Group rallies to save Ontario Science Centre

Politicians, advocates and community members gathered to rally against the permeant closure of the Ontario Science Centre on June 23, 2024. The group met at Wells Hill Park in Toronto Sunday afternoon, two days after the Ford government announced the permanent closure of the site due to structural issues.

The relocation will see the loss of over half of the size of the current facility and cost taxpayers millions of dollars. However, according to a business case, relocating the science centre from its current location to Ontario Place would also save about $250 million over 50 years.Arushi Nath, an Ontario student in Grade Nine, expressed her concern with the closure to CP24. She said that she would rather see funding go into repairing the current centre, instead of rebuilding a new one.

“If it were my choice, we’d need to convince the Ford government first to re-invest in the Ontario Science Centre, re-open it, spend all the money to get the roof fixed, and then keep investing in it,” she said. “Keep building new science centre’s all across Ontario, because we need more science centres, not the removal of the ones we already have.”

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