Crime rates in Canada
May 12th 2009, 11:49 pm
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http://www.vancouversun.com/news/2009shootings.html
vancouver looks like some american city with high crime rates
vancouver looks like some american city with high crime rates
But Vancouver is utopia isn't it ?? Anyway, this caught my eye today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...er/8045229.stm
Note the sentence that states: 'The killing of Giuseppe, who lived in Ardwick with his mother, is the first fatal shooting in Greater Manchester for more than a year.' Look at the shootings in Vancouver during the first 1/3rd of this year !!
May 13th 2009, 11:35 am
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Barrie's not frightening to me but it is scuzzy, a bit of a dump with a markedly redneck population. It's not nice to be in a place where many people have facial tattoos and most are wearing their hats backwards. It's the muscle car and strip club culture of a Wasaga summer but all the year around. I can see people being scared there.
Somewhere in the deep recesses of my photo collection I have a photo of me, wearing a baseball cap (Cat Diesel Power), ripped jeans, Kodiaks and a doeskin, coming out of the Anne Street Beer Store, with a case of Canadian and the sun setting off in the distance. Needless to say, I had lost a wager and had to perform this task....drinking the swill was one of the hardest parts of it all.
Bayfield Street, north of the 400 on a summers night is a pretty depressing sight.
May 13th 2009, 11:53 am
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I was there on Friday. Costco in Barrie on a weekday is a special place, at once Essex and Hazzard County, so many failed attempts at facial hair, so many stocky dogs on choke chains, so many maps of Newfoundland on trucks and jackets. Barrie is where the poor whites moved when Scarborough went black.
May 13th 2009, 12:43 pm
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I am aware it is KILOMETERS long, but there are areas that are seady. My brother used to live off of that street and had 2 guys that just shot someone end up at the house next door to him. A friend not living to far close by had a few murders in their apartment building. In general the street is fine, im more so referring to streets near by like Military Trail.
May 13th 2009, 12:53 pm
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But Yes there are hundreds of drug addicts there all day and night (there lines up in droves by the curch if you want to have a look). Yes there are gangs. Yes there are prostitutes (during daylight hours ive seen). And yes there have been numerous people shot and killed in the area, but doesnt happen daily and looks like it happening less frequently.
Regardless not a 'happy go lucky' neighbourhood.
May 13th 2009, 1:24 pm
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But Vancouver is utopia isn't it ?? Anyway, this caught my eye today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...er/8045229.stm
Note the sentence that states: 'The killing of Giuseppe, who lived in Ardwick with his mother, is the first fatal shooting in Greater Manchester for more than a year.' Look at the shootings in Vancouver during the first 1/3rd of this year !!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...er/8045229.stm
Note the sentence that states: 'The killing of Giuseppe, who lived in Ardwick with his mother, is the first fatal shooting in Greater Manchester for more than a year.' Look at the shootings in Vancouver during the first 1/3rd of this year !!
May 13th 2009, 7:52 pm
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There's no church in the immediate vicinity. Are you perhaps thinking of the one up at the Four Corners on the one over on, appropriately, Church St.?
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May 13th 2009, 7:58 pm
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Cliffside Village is one spot I suppose was once rough but I'd say that's gentrified now. There are lots of rough areas in Toronto but you're not picking them, I take it you don't live in the city.
May 14th 2009, 12:32 pm
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I walked, bicycled or took the tram past it daily for ten years or so before the latest construction started. My office and the high school my children attended are in the neighbourhood. I don't say the people are prosperous but it's not rough in the way that I find Barrie to be. You've no need to be in fear because you don't belong around Regents Park. In fact, it's only if you want to visit the women's clinic that you need to be in fear, them religionists are pretty intimidating.
Well if you mean in the "we live in a trailer park and have sex with my sister" is really scary to you. Than sure Barrie is quiet dangerous.
There's no church in the immediate vicinity. Are you perhaps thinking of the one up at the Four Corners on the one over on, appropriately, Church St.?
Well if you mean in the "we live in a trailer park and have sex with my sister" is really scary to you. Than sure Barrie is quiet dangerous.
There's no church in the immediate vicinity. Are you perhaps thinking of the one up at the Four Corners on the one over on, appropriately, Church St.?
May 14th 2009, 12:36 pm
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Miles, or heptathlets if you prefer, off Kingston Road. I'll give you that the rent-geared-to-income buildings at Kingston Road and Lawrence aren't very smart but we're not talking Barrie style strip joints for squaddies, just poverty.
Cliffside Village is one spot I suppose was once rough but I'd say that's gentrified now. There are lots of rough areas in Toronto but you're not picking them, I take it you don't live in the city.
Cliffside Village is one spot I suppose was once rough but I'd say that's gentrified now. There are lots of rough areas in Toronto but you're not picking them, I take it you don't live in the city.
I take it you hang out in Barrie a lot huh?
May 14th 2009, 12:49 pm
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There is a church where they feed the homeless a bit west of there, on the corner of Dundas and Parliament, I`d guess their clientelle is not from Regents Park but from the hostels stretching down to Moss Park (a genuinely rough area) or from St. Jamestown. It's all spectacularly scuzzy, I'm often solicited going to or coming from Filmore's, however, poverty filth and drugs are not violence and it's rare to hear of a death from other than poverty and weather.
May 14th 2009, 12:54 pm
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I've been to Barrie, though more frequently to the apartments of my former sisters-in-law at Markham Road and Lawrence and on Pharmacy. I get the cars serviced at various locations on Kingston Rd (not at Cedarbrae anymore, obviously). I agree that Etobiocoke and the adjoining parts of North York are violent places, just not Regents Park and certainly not Kingston Rd. I still chuckle at having had to go to Rexdale to get my gun licence.
May 14th 2009, 2:02 pm
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I've been to Barrie, though more frequently to the apartments of my former sisters-in-law at Markham Road and Lawrence and on Pharmacy. I get the cars serviced at various locations on Kingston Rd (not at Cedarbrae anymore, obviously). I agree that Etobiocoke and the adjoining parts of North York are violent places, just not Regents Park and certainly not Kingston Rd. I still chuckle at having had to go to Rexdale to get my gun licence.
By the way my i replied to this comment without scrolling up and realizing you addressed the Moss Park area.
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May 14th 2009, 2:15 pm
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I agree in part that Regent Park is not an extremely bad area. But more so in the past there have been numerous murders around Moss Park, which is more or less a part of that area no? Is it strange getting a gun licence in an area where gun violence is considered a problem.
By the way my i replied to this comment without scrolling up and realizing you addressed the Moss Park area.
By the way my i replied to this comment without scrolling up and realizing you addressed the Moss Park area.