Tag: Jane and Finch
over 1 year ago
thestar.com

‘We don’t need politicians’: Why some youth workers fighting Toronto’s gun violence crisis are gi...

A group of young people were meant to meet with Mayor John Tory about gun violence plaguing their communities, but sp...

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over 1 year ago
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‘Why are they not hearing us?’: Students and youth workers talk about what they really need to co...

Politicians focus on access to guns, border laws and other regulations, but those the Star spoke with said more empha...

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over 2 years ago
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Shot dead in the community he championed, mentor Sam Boakye’s killing leaves Jane-Finch reeling

That Boakye was gunned down in the very place he was working to uplift has left the community reeling — grieving the ...

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about 3 years ago
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Ontario says it will donate LRT land for Jane-Finch community centre after all

Provincial transit agency Metrolinx appeared to renege on a promise to donate the land last summer, at the time say i...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Toronto’s guns-and-gangs pandemic claims the life of a 12-year-old boy

Bullets discharged with abandon, in public; young men, with handguns tucked into their waistband, ready to draw and f...

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