Plug pulled on big conferences in Toronto after WHO warning

SomeOne spotted This National Post Story The threat of SARS is causing the American Library Association to “seriously consider” cancelling its conference of 25,000 people scheduled to be held in Toronto in June.

This after the American Association of Vascular Surgery’s decision to move its June conference to Chicago. The American Society of Echocardiography is also reconsidering holding its Toronto conference.

“We’ve now had just two events cancelled out of a total of 600 that we hold in a year,” said John Houghton, vice-president of sales and marketing at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.