Year in review: A look at news events in May 2020
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 4:26 am EDT
A look at news events in May 2020:
01 – Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, considered the driver of the Afrobeat sound that featured prominent guitars, complex brass harmonies and polyrhythmic drumming, died in Paris at the age of 79. Allen got his start in Lagos, Nigeria, in the 1960s and had an influential career that spanned decades and continents.
01 – The federal government announced it would ban 1,500 “assault-style” firearms in a cabinet order that took effect immediately. The rule doesn’t forbid ownership but does ban the trade in what the government called military-style weapons.
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