The Official Toronto Discussion Thread

[Jefferson Jackson]

Canadian politics is becoming more like the Americans lol. It is getting to wild levels.

lol this fakkit's been running around in blackface as a man in his 20's & 30's even in his political career & nikkas have the nerve to wonder why we have questions about liberals & his leadership......

this cracker will address everyone's racism issue except his own problem....


what exactly has this clown done for black Canadians? other than disrespect them? on all levels he's been a failure, economically....etc..take your pick....

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

Graham D’Souza spent the better part of his youth running with a street gang. He carried a gun, sold crack and was busted for robbery. By his early 20s, he had a bullet lodged in his heart.


His destiny was clear: to join the scores mostly young men from tough neighbourhoods who cycle in and out of jail, often returning to the very place where their trouble began.


“If not (in) jail, pretty much a waste to society,” D’Souza says of his dim prospects.


Now 25, he shows the scars of his misspent youth — most visibly a faded zipper scar that runs down his chest. Two years ago, outside a downtown nightclub, he got into a fight with a stranger who pulled a gun and shot him in the back. One bullet entered a vein and went to his heart. Another lodged near his spine.


After D’Souza spent weeks recovering from heart surgery in hospital, a friend told him about Youth Employment Local Leadership (YELL), a program offered at the East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club in the heart of Kingston-Galloway.


“That kind of changed my life around,” says D’Souza, recently hired by the club as a youth worker. Now, he’s better known as hip-hop artist Camoflauge, a.k.a. x Gangis Khan. “I do a lot of people proud now.”


It cost $250,000 to $300,000 to put D’Souza and 36 other YELL participants through the 10-month program. All but two “graduated” last fall, and most have found jobs or apprenticeships, or gone back to school. Compared with the costs of incarcerating offenders from the neighbourhood, YELL is a bargain.


In a one-day snapshot of inmates in Ontario jails, 11 people from the M1E postal area were serving sentences of fewer than two years, according to a Star analysis of prisoner data obtained in a freedom of information request. The postal area includes Kingston-Galloway.

 

[Givethanks]

Graham D’Souza spent the better part of his youth running with a street gang. He carried a gun, sold crack and was busted for robbery. By his early 20s, he had a bullet lodged in his heart.


His destiny was clear: to join the scores mostly young men from tough neighbourhoods who cycle in and out of jail, often returning to the very place where their trouble began.


“If not (in) jail, pretty much a waste to society,” D’Souza says of his dim prospects.


Now 25, he shows the scars of his misspent youth — most visibly a faded zipper scar that runs down his chest. Two years ago, outside a downtown nightclub, he got into a fight with a stranger who pulled a gun and shot him in the back. One bullet entered a vein and went to his heart. Another lodged near his spine.


After D’Souza spent weeks recovering from heart surgery in hospital, a friend told him about Youth Employment Local Leadership (YELL), a program offered at the East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club in the heart of Kingston-Galloway.


“That kind of changed my life around,” says D’Souza, recently hired by the club as a youth worker. Now, he’s better known as hip-hop artist Camoflauge, a.k.a. x Gangis Khan. “I do a lot of people proud now.”


It cost $250,000 to $300,000 to put D’Souza and 36 other YELL participants through the 10-month program. All but two “graduated” last fall, and most have found jobs or apprenticeships, or gone back to school. Compared with the costs of incarcerating offenders from the neighbourhood, YELL is a bargain.


In a one-day snapshot of inmates in Ontario jails, 11 people from the M1E postal area were serving sentences of fewer than two years, according to a Star analysis of prisoner data obtained in a freedom of information request. The postal area includes Kingston-Galloway.

I remember seeing his videos on much music, big Bang was sick. But it's good to see that he turned his life around

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Ontario is a disaster

 

[SwizzLake]

The UK dropped mandatory vaccination for all healthcare workers. They backed down from a COVID vaccine mandate for NHS staff after hearing it would mean firing nearly 80,000 healthcare workers.

People have power in numbers. If Healthcare workers are refusing to get vaccinated and they're still allowing them to keep their jobs, ask yourselves was this always about "health and safety"?

 

[SwizzLake]

Hopefully they don't stop me from traveling this summer, we want this vaccine passports to be canceled ASAP.

 

[JLova]

lol this fakkit's been running around in blackface as a man in his 20's & 30's even in his political career & nikkas have the nerve to wonder why we have questions about liberals & his leadership......

this cracker will address everyone's racism issue except his own problem....


what exactly has this clown done for black Canadians? other than disrespect them? on all levels he's been a failure, economically....etc..take your pick....

bruh, folk were fighting me when I said I refused to vote for him. Go back and read the posts. Dude is a scumbag and a complete idiot. It took a pandemic for folk to realize that.

 

[SwizzLake]

Question for you guys who want a all mandates dropped and everything returned to "normal"



I don't want ya names or nothing, I'm just interested in knowing where your coming from? Did you grow up in the burbs/community? Did you have a sick job/just getting buy? Just wondering

People have serious concerns about this mandate because they are experimental gene therapy injections and not vaccines. Imagine not being able to fly to travel, take a via train because of your refusal to comply?

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

whoever has the plug for snow blowers, now is your time to speak up....

 

[MikelArteta]

lockdowns are a joke, hope we never have one again

 

[MikelArteta]

Question for you guys who want a all mandates dropped and everything returned to "normal"

How were your lives before COVID and all the mandates?

From reading @TradePascalSiakam post it sounds like he has a dope job at at major hospital, bro likes to travel so I'm gonna assume his life was great. So I understand, where bros coming from. But you other, guys where are you coming from?

I know people who live with their mom's in community housing who have shyt jobs and are always complaining about jobs, I know people with kids who have roommates or live with their mom and complain about housing, childcare and things, I get It, people are living rough you know. and they wanna go back to that?

Let's be real, mandates suck no one wants them, Me included. If the govy is on the ropes like people are saying and Trudeau is hiding, I feel like the people can be asking for "better", but everyone is focusing on "normal"

I agree the people are allowed to protest, and it's good that people exercise their rights.

I don't want ya names or nothing, I'm just interested in knowing where your coming from? Did you grow up in the burbs/community? Did you have a sick job/just getting buy? Just wondering

Before covid
I'd travel like crazy, sometimes 5-10 times a year. 2019 alone I went to nigeria january, london and paris in april, portugal and spain in august, london, amsterdam, rome in september, israel in december, and as well vancouver and newfoundland in december

since march 2020 till now I've only been to London once for a week

These mandates suck the only good thing to come from covid is remote work and remote learning, i went out yesterday and some guy scanned my qr code and got my name and birthday right off the bat if he was a psycho he could have remembered and popped it into google and know everything about me

 

[SwizzLake]

Sweden decides against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11

And Ontario is pushing kids to get it.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Sweden decides against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11

And Ontario is pushing kids to get it.

Canada super extreme on these mandates