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Vox Sentences: What you need to know about the Canadian parliament shooting

Parliament Hill and National War Memorial site, the locations of the shootings in Ottawa.
Parliament Hill and National War Memorial site, the locations of the shootings in Ottawa.
Parliament Hill and National War Memorial site, the locations of the shootings in Ottawa.
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Dylan Matthews
Dylan Matthews was a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.

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Parliament Hill and National War Memorial site, the locations of the shootings. (Mike Carroccetto/Getty Images)

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On September 24, 2007, an Iraqi woman walks past a burnt car on the site of the Blackwater shooting incident. (Ali Yussef/AFP/Getty Images)

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Has Jeff Bezos become death, the destroyer of worlds? (David Ryder/Getty Images)

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