TORONTO, Ont. – A community meeting will be held in the Danzig Street and Morningside area, two days after a mass shooting took the lives of two young people, and wounded 23 others.
The meeting will take place at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday.
Community leader and politician Senator Reverend Don Meredith told CityNews Channel, he lived in that area at one time, and it needs help.
“There’s a lot of poverty within this neighbourhood and we need to make sure that we’re working with all levels of government to ensure that the resources are brought back here. Creating jobs for our young people. Our government is on the track to create economic stability, jobs and growth and low taxes, again, putting people to work.”
Premier Dalton McGuinty has confirmed that he and Mayor Rob Ford will sit down with Police Chief Bill Blair Monday afternoon at 2 p.m.
On Thursday night night 680News, CityNews and CityNews Channel will broadcast a special live one hour program examining the issue of safety and gun violence in Toronto. The special will begin at 7 pm ET.
Friends and family of the victims of a shooting in Scarborough meet at Kingston Road and Galloway Road for a candlelight vigil.
Joshua Yasay, 23, of Ajax was one of two people who died during a shooting at a community barbecue in Scarborough on Monday, July 16, 2012
Shyanne Charles is shown in an undated photo from the Facebook page "R.I.P. Shyanne Charles." Officials have identified the two people killed in Monday night's street party shootings in Scarborough as 14-year-old Shyanne Charles and 23-year-old man Joshua Yasay. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook
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