It looks like all five of the Toronto Humane Society board endorsed candidates will be filling the five vacant board seats. Tim Trow and his pals have been given the cold shoulder by the membership.
Congratulations to Crystal Tomusiak, Lisa Gibbens, Carol Hroncek, Ken Wood and David Bronskill (you can read their bios here).
I wish them much success and I hope they all work their asses off for the animals at the THS - and knowing what I know about most of them, I'm sure they will.
From The Star, Former Toronto Humane Society president fails to win board.
From The National Post, Tim Trow loses bid to return as Humane Society board.
From The Globe and Mail, Former president fails in bid to regain control over humane society .
It was a very interesting evening. I still wonder who the man was with the long white-blond hair and matching beard, wearing a snow-white salwar kameez: he stood up during Liza Gibbens's candidacy speech and began haranguing her, eventually screaming "BULLSHIT!" at her until two police officers came and escorted him away.
ReplyDeleteThe happiest people in the room seemed to be the THS staff and volunteers. There's going to be some celebrating tonight, I think.
I'll be doing a recap later (DAMN work for getting in the way of IMPORTANT things. Will say it was far more civilized than I anticipated (which was nice). I don't know who that guy was- but I was also disgusted, frankly, at the references in Liz's speech which provoked his harrangue (her reference to TT et al. being lead away in handcuffs was what ultimately started his rant). Not classy, not classy at ALL and absoultely no relevance to what an individual brings to the debate. He was unbalanced, agreed.
ReplyDeleteThought some of the speeches were excellent - Crystal, David Bronskill, and actually I was very impressed with Brenda Grant's (who didn't get in but would have made a terrific board member in my opinion). Overall, felt it was a good example of democracy in action - will have lots to say when I get a moment (selkie)
Hey Selkie, I'm writing up a (terribly long-winded) recap, too! We can compare points. I agree with everything you said.
ReplyDeleteQuick Note to Fred: your National Post link goes to something called Modulex....
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ReplyDeletegrins.. biscuit- mine keeps GROWING ... trying to be a little more succinct!
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