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Toronto’s 81st homicide victim of 2018 is just 15 years old.

He was shot to death at about 4:20 p.m. at 230 Sackville Street in the heart of Regent Park.

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It’s another kid murdered in Toronto in 2018. Toronto Police identified him as Mackai Bishop Jackson.

Repugnant and unacceptable. But predictable and routine.

Yet public safety, in a year where we have had about 20 innocent people murdered for going for ice cream, walking to work, sitting in a car, or going bowling, is not a campaign issue.

In the first two debates, Mayor John Tory and main challenger Jennifer Keesmaat have talked about arts funding, transit, traffic and housing.

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This while Toronto is just shy of 1991’s record of 89 homicides — all while there’s still more than three months left in 2018.

This year, our youngest victim of murder was Julianna Kozis, 10. Our oldest was Betty Forsyth, 94.

Don’t forget the playground shooting that saw two girls, five and nine, wounded.