Not even a pandemic and lockdowns could significantly dent gang and gun violence in Toronto this year, which has already recorded more shootings than in any year in the modern era, except for 2019.
As of Sunday, Dec. 20, there have been 455 shootings and firearms discharges.
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call?
Primary Defence Corp. Security company, of course.
Visitors to the Toronto Voluntary Isolation Centre get free Wi-Fi, three catered meals daily, and a personalized welcome note from medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa — but no room key, an effort to encourage those with COVID-19 to stay inside their rooms.
The isolation hotel, the first of its kind in Canada when it opened three months ago, is by all accounts safe, quiet and comfortable. Yet only about 150 people have opted to use the facility so far, a fraction of its peak capacity.
It’s not because of a lack of need. Cramped, unsuitable housing, where self-isolation may be difficult or impossible, continues to be a major driver of new infections in the city, data suggests.
Toronto Mayor John Tory says that he wants the two people accused of operating a bar in violation of lockdown orders over the weekend to be named and shamed if at all possible.
Toronto police say that after midnight on Sunday, they went to a business in the Queen and Portland streets area.
After being held up for nearly an hour, police allegedly found 30-40 people inside and say the business was being used as a makeshift bar.
Laura Stone is absolutely fed up with being harassed, assaulted and vandalized by mostly drug-addicted tent dwellers in the Moss Park encampment.
Stone is not her real last name.
