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There are still more questions than answers when it comes to the investigation into a suspected arson at a North York hotel two weeks ago.

But one thing Toronto police want to make clear about the investigation into the Oct. 2 fire on the third floor at the Radisson Hotel Toronto East at Victoria Park Ave. and Hwy. 401 is there is no evidence it was an attack on refugees staying there — a notion some have irresponsibly been floating and reporting.

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“I spoke with the detective earlier today and there is no indication at this time that the arson is an attack on the immigrants staying at the hotel,” a Toronto police spokesman wrote in an email.

This was sent after another police source told me the investigation into the fire that started at 10:34 p.m. does not involve the “hotel” or “hotel guests” being targeted.

It seemed like an important fact.

Yet every media report I have watched or read has ignored this and instead pushed the narrative the fire was fuelled by anti-refugee sentiment.