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Instead of social funding we fund cults.
As cerebral activity of the average citizen is in decline, they wonder why...
Two minutes before midnight on a school night last month, four people jumped out of an SUV and shot a man dead outside a high-rise apartment in Toronto's North York neighbourhood.
Police have since charged a suspect with first-degree murder. He's 14 years old — middle-school-aged, not yet old enough to have his own driver's licence and the second boy his age in Toronto to face such a charge in less than two weeks.
"We are in a crisis," said Solange Scott, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) professional student services personnel. "It is abnormal for a 14-year-old to be charged with first-degree murder."
Social workers, educators, psychologists and community support workers say a constellation of factors contribute to youth violence in the Greater Toronto Area, ranging from pandemic fallout to the proliferation of social media. They did, however, agree that the solution is far more straightforward: they say long-term funding commitments for support programs, coupled with the space and time to focus on root causes and violence prevention, are critical to achieving change and saving lives.
As cerebral activity of the average citizen is in decline, they wonder why...
Two minutes before midnight on a school night last month, four people jumped out of an SUV and shot a man dead outside a high-rise apartment in Toronto's North York neighbourhood.
Police have since charged a suspect with first-degree murder. He's 14 years old — middle-school-aged, not yet old enough to have his own driver's licence and the second boy his age in Toronto to face such a charge in less than two weeks.
"We are in a crisis," said Solange Scott, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) professional student services personnel. "It is abnormal for a 14-year-old to be charged with first-degree murder."
Social workers, educators, psychologists and community support workers say a constellation of factors contribute to youth violence in the Greater Toronto Area, ranging from pandemic fallout to the proliferation of social media. They did, however, agree that the solution is far more straightforward: they say long-term funding commitments for support programs, coupled with the space and time to focus on root causes and violence prevention, are critical to achieving change and saving lives.
