Readers comment on how governments beholden to vested interests threaten the fabric of society when the budget pie favours the powerful over the needy.
Toronto police are asking for help identifying a person who they say shot a 76-year-old woman several times in the face with a pellet gun during a "random" attack in Scarborough.
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