But his promise to be tough on crime has chimed with a panic over a rash of murders, including a shoot-out on Toronto's main shopping street after Christmas that killed a 15-year-old girl.

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That makes this shopping event the second-largest consumer spending frenzy after Christmas.

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In December, 2005, after President Bush had come and gone and the nation's attention turned to Christmas shopping, The Times-Picayune was deep on all aspects of the story, thick with information vital to struggling residents.

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