Get Your Head Out Your Ass Comrade Miller

1) Unregistered handguns are already banned and there are severe penalities for possession of an unregistered handgun but I don't see your buddy at Queen's Park ordering the crowns and judges to start handing out these stiffer sentences.
2) Look at just two of the high profile murders in the last year and knives were used in both cases.
3) I don't see you publicly coming out and asking that bail be denied in all offences where guns are used.

Fuzzy-wuzzy crime fighter
Mayor continues to blame guns, not gun-toting criminals, for city's street violence
By SUE-ANN LEVY

I listened quietly as Mayor David Miller jumped -- yet again yesterday -- on his tiresome "need to ban handguns" bandwagon in the wake of the terrible slaying this past weekend of an innocent Toronto man.

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T.O. mayor calls for gun ban after bystander shot

Updated Mon. Jan. 14 2008 6:29 PM ET

toronto.ctv.ca

Two men accused of gunning down an innocent man outside a Yonge Street bar were denied bail in court today.

They were remanded in custody until their next court appearance scheduled for later this month.

Their family and friends were also in court but would not speak with reporters. The lawyers for the accused also declined comment.

A young woman began sobbing loudly when the two accused were brought into the courtroom in handcuffs.

The two men who are in their twenties are accused of killing John O'Keefe, a 42-year-old father who just happened to be passing by a downtown strip club at the time shots were fired.

O'Keefe was shot in the head in front of the Brass Rail after a night out with friends. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say a bouncer who worked at the club was the intended target. O'Keefe was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The men were arrested following the fatal shooting early Saturday morning.

Calls for a gun ban

The shooting prompted renewed calls for a ban of guns in Toronto.

"Handguns need to be banned period. No exemptions. No collectors. No loopholes. Ban them," said Toronto Mayor David Miller.

"Yes, I'm angry. We can take steps in the legislature. The federal legislature isn't taking those steps. We can do them. Canadians want them done," Miller said.

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Proof The Liberal Gun Registry Boondoogle Is Working

Rather than go to all the trouble and delays involved in registering guns people are looking for alternative methods of creating havoc on our streets........but it looks like the shooters are in fierce competition for the title.

Two Stabbings In GTA Overnight

Saturday January 12, 2008

CityNews.ca Staff

Two people were stabbed in the GTA overnight.

The first incident happened just after 1am in a Brahms Ave. apartment, near Finch and Don Mills. A 49-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend and now faces charges that include aggravated assault. The victim is in hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Hours later in Etobicoke, police said a dispute erupted just after 5am in a 15th Street apartment, near Kipling and Lakeshore. One man suffered a single stab wound to the abdomen. His injuries aren't considered life-threatening. A man in his 20s is facing charges.

No names have been released yet.

The More Politically Correct The Longer The Report

Friday, January 11, 2008

School Board Report Meets Expectations on School Safety

Last summer a young prince of a kid named Jordan Manners was shot in the hallway of his school in the Jane Finch area. IN THE HALLWAY OF HIS SCHOOL. WHERE THE CHILDREN PLAY. WHERE THE TEACHERS WORK.

Of course, everyone clustered around the story like a pack of hyenas do a dead wildebeest. And we learned that poor little 14 year old Jordan was nicknamed Stakz, because he always had stacks of money, no doubt proceeds of his allowance from his low income mom.

And the government, weepers and wailers as they are, needing to prove their compassion and their action, fell all over each other taking turns showing how they, for once and for all, would solve the tragedy of young people dying young and violently. And we, of course, posted our opinions, one of which focused on the comments of a teacher who actually knew and liked "Stakz" And we expected them to talk a lot and do little. They have and they will.

"They want to have a few meetings over a few weeks and announce that a solution to school violence has been developed. And nothing will be accomplished."

So the report is out. And they have their solution. And, as a result, we will never see another kid shot. And, of course, it's not the TDSB's fault. It's Mike Harrises. Here's a few excerpts:

A combination of the TDSB's own cultural limitations and historically gross underfunding has rendered the Board unable to effectively address the needs of this growing population of disengaged and complex-needs youth who now represent an increasing safety concern.

The Tory Government of the late 1990's embarked on a deliberate course designed to net out "equity" from the equation. Education was no exception and, indeed, the original Safe Schools Act and the impact it had on marginalized youth, particularly African Canadian youth, is a stark example of the fall-out from this Government policy.

