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Law enforcement and forensic teams work the scene of a shooting a day earlier in Montréal on June 23, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

June 30, 2026

The Montréal shooter’s manifesto isn’t left or right — it’s rooted in misogyny

Karmvir K. Padda, University of Waterloo

The Montréal shooter was a lonely, furious young man who built an ideology to justify killing, and its bedrock was a hatred of women.

Un rassemblement de soutien s’est tenu devant le Hagey Hall de l’Université de Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), au lendemain de l’agression perpétrée par un homme contre des étudiants et des enseignants lors d’un cours sur les études de genre, le 28 juin 2023. Nicole Osborne/The Canadian Press

July 24, 2025

La misogynie, leitmotiv des manifestes extrémistes

Karmvir K. Padda, University of Waterloo

L’analyse de plus de 100 manifestes d’assaillants isolés montre que la misogynie est une référence récurrente pour ces auteurs d’attaque.

A community support event takes place outside Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo the day after a man attacked students and teachers in a gender studies class on June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne

June 30, 2025

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread

Karmvir K. Padda, University of Waterloo

Gender identity–driven violence is the most common ideological theme across ‘lone-actor’ extremist manifestos in a recent study.

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