Goldie Ghamari - July 23, 2018


In memory of the Danforth Shooting victims

Hosted by
Goldie Ghamari
Mentioned
Speaker Danforth Dimitri
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

173.69

Word count

320

Sentence count

10


Summary

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The Danforth is one of Toronto's most vibrant and diverse communities, and it happens to be North America's largest Greek neighbourhood. The families and people dining at Christina's and Dimitri's last night and the pedestrians walking along Logan Avenue were doing what any of us would have been doing last night, and that's why it hits so close to home. Epictetus, a famous Greek philosopher, once said, "It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." And so, Mr. Speaker, I wish to react to this senseless act of violence by taking some time to celebrate this beautiful and vibrant community that holds a special place in all of our hearts.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 It is with a heavy heart that I rise today in the House.
00:00:09.080 Like many, I am shocked and saddened by the tragic, horrific and senseless shooting on
00:00:13.520 the Danforth last night.
00:00:15.160 The Danforth is one of Toronto's most vibrant and diverse communities, and it happens to
00:00:20.220 be North America's largest Greek neighbourhood.
00:00:23.320 The families and people dining at Christina's and Dimitri's last night and the pedestrians
00:00:27.780 walking along Logan Avenue were doing what any of us would have been doing last night,
00:00:32.280 and that's why it hits so close to home. Epictetus, a famous Greek philosopher, once said,
00:00:38.420 it is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. And so, Mr. Speaker,
00:00:43.880 in the face of last night's horrific action, I wish to react to this senseless act of violence
00:00:50.760 by taking some time to celebrate this beautiful and vibrant community that holds a special place
00:00:56.700 in all of our hearts i'd like to take a few moments to share a few quick memories my best
00:01:02.860 friend marie constantine who now lives in greece first introduced me to the danforth years ago as
00:01:08.300 a university student she worked at athens pastries and they have the best spanak spanakopita and
00:01:14.060 lucumatis in the area with her i learned to eat sushi on katsu sushi which is located on danforth
00:01:20.220 near logan and she introduced me to messini's which has the best euros and just a few weeks
00:01:25.340 ago I celebrated with my family at Mussini's. Mr. Speaker I also want to take the time to thank
00:01:31.580 the men and women of Toronto's paramedic services and Toronto firefighters, the nurses, the doctors
00:01:37.420 and our Toronto police force for everything that they've done and I wish to remind everyone that
00:01:42.380 in the face of tragedy we should always respond with love and we should respond by celebrating
00:01:48.140 the diversity of our community.
00:01:49.740 Thank you very much.