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A soccer game between Toronto and Los Angeles was played last night in honour of the Becks-Posh royal visit to Toronto. Although an injury prevented Beckham from taking the field, his handsomeness remains unimpaired. And oh yeah, the final score was 0–0.
A 19-year-old man was shot to death in a stairwell near Parliament and Gerrard on Saturday afternoon. The sad thing—apart from somebody being dead—is that a single shooting in a weekend is starting to look pretty good.
A group of left-leaning U.S. bloggers are looking to unionize in order to gain access to health care, collective bargaining agreements, and various other benefits usually associated with real jobs. Torontoist looks forward to manning the barricades in solidarity with our brothers and sisters toiling in the bloggy sweatshops of the world.
Speaking of sweatshops, it's still sidewalk-egg-frying weather in Toronto, in case you hadn't noticed. The medical officer of health has said that the heat alert will remain in effect until it stops being so hot.
Photo by sthursby from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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This weekend's shooting was the fiftieth of the year. Tragic, yes, but I find it really problematic that this is being called the summer of the gun again when...I mean, Jesus, most of the shootings have been gang members shooting one another, and cities of this size like Washington (which is less than half the rate of murders it was a decade ago) will easily exceed 200 this year. Crime is a problem in any city; we happen to be fortunate enough to live in a city that is abnormally safe.
Right, so let`s just shrug it off then.
Isn`t it a good thing that just one murder is still a big deal?
It's important that we're paying attention to crime in the city, but doing things like, for instance, calling every single summer for the past three years "the summer of the gun" unnecessarily exaggerates and completely sensationalizes the issue...
in a city of 2.5 million, our murder rate is extremely low. we *should* shrug it off. it's not a problem at all. nobody in this city should ever worry about getting shot and killed since the odds are very very low.
and it's not like we can eliminate murder. I don't know of a metropolis that has eliminated murders.
you'll never have zero murders in a city like this, so we cannot parrot the old phrase "even 1 death is too much".
and what few murders we do have are completely exaggerated in the press and TV media with phrases like "the summer of the gun".
why not "the summer of the cigarette" since more people will die this summer due to lung cancer than due to shootings?