City manager condemns TDSB s decision to file $90M lawsuit over York Memorial Collegiate fire
Toronto’s city manager is condemning the move by the Toronto District School Board to sue the city, fire department, police services board and the Ontario Fire Marshall for $90 million over a fire that destroyed York Memorial Collegiate Institute.
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Toronto’s city manager has fired back at the Toronto District School Board for filing a $90-million lawsuit against the city’s fire department, police services and the Ontario Fire Marshal.
City manager Chris Murray sent the letter to Karen Falconer, the interim director of education of the Toronto District School Board, a day after the suit was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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“I am writing in relation to the Toronto District School Board’s lawsuit concerning the fires at the York Memorial Collegiate. I am compelled to express my extreme disappointment in the baseless and irresponsible allegations made against Fire Chief Matthew Pegg,” Murray says in the letter.
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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.”
TORONTO The Toronto District School Board has launched a $90 million lawsuit against the city, the province and the Toronto Police Services Board, alleging that a massive fire that gutted a high school two years ago was the result of negligence. It was May 7, 2019 nearly two years ago to the day when a six-alarm fire tore through York Memorial Collegiate Institute at Eglinton Avenue West and Keele Street. Firefighters were first called the building shortly after 2 p.m. on May 6 after a fire broke out in the hallway space behind the main stage area of a second-floor auditorium. The building was evacuated and firefighters attacked the fire inside the auditorium.