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[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

About a month ago I was eating a slice of pizza in the park and a homeless looking white guy walks right by holding a hand gun then tucks it in his waist after he walks past me... This was just right off Yonge Street south of Bloor In the evening. There are little parks between the buildings...

I didn't even know how to react. I just kept eating like nothing happened.

 

[Robbie3000]

To be honest mtl is better lol
For parties

Noted. Will make my way there next summer perhaps. Cause ain't no way i'm visiting any other season.

 

[MVike28]

@Lord Scarf offloading the crib

Recession coming..time to toss that into my investment portfolio

 

[MikelArteta]

@Lord Scarf offloading the crib

Recession coming..time to toss that into my investment portfolio

:Strahldup:
Wait till the hospital finishes breh gonna add some value

Where you moving to?

 

[MVike28]

:Strahldup:
Wait till the hospital finishes breh gonna add some value

Where you moving to?

breh..i'm not one of these recession tinfoil hat types but the debt to income ratio is wild..banks are just cutting interest rates and ppl are borrowing even more

In Canada's case, household debt is around 170 per cent of disposable income. In other words, the average Canadian owes about $1.70 for every dollar of income he or she earns per year, after taxes. That ratio is a Canadian record, and up from about 100 per cent 20 years ago.

Canada’s Economy and Household Debt: How Big Is the Problem?


fukk that. I wanna jump in the market now and benefit from the fire sales when the bubble bursts..i'm staying away from real estate..plus our family portfolio has averaged 12% since 2013 when we started. It wasn't all fun and games..the oil and gas recession a couple of years back hit us HARD. but you win some and lose some the average always bears out.

The housing market can NEVER give you those kind of returns.

Watch breh..telling you..mind you if your family moved in early when this area was being built i figure by now the home is paid off in full..this advice applies to our generation we don't have the benefits of our predecessors especially those bum ass Baby Boomers who clogged up the system and benefited greatly from when and where they were born

 

[MikelArteta]

breh..i'm not one of these recession tinfoil hat types but the debt to income ratio is wild..banks are just cutting interest rates and ppl are borrowing even more

In Canada's case, household debt is around 170 per cent of disposable income. In other words, the average Canadian owes about $1.70 for every dollar of income he or she earns per year, after taxes. That ratio is a Canadian record, and up from about 100 per cent 20 years ago.

Canada’s Economy and Household Debt: How Big Is the Problem?


fukk that. I wanna jump in the market now and benefit from the fire sales when the bubble bursts..i'm staying away from real estate..plus our family portfolio has averaged 12% since 2013 when we started. It wasn't all fun and games..the oil and gas recession a couple of years back hit us HARD. but you win some and lose some the average always bears out.

The housing market can NEVER give you those kind of returns.

Watch breh..telling you..mind you if your family moved in early when this area was being built i figure by now the home is paid off in full..this advice applies to our generation we don't have the benefits of our predecessors especially those bum ass Baby Boomers who clogged up the system and benefited greatly from when and where they were born

About 150k left on the mortgage but props on the info it might be time as well for me

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

• There were so many gunshots that witnesses couldn’t keep track.
  
  There were so many that the numbers printed on the yellow forensic markers placed around the scene by police reached as high as 59.
  
  Some say 30 shots. Some say even more.
  
  Well over 20 bullet holes were clearly visible in the blue sedan sitting in the parking lot, demonstrating how much a war zone this neighbourhood turned into on what was otherwise a quiet Wednesday afternoon at 11 Rochefort Dr., just a few hundred metres from the Ontario Science Centre.
  
  “I stopped counting when it got to 10,” said one resident whose Flemingdon Park apartment was in the line of fire.
  
  “I heard pop, bang, pop, pop, and bang. It just kept going. It was nuts.”
  
  In the end, a man was taken to hospital with serious wounds.
  
  
  
  
  Police chief Mark Saunders speak with officers after a double-shooting in Flemingdon Park on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
  
  A second victim was located about 50 metres from the bullet-riddled car, in a courtyard between two low rise rental buildings.
  
  His blood drops could not be missed next to a child’s scooter. Neither could the children’s playground which was within the line of fire. And the basketball court.
  
  A woman named Merle was with her children in the backyard, and knew exactly what to do.
  
  “I grabbed my kids and ran into the house and hid,” she said.
  
  All of this in broad daylight on a beautiful summer afternoon.
  
  “My wife grabbed my daughter and we got out there,” said Luis Larrosa, visiting from Florida.
  
  “I had heard that Toronto’s gang problem was getting bad. But I didn’t know it was this bad.”
  
  Mary Watson was cleaning trash from one of the building’s common areas “so my kids could play” when the shooting began.
  
  “I always worry about my three kids,” she said.
  
  “This can happen anywhere. Not long ago I was in Yonge Dundas Square and there was a shooting there too.”
  
