Star Grumbling Led To Purge

Complaints from a Toronto Star reporter prompted the national archives to order a Saturday night purge of webpages deemed offensive, according to Access To Information records. Chief archivist Leslie Weir within hours of reading a Saturday Star headline announced she wanted pages “modified or taken down ASAP” though staff were not assigned to work the weekend: “Thank you for your collaboration on this urgent situation.”

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