The Safe School Culture preaches a theory that complex-needs youth should be "treated the same" as all other youth. The Government of the day (Conservative Government under Premier Mike Harris) had been elected (twice) on a platform which had, as a major plank, the dismantling of key social supports. The impact was, in effect, to push youth out of the schools into a setting where essential supports had been removed. Consultees such as Dr. Akua Benjamin, refer to this resulting generation of youth as the "walking wounded" for whom hope and pride have been replaced by alienation and radicalization.

Years of Neglect of our marginalized communities have brought us to where we are today; reversing the trends will not be accomplished overnight.

Their solution: Send in the Hounds! But I'll let you read it yourself.

Here's another CBL post from the time: Just Another Dead Gangsta.

Get Out The Double Rolls Of Toilet Paper

You are going to need them while you are reading this:

Toronto's "Road to Health" report on schools is flawed

Posted: January 11, 2008, 6:31 AM by John Turley-Ewart
Filed under: John Turley-Ewart

How bad are Toronto's public schools? The numbers in yesterday's school safety report presented to the Toronto District School Board paint a picture of our public high schools as havens of terror. Guns, knives, sexual assault, extortion, racism and a code of silence have fashioned a school system that graduates survivors, not students.

The spectre of such a conclusion was evident even before the School Community Safety Advisory Panel presented its findings.

In the course of its inquiry the panel discovered an alleged sexual assault at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute in 2006 against a female student. The incident has all the hallmarks of the worst social pathologies that plague the Jane and Finch community where Jefferys is located -- a gang attack on a lone victim, protected by a code of silence, leaving the perpetrators free to terrorize others.

Since the panel learned of the allegations, six male students have been charged while a principal and two vice-principals have been put on leave by the TDSB. The school officials also face charges under Ontario's Child and Family Service Act for failing to report the incident.

"Equity" is the saving grace for such a broken system, according to this panel. It pays homage to the concept by painting all 102 Toronto public high schools using the same broad brush. For that reason the panel would like to see all students wear identification cards, all schools subjected to sniffer dogs and argues that all female students are at risk of "gender-based violence."

The panel would prefer schools with mostly black students to have black teachers, though it does not call for quotas, and an Afrocentric focus, having bought the ill-conceived notion it will improve the self-esteem of disengaged students and thus outcomes.

And it is out of concern for equity that the panel takes direct aim at the Safe Schools Act introduced by the Ontario Conservatives in the 1990s and declares it a failure because of its disproportionate impact on black students who have been suspended and expelled at greater rates than other students.

Zero tolerance is out. Students who are criminals and bullies, the ones who make schools unsafe and strike fear into the hearts of fellow students and teachers of all races, are now "complex-need youth" who must not be transferred out of their home schools unless they present the gravest of threats.

Yet this picture of Toronto schools these recommendations are based on is anything but equitable. The core of the report is a catalogue of survey responses from 1,293 students and 90 teachers at two schools -- Jefferys and Westview Centennial Secondary School. Together, these schools reflect the experience of just 1.5% of Toronto's 270,000 public high school students and their 5,800 teachers.

It is folly to pretend these schools, located in pockets of poverty and single-parent communities, present the same risks for students in schools located in high-income, stable-family areas such as Riverdale and North Toronto.

On first blush, the panel's report strikes the informed reader as a politicized document. Racism, classism, poverty and sexism are the culprits endangering all our high school students and the blame says the panel lies largely with the former Ontario Conservative government of Mike Harris, a profoundly partisan shot at a government long out of office. This dig calls the motives and solutions proposed in the report into question.

Few will dispute the need for more social workers to help troubled students, as the panel recommends. Or reforming the TDSB's education culture, which leaves teachers silent in the face of violence for fear of losing promotions or being accused of racism.

But there is little point being politically correct at the expense of reality. Most of Toronto's public high schools do not harbour a culture of fear and don't need to be treated as if they face the same problems as Jefferys and Westview.

To pretend otherwise is not only a disservice to healthy schools, but to students who do live in a state of fear and most need society's protection from their violent peers.

jturley-ewart@nationalpost.com

Todays Teachers Were Yesterdays Students

So you have to wonder if they are part of the solution or part of the problem. The Kotter Syndrome started in the 70s and it has just got worse........

POINT OF VIEW: Listen to teachers on violence

We trust teachers in Toronto schools to know more about how to keep their students safe than a $680,000, six-month school board task force headed by civil rights lawyer Julian Falconer.

