http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-stabbing-military-recruitment-centre-1.3491719

http://www.kvia.com/news/urgent-toronto-knife-attack-terrorism-uncertain/38523052

Even in Toronto... Any local news insight on that RickyP?

I would suggest that the emphasis in the second news report was different than the first..which said this.

When asked if it was a terror attack, the police chief said, "We're certainly looking into it," but cautioned against jumping to any conclusions.
He noted it is too early to say if the accused was radicalized and urged the public against any anti-Islam sentiment in the wake of the attack.
"I don't want this categorizing a large group of people; that will be very unfair and very inaccurate," he said, adding he doesn't want to see any of this "Islamophobia nonsense."

Mental illness strikes Canadians too Bbauska.. Which is what this is probably. In Toronto the big issue is that in a number of encounters with mentally ill people armed with knives have ended in police shooting suspects. Video from a couple have contradicted police. One officer was convicted of attempted murder in the case. Soldiers over powering this suspect demonstrates that guns aren't necessary all the time, I guess.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/ ... yatim.html

And we have had issues of radicalized people who wanted to act on their strange perceptions. The lone wolf in Ottawa, a couple who wanted to bomb train tracks and some 18 who had a huge plot in mind but few resources and no ability. They are all in jail. Or in the case of the Parliament Hill shooter, very dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Onta ... orism_plot

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/v ... -1.3240050

It hasn't changed the nature of how most Canadians view Islam, or refugees...
See Justin Trudeau this past Christmas..

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin- ... -1.3378111

You sound defensive. I was asking for a local insight. No castigation toward Canadians at all.

Anything from Toronto news?

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/16/alleged-forces-attacker-once-worked-at-pearson

At least that is a start from the Toronto Sun. Be safe everyone...

Bbauska you are funny.
The poor man is mentally ill. He worked at the airport in 2008, for 3 months, and at the time would have passed security checks because at the time, he was healthy happy individual with a good family life. He began to show signs of mental illness in 2011 while attending university in Calgary.

Mental illness appears to run in the family,

Born in 1988 in Montreal to Somali immigrant parents, Ali is the only boy in a family of four, Adam said, which includes an older sister who went to Oxford University and now works as an optometrist in London

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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03 ... n-ali.html

It is pretty typical for people suffering psychotic breaks to attack people under direction from God. (Either because He does indeed work in mysterious ways, or perhaps because they are deluded.) Every 3 or 4 weeks we see reports of an incident similar to this in the GTA. There are over 6 million people in the Greater Toronto Area, and once in a while one goes off the rails.
No ones getting all freaky about Muslims or pooping their pants in fear. Even readers of the Toronto Sun. (Mostly parking lot attendants and security guards, as it is a right wing rag with a good sports section and a daily pinup girl poster) .

Why am I funny? I asked for some background. I found out after looking myself that he had mental issues.

I asked for local information because I though you would have some.

Show me where I asked or implied anything but a request for local info?

Why is it, Ricky, that you have to turn everything into a Canada v. USA thing? Just askin'.

Though I have to admit, from what Canadians have told me, urban Toronto is a bit safer than being on a hockey team in Canada.

hacker

Why is it, Ricky, that you have to turn everything into a Canada v. USA thing? Just askin

Bbauska raised the issue in his passive aggressive way..

hacker

Though I have to admit, from what Canadians have told me, urban Toronto is a bit safer than being on a hockey team in Canada

we do not have a "professional" hockey team in Toronto.

So that is how it is, eh? Anything that could dare question the leftist ideology is passive aggressive?

Methinks thou protest too much, as you are being very defensive.

we do not have a "professional" hockey team in Toronto.

I'm aware of that. I said a hockey team "in Canada"..."Toronto" referred to the safety of its streets. Which I can't speak for.

(A nice Canadian dude my age who's actually a sports producer told me you do not have a pro hockey team in Toronto...I think the closest would be the Ottawa Senators?)

rickyp wrote:hacker

Why is it, Ricky, that you have to turn everything into a Canada v. USA thing? Just askin

Bbauska raised the issue in his passive aggressive way..

hacker

Though I have to admit, from what Canadians have told me, urban Toronto is a bit safer than being on a hockey team in Canada

we do not have a "professional" hockey team in Toronto.

Help me understand, RickyP. Are the Toronto Maple Leafs not professional or not in Toronto? They play at the Air Canada Centre, right? That is in Toronto, right? What am I missing?

bbauska

Are the Toronto Maple Leafs not professional or not in Toronto?

Its a joke, focusing on the word "professional".

The Maple Leafs have been largely crap for 30+ years despite having revenue more than 90% of its NHL competitors and possessing a very large and an incredibly, loyal and forgiving fan base...

rickyp wrote:bbauska

Are the Toronto Maple Leafs not professional or not in Toronto?

Its a joke, focusing on the word "professional".

The Maple Leafs have been largely crap for 30+ years despite having revenue more than 90% of its NHL competitors and possessing a very large and an incredibly, loyal and forgiving fan base...

Thank you for the explanation. It is something a local would know.