David Reevely

Dear Dr. Thomson,

As you know, our unique educational offerings depend on the contributions of our distinguished alumni...

Here you go. Congratulations on your early graduation! One of our best students ever.

How important is it to you that it come from an accredited institution?

There are times when governments that are in the habit of issuing news releases on $100,000 funding for, like, a new roof on a community ice rink do NOT point out when they're doing something much bigger, and that raises questions.

But yeah, "We didn't notice or care at the time" =/= secrecy.

Some phrasing like, "a little-noticed measure" would be justified.

One could argue that some things are too big to put in budget omnibus bills.

But this idea has been talked about openly for years, it's there in the 2024 and 2025 budget docs, and finding it in the bill is just not surprising.

The first sentence there is false.

The second sentence is mostly true. Regulatory sandboxes haven't come up a LOT, but a Liberal MP did speak on them: www.ourcommons.ca/PublicationS...

If the Tories, NDP and May haven't noticed, that's on them.

The idea's history goes back much farther than 2024, to be clear. Here's a Logic story from 2018, the first year we existed, noting a promise on regulatory sandboxes in the 2018 fall economic statement: thelogic.co/news/special...

My point is that you have to be careful with premises like, "I didn't know about it, so they've been hiding it and being sneaky."

Tech businesses have been calling for regulatory sandboxes for *years,* there've been public consultations, and it was promised in two successive budgets.

But the regulatory-sandbox idea returned in the 2025 budget. Not at length, but it's in the roundup of legislative changes that implementing the 2025 budget requires.

(Some people start with the deficit numbers when first picking a new budget up; I start with the legislative changes.)

Having announced plans to legislate on it in 2024, the Trudeau government did not follow through, in either of the two "budget bills" that stemmed from the budget.

They'd consulted publicly on it before. This is generally a pretty dull type of government consultation, but it was done. www.canada.ca/en/governmen...

The 2024 budget talked about working up a plan for "regulatory sandboxes"—temporary exemptions from restrictions to allow experiments with new things, especially products, that existing regulations didn't anticipate. It's in a few places, like this:

Right, but it would enable the provincial government to do a lot of things faster that it can already largely do but chooses not to.

The Globe is a great news organization in so many ways, but a national news outlet should try to be OF the nation it covers.

This is how you write about some curious other place your readers might be interested in, not a place you and they actually live.

Globe editorial: The City of Ottawa’s Hail Mary plan for redevelopment The Lansdowne 2.0 plan depends on rosy assumptions, leaving taxpayers potentially on the hook if ambitions fall short

The Globe and Mail published an editorial warning that Lansdowne 2.0 might not be a great plan, nearly a month after council voted to do it and with a photo of LeBreton Flats, which is not mentioned in the editorial. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

I want to know exactly the distorted thought process that concludes that "decisioning" is a word but "compliancing" is not.

They should teach this news release in PR training programs.

There's enough inaccurate or concerning information in the way in which @en.ottawa.ca is communicating about the 2026 Budget that I felt it should be addressed. And it's the concept of $252M in "savings" that I want to talk about, because this information is being used falsely. 1/

I also covered that story at length. It was more complicated than that.

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.

oof. www.bbc.com/news/article...

CPAC is absolutely vital and if we can't find the (relative) pocket change to preserve it what are we even doing here.

Too early.

For "undermining domestic tranquility," which is just about the lowest possible bar. Does getting a speeding ticket count? Participating in a protest that slows traffic? Speaking during a movie?

Just going about an ordinarily life, but wearing a headscarf that *others* get agitated about?

listen, i've seen a lot of bullshit that turned my stomach and sent me to therapy etc but lmao this shit's got every gc buzzing like "sorry what the fuck" LITERALLY ALL OF US THINK THIS IS WEIRD

Consumer watchdog boss quits, alleging months of unpaid wages - The Logic Former executive director says he voluntarily went without compensation to keep Public Interest Advocacy Centre financially afloat

Great follow story from @lauraosman.bsky.social , after Claire Brownell reported on desperation at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre: thelogic.co/news/consume...

CRTC says it’s trying to slash the red tape strangling public-interest groups - The Logic Non-profits say the commission takes nine months to approve payment for participation in hearings, causing "existential" financial risk

In principle, the CRTC pays costs for groups that make public-interest cases in its hearings, so that business and industry isn't the only perspective it hears.

In practice, the CRTC can take so long to make those payments that the advocacy groups are dying out. thelogic.co/news/crtc-ad...

They aren't saying that, quite, although bail is typically meant to be set at a level high enough to discourage flight, so the accused person's wealth is supposed to be considered at that stage.

One effect of "cash bail," which Ontario is herewith seeking to institute, is that poorer people stay in jail awaiting trial—losing housing, work and so on—even on petty charges while richer people don't. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

I myself had forecast zero typos in that skeet but fell short of my goal.

Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

Faked sales claims. AI-driven hunts for malefactors jn a “high-trust company.” Executives heading for the exits. @aleksagan.bsky.social has an exclusive report on bad doings at #Shopify.