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Controversial Markham cow statue still standing

Residents want immediate action, councillors and staff still figuring out where to put statue of Charity. The winter has come and gone, and Markham’s infamous cow statue is still standing tall.Last fall, Markham city council voted to move the 25-foot-high statue from its current home in a small parkette on Charity Cres., to greener pastures, after complaints from local residents …

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Markham cow statue to stay put, for now

Charity the cow isn’t going anywhere soon, and there’s confusion about where she will go when a decision is made on her future. Markham councilors held a council meeting Tuesday night to determine what to do with the city’s infamous cow-on-stilts statue after a local developer couldn’t be prodded to change her position. This article originally appeared in the Toronto …

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Cheers for Charity, that beautiful, balancing bovine

Hail to thee, Brookview Tony Charity! She was the sainted cow whose honorary steel sculpture with a wreath of maple leaves now stands silvery and high above the irate homeowners of Charity Crescent in Markham. Minor question: are homeowners ever anything but irate? Do they ever gather to say, “We are loving this new stoplight.” This article originally appeared in …

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