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Volume 50 No. 21
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Agnes Macphail Award nominations being sought
Winter fun in Fairmount Park
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Skaters and tobogganers were out in big numbers at Fairmount Park over the weekend enjoying the winter weather brought on by last week’s snowstorm.
Fundraiser set up for family of East York fatal shooting victim Jordon Carter, 15 Police have charged 13-year-old boy with second-degree murder
By Jesse Gault
A GO Fund Me page has been set up for the family of a 15-year-old East York boy who was shot and killed last week. Jordon Carter, 15, died on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 19, after he was shot in the underground parking garage of a Gamble Avenue apartment building. Police arrested and charged a 13-year-old boy with second-degree murder the next day in connection with Carter’s death. Carter was “a talented 15-yearold young man and loved skateboarding,” said the Go Fund Me page. “He was a beautiful soul who
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was loved by all his friends and anyone who ever met him. We are all devastated by this loss.”
Police were called to the Pape and Gamble area at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 for reports of
a shooting. When officers arrived they found Carter in an underground parking garage with life threatening injuries and he died at the scene, police said. During a press conference at Toronto Police Headquarters on the morning of Friday, Jan. 21, police said two guns as well as ammunition were found in the parking garage where the fatal shooting took place. “Both families in this case are understandably devastated. We are supporting them in the best way that we can,” said Det. Sgt. Rob Choe of the Toronto Police homicide squad at the press conference. Continued on Page 5
NOMINATIONS FOR the 2022 Agnes Macphail Award are now being accepted. The annual award honours an individual or individuals from the East York community who exemplify the causes that Agnes Macphail championed in her long and distinguished career. Deadline to submit nominations is midnight on Friday, Jan. 28. Macphail (1890 – 1954) was the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons (1921) and the first in the Ontario Legislature (1943). During her years in political office, which included representing the East York area provincially, Macphail focussed on issues of equality rights and social justice. Nominees for the Agnes Macphail Award must be residents of the former Borough of East York. They must also be an outstanding volunteer leader in community life in areas including, but not limited to: women’s rights, fairness to seniors, criminal justice and penal reform, international peace and disarmament and to adequate housing, health care and education. Nominations can be sent by mail to the Agnes Macphail Recognition Committee, c/o Strategic Protocol & External Relations, City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, 12th Floor, West Tower, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 or by email to agnesmacphailaward@toronto.ca For more information on how to nominate, or to download a nomination form, please go to https:// w w w. t o r o n t o . c a / w p - c o n t e n t / uploads/2021/11/9034-2022-Nomination-Form-.pdf
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Jordon Carter, 15, loved to skateboard and was a “beautiful soul” loved by all who knew him, said the Go Fund Me page created to help his family.
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