Wednesday’s early morning shootings on Sheppard Avenue happened just steps from where 11-year-old Ephraim Brown was killed last summer when he was hit by a stray bullet from a gang gun battle. Toronto has seen 80 homicides so far this year, with 15 of them occurring in or around Mr. Mammoliti’s ward.
“There’s a crisis in the city, so if need be why not bring in the soldiers and arrest and detain the terrorists that call themselves gang members?” Mr. Mammoliti said. “Gang members have declared war on each other and they’re terrorizing our neighbourhoods, so let’s treat them as terrorist organizations.”
Jamaican soldiers will join police on patrols on the Caribbean island in a new strategy to fight rising violence, the prime minister said.
Nearly 60 homicides over the last week have pushed the number of victims this year beyond 1,430, police spokesman Karl Angell said. Most of the violence has been linked to gangs in the capital, Kingston, and the rural parishes of St. Catherine, Clarendon and St. James.
More – a crime map (via reader JM).
They should a graph for criminal activity
and then connect the dots
if you know what I mean…
Trudeaupia = locust manna
I really have difficulty believing the GTA either needed this much immigrant labor or can sustain it in any gainful productivity …most of SW Ontraio is in a deindustrialization stage.
At any rate it’s their problem
Funny how that bare spot in the middle of Toronto stays bare from ’81 to ’06, eh? That’d be Rosedale/Forest Hill kinda area.
Not sure why it caught my eye, but I believe the round area in the middle of T.O. that hardly experienced any dots is Rosedale, from Bloor up to Eglinton.
‘Course you need bazillions to live there.
To the west Mississauga and Etobicoke get a lot of hits, as does Markham to the north-east.
Immigration in and of itself isnt a bad thing, it all depends on whether it is just transplanting existing cultures or whether there is any sense of integrating them to “Canadian Culture” (political and legal in particular)
Was the immigration required….well seems to be since the Unemployment rate in the GTA is fine. The increased demand has helped housing prices etc.
Regarding the crime stats….well fair question. How much is caused by recent immigrants as opposed to local borns (2nd generation) is a fair question. What you do about it is another matter.
To be fair, our growth through immigration has been this high before. But the immigration was less differentiated. It was between british descendants and other Europeans, Ialians, Ukranians and Poles. Serious non European immigration didnt start until the mid 70’s, and it was small. It really took off in the 80’s and 90’s. The family reunification stuff drives me crazy….just because one person is here doesnt mean you get extra points in my humble opinion. Only spouses and children should count, but that will never disappear.
To repeat, the “problem” for me is the lack of strong impulse to integrate immigrant communities into political and legal structures….i.e. these are the rules. Having their own food stores, places or worship and shopping malls I couldn’t care less about, that hapens anyway and sometimes the food is really good.
WL Mackenzie Redux I think the unemployment rate in Toronto is 6.9%.
Enriching diversity leads to high unemployment rates!
Part of the plan to put Europeans in the minority in less than 50 yrs. Luckily Harper raised the immigration rate to hurry that.
Mr. Mammoliti said. “Gang members have declared war on each other and they’re terrorizing our neighbourhoods, so let’s treat them as terrorist organizations.”
Pro immigration types declared war on pre trudeaupian Canada maybe we should send in the military to fight them.
It isn’t immigration that is the problem, as stephen points out. It’s the Liberal policy of multiculturalism, established by the Liberals and moved into law within the Charter.
Multiculturalism denies, to immigrants, the option of ‘becoming Canadian’. Indeed, it sets up the notion of ‘Being Canadian’ as applicable only to the early founders of this country from Britain and France. Everyone else is ‘Other’ and is defined as an ‘ethnic minority’. They are expected to retain this identity of ethnic minority.
To enable this retention of their old identity, the Liberals have set up laws that promote and reward such retention. This is not only in the Charter (sections 15 and 27) but also politically.
Ethnic groups are rewarded financially by remaining ethnic rather than becoming Canadian. They are eligible for federal and provincial funding to retain their isolate identity – monies in the millions are given to them for specific ethnic and religious programs specif to them and them alone.
