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Today people walked down Yonge St. again, mobs of shoppers looking for bargains. A small pile of flowers and candles, the sort of thing we see too often, was all that marked the violence of Monday evening. That and the occasional blood stain. Another landscape draped in the shadow of a memory of death, barely visible and scarcely noticed. It's a bit surreal. Of course the city can't stop in its tracks...4.6 million people have lives to live. And when you compare Toronto to cities of similar size - Houston or Chicago - the homicide statistics are astoundingly low. That's almost worse, really...that 78 people have been killed by guns and it's considered pretty darn good for a city this size. And on life goes, through a landscape in which people still live, despite death. |