  
  
  
  Heavily armed Toronto Police officers responded after two men were wounded by gunfire and a Hyundai Sonata was riddled with bullet holes at a low rise apartment complex on Rochefort in Flemingdon Park on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
  
  This time it was a housing complex teeming with children.
  
  It was an eerie scene watching them saddle-up to the yellow police tape to peer at the shot-up car — instead of playing on a set of nearby swings sealed off with police tape and attended to by Forensic Unit technicians.
  
  It certainly has been one dangerous summer of gunplay and victims.
  
  Shooting after shooting after shooting.
  
  Wednesday’s double shooting comes on the heels of a violent holiday weekend that saw 17 people injured by gunfire in 14 separate incidents.
  
  While homicides are down considerably this year —36 so far compared to 59 at this time in 2018 — shootings are once again on the rise.
  
  As of Monday, there were 244 shootings and 356 victims in the city — both up from the 238 shootings and 324 victims the same date last year.
  
  This was one was like so many this year: A case where a community dodged dozens of bullets.
  
  With so many people around, this had Danzig Street potential.
  
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  “This was not a random shooting,” explained Chief Mark Saunders at the scene.
  
  “It was targeted and right now we are trying to figure out precisely who was here, how long they were here and whether it was a lay-in-wait type of occurrence.”
  
  The suspects escaped and the manhunt his on.
  
  Said Saunders: “This vehicle was definitely the targeted vehicle with the two occupants who were in it.”
  
  This fact doesn’t make it any more palatable — any one of those bullets could have struck one of dozens of innocent residents or passersby.
  
  Communities are becoming as tired of the talking points from police and politicians as they are by the gangsters who don’t care who is in front of them when they pull the trigger.
  
  However, many residents say the best thing for them is to say nothing.
  
  “I have to live here,” said one.
  
  “I don’t want anybody retaliating.”
  
  Clearly by the look at this bullet-ridden crime scene, whoever was behind this brazen shooting would not be afraid to do just that.
  
  
  getting hot out there.....

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

move to Toronto for a better THUG LIFE brehs

 

[Womb Raider]

@Lord Scarf
This city is fukking amazing. Got to my Airbnb at Ice Condos, some shady shyt went down where our place was locked. The guys next door let us stay at their jawn until we got it figured out, something is telling me we’re getting catfished and they’re the real hosts but fukk it. nikkas rolled up, gave us bud, told us some places to hit...but the scenery my fukking god. The CN tower is right outside. We rode bikes around 2-3am to the 7/11 (btw backwoods for $15 is a fukking scam and a half), some shyt I would never do in Philly lmao.

What a great place so far.

 

[Kami]

3 charged with attempted murder in Church and Adelaide shooting, 1 suspect at-large

Smh went to highschool with one of these guys in Brampton. He’s not even a street dude just a kid who’s parents moved from Dixon and associates with the wrong crowd.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

@Lord Scarf
This city is fukking amazing. Got to my Airbnb at Ice Condos, some shady shyt went down where our place was locked. The guys next door let us stay at their jawn until we got it figured out, something is telling me we’re getting catfished and they’re the real hosts but fukk it. nikkas rolled up, gave us bud, told us some places to hit...but the scenery my fukking god. The CN tower is right outside. We rode bikes around 2-3am to the 7/11 (btw backwoods for $15 is a fukking scam and a half), some shyt I would never do in Philly lmao.

What a great place so far.

Toronto is a great place outside of the nuckleheads. Biking in the am is one of my fav activities, less traffic and scenic as fukk... Nights in the city centre are beautiful.

And people can be helpful and hospitable... I don't think you were being catfished. Have fun. A lot of my nikkaz over here take this city for granted.

I know nikkaz that live in the burbs and go on vacation to Vegas and Miami but they never really seen this city smh.

You are right about backwoods prices. I don't do it. People out here who strictly only smoke backs are getting their pockets raped.

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

fake yard nikka w/ another L

 

[Luken]

Feds about to be heavy on the streets. Remember, all you nikkas had to do was shoot each other less and this wouldnt be happening

 

[Luken]

@Lord Scarf
This city is fukking amazing. Got to my Airbnb at Ice Condos, some shady shyt went down where our place was locked. The guys next door let us stay at their jawn until we got it figured out, something is telling me we’re getting catfished and they’re the real hosts but fukk it. nikkas rolled up, gave us bud, told us some places to hit...but the scenery my fukking god. The CN tower is right outside. We rode bikes around 2-3am to the 7/11 (btw backwoods for $15 is a fukking scam and a half), some shyt I would never do in Philly lmao.

What a great place so far.

THOSE buildings.


it might as well just be hotels at this rate, i feel sorry for anyone actually living in their unit there.

 

[Luken]

fake yard nikka w/ another L

more shootings on the way because of this

Be an unsigned rapper older than 30 in Toronto when you could be attending UofT and getting ahead in life instead brehs