Canada's 'Incel Attack' and Its Gender-Based Violence Problem
A Toronto van killing attributed to misogynist motives was shocking, but not entirely out of keeping with the country’s past.
“These are not the kinds of things we expect to happen in this city,” said Toronto’s mayor after a van mowed down pedestrians on a busy sidewalk Monday. Other Torontonians echoed his sentiment. “We never thought this would happen here,” said a supervisor at a trauma center that received several of the attack victims. Similarly, a government employee said, “This is not something that happens here. We always think we are insulated from this kind of thing.”
Canadians often react this way when a grisly attack occurs in the country. But in fact it the kind of thing that happens there.When it comes to addressing gender-based violence—and that, evidently, is what the Toronto attack was—Canada may have better systems in
