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Toronto Fire on Monday terminated three firefighters for what it calls breaches of the city’s policy on social media, a spokesman said Monday evening.

The firing comes one month after the National Post published a story about attempts at Toronto Fire to recruit more women and visible minorities. In that story, the Post republished just a few tweets from accounts connected to two firefighters in Scarborough.

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“Reject a woman and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also weak arms,” read a tweet last November from the account of Matt Bowman. A tweet in March from the same account read: “I’d never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something I’d be like hey! you get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!”

Those tweets quote lines from television shows. The first originated on The Office, and the second one on South Park.

On June 5 a tweet from the account of Lawaun Edwards read, “would swat her in the back of the head been considered abuse or a way to reset the brain?”