Friday, March 6, 2015

TDCSB asks to bulldoze homes to build school; others face possible closure

"Because I'm a girl"
At the same time that Toronto’s Catholic school board is considering closing schools, it is asking residents of 30 townhomes to leave their homes so that it can build a new one.

Most of the residents of the land the board is trying to expropriate, near Bayview Avenue and Cummer Avenue, aren’t willing to go.

Thursday was the deadline to respond to an expropriation order the TDCSB sent out a month ago. Twenty-one residents have hired a lawyer to fight it.

Mary Chakkalackal is one of those who doesn’t want to move.

“Most of us are coming from different parts of the world and (have) chosen this place as our home,” she says. “The unfairness of it doesn’t sit well.”

David Zimmer, the MPP for Willowdale, says there are less extreme ways to resolve the issue.

“Expropriation is used in rarest of rarest situations and only after all other reasonable opportunities have been explored,” he added.  (more...)


1 comment:

  1. Now that they have bulldozed the children's Faith, they are moving onto people's houses. Despicable.

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