Afternoon front page: How the Montreal shooting unfolded; the shooter’s communist manifesto; and more

The Aylo building windows which were shot out during a deadly incident in Montreal on Monday, June 22, 2026. Aylo is a Canadian multinational pornographic conglomerate owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners. Photo by Dave Sidaway/Montreal Gazette/Postmedia

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It’s Tuesday, June 23. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Terry Newman: Montreal shooter was a revolutionary communist

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“This is by no means a simple case of a man who hates women and wants to murder them for being shunned or for competing with him for jobs,” Newman argues. “Seth Hatfield certainly has complaints about what he sees as common relationship problems with women, but he actually doesn’t blame them directly — he blames capitalism for what he refers to as ‘gloomy and pervasive male loneliness’.”

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Montreal police officers at the scene of an active shooting situation in Montreal on Monday, June 22, 2026. Photo by Evan Buhler/MONTREAL GAZETTE/Postmedia

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Tracing the terrifying moments of how the Montreal shooting unfolded

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A flash of violence, which lasted no longer than five minutes, turned into a police lockdown that, according to witness accounts, had people sheltering in place for hours in fear and confusion.

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The suspect in a deadly shooting in the Côte-des-Neiges area of Montreal on Monday, June 22, 2026. Photo by Via screengrab

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What we know about Seth Hatfield, the suspect in Montreal shootings that killed a cop and a civilian

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A manifesto allegedly written by Hatfield has been circulating online. It argues that men are inclined to seek many partners, while women focus on a small number of highly desirable men, leaving many average men or “common males” isolated. Much blame is levelled at what it calls “high capitalist” societies.

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Fires burn around police vehicles as protesters (behind) stand off with police in Glengormley, north of Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 10, 2026, following a brutal stabbing. Photo by Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images

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The Western Surrender: English liberty has been sacrificed to silence critics of immigration

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“Wokeness manifests in subtler ways (in Britain) than it does in other corners of the Anglosphere,” Michael Murphy states. But “its presence is made all the more insidious for announcing itself less in drag story hours than in the dull bureaucratese of the British state.”

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Rebecca Eckler responds to readers’ questions.

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I am cut-off from my grandkids because of tension with my daughter-in-law. Should I let go? | Ask Rebecca

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“Should you ‘let go’? No. Absolutely not. People ‘let go’ of New Year’s resolutions, dead flowers or, in my case, the perfect pair of sunglasses accidentally left in an Uber a year ago,” Rebecca Eckler writes in this instalment of the Post’s advice column.

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