In the minutes after gunfire broke out at a Toronto street festival last week, a young woman was seen walking unsteadily toward an ambulance, her outstretched arms held by a paramedic. Her white dress was streaked with blood.
She had been among the revellers at the Salsa on St. Clair festival, a summer weekend party that for years has featured hundreds of people dancing together in the street. In an instant, that evening was shattered by gunfire that left two men dead, the young woman and four others wounded and the city of Toronto shaken.
For those who were there it will remain a seminal shooting until the next one.
But face it reckless public shootings by the usual suspects are common as dirt in Toronto.
If you’re a smart Torontonian you have learned to avoid formerly safe public events where the mass shooting set are likely to be in attendance.
This is the real diversity.
