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A lawsuit filed by the Toronto District School Board contains “baseless and irresponsible allegations” made against the fire chief and the board should consider a public apology, the city’s top civil servant says.
In a letter sent to the head of the school board on Thursday – the second formal response to the lawsuit from the City of Toronto – City Manager Chris Murray wrote that he was “appalled” by the release of the allegations against Fire Chief Matthew Pegg that “could have only been intended to cause unwarranted harm for some undisclosed strategic benefit.”