http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/09/16/6782101-sun.html

TORONTO — A 17-year-old is in critical condition after a shooting inside a Scarborough school just before the noon hour.

The male victim was shot in the chest in a hallway at Bendale Business and Technical Institute - in the Midland Rd. and Lawrence Ave. area - around 11:44 a.m.

"When we got the call, it was for an unknown trouble, and when officers arrived there, they located a victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound," Toronto police Const. Wendy Drummond told CP24. The victim was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital.

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair says a gun was fired during an "altercation" between several young men near the parking lot of Bendale Business and Technical Institute.


Police are seeking a suspect described as 18 to 19 years old, five-foot-10, with dark skin, and wearing a cloth hat.

Reports suggest a man was seen at the school with a long-barrelled rifle or shotgun.

The shooting comes the same week that Toronto enacted a program that puts police officers into certain city schools. Police said there was not an officer on duty inside Bendale on Tuesday.

The program followed the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Manners in a Toronto high school in 2007.

After I read the odd Canadian practice of substituting 'noon' with 'the noon hour' I zoned out and stopped reading.

Is this about muppets?

I've said this before, but seriously, Canada, stop cramping our style.

cramping shmarming