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Shooting At Canadian Parliament

Posted by Soulskill on from the be-safe dept.

CBC reports that a man pulled up to the War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, got out of his car, and shot a soldier with a rifle. The Memorial is right next to the Canadian Parliament buildings. A shooter (reportedly the same one, but unconfirmed) also approached Parliament and got inside before he was shot and killed. "Scott Walsh, who was working on Parliament Hill, said ... the man hopped over the stone fence that surrounds Parliament Hill, with his gun forcing someone out of their car. He then drove to the front doors of Parliament and fired at least two shots, Walsh said." Canadian government officials were quickly evacuated from the building, while the search continues for further suspects. This comes a day after Canada raised its domestic terrorism threat level. Most details of the situation are still unconfirmed -- CBC has live video coverage here. They have confirmed that there was a second shooting at the Rideau Center, a shopping mall nearby.

12 of 529 comments (clear)

  1. Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is this on slashdot?

  2. Really, Soulskill? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Every day you're FP'ing posts about politics and social justice. I guess that News for Nerds is no longer Stuff that Matters in your opinion.

  3. Downtown Canada? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Downtown Canada? Seriously. The capital of Canada is Ottawa. If you cannot get this right then just give up an anything international slashdot. Sheesh.

  4. South Park? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this a exert from South Park?!

    "CBC reports that a man pulled up to the War Memorial in downtown Canada,"

    Fuck off, CBC reports downtown OTTAWA! fucking slashdot

  5. Downtown Canada huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sounds like a busy place.

  6. Breaking - one of the victims was Stephen King by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on Canadian talk radio - writer Stephen King was found dead in the Parliament building this morning. There weren't any more details at this point. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  7. downtown canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is accurate as I can only assume Canada is one single metropolitan area.

  8. Bullshit moderation by halivar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is an important story. It is being covered on every other news site in better depth than Slashdot can offer. Current events is not Slashdot's forte. You do not have to be an RSS feed for Google News. I already have Google News. Focus on the nerd news that Google News does not cover.

    1. Re:Bullshit moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Who wants to bet that it's Soulskill who is modding down all of the posts asking why this is on Slashdot?

      Who wants to bet that he's got a log of all of the UIDs of the folks posting as AC?

      I've got $10 on both. I'll offer even odds to one other AC.

    2. Re:Bullshit moderation by SecurityGuy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Agreed. I'm interested in this story, but I already read about it on sites that cover this kind of thing. I'd rather this not be here. Post something interesting that CNN/MSN/Everybodyelse isn't already covering better than you will.

  9. Welcome to ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The New Slashdot

    Is the crap filter is broken, or are these bleeding articles just honeypots for trolls?

  10. Don't care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not news for nerds. We have cnn for stuff like this.