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Stunning news omission
Almost all major radio and TV stations missed one of the biggest news stories in Toronto over this Canada Day weekend.
A Saturday night shooting rampage on Saturday night on the edge of Kensington Market -- one of the city's biggest shopping and tourist areas.
I live in the neighborhood and was stunned to run into a massive police presence on College Street at Augusta just west of Spadina.
It included the ETF (emergency task force, or SWAT team.
Up to ten Toronto cop vehicles, several ambulances and a bunch of TTC supervisor vehicles.
I made several phone calls to radio and TV stations and newspapers.
Not a peep.about it.
Finally this morning (Monday) I saw a CTV story about it.
Four people were shot and wounded Saturday night and no suspects were found -- meaning armed shooters are still on the loose.
Even more annoying about the lack of coverage.
CTV and hence CP 24 got the time of the shooting wrong saying it was Sunday night, not Saturday.
I listened randomly today to 1010 640 and 680 and so far have heard nothing about this event.
How can a major shooting rampage in the core of Toronto wounding four people apparently go unnoticed.?
It closed down College street for most of Sunday into early Monday morning.
sheesh!
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Who is claiming "the news watch never stops"?
Anybody?
This is news, and it wasn't watched...at least not properly.
RadioWiz & RadioQuiz are NOT the same person.
RadioWiz & THE Wiz are NOT the same person.
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This is what happens when it's a holiday weekend at newsrooms where there have been endless cutbacks.
Did CityNews 680 have it?
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I actually called them and the guy who answered said that was the first they had heard of it.
I heard nothing about it when I listened to them today.
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- ok so here's more info from CTV
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=1.125remTORONTO - Toronto police have identified two men from York Region who were fatally gunned down in the city’s Kensington Market area yesterday.Shots rang out in the area of Spadina Avenue and Nassau Street, bordering Kensington Market and Chinatown, shortly before 6 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 8.Police said Monday that four men were socializing when two other men approached the group and began firing at them.
=1.125remEmergency crews arrived at the scene to find four men with gunshot wounds. Two of them were pronounced dead at the scene.The victims who died were identified Monday as 27-year-old Anthony Dang of Markham and 32-year-old Zhi Tan of Richmond Hill.A 43-year-old man from Burnaby, B.C. remains in serious, but stable condition at a local trauma centre, while a 31-year-old man from Markham has been treated and released from hospital.“We don't know right now if this is a targeted investigation or not. It's very early – in its infancy – in this investigation,” Const. Laura Brabant told reporters Monday. “So right now we're looking to speak to any witnesses, anyone who knew the deceased or were in the area at the time that can shed light on what transpired.”Surveillance footage obtained by CTV News Toronto Monday shows two men and a woman fleeing the area around the time of the shooting. The man then goes back and is seen helping another man who appears to be bleeding, with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.No suspects have been identified so far.
As you can see CTV has updated to say two dead and shootings happened Sunday morning.
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