“I’m so happy!” are the first words out of Cathie O’Toole’s mouth when I call to ask about her resignation as Halifax’s chief financial officer. O’Toole was the city official who refused to sweep the concert loan improprieties under the bureaucratic carpet and instead alerted city legal staff and the auditor general, leading to the […]
Cathie O’Toole
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Cathie O’Toole resigns
[image-1] City finance director Cathie O’Toole has tendered her resignation, effective April 9. I wrote the below blog post this afternoon, and it was sitting in the queue to go live on our website as I learned that O’Toole has quit. I just had a long conversation with O’Toole, and will write more tomorrow. All the below, and more, still stands. The Common concert financing scandal is tainting the reputation of nearly everyone involved: mayor Peter Kelly, now-former acting CAo Wayne Anstey, Anstey’s predecessor Dan English, Trade Centre Limited’s Scott Ferguson and the city itself. But one person will come