PM Trudeau, ministers to make gun ban announcement

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be joining members of cabinet in announcing a ban on certain assault-style weapons that have been used in mass shootings in Canada and abroad. One of the firearms expected to be on Canada’s list of federally prohibited weapons is the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which was used by the gunman who killed 50 people at a Christchurch, New Zealand mosque in 2019. Less than a month after that attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government ou