The province said it received an engineering report this week that found a number of roof panels ‘in a distressed, high-risk condition’ that could fail under the weight of snow this winter
Families and community members decried the loss of a beloved institution Sunday after the Ontario Science Centre abruptly and permanently shut its doors last week amid concerns over the state of its roof.
A crowd of parents, children, educators and other community members gathered in a west Toronto park Sunday to call on the province to restore the centre in its current location instead. The science centre was “one of the important cornerstones of our schedule” for Sasha, who is homeschooled and loved to spend hours looking at the frog section, his parents said.“To not give the thousands of kids in the city who love the science centre a chance to go one last time ... it was just totally unnecessary and totally unreasonable,” she said. “This feels like not just an attack on a major cultural institution but also on education.
“It’s where I learned it’s OK for women and everyone to be passionate about science,” said Nath, who credits the centre with fuelling her curiosity. As a high school science teacher, Howard Buckstein may not take his own students on field trips to the centre, but he said it plays an important role in science education.
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