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Bike lanes keep kids safe
We like to bike to school, summer camp and other places with our parents.
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We → keep → parents
We bike on Danforth Avenue and Bloor Street.
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We → bike → Avenue
We don’t want the city to take down the bike lanes because people like biking down the bike lanes and parents don’t think it’s safe to bike their kids to school on the street where the cars are.
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cars → want → street
So we would rather have the bike lanes so we can feel safe.
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we → have → lanes
The city should keep the bike lanes the way they are.
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they → keep → lanes
Kids of Riverdale and Riverside
Violet Juntunen, age 8, Sam Leung, 5, Axel and Harvie Tong, ages 8 and 5, Coco and Lilou Ouellet, ages 8 and 6, Toronto
Saxe should run in a less progressive ward
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As a resident of Toronto-Danforth, I resent the comment by a reader in Stouffville that we need a candidate from another ward to jump in and save us a progressive seat on council.
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candidate → resent → council
We do progressive quite well here, thank you.
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Building the “strong neighbourhoods, vibrant main streets, diversity and deep sense of community” that Diane Saxe claims to admire has taken years of hard work in which she has had no part.
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Perhaps she should have run in another ward that doesn’t already produce and elect its own progressives — that would have been much more useful.
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that → run → progressives
Gabriela Byron, Toronto
Deciphering Doug Ford’s bawdy talk
To Mississauga letter writer, Myra P. Jones, and others taking umbrage at Premier Doug Ford’s attempt to strike up a relationship between his ample derriere and Donald J. Trump, I have three pieces of advice; 1) Please understand that this was nothing more than, “locker room talk”; 2) Further, this was just, “Ford being Ford,” and finally 3) Take Ford seriously — but not literally.
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Ford → decipher → Ford
Bill Schiller, Toronto
When trade talks resume, revisit Gordie Howe bridge deal
Gordie Howe bridge opens to cars after months of cross-border controversy, July 27
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Now that Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to have found his footing by walking away from the table ending trade talks with the U.S. I would like to make a suggestion.
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When U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to resume talks, I suggest that our prime minister bargain for a return to what seems like a terrible agreement regarding the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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what → resume → Bridge
My daughter spent Canada Day in a police station instead of celebrating summer
Six weeks ago, a day meant for celebrating family turned into a parent’s worst nightmare.
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day → spend → nightmare
We had driven to Owen Sound to take my wife’s 90-year-old great-grandmother out for a picnic lunch.
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We → drive → lunch
Shortly after arriving at the park, my 13-year-old daughter walked to the public washrooms 100 yards away.
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daughter → arrive → washrooms
Moments later, I watched a man emerge from behind the building’s dumpsters and head toward the trails.
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man → watch → trails
A gut instinct told me something was wrong.
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something → tell → me
As I sped up, bystanders ran out of the building screaming.
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bystanders → speed → building
Then, my daughter ran out, her face red and tear-stained.
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face → run → ?
A local restaurant owner, another father, and I pursued the man into the woods and detained him.
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owner → pursue → him
His only words to us were, “It’s her word against mine.”
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And my heart sank.
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heart → sink → ?
When the police arrived, the illusion of safety shattered completely.
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illusion → arrive → safety
The officers knew the perpetrator by name.
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officers → know → name
I watched the police exhaustedly explain that this happens everyday and they don’t make the rules, it’s up to the courts.
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it → watch → courts
They told us they did not know how long they could legally hold him and warned us he would likely be back on the streets shortly.
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he → tell → streets
Instead of celebrating summer, my daughter spent Canada Day inside a police station giving a video statement.
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daughter → celebrate → statement
Only three months earlier, we were picking out her graduation dress.
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On this day, she was forced to recount how a grown man trapped her in a washroom stall, covered her mouth, and told her not to scream.
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man → force → her
She escaped only because she had the presence of mind to go limp, drop to the floor, and kick the stall door open while screaming for help.
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she → escape → help
In that terrifying moment, her childhood innocence was stolen.
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innocence → steal → moment
Because human trafficking awareness is so prevalent, her immediate assumption was that she was being stolen to be sold, completely oblivious to how much this man would have destroyed her body.
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man → steal → body
Since the attack, my wife has been relentless in contacting mayors, MPPs, and MPs.
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wife → contact → mayors
While many have reached out personally to express genuine sympathy, their conclusions are always the same: “It is the system we live with.
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we → reach → sympathy
As a father, I cannot accept that answer.
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When I close my eyes, all I hear is my daughter running out of that building screaming for her “Dada.”
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daughter → close → Dada
She is recovering well, scoring her first goal in soccer and surrounded by loved ones, but the underlying trauma remains.
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trauma → recover → ones
The system has failed our communities, it has frustrated our police forces, and it is failing our children.
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it → fail → children
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