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I write and make podcasts about cities and the people in them. Producer: Lately & City Space at the Globe and Mail Write for The Green Line, The Local, Toronto Star, The Breach. Former BBC News. He/him.
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A private company owning a missile defence system. What could possibly go wrong? (Do I need to remind that corporations are legally required to act in the best interests of their shareholders)

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Anyway Ticketmaster is cultural poison and will hopefully be a cautionary tale in the future about how late stage capitalism discourages kids from engaging in culture.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Need to rant here about the cultural poison that is Ticketmaster. I love LCD Soundsystem, I was thrilled they're coming to Toronto, but assumed like... $100 a ticket. A whack, but I'll pay. I had an alarm set for 10am tomorrow to buy them. At 12pm I get an email saying the presale starts *now* 🧵

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Did daylight savings write this article

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh but Canadians are supposed to visit California, are they? You could end up a "distraction", but come visit!

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There was so much great reporting on this by the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Spacing Magazine... but its the New York Times that makes Ford embarrassed. It shows a total disrespect for the country he governs in.

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In 2024 Ontario's auditor general found the process to select Therme "was not fair, transparent or accountable". They also said it didn't meet best practices for large-scale, modern land-use development projects. But now Ford is going to "double check" the contract. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

With Ontario Place and Therme now recognised hy international media as a colossal scam will TVO report on it? Or will the fact that Therme Canada's VP of communications is on their board colour their agenda?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Ontario Place is now an international embarrassment.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Ford has been taken for a fool and scammed out of our tax money by Therme.

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The NY Times has published an investigation into the Therme development at Ontario Place. It found that while the company told the province it had a proven track record of operating six spas around the world, at the time it had only ever operated one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

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I've always said "man this party is great but if only it had more municipal oversight"

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Americans will call things most of the developed world has had for decades "miraculous" (Not Canada, though. We're still in Intuit's pocket for now)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Canada should do the same. There’s also no way the Safe Third Country Agreement can continue to be justified.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Poilievre keeps claiming that he's not like Trump. But overriding the charter of rights and freedoms to make sure people die in prison sounds an awful lot like Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A country run by penguins is the only country with good foreign and domestic policy

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www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24...

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Harper economics are still cruppling Canadian arts and culture today. The Conservatives introduced all kinds of red tape that gets in the way of funding projects. What Poilievre means is getting rid of environmental protections and shutting off funding for the arts and people who need it.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

NYC leading the way. Toronto, prove we're better in the North, eh?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The bike lanes on University are wide so that ambulances can fit down them.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump treating global stock markets like a crypto pump and dump is kind of darkly funny. Unless you got liquidated.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One more lane bro

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