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Pools saved again. But for how long? |
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17, 2012 - Two years ago, our pools were
saved from the City of Toronto budget
chopping block. In 2012, we did it again!
Thanks to citizen protests and opposition
led by Councillor Josh Colle, the city's
budget passed without the planned cuts that
threatened to close swimming pools and other
valuable city assets.
Is it permanent?
According to Mayor Ford: "we'll hit replay
and do it all over again next year." |
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January 17, 2012 - Toronto Star -
23-21 vote undoes many of Mayor Rob Ford’s
budget cuts |
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January 17, 2012 - Toronto Star -
Rob Ford loses the gamble, council blocks
Toronto budget cuts |
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January 10, 2017 - Globe and Mail -
Ford's budget passes with rookie's amendment
to stave off $15-million in cuts |
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January 17, 2012 - CBC Toronto -
Toronto budget passes as protesters arrested |
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Let's Make
Waves needs you and your swimwear for a
citywide call for action! |
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 Please
join us on Tuesday January 17th at 9am
Toronto City Hall as part of the Make A
Splash campaign to save the pools in
Toronto. Wear your water-wings and goggles.
Bring your ‘life-savers’, be the
‘life-savers’ and
SAVE OUR
POOLS - KEEP OUR POOLS OPEN!! |
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Let's Make Waves rally poster |
Sign our online petition |
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Letter to councillors template |
Press release - Jan 16, 2012 |
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One pool
saved but five others still at risk |
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 Bedford
Park Community Centre Pool, originally one
of seven pools to close, is saved from cuts.
Five others are still slated to close. City
council will vote on the final budget on
January 17–19.
Parents and kids from across
Toronto to show up at city hall clad in
goggles and swimsuits to protest the cuts. |
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January 10, 2012 - Town Crier -
Bedford Park pool saved from cuts |
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Budget cuts
loom: Libraries & pools on chopping block |
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 Kids
dressed in pool gear demonstrate as budget
committee debates final touches on a
financial blueprint which will include $88
million in service cuts and increases in
user fees, as part of $350 million in
savings for 2012.
Councillers
cite "radical
conservative agenda."
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January 9, 2012 - 680News -
City budget finalization only days away;
Cuts to libraries take centre stage |
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Community
urged to fight pool closures |
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 Beach-Riverdale
residents meet to strategize on how to save
their community swimming pools. City
Councillors Mary-Margaret McMahon (Ward 32,
Beaches-East York) and Paula Fletcher (Ward
30, Toronto-Danforth) both came out to show
their support.
Fletcher said taxpayers didn't bring in Rob
Ford as the city's mayor to see services
cut, adding there's actually a projected
budget surplus of $139 million. |
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December 07, 2011 - Inside Toronto -
Community urged to fight pool closures |
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Pool
solutions float by drowning citizens |
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Toronto Star
columnist Royson James says: "The Rob Ford
administration has targeted seven school
pools for closure — a sneak attack that
threatens to drain public confidence in our
ability to smartly deliver public services." |
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December
07, 2011 - Toronto Star -
Pool solutions float by drowning citizens |
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Councillor vows to save
pools |
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Toronto Councillor Sarah
Doucette is vowing to fight to save the
seven pools that would be drained by the
2012 budget. Doucette said she was “furious”
to learn the city was cutting funding for
seven of the Toronto District School Board’s
pools.
December 02, 2011 - Toronto Sun -
Councillor vows
to save pools |
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City urged to
reconsider cuts to school pools |
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Former Toronto
mayor David Crombie is asking the city to
“revisit” its proposal to axe funding for
seven school pools, urging staff to work
with the school board instead.
December
01, 2011 - Toronto Star -
City urged to reconsider cuts to school
pools
Click on
map for targeted pools
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Important links |
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The 2010 City Council vote to save our pools |
 Let's
Make Waves open letter to the Mayor
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Letter
from former Mayor David Crombie to the City
of Toronto |
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Rob
Ford’s last meeting as a councillor - Motion
in support of having a working partnership
with the TDSB |
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Let's make Waves
archives on our activities 2007 to 2010
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Last
Updated Jan.
14,
2012
