Just under ten years ago the Toronto Centre was ousted from its home at the McLaughlin Planetarium by the unexpected closing of Toronto's pre-eminent astronomy education centre.  The Royal Ontario Museum had announced plans to demolish the planetarium building

Read the original article from October 2nd.

Now it seems that the ROM has withdrawn the proposal under considerable public pressure... at least temporarily.

Citing "deep and broad" opposition from neighbouring residents and institutions, museum director and CEO William Thorsell announced yesterday that the project has been pulled from the approval process.

"We don't have the support we need, so it's just the logical thing to do," he said in an interview. He was reiterating what he said at Tuesday's fiery public consultation meeting where more than 200 people, including representatives of the faculties of law and music at the University of Toronto, opposed the project.

"I knew there would be controversy but I didn't think it would be this degree of opposition," Mr. Thorsell said. "It's too deep and broad to keep this project alive."

Read the entire article in the Globe and Mail.