shooting late Friday night in North York<\/a>, near Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue W., left one person dead.<\/p>\nAccording to Toronto police data, there have been six firearm discharges this July. In 2025, that number was two.<\/p>\n
Robert Bennett, who is the founder of anti-violence initiative Silence the Violence and Shunning Guns, expressed his deepest condolences to those affected by the violent weekend in Toronto. He says officials haven’t done enough to get ahead of gun violence.<\/p>\n
“When the economy goes down, crime goes up. It’s a teeter totter approach,” he said.<\/p>\n
Bennett recommends offering employment opportunities designed to close the wealth gap.<\/p>\n
“Until we realize and understand that we have an economic imbalance that exists, these things will continue on inevitably,” he said. “We need to take steps prior to these individuals engaging this activity.”<\/p>\n
Despite this, Wendy Cukier, of the Coalition for Gun Control, says one violent weekend shouldn’t spark panic.<\/p>\n
“Every shooting is concerning, of course, and every shooting makes us feel less secure. But I think you have to look at the overall picture,” she said. “If we look specifically at firearm incidents, they have gone up but firearm homicides have actually leveled out.”<\/p>\n
“It’s really important not to overreact to a weekend of violence,” she said.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Police Association also addressed the unusually violent weekend, thanking officers for their dedication and professionalism \u201cespecially in cases where they ran towards danger to keep people safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-797884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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