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SUPPORTERS LOBBY TO KEEP SUBURBAN COURTS OPEN

MIKE ADLER madler@toronto.com

Torontonians can save provincial courthouses in Scarborough and North York whose closures will displace hundreds of employees and make it harder for lowerincome people to access justice, supporters of keeping the buildings say.

Toronto City Council is expected to vote on a motion later this month asking Ontario's Progressive Conservative government not to close 1000 Finch Ave. W. and 1911 Eglinton Ave. E., at least for now.

The province is set to move those courts, and others downtown, within weeks into a new mega courthouse which opened March 6 near City Hall.

It has already turned another North York courthouse, 2201 Finch Ave. W., into a regional adult bail court centre. Although technically in North York, supporters of suburban courthouses call it the "Etobicoke courthouse."

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