Casa Loma is Toronto's fake castle-on-a-hill, an ersatz distinguished and ancient English manor built by an eccentric millionaire in 1914. It's run by the Kiwanis, and draws zillions of tourists and D&D-addled adolescents (ahem), turning a serious profit and sending millions to the taxman every year. It needs a serious maintenance bailout, though, and while the millions from various levels of government were assumed to be a lock, they have not emerged. It appears that the city and the Province and the feds would rather underwrite the snooty museum and art gallery than the prole-y majesty of a big white-elephant pseudo-castle.
Art gallery and museum saved at expense of fake castle
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