Would-be Science Centre patrons are pictured outside after the attraction was closed due to a risk of roof failure on June 21, 2024.
Community members, advocates and politicians held a rally Sunday to protest the Ford government's decision to abruptly close the Ontario Science Centre.People hold signs at a rally on Sunday protesting the Ford government's decision to close the Ontario Science Centre. Community members, advocates and politicians held a rally Sunday to protest the Ford government's decision to abruptly close the Ontario Science Centre.
Workers began erecting fencing around the Science Centre on Friday, blocking access to the building and its parking lots, with the site being patrolled by private security guards.in 2023 that the popular landmark and attraction would be moved to the Ontario Place site — a move it says"We were always worried that might do this. This is earlier than we expected," Jason Ash, co-chair of Save Ontario's Science Centre, told CBC Toronto Saturday.
"If you read the actual consultant's report, they say that one panel is critical and needs to be replaced," he said. Workers began erecting fencing around the Ontario Science Centre on Friday, as the province announced the building will be immediately closing because of the risk of a roof collapse. The Ontario Science Centre opened in 1969 and the Ford government plans to relocate it to Ontario Place.
There have been 42 projects deemed "critical" since 2017 that haven't been repaired, and of those projects, the science centre had asked for funding for seven of them at least three times in the past five years but was denied each time, the auditor wrote.
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