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Posted on: 14-06-09 01:34:34
Girl stabbed at Kennedy subway station TheStar.com - Crime - Girl stabbed at Kennedy subway station
December 15, 2008
Christina Commisso
Staff Reporter
Police are looking for a 17-year-old girl after a teenager was stabbed in the neck at Kennedy subway station this afternoon.
Police say the 16-year-old girl was stabbed just before 4 p.m.
Subway and bus services were stopped following the attack while police canvassed the area for the suspect. Police say they have received conflicting reports as to what happened and are currently interviewing witnesses.
Police could not confirm if the victim knew the suspect.
The girl was conscious and breathing when emergency crews arrived. She was taken to the Hospital for Sick Children with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Subway and bus service in the area has since resumed.
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Posted on: 14-06-09 01:35:56
Man shot after basketball game TheStar.com - GTA - Man shot after basketball game
Victim flagged down passing ambulance as he drove to hospital with serious chest wound
February 10, 2008
Jeffrey Todd
Staff Reporter
A late-night basketball game ended in gunfire early Sunday and left a 21-year-old man with a serious shot to the chest, police say.
The incident happened just after midnight, near Eglinton Ave. E. and Kennedy Rd., at the Don Montgomery Community Recreation Arena beside Kennedy subway station.
Investigators said the man was driving out of the parking lot when he was shot.
"From what we can tell there was an event at the centre," Sgt. Bill Patterson said. "It occurred after a basketball game."
Connie Christie, an EMS duty officer, said an ambulance stumbled upon the gunshot victim as he was trying to drive himself to the hospital.
"The ambulance was going by and he waved them down," she said. "They discovered the patient had been shot, and took it as a higher priority."
Christie added the victim was hit once in the side of the chest. He was rushed to hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries.
Police roped off the parking lot and closed down the Recreation Centre. Patterson said while no arrests have been made, they are interviewing a number of witnesses.
Investigators said video surveillance at Kennedy subway station, located beside the Recreation Centre, could provide important clues in the case.
"They're looking at many aspects in the investigation, including cameras," Patterson said.
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Posted on: 14-06-09 01:44:34
Youths fed up with violent image TheStar.com - Opinion - Youths fed up with violent image
November 13, 2008
Bob Hepburn
Nicholas Denny is tired of reading newspaper stories and watching newscasts that he claims portray Scarborough, where he lives and goes to school, as an area wracked by youth violence.
\"I will admit, Scarborough has its issues, but take a look around and you'll see a lot of people doing a lot of good,\" the teenager wrote recently in an newspaper article.
\"Scarborough, it's time for us to come together as a people and do our part to make sure that the world sees us for the community that we truly are.\"
Denny wrote the article for VIP Voice, a publication that is part of a unique three-year journalism internship that gives youths practical experience in various multimedia fields and allows them to tell their stories and express their views about violence-related subjects in Scarborough.
He is one of 10 kids, aged 13 to 19, enrolled in the program. All live in neighbourhoods deemed at risk several years ago by the United Way of Greater Toronto.
Each Saturday, they meet to study newspapers, copy writing, photography, animation and video-editing.
The program is part of the Violence Intervention Project, co-ordinated by East Metro Youth Services and designed to encourage young people to contribute their own ideas and solutions for school and community safety.
Money for the program comes through the provincial government's Youth Challenges Fund, which was announced in 2006 for youth programs in the at-risk neighbourhoods in Toronto's suburban areas. Queen's Park has committed almost $30 million over three years to the fund.
Seven of the 13 priority areas cited by the United Way are in the Scarborough area, including Crescent Town, Dorset Park, Eglinton East/ Kennedy Park, Kingston-Galloway, Malvern, Scarborough Village and Steeles-L'Amoreaux.
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Posted on: 14-06-09 01:47:40
Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation - Canada, office on the upper floor of the Liberty Square Shopping Plaza at Eglinton and Kennedy Rd.
Charity funding terror: Sri Lanka
Canadian investigators accuse the group of working with Tamil Tigers
Stewart Bell, National Post
Thursday, Nov 20, 2008
TORONTO -- Liberty Square Shopping Plaza has a South Asian convenience store and a branch of the Toronto Public Library, but the tenant that has brought this busy strip mall international notoriety is upstairs above a jewellery store.
The Tamils Rehabilitation Organization works out of a cramped second-floor office with a big Canadian flag over the window. And while its official mission is humanitarian, governments in three countries suspect it serves a shadier purpose.
RCMP counterterrorism investigators and Canada Revenue Agency charity regulators accuse the group of having ties to the Sri Lankan separatist guerrillas called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tamil Tigers.
"We believe that there are reasonable grounds for concern that TRO (Canada) operates for purposes that conflict with Canadian public policy," the head of Canada's charities directorate wrote in a letter to the group. "More specifically, there appears to be reason to conclude that TRO (Canada) may be functioning as part of a support network for the terrorist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam."
In the United States, meanwhile, the Treasury Department last year froze the assets of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization office in Toronto, calling it part of an international network that "passed off its operations as charitable when in fact it was raising money for a designated terrorist group responsible for heinous acts."
Signed by Canada's Director of Charities, Elizabeth Tromp, the letter said that "TRO (Canada) appears to operate within the overall structure of the LTTE."
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Posted on: 14-06-09 01:59:14
And near Kennedy and Eglinton is where Salahuddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, where some of the 17 suspects who allegedly planned to blow up the parliament buildings in Ottawa and Toronto's stock exchange attended
Second Terror Suspect Gets Bail After Being Charged With Planning Attacks
Posted on: Thursday, 20 July 2006, 18:00 CDT
By MATTHEW CHUNG
BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) - A second terror suspect charged with participating in a plot to carry out attacks in Ontario was granted bail Thursday.
Twenty-one-year-old Ahmad Ghany of Mississauga, Ont., became the first of 12 adult suspects to be released from custody after a justice of the peace granted him bail for $140,000 and put him under house arrest.
Ghany is charged with knowingly participating in a terrorist group and receiving training for activity in a terrorist group.
Aly Hindy, the controversial imam of the Salahuddin Islamic Centre, was at Ghany's bail hearing Thursday for "moral support."
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Posted on: 14-06-09 07:12:53
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Originally posted by prince77
Hi Europa
I live near kennedy eglinton and trust me it is the best place to live.You have everything in ur vicinity.And personally i feel more safe as my apt building is right on the main lane i can walk home by myself from subwasy which is fews mins away)even after 11:00 pm.If you have any questions you can pm me.....
tshusss!
prince
Yes yes best place except that there were a few stabbings in kennedy subway station in the last two years and few break and enters in the apartments near by.
Best place except that there are some public housing units nearby (which means there will be a bit more trouble and crime in the area as these public housing units are like slum areas in canada )
Best place except that the area has offices and mosques that terrorists visit
