About 100 police, firefighters, and other emergency workers held a disaster-response drill in downtown Toronto’s deserted financial district following a week that saw two soldiers killed on Canadian soil.

The gunman who shot dead a soldier in the Canadian capital was not under surveillance or on a list of around 90 individuals deemed to be a “high risk”, police have admitted.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s war memorial then storming parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

Here is the full text of a statement issued to the Associated Press (AP) by the parents of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the man authorities say killed a soldier at Ottawa’s National War Memorial, then stormed the Canadian parliament before being shot dead.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s National War Memorial then storming the Canadian parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

A masked gunman who killed a soldier at Canada’s war memorial and stormed parliament before being shot dead by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms was an Islamic convert, it has emerged.

A gunman shot and wounded a Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in Ottawa, then entered parliament, where numerous shots rang out, police and witnesses said.