Accept change
"We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie."
-- C.G. Jung
Life continually evolves. We’re always moving into new experiences, new possibilities. This constant change unsettles the personality, which finds security in stability. But with life always in flux, that security is an illusion. We experience pain by trying to hold on to things that are not solid.
Life becomes joyful when we can open to the constant flow and ride freely with it. This requires us to let go of the need to control. We need to learn to trust.
"Can it then be that what we call the ‘self’ is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath."
-- Wayne Muller
"We’re never the same; notice how you’re called to write something entirely different about a topic you responded to weeks or months ago."
-- Patrice Vecchione
Gemini (May 21 — June 21)
Try not to worry about a difficult situation you are facing. Changes will come that will make it all more acceptable. A seemingly impossible problem will somehow manage to solve itself.
Leo (July 23 — Aug. 22)
Often we think we are coping well, but a deeply buried feeling of insecurity can rise to the surface unexpectedly. Any out-of-character outbursts now simply mean you need rest.
Scorpio (Oct. 24 — Nov. 22)
You have lately been very strong and decisive. By redefining the rules of a certain game, you have shifted the balance of power in your favour, but that power will do you no good unless you exert it. Use your influence wisely.
Pisces (Feb. 20 — March 20)
All you need to meet your needs is on offer – apart from time and effort, which you are going to have to supply yourself. The stars say you have a big advantage, so make the most of it.
Read Phil Booth at boothstars.com or at thestar.com/horoscope.
View interactive maps of homicides in the GTA since 2005.
Staff Reporter
In broad daylight at a quiet Brampton shopping plaza, a man stabbed a woman to death. A Good Samaritan jumped in to help. He paid with his life.
When police officers arrived, they found the attacker stabbing himself in the neck with a knife. Nearby were the bodies of his victims, a pool of blood on the pavement of the parking lot.
One officer fired his Taser, striking the knife-wielding man. The 28-year-old fell to the ground and was quickly taken to hospital where he was in critical condition last night and in police custody.
It was a chaotic scene in Red Maple Plaza in Brampton around 12:35 p.m. yesterday.
Shoppers at the plaza near McLaughlin Rd. and Williams Parkway were terrified when they heard screams. Children from the Montessori school just metres from the scene were playing inside while store owners ran to see the commotion – only to turn and run back to their stores and lock the doors.
"My wife heard the screams. . . . She came out to the parking lot and she saw a guy putting a knife to his throat," said Ather Syad, who owns Bestway Food Market with his wife Habiba.
Afraid, she ran back into her store.
"She is in shock. She has never seen in her life . . . the knife in his hand, cutting his own throat," he said.
It has been a violent year in Peel region so far. The stabbings will bring the region's homicide total to 11, up from just four at this time last year.
Police said the domestic dispute erupted when a man attacked a woman with a knife.
The identities of the three people involved have not been released. The woman and Good Samaritan were pronounced dead at the scene, their bodies remaining under a yellow tarp for several hours after the attack.
The wounded man who was Tasered by police was being treated in hospital last night for the self-inflicted stab wounds. Police would not comment on whether he is expected to live.
Peel Regional police spokesperson Const. J.P. Valade would not confirm the relationship between those involved, but police initially believed the man and woman were in a relationship. It is not known whether the Good Samaritan knew either party.
"The sad thing is someone tried to help and now they are dead," said Charla Weller, 39, a mother of two young children who lives in the area. Weller was walking her dog and came across the scene very soon after the incident, she said.
She said she talked to a tow-truck driver who witnessed the incident. He told her at least three people intervened, trying to get the attacker away from the woman.
The province's Special Investigations Unit was called in to probe the interaction between police and the alleged attacker, said the unit's spokesperson Frank Phillips.
"When the officer arrived, the male . . . was harming himself. The officer deployed a Taser to stop the man from doing so," he said.
The SIU is called in whenever someone dies while in police custody, or is injured in an altercation with police.
Officers cordoned off the entire plaza, which is in the middle of a residential area, and escorted staff to a nearby police station for questioning.
Residents of the area expressed shock at such a violent act in their community.
Gouri Narany said she was very concerned about her 3 1/2-year-old daughter's safety when she arrived at the plaza to pick her up around 3 p.m. A police officer brought the little girl out of the school to her mother. Narany said she thinks her daughter was unaware of any violence outside the school.
"It's a shame that someone tries to help and loses his life as well," said Michelle Meaduf, 38, the mother of two teens. "I know it would give me second thoughts about doing that."
Sam De Silva, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 10 years, agreed. "It's shocking," the 55-year-old computer engineer said.
"It's unbelievable because this is such a good neighbourhood, trust me. It is so sad."
With files from Josh Wingrove and Jim Wilkes
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