission

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is a public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Transit Commission bus system

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) uses buses and other vehicles for public transportation.

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Van

A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people.

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Vehicle-ramming attack

A vehicle-ramming attack is a form of mass murder in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a motor vehicle into a building, crowd of people, or another vehicle.

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Yonge Street

Yonge Street ("young") is a major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes.

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2014 Isla Vista killings

On, 2014, in Isla Vista, California, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen others near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, before killing himself inside his vehicle.

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3D Toronto sign

The 3D Toronto sign, officially the 3D TORONTO sign and commonly known as the Toronto sign, is an illuminated three-dimensional sign in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that spells the city's name.

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44th G7 summit

The 44th G7 summit was held on 8–9 June 2018, in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada.

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4chan

4chan is an English-language imageboard website.

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9-1-1

9-1-1, also written 911, is an emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack

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