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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Toronto Councillors Not Lining Up to Support Mayor's Call to Close Libraries
Closing libraries doesn’t sit well with Toronto councillors. (Toronto Globe & Mail, 8/4/2011)
Excerpt: Call it the Atwood effect. At least half-a-dozen more city councillors – including several members of mayor Rob Ford’s inner circle – have added their names to the growing list of prominent Torontonians speaking out against potential library closings.
Those sentiments clash with a recent KPMG review of city services that suggests shuttering libraries as a cost-saving measure, a proposal to which the mayor’s brother, Etobicoke Councillor Doug Ford, lent his hearty support.
The Globe and Mail took a straw poll of councillors whose wards contain the city’s 30 lowest-circulation libraries and found that Mr. Ford would find little agreement on council, even among political allies.
Related posts:
Library rallies its supporters. (8/6/2011)
Toronto mayor Doug Ford goes hyperbolic. (7/29/2011)
Toronto councilor uses his position to bully Margaret Atwood .(7/27/2011)
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