Teenager slain in Toronto street violence
Christie Blatchford:
Jane Creba, the bright and athletic 15-year-old killed in the Boxing Day shootings on Yonge Street, wandered into the midst of the gunfire that suddenly erupted.
She was shopping with her 18-year-old sister, Alison, on the east side of the street, near Sam the Record Man, when she decided to skip across to the other side where the Foot Locker sporting goods store is located.
She walked smack into the crossfire of the gun battle, The Globe and Mail has learned, and took one bullet to the upper torso.
Ms. Creba, mortally wounded, dropped to the ground, and was so badly hurt she was the first to be taken away to hospital by ambulance.
In the melee and confusion that saw the area flooded with police and stores locked down as yellow tape went up, her sister didn't see any of what happened to Jane.
Nor did the older girl, who had come home from first-year university for the Christmas holidays, realize that her baby sister had been taken away to hospital.
After an increasingly frantic search, Alison phoned home and spoke to her mother, asking if Jane had returned.
The girls' mother raced downtown immediately, and the two looked desperately for Jane, finally asking a police officer for help.
Only then did they learn what had happened and were taken away by squad car to hospital.
Police now are awaiting forensic tests that will determine whether the bullet that killed Ms. Creba was fired from a gun seized from two men arrested at a subway station shortly after the shooting.
A police source said the two men, who were detained at Castle Frank station, had a 9mm Ruger handgun. Although police believe the two men took part in the gun battle, they have been charged only with lesser firearms offences, the source said.
If the tests reveal the markings on the fatal bullet or those that struck the six people who were wounded in the incident are a match for the seized handgun, then the men could face more serious charges.
Andre Thompson, 20, who was on probation at the time of the alleged offences, faces several gun charges, as does a 17-year-old male who cannot be identified.
The source said the men are both known to police.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 3:26 PM
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Canada is definitely in the running for the National Cowardice and Stupidity Award: out of nothing more than political correctness regarding "diversity" (the cowardice part), and after seeing the big problem of black underachievement and criminality in America, they are importing wholesale the very same thing via immigration from Africa and the Caribbean.
"I can't imagine what her parents are going through."
Indeed.
Thank you for confirming YOUR cowardice as you express prejudiced, unresearched, and ignorant comments.
I've taken note of your desire to remain annonymous.
Blacks do not manufacture and create weapons. Not as owners at least. Many come over as a result of conflict in their home countries or poverty created directly as a result of conditions created by the World Bank or the IMF and the effects of colonialism: see the documentary "Life and Debt" it's loaded with proof and examples.
Discrimination from white teachers towards black students in Toronto is an epidemic more immediate than bird flu. But I'm sure you're more interested in hearing news from Turkey right now than to listen to the countless tales of articulate Canadian born students who have teachers telling them they need to be put into ESL. Or stories from A students who are not told about the scholarships that guidance counsellors seek out white students to deliver them to.
Have you read the Toronto Star? In the Dec 31, 2005 edition, Andre Burnett who is one of the criminals and cowards you speak of, and I do not argue his case, was the only troublemaker...and non-immigrant of his Jamaican family. The rest are established bankers, journalists, accountants and self-employed business people. So what of your "they are importing wholesale the very same thing via immigration from Africa and the Caribbean." ??? These people are not being imported with mango and banana, they're having to pay inflated plane fare (2-3xs more expensive than buying a ticket from here), applying for Visa ($150.00 CDN plus airfare to get to the embassyif it's not on the island of the applicant), paying $525.00 for the immigration processing fee for a permanent resident document and then $975.00 for the landed fee. PLUS Living expenses. You can be angry about the shootings but have some respect for those who pay the way for an opportunity to better their living situation. And who make good of their opportunity.
Native Indians could have said the same you've said for the immigrants who came here hundreds of years ago slaughtering HUNDREDS of their hosts. Thanking the survivors with reserves and proselytizing.
So, please, before you share bullshit. Which you are free to. Get your facts straight so that less of your mess would be available as compost that I can formulate into a flourishing intelligent reply.
With honesty and directness,
A 26-year-wise, intelligent, university gradute, first generation Canadian of Jamaican background, mother, journalist, executive assistant, lecturer on environmental health and aspiring childbirth educator and black Wombn.
