Cost to rename Science Centre Station adds up to more than $600K: documents

CTV News · Jon Woodward · 2026-11-06 13:02 UTC

Renaming the Science Centre public transit station on Toronto’s Line 5 after the Ford government abruptly and controversially shut the nearby Ontario Science Centre down two years ago cost taxpayers $618,000, according to records obtained by CTV News.

Renaming the Science Centre public transit station on Toronto’s Line 5 after the Ford government abruptly and controversially shut the nearby Ontario Science Centre down two years ago cost taxpayers $618,000, according to records obtained by CTV News.

The money paid for some 600 new signs and stickers around the transit network, including a large vinyl wrap around what is now Don Valley Station, and rankled opposition MPPs who saw it as yet another expense in the more than $1.4 billion plan to move the Science Centre to a new home at Ontario Place.

“The entire endeavour to relocate the Science Centre has been an exercise in wasting money,” said Adil Shamji, a Liberal MPP who represents the area.

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