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Doors: February Clients and Bankruptcy Notice

doors: Community Micro Skills Development Centre shut down its five locations in February, according to Toronto Star. Clients who showed up for their programs found the doors locked doors and a bankruptcy notice posted. Steve Russell / Toronto Star By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Sat., March 4, 2017 A settlement services agency that served northwest Toronto's immigrant community for 33 years has abruptly gone bankrupt and closed its doors, leaving 90 employees and hundreds of clients in the cold. My son called me from the Dixon Rd. office and said it was shut down. The staff there provided help with kids' homework, tutored individuals struggling in school. I could not believe it and had to walk over to look myself, said Doreen Bartley, an immigrant from Jamaica, whose son attended the youth programs at Micro Skills and volunteered there. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.