Residents

residents: The issue is a political hot potato in Malton, a once predominantly white community that has been transformed over the past 30 years, according to The Star. The city worries that too many of those residents live too close to the proposed crematorium site, presenting environmental safety issues. However, most of the areas residents belong to faiths that have traditionally used cremation in their last rites and Mississauga council heeded the advice of planning staff Tuesday and turned down an application by a Malton funeral home to build a crematorium. According to Statistics Canada, the neighbourhood at the centre of the controversy, about three blocks north of the Benisasia Funeral Home, had 4,420 residents in 2006. Some 82 were per cent were visible minorities, with South Asians accounting for 55 per cent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.