Full Point of View

Naturally

Society to blame for violence at T.O. schools: panel

IMHO we can zero in on the part of society that is guilty......

*those that allowed corporal punishment to be banished
* those actually commit the acts of violence
* those who parented them
* those parents who were never in their kid's school unless it was at the behest of the administration
* the teacher's unions who were more interested in maintain their power base and increasing wages, benefits, pensions, etc. thereby eating up 60%+ of every $$$ allocated to educating students
* those that turned schools into experimental venues dealing with alternative lifestyles, history, etc.
* the teachers and administrators who failed to stand up to these social in-activists
* the teachers and administrators who want to be friends with students rather than do their job of teaching the 3Rs, maintaining discipline, etc.
* those who refused to fail students that weren't doing the work

and the list could go on and on and on BUT I REFUSE, on behalf of my family, friends and neighbors and their kids who did the work, passed the exams, etc.

Media Hype, Media Hype.........

A joke would be more appropriate......

POINT OF VIEW: Law on youth crime a disgrace

The brutal New Year's Day stabbing of 14-year-old Stefanie Rengel in which a 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl have been charged with first-degree murder, has brought Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act back into the headlines.

Full Point of View

What A Sad Way To Start Off New Year

Teen Stabbed To Death In East Toronto

Girl believed to be just 14-years-old becomes the first murder victim of 2008.

Arrest made in Toronto stabbing death

Police are doing their job..........

Clamp down on gun crime

Re "Year of the assassin" (Dec. 30): Once again it's been a violent year of murders, with running gun battles in the streets, drive by shootings and innocent people, including children, shot down. So Toronto has retained the title "Dodge City." In spite of an efficient, capable police service, the slaughter continues. What does it take to wake up the justice system in this country? When are we going to get some gun laws which hand out stiff sentences for carrying a handgun and an even stiffer penalty for the criminal use of a firearm? When are we going to get some judges who will throw the book at individuals who show no respect for human life? I am sick and tired of hearing killers getting out on bail to murder again, of sentences which are laughable and plea bargains that should never have been offered. Many have made this complaint over the years but nothing seems to change. For government to allow this brazen disrespect for the law is a crime in itself. We need a justice system with judges who will sentence the guilty to the full extent of the law, or we may as well change the name to "Murder City."

Dave Cunningham
Hamilton

(Are you listening, judges? Are you listening, politicians?)

WE Had Discipline In Our Schools....

.......until leftist school boards and sandal wearing "teachers" went on a social engineering frenzy that diminished the 3R's and respect for teachers to a system where no one failed, teachers and students become buddies, Jimmy's dad was named Jane, etc. etc. and human nature being what it is students took over the asylum. Watch, it won't be long before a mandate comes down that teacher's chairs must be fastened to the floor and students will get gun lockers.

Duck! Here comes Super Teacher!

Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:56am EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese teacher who threw a chair at his students was named "super teacher" by the local board of education despite having been reprimanded several times for using corporal punishment, a news agency said on Saturday.

The 52-year-old high-school teacher in Kyoto has been awarded the title every year since 2005 in spite of a history of aggression in the classroom because his strict teaching methods improved his students' performance.

He was punished three times between 1997 and 2001 for physically attacking students, including throwing a chair at the volleyball team he was coaching, and was again accused of corporal punishment this year, Kyodo news agency said.

The teacher, who was not identified in the news agency report, resigned on Friday, having been on medical leave since the latest accusation. He was selected as a role model due to his "outstanding achievement in leading the volleyball team," Kyodo said, citing board officials.

Japan's school system has been at the centre of heated political debate for some time. Some politicians have demanded stricter discipline at Japanese schools, including harsher forms of punishment, to improve overall standards

One Step Forward Three Steps Back

Anyone got an answer? I know the ones in involved in the violence are a very small group of youth and that the 200 involved in the "at risk" program are really more representative of youth today......what is the root cause of success?

Youth take the lead

200 graduate from T.O. program

There may not have been graduation caps and gowns yesterday but special diplomas were handed out to 200 students from at-risk neighbourhoods across the city.

Argument at Jane-Steeles ends in shooting

By BRIAN GRAY, SUN MEDIA

A man was fighting for his life in hospital last night after being shot outside a townhouse complex in the northwest part of the city.

"It was young people trying to settle an argument," said Mary, a 46-year-old resident of the complex on Shoreham Court, near Jane St. and Steeles Ave. W.

