three waterfront toronto directors involved with google wired-community deal fired by ontario government - a smart board

TORONTO —
Chairman of a government organization that signed a partnership with Google
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The Toronto City Development Department says she and two other board members have been fired.
Helen Berting, the Toronto waterfront chairman, confirmed on Thursday that she herself and her board member, Michael norbrega, had been removed from the board in silence.
The minister of infrastructure in Ontario, she said, called her and told her, but did not explain the reason.
A division of Google's parent company Alphabet has proposed turning a shabby part of the city's waterfront into the most wired community in history.
Sidewalk Lab, in collaboration with a government agency called Toronto waterfront, plans
Apartments, offices, shops and schools in building 12acre (4. 9-hectare)site —
The first step towards its goal of finally becoming 800acre (325-hectare)development.
An audit report by the Ontario Auditor General this week said the deal was hastily concluded.
It also said government agencies had incurred cost overruns on other projects.
Burstyn said she has no regrets about her cooperation with Google affiliates, which still requires final approval.
"Everything we do is right.
There are many statements about things being too hasty.
"We slowed down where we thought things were too rushed," she said . ".
Some Canadians are rethinking the impact of providing one of the most data on privacy --
The hungry company on Earth means connecting everything from street lights to sidewalks.
Some want the public to get part of their revenue from using Canada's largest city as a product developed as an urban laboratory.
Concerns have intensified after a series of privacy scandals at Facebook and Google.
Complaints about the proposed project prompted the redevelopment of the Toronto waterfront
Reach an agreement to ensure a greater role for official agencies representing the city, provincial and federal governments.
Earlier this year, a famous Toronto developer resigned from the Toronto waterfront board for the project.
Among other things, the heated streets in the development plan will melt ice and snow in contact, as well as sensors to monitor traffic and protect pedestrians.