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“This is not about a typical human being who we should honour and remember and grieve”
Makes the skin crawl a bit, don’t it? That’s Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, of York West, telling the Post why he doesn’t want impromptu memorials to dead (alleged) gang members and (alleged) drug dealers allowed in his ward. Mammoliti, who apparently skipped the month of Grade 11 sociology where he should have learned the difference between nature and nurture and who has definitely never watched The Real Toronto, says he’s sending a “message”: “We are not going to accept you when you’re terrorizing the community and we’re not going to grieve you when you’re dead.” According to the Post, the move—which the councillor hopes to see approved by the Etobicoke York Community Council on November 19—is “part of his greater campaign to clean up his community.” It’s too bad that Mammoliti seems to have confused cleaning with fixing.