CoalitionforGunControl

@CGCguncontrol

The Canadian Coalition for Gun Control is the only national non-profit group working to reduce gun injury, death and crime. Follow us in French @cgcmontreal.

Joined May 2009

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Apr 15

Advocates call for federal election campaign to prioritize gun control 🇨🇦 #Canada #Elections2025 #guncontrol ctvnews.ca/toronto/video/…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. It comes from a coalition of community and advocacy groups who want more action from federal party leaders.

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PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers@Polysesouvient · Jun 12

Keeping 🇨🇦Canadians safe from gun violence should be a non-partisan issue. However, as @NAWL_ANFD writes in this @TheHillTimes OpEd, delivering on @liberal_party #GunControl election promises is also smart politics for new @MarkJCarney government #cdnpoli hilltimes.com/story/2025/06/…

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jul 24

"The ex-boyfriend of a Calgary woman fatally shot in a parking garage over the weekend has been charged with her murder, 53 days after the victim told a judge that she lived in fear after months of being stalked and harassed." #guncontrol #canada cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. The ex-boyfriend of a Calgary woman fatally shot in a parking garage over the weekend has been charged with her murder, 53 days after the victim told a judge that she lived in fear after months...

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Danforth Families for Safe Communities@DanforthFSC · Jul 22

Today is about remembering Reese and Julianna and all the victims affected on that night 7 years ago. We continue to hope for better outcomes where gun violence is concerned. The lawsuit now certified, is a step towards change for the better. beachmetro.com/2025/07/22/sev…

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Blake Brown@RBlakeBrown · Jul 22

Canadian homicide rate drops for second year in a row. Number of homicides dropped from 885 in 2022 to 788 in 2024. Homicide rate per 100,00 dropped from 2.27 to 1.91 over same two year period. Source: www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.…

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jul 15

Released hours before the four suspects were scheduled to appear in Quebec court for their latest hearings, the statement did not reveal where the men obtained their guns and ammunition. #guncontrol #Canada globalnews.ca/news/11287432/…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Three of four suspects arrested were ordered held until a full bail hearing next week. The Crown opposes their release. A fourth suspect will be granted bail in the coming days.

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Jan Kiko@JanKiko388419 · Jul 11

Gun manufacturers classifying the guns they make is akin to drug manufacturers classifying new drugs without review for safety from Health Canada. In both instances, manufacturers have a revenue motive to get their product to market ASAP. Public safety is not the first priority.

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jul 9

RCMP charges military members allegedly plotting to form militia and seize landRCMP charges military members allegedly plotting to form militia and seize land #guncontrol #canada cbc.ca/news/politics/…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. The RCMP has charged four men, including two active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, with being part of an extremist plot that allegedly involved creating an anti-government militia with a...

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jul 7

Downtown Montreal shooting renews concerns over store violence #Montreal ctvnews.ca/montreal/artic…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Montreal police (SPVM) are still searching for a suspected shoplifter who opened fire during a confrontation with a security guard outside the Simons store downtown, in an incident that has renewed...

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PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers@Polysesouvient · Jun 27

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽: 𝗞𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲: "Are gun makers doing everything they can to keep their products safe? Of course not. And that’s why, on behalf of the victims of the 2018 Danforth shooting, Ken Price is fighting to hold Smith & Wesson accountable." -@benjaminerrett…

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 30

Confessions of a gun smuggler: Former trafficker reveals how she brought weapons into Canada #canada #guncontrol cbc.ca/news/world/con…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Everyone knows guns used by Canadian criminals are often smuggled from the U.S. Not everyone knows how — not like Naomi Haynes does. That's because she did the smuggling.

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 23

Police seek public's help after bullet hole found at London office building @LFPress lfpress.com/news/local-new…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Police seek public's help after bullet hole found at London office building

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PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers@Polysesouvient · Jun 20

"🇨🇦Canada has much tougher and more effective gun laws than the 🇺🇸US, which directly leads to significantly fewer gun-related deaths & injuries. It prioritizes #PublicSafety with mandatory licensing, rigorous background checks and strict limits on certain high-powered weapons.…

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 19

37-year-old Island man arrested, weapons seized after alleged gun-pointing incident #guncontrol #PEI cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7…

CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 12

A man wanted on gun charges in an intimate partner violence investigation in Brampton has been arrested. #guncontrol #ontario torontosun.com/news/local-new…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. CRIME SCENE: Brampton man sought on gun charges arrested

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 10

Police searching for man who allegedly threatened stranger with gun in North York #toronto ctvnews.ca/toronto/articl…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Toronto police are searching for a man who they say allegedly threatened a stranger with a gun in the Flemingdon Park area Thursday afternoon.

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 4

Witnesses describe as many as 20 shots fired in mass shooting that killed one, injured 5 in Toronto #guncontrol #canada #toronto ctvnews.ca/toronto/video/…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Melissa Duggan has the latest on a mass shooting in the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood of Toronto that killed one man and sent five others to hospital.

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PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers@Polysesouvient · May 30

Fifty years hasn't dulled the memory of school shooting: "Don’t talk to me about 'law-abiding' gun owners and their so-called 'rights.' Don’t talk to me about 'freedom' from gvt control. The Brampton killer was carrying legally purchased guns — one was a birthday present — and…

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · Jun 3

Calgary boy who bought gun to impress Snapchat group executed teen, judge finds in murder conviction #Calgary cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. A 15-year-old who bought a gun to impress his Snapchat group and then executed Jal Acor Jal, 16, by shooting him point-blank in the back of the head is guilty of second-degree murder, a Calgary judge...

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PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers@Polysesouvient · May 27

Man accused of killing police officer Eric Mueller & shooting 2 others found guilty of murder and 2 counts of attempted murder. He used legal #SKS as well as legal magazine designed for 20+ rounds blocked at 5, which he illegally converted to full capacity globalnews.ca/news/11196811/…

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CoalitionforGunControl@CGCguncontrol · May 27

How the American gun that killed a Canadian cop made it across the border and into the hands of a killer #guncontrol #canada #usa thestar.com/news/world/how…

CGCguncontrol's tweet card. Cynthia Solano was a law-abiding American mom of four when she met a convicted killer from Scarborough. She says love turned her into a gun smuggler.

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