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LORINC: Brad Bradford continues his ‘city-is-on-fire’ routine

Voters should beware of mayoral candidate's inflammatory rhetoric about urban violence

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I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa Square — according to him, a forlorn concrete trapezoid populated by addicts and the homeless, in which anxious parents hustle frightened children lest they witness acts of public depravity. Ah, the good old days. Now, we’ve got an honest-to-goodness shooting calamity with which to bait Torontonians who, according to the mayoral aspirant and... Read more

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