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A Canadian Tourist Is Dead at Teotihuacan. Thirteen Others Were Wounded, and Carney Put a War of 1812 General on His Desk. Not Subtle.
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A Canadian Tourist Is Dead at Teotihuacan. Thirteen Others Were Wounded.
A gunman shot and killed a Canadian woman at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City on Monday, wounded a second Canadian, and injured at least eleven others before killing himself. The site - one of Mexico's most visited tourist destinations - was swarming with visitors when the shooter opened fire from the top of one of the pyramids.
Mexico State prosecutors said the gunman was one Julio Cesar Jasso Ramirez, a Mexican national. The name of the Canadian killed was not released. The injured Canadian, Felicia Lee, 26, was treated at a local hospital along with tourists from Colombia, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, and Russia.
Witnesses said there was a sudden burst of screaming, then a rush of tourists scrambling down the steep pyramid steps. "My tour guide just looked at me and said, 'run,'" said Daniel Edwards, a Windsor, Ontario man who had been at the top of the same pyramid shortly before the shooting. A Vancouver visitor at another part of the site said a vendor warned her group and they ran out to the parking lot.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said consular officials had been in touch with the Canadian families. Canada's ambassador to Mexico also shared his condolences. For the roughly one and a half million Canadians who visit Mexico each year, Monday's events at one of the country's most famous sites will be hard to forget.
Read more: CBC News
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Carney Put a War of 1812 General on His Desk. The Message Was Not Subtle.
PM Mark Carney revealed over the weekend that a figurine of Sir Isaac Brock sits on his desk at 80 Wellington St., a gift from comedian Mike Myers on the day they filmed their "elbows up" campaign video. Carney said he looks at it every morning.
Brock is not a random piece of decor. He's the British-Canadian general who repelled the American invasion in 1812 - uniting English, French, and Indigenous forces to bring a stop to what Thomas Jefferson famously (and wrongly) predicted would be "a mere matter of marching." Having Brock in the Prime Minister's Office, a senior government official told CBC, is a purposeful signal that Canadians have challenged the Americans before "and we can do it again."
The video was an uncharacteristically forthright message to Washington, in which Carney said Canada's close ties to the U.S. had become "weaknesses we must correct." Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre mocked the figurine and said Carney was "pushing fear." Canadian historians reckon the choice of Brock is about as warlike a symbol as a Canadian prime minister can reasonably deploy.
Watching the prime minister reach back two centuries to frame today’s fight with Washington is an indication that the mood in Ottawa has bit more hair on it than the usual trade disputes might normally sport.
Read more: CBC News