"They have to learn that the answer isn't to shoot people in broad daylight near where all the kids are playing."

Young Man Hit In Daylight Shooting As Children Play Nearby

StreetBeat - Aug. 27 - Suspects Sought After Attack On TTC Driver

WHY???????

StreetBeat - Aug. 27 - Suspects Sought After Attack On TTC Driver

Monday August 27, 2007

CityNews.ca Staff

Police are looking for three or four suspects after a TTC bus driver was attacked by individuals wielding pepper spray. Paramedics helped the transit employee after the painful spray got in his eyes in the attack, which occurred just before 1am Monday on Dufferin St. north of Eglinton Ave.

A 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl were arrested, then released until their court date. Police believe there are three or four more individuals involved but there's no word on a description of the suspects.

Two Faces Of Mankind

One is the face of a Hero whose basic instinct is to protect his child at any cost and the other is the face of a piece of cowardly garbage who has no respect for human life but will in the long run be given more protection than our hero.......the tradegy is that in today's society politicians and social in-activists want to recycle garbage instead of burning it.

Bullets Narrowly Miss Child In Back Of Car

Tuesday August 7, 2007

CityNews.ca Staff

It may be another case where the Summer of the Gun shows just what both police and the public are up against. And now authorities are in hot pursuit of an armed attacker, a man is lucky to be alive and a family is sighing in relief after an incident in the Lawrence and Allen area Tuesday afternoon.

Investigators say it all started when a man drove up to his home at 37 Flemington Road around 1pm. He was still in the car and was stunned by what he saw - a man armed with a gun approaching one of his neighbours. As he stared in disbelief, the gunman opened fire, squeezing off at least three shots. One went through his driver's side window.

Without hesitating, the father jumped on his two year-old son, who was in the back seat, and covered him as shards of glass flew into the vehicle. Mike, the grandfather of the baby boy, had just gotten home when his wife called out to him about some trouble outside. That's when he saw his son-in-law move like lightning at the sound of the gunfire to protect the toddler. "He put him on the floor ... when the guys started to shoot," he recalls. "One bullet came in the window."

Miraculously, no one was hit and there were no serious injuries - except to any lingering feelings of safety for those who live there. "I'm shaken," Mike admits. "What's going on? I've been here for 30 years, all the neighbours are friends with us."

The area has seen its share of trouble before. On July 13th, cops were called to a complex just one street over on Edengath Court, where a man was shot dead in front of many witnesses out enjoying a warm Friday night. Ricardo Francis was just 23 and the father of two.

There's no word on a suspect or what may have sparked this latest shooting.

Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics

Do we really need a tax funded agency tell us about crime? It seems a little ludicrous when you consider the number of outlets we have available to us.......

Gotta love those statisticsInterpretation of numbers helps frame the political debate about crime and punishment

A Victim Speaks Out

Victim's father: Justice failed us

Wants more curbs on handguns
On the eve of his murdered 11-year-old son's burial, Gerald Brown's voice didn't waver yesterday when he said judges and the federal government bear responsibility in Ephraim's death.

Thoughts On Gun Crime In Toronto

Thoughts not solutions........

Lemon: Miller, Toronto and Gun Crime

BATB: 'Natch - Blatch Got the Goods

In her column today in the Globe and Mail, "Don't Get Deafened by the Noise: Do Something" Christie Blatchford talks sense about what’s to be done concerning all of the fatal shootings in “the projects” and in drive-by shootings in drug-deals-gone-bad.

She doesn’t target activists’ usual solutions such as gun control, more community policing, or tougher sentences but, rather, brings the tragedies down to a more manageable level, that of the personal lives of the offenders and the young victims--and the adults in their lives.

She points out what Toronto Police Detective Peter Duncan, 31st Division Street Crime Unit, says are the patterns in the lives of high-risk children: “parents who lack basic skills, chief among them, how to parent.” In lectures and in a book he’s writing, Det. Duncan contends that big disasters can be broken down into “multiple small failures,” and that it’s these small failures that need to be taken account of and ‘fixed’ before the deluge. He says “No one can fix everything,” but is convinced that everyone can fix something.
There are responsible adults around, community leaders, “who try to fill the gap left by missing fathers or busy or irresponsible mothers.” And that’s what we need to concentrate on so that we don’t become completely overwhelmed by, as the Blatch puts it, “the sheer size of the mess we collectively have made of things.”

