Victoria mayor quits the 'toxic chamber' known as Facebook

Saying it’s become a toxic echo chamber rather than a place for civil discourse, Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps is quitting Facebook.
“When I started this job as mayor and when I was a councillor, Facebook was a civil place,” said Helps, whose savvy use of social media was seen as one of the keys to her razor-thin victory 3 1/2 years ago that claimed the mayor’s chain of office.
“Over the past four years Facebook has changed and it’s become sort of a polarized echo