Yonge Street
If you live in or around Toronto you will remember what happened a year ago on Canada's longest road. The memory for many is more like a nightmare and for others a moment in time that Torontonians hope never happens again. An individual drove a van down the city's busiest street and killed 10 innocent people and injured 16 others. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of this tragedy but the truth is that many will live with the memories for the rest of their lives. As a Chaplain for the Toronto Police Service I attended the ceremony marking the tragic events of April 23, 2018. Back on that day it was actually the first nice day of the spring in Toronto so many people were out walking along the wide sidewalks of Yonge Street around 1:30 in the afternoon. Some were taking late lunches and others simply enjoying the first sign of warmer temperatures. They weren't expecting that anyone would be so full of evil that they would change everything in just over 5 minutes. The ...