Is there anyone in the media, anywhere, with as much common sense as Blatch? Not... Natch.

Ephriam Brown Might Be Alive Today

If the opposition parties and the liberal senate had passed Harper's law and order legislation especially that part that put the onus on the accussed to prove he deserves bail. Mandatory sentencing and no bail for gun crimes/possession of a restricted weapon..

Third man charged in shooting death of T.O. boy

toronto.ctv.ca

The Gun and Gang Task Force has arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown.

Toronto police have confirmed Sheldon Gladstone Evans, 22, was arrested Wednesday and charged with failure to comply with recognizance.

Police allege Evans was:

• present during the shooting
• fled the area after the shooting
• is a member of the Five Point Generals gang
• on two separate bail orders at the time, both with conditions of house arrest

He is scheduled to appear in a Finch Avenue court on Thursday morning.

Some Facts On Handguns

July 25, 2007 Missing the target on gun crime By Lorrie Goldstein Last week, Statistics Canada reported the national crime rate last year dipped to its lowest level in more than a quarter century. Apparently, no one told the gun-toting thugs who murdered an 11-year-old boy in Toronto last weekend along with three other people, fatally shot a 37-year-old man in broad daylight on a Halifax residential street and wounded four others inside a Winnipeg nightclub. By the way, that drop in the crime rate? Actually, as StatsCan noted, that was "driven by a decline in non-violent crime." Meanwhile, violent crime, remained "virtually unchanged" from 2005. While the murder rate dipped 10% after two years of increases, "increases were reported in many serious violent crimes such as attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, robbery and kidnapping/forcible confinement." In Toronto, in addition to four people shot to death over 24 hours last weekend, seven more were wounded (five shot, two stabbed), provoking cries from the city's left-wing mayor and the province's Liberal attorney-general for a federal handgun ban. A-G Michael Bryant accused the federal Conservatives of being in the "holster" of the gun lobby. Right. For those who think "banning" handguns -- which are already banned except for target shooters and collectors -- will stop gun crime, some observations from Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, perhaps Canada's most informed critic on these issues. As he noted in a recent parliamentary debate, of the 5,194 homicides in Canada between 1997 and 2005, 118, or 2.27% were committed with a registered gun, 63, or 1.21%, were committed with a gun registered to the accused murderer and 111, or 2.14%, were committed by a person who held a valid firearms licence. Of Canada's two million licensed gun owners, 111, or 0.00555%, used their firearm to murder someone. Since most criminals don't register their guns, why would they obey a "ban?" On the other hand, in 2005, 64% of accused murderers had a prior criminal record, including 6% for homicide. Gee, do you think the real problem here might be the criminals and an absurdly lax justice system? Just a thought.

Kids Are Not Being Murdered In Stephen Harper's Neighborhood

They are being murdered in David Miller's and Dalton McGinty's neighborhood and no matter how they look for scapegoats the blood is on their hands.......both of you control the two major components of the problem; the police and the courts.

Blowing smoke on gun crime In calling for a handgun ban, again, David Miller and Michael Bryant aren't doing their jobs

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

Memo to Mayor David Miller and Attorney-General Michael Bryant.

If the best you can do in the wake of another fatal shooting of an innocent child -- part of a weekend of deadly gun violence in Toronto -- is to call for a federal handgun ban, again, do us all a favour.

Save your breath and our time, because we've heard it all before.

Do you think people don't know what a predictable attempt at misdirection this is?

Do you think they don't realize that the first thing politicians do when faced with a crisis is to blame another level of government -- in this case, Ottawa?

The feds -- both previous Liberal and Conservative governments -- have plenty to answer for when it comes to our lax criminal justice system.

But if you're going to contribute meaningfully to fighting gang and gun violence in Toronto, we don't need to hear, again, what you two think the feds should do.

We heard it from you during the 2006 federal election when another child, Jane Creba, 15, was gunned down while shopping with her family on Boxing Day on Yonge St. We don't need to hear it again now that Ephraim Brown, 11, has been murdered because he, too, was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We get it. Unlike federal Conservative politicians, Bryant, a provincial Liberal, and Miller, a municipal mayor who used to be an NDPer, think a handgun ban will reduce gun crime.

Fine. Point made. Move on. Stop telling us what the feds should do. Tell us what you're doing.

For Miller, this means ending the fear-mongering "apres moi, le deluge" rhetoric he's been indulging in ever since he couldn't get his two pet tax hikes approved by city council.

