In a single month this spring, Surrey lost three teenagers to gun violence. Two young men, aged just 16 and 18, were shot and killed in an underground parking garage in the Newton neighbourhood on May 10th in what police describe as a targeted shooting tied to B.C.’s gang conflict. Three weeks later, another 18-year-old was killed in a suspected gang shooting, the city’s 13th homicide of 2026. The instinctive response, more officers, more enforcement, more money for policing,

The Trump administration’s recent Department of Justice report, Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty, presents itself as an effort to expand the federal government’s use of capital punishment, advocating broader execution methods, fewer procedural barriers and faster prosecutions. But the report proposes something more consequential than the executions themselves: reshaping the relationship between federal executions and state law. That distinction matters, b