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How to Help Black Youth? Expect More of Them

Tianna Dowie-Chin | Posted 09.24.2012 | Canada
Tianna Dowie-Chin

Due to the recent surge in gun violence in Toronto there have been numerous discussions about how best to address this problem. I firmly believe that low and negative expectations are at the heart of what leads many black youth down paths that are lined with little more than underachievement, impoverishment and predatory violence.

Don't Blame the Shootings on Guns

Ike Awgu | Posted 09.21.2012 | Canada Politics
Ike Awgu

There must be reasonable accommodation made between the robust ability of citizens to maintain arms and screening mechanisms to limit the purchase of weapons by criminals and the unfit. The overriding problem in Toronto and Aurora, Colorado this past week were madmen with guns, not guns in the hands of men.