AO Amenti
I wish you wellness and connection on your journey.
Blacks do not manufacture and create weapons.
But they certainly know how to use them.
Discrimination from white teachers towards black students in Toronto is an epidemic more immediate than bird flu.
How exactly are white teachers discriminating against black students?
Maybe blacks in Canada - and elsewhere - would be better off if they started taking responsibility for their own actions instead of always blaming them on whites.
Adam,
We are all resposible for ourselves. I do not wish to diminish the reality that we all have choices. But there is also the reality of the effects of discrimination.
I am pointing out the actions of white teachers who have treated myself and others unfairly here in Toronto by.
*Suggesting ESL for students who were articulate and Canadian-born
*Yelling at black students and subjecting them to harsher consequences in the classroom than white students who commit the same behaviour
*In grade four I had a teacher who wanted to stop me from going to the bathroom though I was obviously ill and only conceded because I was about to vomit on the floor ... I did not do well in her class but when I moved to another school wrote and illustrated a children's book: my new teacher was so impressed that she laminated the book and asked to keep it
*My cousin - who is a quiet young boy who usually keeps no more than 3 close friends - was "diagnosed" by a teacher as ADHD and drugs were suggested: his mother took him to be tested independently, the tester remarked that not only did he not have ADHD, but he was the most focused and intelligent child she had ever tested
*I had another teacher in grade 8 who would give me As and Bs throughout the year but come grading time would drop it down to a C citing participation - I would come in late from recess or lunch. She was miserable to all students alike but only in my marks (the only black student) did it show up.
I also had wonderful white teachers. My Sr.Kindergarten, Grade 5, Grade 12 English, Grade 10 Biology, and OAC Media teacher among them. My Grade 10 Biology teacher shared that in the Teacher's lounge he continuously heard racist, prejudiced and otherwise ignorant comments about students of colour: in my high school only about 0.5% were black.
I am not pointing fingers only to place blame...I am pointing out where attitudes and behaviours negatively impact the self-esteem of young people. Especially those whose parents lack the self-esteem, resources, or knowledge to defend them. And I also support the assertion that blacks need to take responsibility for ourselves.
In speaking with a white friend of mine (before Dec 26) I was saying to her that Blacks need to start looking to themselves for positive rolemodels and images instead of white-authored books and entertainment. She said that while she saw my point, that white priviledge still needed to be understood in order to balance out inequality. Our dialogue gave me pause. I thought long and hard about what the priviledge comes from and its remaining effects. This is why I was especially angry when I first read this blog. Whites don't need to absorb blame but asserting accountability for the ongoing effects of our racial history would bring about solutions to the violence in Toronto.
I am pointing out the actions of white teachers who have treated myself and others unfairly here in Toronto by
Then you should support segregated schools. That way black students will have black teachers and white students will have white teachers. Then you will no longer have to worry about the "racist" white teachers.
Adam,
What do you suggest as a solution if not segregation or pointing out racist attitudes?
You point out what you disagree with. You don't want to be blamed.
I embrace what you say is the solution. I not asking for an exhaustive plan. But what is the root of the problem, and what is the solution?
I support choices, and I support options. I think there should be both segregated and integrated schools. There already are segregated schools, they're called private schools, or religious schools. I'm not against them if their graduates are empowered individuals who contribute to a strong social fabric. But the segregated schools used to create a chasm of quality in teaching because of a lack of materials in the classroom - otherwise there would have probably been no fight for integration.
Racial issues are about abuses of power and a lack of connection. When these are addresed racism overcome. Handouts,neglect of the issues and freebees inflate the problem.
And, as I pointed out I had great white teachers. That doesn't negate the presence and effects of racist teachers. I noticeyou put racist in quotation marks. If these examples don't demonstrate racism to you what do they demonstrate?
You don't want to be blamed.
And what exactly should I be blamed for?
But what is the root of the problem, and what is the solution?
I would say that the root of the problem is that too many blacks like to blame their problems on whites. The solution is for blacks to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Racial issues are about abuses of power and a lack of connection.
Wrong, it is about people not taking responsibility for their own actions.
That doesn't negate the presence and effects of racist teachers.
If you really believe that "racist" teachers are the problem then the solution is to do away with integrated education.
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