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A. Toronto is Canada’s largest city and the fourth-largest city in North America by population. Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Toronto is a top destination for immigrants to Canada with more than half its population belonging to a visible minority group. Many victims in the van attack were members of minority groups.
C. In 2016, a 19-ton cargo truck was intentionally driven through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others. The driver of the truck in Nice was linked to jihadist radicalism. The suspect in Toronto has been linked to women-hating online groups.
B. In addition to being Canada’s second largest city Montreal, Quebec, is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. Lepine specifically targeted women students in his shooting attack at the engineering school he attended. He claimed he was “fighting feminism” in what was called a frightening example of a hate crime.
D. In 2017, Baltimore had 55.8 homicides for every 100,000 residents compared with the largest U.S. city, New York which had 3.4 homicides per 100,000 people. The city of Toronto had 61 murders and a population of about 2.81 million in 2017 – a rate of 1.6 homicides per 100,000 residents.