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Gun Violence, Toronto

Liberal politicians want rapper 50 Cent kept out of Canada

By Judi McLeod
Thursday, November 24, 2005

Election-bound Liberal MP Dan McTeague says he's "trying to protect impressionable young men in our communities who are being destroyed in the prime of their lives" by banning bad-boy rapper 50 Cent from coming to town.

a rapper with a rap sheet, 50 Cent must obtain ministerial permission to enter Canada.

McTeague, an urban politician, was described as a "Canadian lawmaker" in a story carried by Breitbart.com and posted on Wednesday's Drudge Report.

"Toronto has witnessed unprecedented violence on its streets and deaths as a result of gang warfare, gang culture," McTeague told associated Press.

Purportedly "badder" than bad Leroy Brown of song fame is 50 Cent, whose last concert in Toronto in 2003 came complete with a fatal shooting outside the theatre where he was performing. Gun violence erupted after 50 Cent's Montreal concert.

The rapper and hip hop artist, who purchased the Farmington, Connecticut mansion, formerly owned by Mike Tyson was charged last May with assaulting three women at a concert after leaping into the crowd.

a Massachusetts judge ordered him to stay clean of drugs and to take anger management or spend time in jail.

But bad as he is, 50 Cent--Curtis Jackson on his birth certificate--had about as much to do with the gang violence that claimed 49 lives in Toronto this year as the United States, which Canadian politicians blame for exporting their gun culture and weapons north.

and if anyone should know that the unprecedented spate of gun violence on Toronto streets is not the fault of 50 Cent or the United States, it should be the grandstanding Liberal MP Dan McTeague, a favourite with members of the Toronto Police association.

McTeague's eve-of-election rhetoric notwithstanding, shoot-ups in a city not so long ago known as "Toronto the Good" continue. Some of the shoot-ups, which have sent bystanders scurrying for cover, are getting bolder.

Toronto residents were stunned last week by the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy outside the funeral of his best friend, who had also been shot to death.

Parents are angry that even though it was known that the best friend of the deceased would be at the funeral, there were no police in attendance.

Liberal, Dan McTeague wants 50 Cent, scheduled to launch a Canadian tour December 3 in Vancouver, with stops in Halifax, Saint John, Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto and Ottawa, should be stopped from entering Canada at the border.

Meanwhile deaths by gunshot of young men in their prime continue in Mayor David Miller's Toronto.

(See arthur Weinreb's column).


Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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