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Newsstand: September 1, 2015
Tuesday news for youse: Torontonians speak out on carding at the Toronto Reference Library, a Scarborough teen dies in Jamaica, and immigrating to Canada can be bad for your heart.
Members of the public will have the opportunity to weigh in on the Toronto police’s controversial practice of carding today at the Toronto Reference Library. The “community consultation” is part of a provincial review of carding policies.
The Scarborough teenager who was shot dead yesterday in Kingston, Jamaica, has been identified. Ricardo Williams, 14, died early Sunday morning in an incident police are still investigating. According to a friend, the teen loved football and rap music. He hoped to become a professional football player.
Immigrating to Canada can be bad for your heart, a new study has found. The study looked at more than 800,000 new Canadians, finding they had a significantly lower rate of major heart problems before moving to the country — a gap that closed the longer they remained.