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Canada's Tumbler Ridge school attack: How mass shootings are rare in the country

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    44% Medium Right

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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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53% : It also shines a spotlight on Canada's strict gun laws.
52% : The country has much stricter gun laws than the US, but Canadians are allowed to own firearms, provided they have a licence.
47% : Tuesday's tragedy has also put a spotlight on Canada's gun laws.
38% : But despite the strict gun laws, there have been 286 shooting deaths in 2024.
36% : In 2020, gun laws were further tightened when then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a ban on more than 1,500 makes and models of "military-style assault weapons," including the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini-14, following a mass shooting in Portapique, Nova Scotia.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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