There should be a public inquiry into the 2014 Hill shooting
Though it’s been 10 years, there should be a full public inquiry into what happened that day. Parliament experienced one of the darkest days in its history, and the public should know how and why it happened.
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants’: MPs pay homage to Cirillo, Vincent 10 years after Hill attack
On the 10th anniversary of that fateful day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP MP Charlie Angus, Bloc MP Louis Plamondon, and Green Leader Elizabeth May delivered statements remembering how the attack unfolded on Oct. 22, 2014.
Oct. 22-23, 2014, in photos
The next day, Oct. 23, 2014 The Hill Times
Unarmed Hill security were the true heroes on Oct. 22, 2014, says Heather Bradley, who speaks publicly about that awful day for the first time
On Oct. 22, 2014, the first person in security who came face-to-face with gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was Const. Samearn Son who stood at his post at the base of the stairs inside the front doors of Parliament. Son, unarmed, lunged towards Zehaf-Bibeau, stopping him long enough to shout ‘gun, gun, gun.’ This warning gave MPs, staff, and the media milling about at the top of the stairs time to run and hide.
Through their eyes, in their words: first-hand accounts from the day of the 2014 Parliament Hill shooting
‘I heard a thunderous boom through the Rotunda and saw people running towards me’: revisiting the accounts of the people on the Hill on Oct. 22, 2014.
There should have one unified Parliament Hill security force
A young Canadian son of a mid-level public servant, struggling with drug addiction, probably also suffering from mental illness and living in a homeless shelter in Ottawa was able to get his hands on an old deer-hunting rifle. The murder of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, another Canadian soldier, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in Quebec, pushed the red […]
‘I heard a thunderous boom through the Rotunda and saw people running towards me’
When lone gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau stormed through the front doors of Centre Block on Oct. 22 with a hunting rifle, the reporters, cameramen, camerawomen, and sound technicians who happened to be in the Hall of Honour and the Commons Foyer either ran, hid, or some kept recording, including The Globe and Mail reporter Josh Wingrove, […]
Blaney’s use of ‘terrorism’ to describe acts based on RCMP Paulson’s statement
Justice Minister Steven Blaney last week based his description of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s Oct. 22 murder of a National War Memorial honour guard and subsequent armed invasion into Parliament’s Centre Block as a terrorist act solely on a news statement RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson issued last Sunday, Mr. Blaney’s spokesman says. The government’s description of the […]
‘I knew it’d buy us 10 or 15 seconds to do what we needed to do’: Wilks
As gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau exchanged gunfire with House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers and uniformed RCMP officers in the Hall of Honour during the morning of Oct. 22, Tory Member of Parliament Dave Wilks was looking for a fight. The six-foot-four, 255-pound, 55-year-old former RCMP officer was attending the weekly Tory caucus meeting in […]
Senators unsatisfied with Senate security’s in-camera briefings on Hill shooting
The Senate Protective Service provided Senators three separate briefings last week on what happened in the Oct. 22 shooting on Parliament Hill and what plans are underway to deal with future emergencies. But some Senators weren’t satisfied with the briefings, saying they failed to answer the central questions such as how the gunman entered […]
