Toronto festgoers will experience increased security measures this year in the wake of two recent deadly terror attacks on crowds in the city.
"We're responding to new realities, and that includes incidents that have happened in Toronto," Cameron Bailey, TIFF artistic director, told The Hollywood Reporter. Bailey was not specific about new measures that he said are being taken to "make sure we're preventing any possibility of threats to our audience."
Toronto is tightening its security in response to twin terror incidents in local neighborhoods. The first massacre in April saw a Canadian man charged with murder after allegedly driving his rented van onto a crowded north Toronto sidewalk and killing 10 people.
In the second attack, a gunman in late July died after fatally shooting two people and injuring an additional 13 in Greektown, along the city's Danforth Avenue. ...
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