Juno News - October 26, 2022The sad reality of what’s taking place on Toronto’s streets
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with a man who was nearly killed by a dog walker, and tells the story of how he managed to survive the attack, and how he was almost left for dead.
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Behind me is the Bond Hotel, one of three hotels owned by the Silver Hotel Group,
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which was used as a homeless shelter over the past two years during the pandemic.
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It has since been sold to the City of Toronto for an undisclosed, ungodly, no doubt, sum,
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Meanwhile, until that happens, the drug dealers continue to apply their trade outside the hotel,
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and the mayhem at this corner is unbelievable, particularly at night.
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This hotel shelter is within walking distance of the condo where Rick Craddock and his lovely wife reside.
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Rick was brutally beaten and nearly left for dead back in May.
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Jane and I have a friend of ours that's in the restaurant business.
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Jane came home that night and she says, oh, Tony's at this restaurant, we've got to go see him.
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So I said, okay, let me just take the dog for a quick walk.
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I came down and I got to the corner of the building and one of my neighbors came running down to ask me a question.
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And while we were standing talking, we could hear all this yelling and screaming going on down, you know, to the north of us.
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And when I got to the kids' playground, what was happening is the building next door to us was a co-op and they had balconies.
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And the people were on their balconies yelling at these two fellows because their dog was in the kids' playground.
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And, you know, it's like doing all its business.
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And there's signs all over the place, no dogs allowed, and it's City of Toronto.
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And as I was walking by, I stopped and I said to the fellows, you know, they're right.
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You know, this is really not the place to have it.
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And he's yelling and screaming at me that, well, it's a service dog.
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And as I started walking away, out of the corner of my eye, I caught him coming off because he was on top of where the slide is.
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And I got to where the first gate is, and I just kind of held it shut with my hand so he couldn't open it.
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So what he did was he climbed up on top of the fence, which has got to be a five-foot-high fence.
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And, you know, I backed up away from him, and he just, it was like a wrestling match, you know, where the guy comes off the top rail.
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So while I was on the ground, stomped on my hand, broke my hand, and then this friend of his was holding him back.
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And he kept saying to me, you need to get the hell out and get out of here.
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Well, there were a lot of things that had happened I wasn't aware of, but I couldn't get up, and I couldn't stand up, you know.
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And with that, he came back at me again, and he pushed me backwards.
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And there's a couple of garbage cans, and they're chained to a steel post.
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I hit my head on the post and knocked myself out.
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And then I came to, and I thought, I'm going to call 911, and then I'll give my wife a call.
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But what it was, why it was so busy, is they received 30 calls in about 10 minutes about my meeting.
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And there happened to be two plainclothes police officers were just over at Young Church in Dundas.
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There was, all Mutual Street here was completely shut down.
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There were like two or three fire trucks, ambulance.
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She ran up, dropped the dog off, and then met me at the emergency.
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So while I'm in there, of course, they did an MRI.
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Now, the thing was, while I was there, I had no feeling in my legs.
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So the doctor then came back out with the results of the MRIs and everything.
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And he just walked in and he said to Jane, and he goes, well, you broke your back.
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No, I think that was when he came down off the top of the fence, because he came right
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And then I fell backwards with him on top of me.
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And that's, I think that may be when it was, because when I tried to get up, I couldn't get up.
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It doesn't at all, because I know, you know, the guy has been arrested by the police.
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The cop did tell us when he did come up to the emergency.
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He did say that he's known to them, but he's never been violent before them.
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But they do wellness checks, and he's one of the, on their list, right?
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This, folks, is John Tory's Toronto, a city that has declined considerably under his watch
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It's like a personal attack on the city of Toronto, okay?
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And I, you know, I've traveled all around, and I always bragged about living in Toronto.
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Now, I wouldn't dare tell anybody I'm from here.
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And I'm putting this in an eight-year, you know?
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But, you know, he did two four-year terms, eight years, and that's when things really started to go sour.
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Rick is one of the innocent victims of this cesspool.