Toronto Fire responds slower to low-income areas, data shows + investigation finds hate incidents growing on campuses

A Star analysis has found that Toronto Fire Services is slower to respond to emergency calls in areas of the city designated as struggling with inequity. These marginalized communities generally have higher proportions of newcomers, as well as low-income and racialized people, Ben Spurr reports.The data shows the fire department met its response time target in about 70 per cent of incidents in the city’s disadvantaged communities, and 80 per cent of incidents in other communities.

That figure indicates the scope of the problem is even greater than was previously known, as Statistics Canada only counted 236 such incidents. What’s more is that the incidents are largely going unpunished, Robert Cribb and Charles Buckley report.The investigation found that at large universities and colleges, which had more than 100 hate-motivated incidents, only six cases resulted in discipline against perpetrators.

Gee I wonder why?

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