Stop your temper tantrum, mayor. Start explaining how you will lead us against this scourge, which has left three more people dead from gunfire compared to this time in 2005, the year of Toronto's infamous "summer of the gun."

HYSTERICAL RANTING

Calling for a handgun ban isn't going to make people forget that last week you were talking about cutting the police budget as part of your hysterical ranting about all the terrible things that will happen if we don't do things your way when it comes to raising taxes.

C'mon. Calm down. Focus. The last time we were faced with gang and gun mayhem you and council -- even if you had to be dragged into it -- did the right thing by hiring 250 more cops and redeploying 200 more officers onto our streets.

That added manpower -- and subsequent gang busts -- worked in reducing gun violence. You need to sit down with Police Chief Bill Blair and discuss whether the police have adequate resources to do the job now.

Was last weekend's mayhem a tragic but random blip from the trend showing gun violence has been dropping since 2005, or is this the start of a renewed escalation of gang warfare?

That's what you have to decide. That's what we pay you for. We don't pay you to run around like Chicken Little when you don't get your way.

You control the police budget and the political support the police receive in doing their job. That's your job. Do it. If you need more of our hard-earned tax money for the police budget (or any budget) make your case to us -- rationally.

As for Bryant, stop your pointless calls, in the middle of a provincial election campaign, for a handgun ban. Start dealing with the issues you control, such as providing municipalities with adequate policing.

CABINET PRESSURE?

To your credit, in part, the province did free up some money for this following the summer of the gun.

But how hard have you been fighting since then at the cabinet table to ensure that Toronto and other cities have enough resources to fight this scourge? Have you made it clear to Crowns that plea bargains and easy bail are unacceptable for these crimes? Have you provided them with the resources to be able to make a convincing argument for this before judges?

Finally, if the be-all and end-all for Bryant and Miller on gun crime really is a federal ban on handguns, let them run for a seat in the House of Commons -- not Queen's Park and City Hall.

In other words, put up or shut up.

Contrary To The Mayor's Hype There Are More Than Six Neighborhoods

Where there are "at risk" kids and crime problems but it seems like all the resources and $$$$ are being pumped into six neighborhoods........

Residents demand politicians put end to crime

By SHARON LEM, SUN MEDIA

Sam Galati wants his son and other neighbourhood children to be able to walk the streets of his Lansdowne and Bloor neighbourhood without being exposed to crack, crime and prostitution.

"From Lansdowne to Dufferin along Bloor St. it's been crime-ridden for many years, with a lot of drug-dealing, prostitution, crack addicts, and we're sick and tired of it," said Galati, who is with the Toronto Lansdowne Area Residents' Association, which is urging politicians to clean up the area.

"The different levels of government need to get their act together and start figuring out what needs to be done to turn this situation around."

Galati said heightened police presence and strong support services for drug addicts would help. "School is starting in another month and there are five schools in the area and it's not right that residents are exposed to it and students have to walk through it to get to class," he said.

'MUCH MORE VISIBLE'

"As residents, we're saying that we are no longer willing to accept excuses for government inaction. We are planning to be much more visible in our protest until we see real steps being taken towards a solution."

The association held a march last week and said they were told local Councillor Adam Giambrone would call a meeting to address their issues. But nothing has happened, Jack Fava said.

"Giambrone put it down in his BlackBerry and promised me an emergency meeting in front of everyone and he's not responded to my phone calls and he has not followed through to his word, and we'll remember this the next time he's looking for re-election," Fava said.

Sun Media could not reach Giambrone for comment yesterday.

The association will hold a march on Sunday, beginning at the BMO branch at Bloor and Lansdowne at 4 p.m.

Going Hand In Hand

Everytime the following is published......

Toronto boy's gun slaying sparks outrage, appeals
Police in Toronto say they are baffled by a lack of witnesses coming forward after an 11-year-old boy was killed in the crossfire when gunfire broke out at a crowded party.


You can expect it to followed by the following.....

Ontario to push Ottawa for ban on handguns
The killing of an 11-year-old boy caught in the crossfire of a gang war has sparked outrage among many levels of government and prompted Ontario's attorney general to lobby Ottawa for tougher gun measures.

.....but we hear little from Bryant telling judges to get tough on those arrested in gang sweeps. Allowing perps out on bail and giving them $$$$ for their inconvenience doesn't send out the message that politicians are hard on crime.