The economy and mental health

[Meadbh]

Within the past week there have been two murder-suicides in Canada. In each case the killer was a retiree. The second apparently was "in poor health".

I wonder if financial concerns played into these tragedies?

 

[samclem]

We know the cause wasn't their high health care costs. If it had happened in the US, that would have been the next paragraph.
BTW--is two murder-suicides in a one week period in all of Canada an unusual number? Or, is a columinst out there making cause-effect relationships based on a statistical hiccough?