Incident Date:
November 28, 1970 08:20
Incident Successful: No
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Communist Party of Canada Marxist Leninist
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Other Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Journalists & Media(Television Journalists/Staff/Facilities)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "11/28/1970: At 8:20 a.m. a smoke bomb was thrown into a stairwell of the Canadian Broadcasting Company's (CBC) television production centre in Toronto. It was crudely made from a thermos bottle, and was quickly doused by a stage hand. The attack was linked with another incident which occurred the same day (see International Events, 11/28/1970). A note full of revolutionary rhetoric was left at the Globe and Mail offices at about 4:10 p.m., it denounced the CBC as ""the mouthpiece of the fascist Canadian ruling class."""
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 384."
2) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 74"
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