Bullet Points
The city’s record-high homicide rate is a new low for Toronto
In the early afternoon of November 18, shots rang out in the stairwell of a West Hill apartment building near Lawrence Avenue and Kingston Road. The victim, a 23-year-old man from Ajax, died soon after paramedics arrived. In what was already a grim year for Toronto, his death set a record high for homicides. With no concrete solutions in mind, the provincial government has committed $25 million to combatting gun violence. While we can all agree that more funding is a good thing, what we can’t agree on is how the city should spend it.