August 11, 1997

TOPLESS FOES WON'T GRIN AND BARE IT

By AARON SANDS
Toronto Sun A North York politician issued a challenge to his "wimpy" colleagues yesterday at a protest over Ontario's topless law.
North York Councillor George Mammoliti told a small but loud gathering of about 50 people at Nathan Phillips Square that bare breasts have politicians quaking in their boots.
"I'm challenging these wimpy politicians, who are sitting at their cottages this weekend hiding from the women's groups and gay and lesbian groups, to stand up for what is morally right," Mammoliti said. "They're wimps and they're afraid of these groups that have taken control of the downtown core."
But Mammoliti said he hasn't had a problem with bare boobs so far this summer.
"I don't think it has been a problem to date, but unless we do something soon, this will be irreversible and society will regret it forever."
Mammoliti said a topless car wash at the Mid-King gas bar in Scarboro on Saturday is an example of what will happen.
Carol Faroane, organizer of Keep Tops On, said the group won't chill out when summer's over. "We're not going away."