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fri sept 7, 2012
Identity of torso not yet known
ACTION ON THE DIAMOND
Remains found off Bluffers Park ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com
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TAG OUT: Toronto Varsity Blues first baseman Brent Page tags out McMaster University’s’ Andrew Cochran in Ontario University Athletics baseball action Wednesday at Dan Lang-UTSC baseball field in the Highland Creek valley. McMaster came back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Blues 4-2.The Blues next home game is Sunday, Sept. 16 at noon against Western University.
Haircuts help to unite community MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com With school starting up, a hair cut and an encouraging talk at the barbershop would be welcomed by many boys. That ritual will be done a little differently in Malvern this Sunday. The haircuts, for boys six to 17, are free. The talk will be about some
serious political and social issues. From noon to 4 p.m., TAIBU Community Health Centre is hosting CUT, or Community Uniting Together, “a workshop to discuss our community’s response to recent gun violence.” While TAIBU executive director Liben Gebremikael said the workshop is not a direct response to any event, professionals barbers who will
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cut the hair are from Cut Creator, a barbershop across a parking lot from TAIBU at Malvern Town Centre where Chris Thompson, 35, was shot while at work on Jan. 24. MURDER CHARGES Two Scarborough brothers were charged the following month with first-degree murder. @SCMirror
Jason Bogle, a lawyer who knew Thompson, said staff at Cut Creator wanted to stage a communitybuilding event “just to show the neighbourhood of Scarborough and Malvern is one of a very strong community.” One of several expected to speak Sunday, Bogle said he thought the discussion will cover how the com >>>EVENT, page 2
Police believe it will take at least a couple of more days to identify the torso that was found in a suitcase in Lake Ontario near Bluffers Park Wednesday. A postmortem examination began at 1 p.m. yesterday. Police were called to Bluffers Park at the foot of Brimley Road at 11:21 a.m. Wednesday after a man and a woman on jet skis found the suitcase about two-and-a-half kilometres from shore. The boaters towed the suitcase to shore where the coroner determined it contained a badly decomposed human torso. Michelle Mears of Bluffers Park Marina said the two boaters used the public boat launches at the park and aren’t marina members. Toronto Police spokesperson Const. Wendy Drummond said investigators are awaiting autopsy results. She said police won’t know for a couple of days whether the torso is related to an existing ongoing investigation. Scarborough resident Guang Hua Liu, a 41-year-old single mother of three, was last seen by friends Aug. 10. Her foot, head and hands were found near Hewick Meadows Park in Mississauga; more of her remains were discovered along a section of Highland Creek in Scarborough. A former boyfriend was arrested in Liu’s murder. Police had said some of Liu’s remains had not been found. Drummond wouldn’t speculate on the identity of the torso.
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