Politically, these groups move into areas of authoritarian power, where they can influence the legislature to establish specific laws that refer only to their isolate identities, such as food laws, behavioural laws, dress codes, working rules and so on.
Isolated and barred from any notion of Being Canadian, but, fortified as an Ethnic or Religious minority, these groups wield great political power because they form a Voting Bloc.
The Liberals managed to balkanize the political infrastructure of Ontario in this manner, reducing the population to isolate ‘blocs’, each adversarial with the other, each competing for those govt funds to retain their old identity, each effectively discouraged and inhibited and even prevented from Being Canadian.
The result? Ontario becomes and remains a Liberal stronghold.
Neat tactic for the Liberals.
Result for Canada? A balkanized population, with great numbers unable and by now unwilling to integrate and even, without any knowledge of How To Integrate – because the Liberals Mode has intentionally prevented newcomers from Being Canadian.
Having lived in Scarberia the public linking to Jamaica is long overdue. We should also take into account the number of jamaican children with single parents. In Jamaica single parenthood is the norm not the exception. The immigration of so many people
from Jamaica to Scarborough only to begin a life of welfare is disturbing. Our country needs to review these issues and discuss them in public.
Only then can we begin to find solutions to these
violent problems. The loonie left will stop any realistic attempt at sanity because they need massive welfare to feed thier agenda.
Once again we allow thought police from the so called human rights appointees to prohibit a
thoughtful review of our immigration and societal concerns.
So the killing will go on as will the perpetuation of generations of welfare recipents
imported from Jamaica.
Mammoliti thinks they need the Army because he knows the cops are going to be shaking down all the White men over 75 years old for guns.
Can’t be in two places at once, can they?
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“et says… Multiculturalism denies, to immigrants,
the option of ‘becoming Canadian’.”
again, the central issue here isn’t race,
it’s culture.
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One of the more idiotic ideas to come out of Toronto City Hall – and that’s saying something.
To all readers outside of The Centre of The Universe (a.k.a. The Greater Toronto Area), welcome to the sorry state of municipal politics around my neck of the woods. The line for incompetents forms to the left, nutcases to the right.
Name a Negro run country that you would live in? Anyone? Anyone?
Anymore, I cannot even think of one I would visit.
Our problems with immigration are all compounded by Trudeau’s Charter and the Leftist ideology which feeds it.
Here we are in a country formed on Judeo/Christian beliefs. We are currently celebrating the season of Christ’s birth and Hanukkah. We have been dummied down in many areas, schools, shops etc,where the Left has deemed it the “Holiday Season” and the Christmas tree is offensive.
The Charter is ruining the country, we stand for nothing.
@John West:
I’m not familiar with Caribbean tax havens, so I can’t answer your question. Bermuda seems a popular choice for tax exiles.
Most of the Carribean Island countries are safe to visit or live in.
I agree with ET about the Charter and it’s bastard child, multiculturalism. However, I disagree that it’s not about immigration.
It doesn’t take a bloody rocket scientist to look at the violent statistics in Jamaica and then put a moratorium on Jamaican immigration, in order to protect Canadians.
Neither does it take buckets of rational thinking to put a moratorium on Muslim immigration from Islamic countries, in order to avoid the social upheavals, intolerance and violent attrocities that we see in the news daily.
Protecting Canadians from the threat of violence and social unrest, rather than importing it, must be the first priority of any government when it comes to immigration.
But, obviously it’s not.
Mammoliti is a steaming dipwad, and he is coming out with this nonsense to distract attention from his expense accounts. (He dosen’t have to worry- ‘His Blondness'(Mayor Miller)-won’t be holding anybody to account.
