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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 Toronto s top civil servant is coming to the defence of the city’s fire chief in the wake of a lawsuit filed by the Toronto District School Board laying blame for a blaze that destroyed a school two years ago at the feet of the Toronto Fire Service. In a scathing open letter sent to interim TDSB Director Karen Falconer Thursday, City Manager Chris Murray says he is “appalled” by the public release of the board’s $90 million statement of claim yesterday. He called the move calculated and said that he is extremely disappointed in the baseless and irresponsible allegations made against Fire Chief Matthew Pegg.”
City manager lashes out at TDSB over baseless and irresponsible allegations in $90M lawsuit
by Lucas Casaletto, John Chidley-Hill of The Canadian Press
Posted May 6, 2021 5:28 pm EDT
Crews battle a fire at York Memorial Collegiate Institute on May 7, 2019. CITYNEWS/Mehrdad Nazarahari
Toronto’s City Manager isn’t holding back as the back-and-forth between officials and the Toronto District School Board continued Thursday; a day after the TDSB
Among the damning claims made by the TDSB, they allege negligence allowed a small blaze to erupt into a much larger one
Legal documents filed on Wednesday show the board is seeking $90 million in damages in connection with the fire at the historic school.
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Increasing the city’s take in property sales could negatively impact home sales.
On Friday, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TREBB) cautioned Toronto City Council from resisting the urge to increase the Municipal Land Transfer Tax (MLTT) as a mean of increasing revenue, lest it compound supply and affordability issues in the city’s housing market.
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“Addressing those challenges in a way that would make housing even less affordable is the wrong path forward,” TRREB President Lisa Patel said in a statement. “In fact, it is a step backward.”