


“It’s just an amazing system that does amazing work for so many of us, for you or me, and for people who are suffering with a mental health illness and find themselves on the street or in jail, and then they use the libraries and use the computers in the libraries and see a kind human face,” she added.īiblio Bash takes place Thursday at the Toronto Reference Library, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. (libraries), as opposed to other public institutions, have opened their hearts and their doors to the people who need the most help and they welcome them in,” said Walsh, best known for her work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. “At a time when we have become very un-Christian in dealing with the most vulnerable people in our society. The fact the library opens its doors to anyone and everyone, including the most marginalized, was a big factor. Actress and comedian Mary Walsh has always been a big reader so emceeing for Biblio Bash, a fundraiser for the Toronto Public Library Foundation, was an easy decision.