In my view the problem is caused by many factors, some already stated such as the charter and all that it entails. I concur that immigration is a problem but for different reasons. Immigrants from Jamaica per se are not the problem, since there are many who are law abiding and hard working with strong family values. I have some who are long time friends. The problem lies in the total changes made to the selection process for immigrants. When we ceased requiring applicants to have the ability to earn their own living with a trade or profession which was in demand in Canada, that they have a clean criminal record, that they have a clean bill of health and that they be able to communicate in one of the two official languages, we opened the door and later put out the welcome mat to the misfits, unemployable and criminals of the world. We need to change the present selection policy.
Crime Maps.
Homicides in the GTA 2005-2007
www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/starmaps.html?xml=homicides.xml#Toronto
Marijuana grow operations
www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/starmaps.html?xml=growops.xml
Crime, marijuana operation and immigration all concentrated in the same spot.
I wish I could understand why millions of liberals are in complete denial about this…
Nicely said ET 10:49. Thats going in the files.
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The two components – Immigration and the more potentially negative cousin – Refugees – have to be separated one from the other. Refugees should be on a very short leash for 3-5 years. If involved in criminal code/terrorist related activities or they haven’t moved off the welfare roles by that time, they should be returned to country of origin. It would take the over-riding of Supreme Court case law but it could be done.
Surely the lessening of family class immigrants must be either slowed considerably or stopped all together other than for spouses and children. It is clear why the Liberals brought in and perpetuated this (ethnic block voting) but after two years, there seems little will to stop/try to stop it now. Since when would it take a majority government to do this?
Two excellent places to start would be with dismantling the IRB (Immigration/Refugee Board) and doing an inventory of just who are the people doing the assessing in the application offices offshore. Next to the Human Rights Commissions – the entire 3500 person IRB exudes much of what is wrong with both our Official Bilingualism and our Official Multicultural policies.
Monty Who was in Calgary today making the rounds. – and yes, he still does have a voice. The message was all about temporary workers, and how this is going to solve “the problem”, etc., etc. Right. A quick fix solution that is going to likely result in a whole lot more problems than it solves, just as it has been/still is doing in the U.S.
We, as the rightful owners, stakeholders and shareholders of our country, and the people who elect the government to act on our behalf, must be allowed to plan the type of country we want to live in. Who we allow to immigrate here is an essential part of that vision.
It should be obvious that nobody in their right mind would want people who are given to violence as a way of life, or given to a totalitarian and fascist political ideology that is at odds with our own, to immigrate here.
That may be a generalisation, or even xenephobia, but, so what? There may be some good people that get caught in the net, but overall you’re still keeping the parasites that come along with them out.
Political expediency, as is the case with importing so-called ‘temporary workers,’ must not be allowed special status, or to skip the queue. Neither should block vote and partisan immigration.
Also, who cares what the UN says? Who are they to dictate to a sovereign nation what that nation can and cannot do? Especially, given their abhorent track record, irrational appointments, failure at upholding universal human rights and historical lack of credibility.
The problem with Canada is a lack of vision. An OT Proverb states, “People without vision perish.”
Its interesting what the Toronto Star considers important or acceptable ways to sort the dead. Age , sex and type of weapon used. Age is mostly irrelevant. Its interesting to see the sex breakdown, given the constant bombardment we get from the media about the problem of violence against women. If someone is murdered who cares what the instrument of death was. Things that would be interesting to know about these victims would be their cultural background, immigration status and criminal record. Of course that would be way too politically incorrect.
I thought Toronto found this kind of diversity charming.
Remember they are here to pay your pension, you won’t be able to live without them. Any one of their cultures are better than yours. Racists.
BL@KBIRD,
Most of the people in Toronto don’t come from here. Toronto is flypaper for moonbats. Including the mayor.
Toronto is flypaper for moonbats.
LOL. It certainly is. Here’s an example of an interactive crime amp done much better than that one from the Red Star:
Interactive Murder Map of Baltimore
…great i’m travelling to Toronto shortly…
So we all know Toronto has issues.
Just one serious question: How do we fix it?
Answer: Teach them to skate.
and swim.
GANG CONTROL NOT GUN CONTROL SQUAWK SQUAWK