Company embroiled in skills fund controversy received Ontario cash last month during audit
Keel Digital Solutions says it received $240,000 while under a probe the province has since referred to OPP
I wish it made sense but this company, about which the government allegedly had enough concern to send an audit to the OPP two weeks ago, told me it still got $240,000 in taxpayer cash just last month. #ONpoli
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20.11.2025 03:50 β π 27 π 18 π¬ 2 π 2
It's almost Eyes Wide Shut holiday screening days. The way it replaced It's A Wonderful Life as the go-to family christmas film is a triumph of not just cinema, but cinΓ©astes themselves.
20.11.2025 03:57 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
that's an early example of this current trend
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Deerfoot City Redevelopment - DIALOG | DIALOG
Great design can change the world.
Look forward to seeing it... they converted the old early 80s build mall by my old house, I figured it was a sign of things to come en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerfoo...
19.11.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Out in next issue! Was fun to write, talked to @langealexandra.bsky.social & others.
19.11.2025 18:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Add this to le discourse:
I just finished a piece for next Azure mag issue on how trad malls across Canada (box + parking lot) are being transformed into mixed use, indoor outdoor shopping centres that resemble walkable trad downtowns. So some considerable $$$ is going urban in Canada.
19.11.2025 18:18 β π 28 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
19.11.2025 16:15 β π 348 π 50 π¬ 8 π 6
The βcanceled peopleβ database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
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Iβm sorry you didnβt like my pitch.
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalismβs AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publicationsβThe Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
19.11.2025 14:10 β π 331 π 170 π¬ 16 π 84
Good morning. Today, russia launched a cruise missile that blew several floors off of a residential apartment building while people slept in Ternopil.
19.11.2025 14:38 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
And subsidized.
19.11.2025 14:17 β π 18 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
It can cook it for side but i am careful to choose a better path here and also forget to check a lot
19.11.2025 05:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Why donβt you use the library so people who work do get paid.
19.11.2025 05:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Donate β Skipping Stone
With your support, Skipping Stone leads the way in providing affirming care to trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families.
I should add that if you'd like to channel your disgust with Alberta's anti-trans government into a front-line charity doing lifesaving work for trans folks in Alberta, click below and throw some money at Skipping Stone www.skippingstone.ca/donate
19.11.2025 03:19 β π 36 π 27 π¬ 0 π 0
I think guy feels like saying he doesnβt want to pay more.
19.11.2025 03:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm calling HR
19.11.2025 03:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The investigation of the Ford govt cost money & the time & people who worked on it deserve to be paid just as you do for whatever is you do.
19.11.2025 03:14 β π 62 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
Itβs exactly this type of spectacle and permissiveness that allowed the Trump thing to fester for so many years. Then the same liberal elites are shocked, shocked that there was a monster in their midst. Or perhaps even more to the point: Jeffrey Epstein. When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say itβs wrecking the country. Itβs a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.
I can do very little to hurt Nuzziβs prospects. She will make an absolute fortune on this. You may think youβre laughing at her, but youβre laughing with her. But Iβm not smiling. The other book Nuzzi said she read during her exile was the King James Bible. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
18.11.2025 16:23 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Letβs be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And sheβs doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope itβs all sheβs ever remembered for in the long run
18.11.2025 23:40 β π 211 π 104 π¬ 6 π 5
YouTube video by Washington Post
'Sesame Street's' brutal parodies of Donald Trump
Re "piggy" sesame street parodies Trump
18.11.2025 20:29 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I wish it would fade in and fade out rather than the hard stop on 26th
18.11.2025 20:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ontario labour minister blames civil servants for controversial funding decisions | Globalnews.ca
At Question Period, the government faced continued questions over the timing of the audit and why the province didn't freeze provincial contracts immediately.
"Piccini later claimed that the selection process for the government $2.5-billion fund βgives the deputy (minister) the ultimate final say.β
Thatβs in direct contradiction with what Piccini said in early October..."
Dude's gotta go. Full stop.
globalnews.ca/news/1153139...
18.11.2025 19:45 β π 119 π 41 π¬ 4 π 3
A small but fascinating footnote: This is the episode where *all* the adults realized Mr Snuffleupagus was real.
Years earlier, Buffy Sainte-Marie became the first and originally only adult on Sesame Street able to see Snuffy.
18.11.2025 19:32 β π 30 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0
Yes. See previous rt
18.11.2025 19:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
There was no gap from sesame street to dallas
18.11.2025 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The difference between Gen X and Millennials is they had Elmo and, well, I'm sorry.
18.11.2025 19:14 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0
Up there with Pam finding Bobby alive in the shower in TV moments.
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