[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

University students "celebrating" the last day of classes. The location is an older, established neighbourhood near the University of Calgary main campus. Will we now get a knife registry in Canada? The long gun registry wasn't such a great success.

[BeadCounter]

I had not heard of this. Amazing story, sad.

[ConservativeStatement]

Poochie gets a treat...

A male suspect who fled the scene was intercepted by police after about half an hour. He had to be treated for minor injuries because he was bitten by a dog from the police K-9 unit and was taken into custody after his hospital discharge.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/calgary-stabbing-leaves-five-dead/article18000732/

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

According to some raw video, the perp seems to be a young man of Nubian persuasion.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1271725/five-killed-in-stabbing-at-northwest-home/

[Morpheus2009]

There are no words to describe how low such a crime is killing people at a point of vulnerability, knife or otherwise.

[lefty-lie-spy]

But Michael Moore promised us that there are no guns, knives, violence, or unruliness in Canada. I’m flabbergasted, eh.

[PghBaldy]

Third mass stabbing in the world in the last several weeks. China, US and now Canada.

[b4its2late]

WTH is going on? This is nuts.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

The suspect is the son of a 33 year veteran of the Calgary Police Service. How bizarre! All the dead are U of C students from Calgary or Priddis.

[Billthedrill]

Prayers up.

[RedWhiteBlue]

He has been identified as Matthew de Grood, son of police officer Doug de Grood. Kid had been accepted to law school.

[Ramius]

Sword ping!! This time... More of an “edged weapons” ping. But still...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Thak God he didn’t use a GUN or somebody might have been ki... never mind.

[dynachrome]

this is a pretty bizarre one. 5 dead in Calgary stabbings.

[Squawk 8888]

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[plushaye]

This is such a horrific tragedy. My first thought was: “this kind of incident doesn’t happen in Calgary’! But obviously it does and it did. There is no place on earth safe from the evil in people’s hearts.

Calgary is a city of 1.1 million people. Here are the homicide stats for the last few years. Calgary is still a safe place to live, considering these are the annual and not monthly counts.

calgary annual homicides
source: CBC Calgary

2008 - 29
2009 - 23
2010 - 14
2011 - 10
2012 - 16
2013 - 22
2014 - 5 (until this morning)

The cumulative homicide rate for this year just doubled today from the stabbing spree. I think the city and its good people are in shock today over this senseless massacre.

[Gay State Conservative]

Unless I’m mistaken strict gun control laws...perhaps even similar to those in Europe...are in force in Canada.Therefore,if Canada’s anything like us there’ll now be noisy demands for knife control there...just as routine occurs in the British House of Commons (I kid you not...”knife control” is a hot topic there).