Scarborough General Hospital has the highest rate of deaths in the Toronto area – and the third highest in Canada – according to a watershed report that makes hospital death rates public for the first time.Unfortunately... things are even worse in the west.
How bad, you ask? Seems they won't even say.
The only hospital in the Greater Toronto Area that CIHI did not release figures for was the Humber River Regional Hospital.**********
"For this report we got our preliminary results back and when we saw them we said, `Hold on – we've got some concerns here,'" said Gerrard Power, a hospital spokesperson.
UPDATE: Lucky Number 80
A 16-year-old has died after he was shot at a townhouse complex in the Morningside and Sheppard Aves. area early this morning.But don't blame the shooter... the Toronto Star fingers the real killers.
The boy was shot around 1:40 a.m., Toronto police said. He was taken to hospital where he later died.
It is Toronto's 80th homicide of the year.
Henry, Campbell and several other Malvern youth were featured in EMPz 4 Life, an acclaimed documentary that made its debut at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.**********
The movie is really about how the odds are stacked against the kids, and how "police, the schools and social agencies, seem perversely determined to keep the kids locked within the very patterns which doom them to failure, despair and marginalization," the Star's film critic, Geoff Pevere, wrote in 2006.
UPDATE2: Meanwhile, just down the road
A drug deal that went sour may have sparked the slaying of a Mississauga man near the busy and popular Square One Mall, Peel police say.**********
Husam Dagheim, 27, was shot dead shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday in a parking lot near Rathburn Rd., and Duke of York Blvd.
Police are looking for three black men wearing dark-coloured clothing. One suspect is believed to be between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9, about 125 pounds and in his late teens or early 20s.
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