Wency Leung

The Talented Ms. Goldiee Podcast Episode · Question Everything · March 5 · 28m

On today's Question Everything, a magazine editor tries to solve a mystery -- is one of his freelancers trying to trick him? Check out "The Talented Ms. Goldiee" with @nickhunebrown.bsky.social from @thelocal.to

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The Local Fellowship 2026 | The Local Our fellowship program provides training and mentorship to emerging journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. Applications are now open.

📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...

The Province Took Over Ontario’s Biggest School Boards to Fix Their Finances. The Numbers Tell a Different Story | The Local Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive some of the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem is mismanagement or the funding formu...

Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem isn’t mismanagement but the funding formula. @wencyleung.bsky.social's latest from our School Board Takeover series. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

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Went to a Sunday afternoon showing of Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, and died laughing. The entire cinema erupted in spontaneous applause at the end

Walking 1,300 km of Black history in Ontario | The Narwhal Ken Johnston walked from Niagara Falls to Owen Sound, following the boggy, buggy Underground Railroad path of early Black settlers in Ontario

Called by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 1,360 kilometres through southern Ontario to retrace parts of the Underground Railroad. Here's what he learned about Black history in Canada, including the outdoor survival skills needed to escape enslavement. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...

The Cost of Care | The Local Stories about where money and medicine collide in 2026. Throughout January and February, we’ll publish pieces from the corners of Ontario’s health care system where entrepreneurs and corporate Canada ...

Great reporting (as per usual) on Ontario's healthcare system by the team over at @thelocal.to, with some stellar pieces by @royinori.bsky.social, @rebeccaga0.bsky.social and @wencyleung.bsky.social, among others.

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When Your Dermatologist Becomes a Salesperson | The Local Getting a mole checked can takes months, but Botox appointments are readily available. Why dermatologists say their practice is the canary in the coal mine for privatized care.

The always excellent @rebeccaga0.bsky.social tackles the blurring line between medical and commercial in the world of dermatology. What happens when your health care practition turns a medically-necessary appointment turns into a sales pitch for cosmetic procedures? thelocal.to/dermatology-...

I wish I could've offered more answers in this story. What kind of calls are "low" vs "high priority"? How many people don't bother waiting? What were the outcomes? Alas, my NUMEROUS requests to the Health Ministry and Ontario Health went unanswered #ontpoli #onthealth

A conflict as old as cities themselves! Here’s my story on Toronto’s rats from 2022:

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Send Canadian oil to Cuba - CCPA The United States is attempting to deliberately trigger a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Canada must act in concert with regional allies to defy the blockade.

Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger.

I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca

Fascinating new data findings from @wencyleung.bsky.social in today's final story of the Cost of Care issue, on the failures of Health811, Ontario's health hotline: thelocal.to/health811-te...

Thank you, Liz! ❤️

Ontario ends tuition fee freeze at public colleges, universities | Globalnews.ca Post-secondary institutions will be allowed to increase their tuition fees by two per cent per year for three years, before switching to an inflation-informed increase after that.

NEW: The Ford government is ending its tuition fee freeze at colleges and universities. Post-secondary institutions will be allowed to increase fees by 2% per year over the next three years.

Also major boost in funding for the sector overall. #OnPoli
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Back when it was Telehealth Ontario, callers could speak with a nurse within seconds or minutes. Now that the service has been replaced by Health811, the average wait time can be many hours #onthealth

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

When Your Dermatologist Becomes a Salesperson | The Local Getting a mole checked can takes months, but Botox appointments are readily available. Why dermatologists say their practice is the canary in the coal mine for privatized care.

For @thelocal.to i wrote about dermatologists upselling their patients. It’s a trend that critics warn is creating a two-tier system for dermatological care, and may foreshadow what’s to come in Ontario’s health care system more broadly: thelocal.to/dermatology-...

When Your Dermatologist Becomes a Salesperson | The Local Getting a mole checked can takes months, but Botox appointments are readily available. Why dermatologists say their practice is the canary in the coal mine for privatized care.

Getting a mole checked can takes months, but Botox appointments are readily available. @rebeccaga0.bsky.social on why dermatologists say their practice is the canary in the coal mine for privatized care. thelocal.to/dermatology-...

Excellent coverage, @andytakagi.bsky.social!

After 15 years of construction, the Eglinton Crosstown is finally open!
My life has been consumed by Crosstown coverage over the past few months, (as I assume yours has been, too) so here's a quick recap of my work for the Toronto Star:

I love Toronto. ❤️

First impression of Eglinton Crosstown is that it feels more “LRT” than Finch West. On the western arm which is underground, it’s max speed is 56 km/h although it’s capable of much faster.

Maybe I'm biased, but this one-of-a-kind visual guide brought to life by @wencyleung.bsky.social and Michael DeForge might be the most entertaining thing you read this weekend. Don't miss it:

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How Ontario’s Corporate Pharmacies Are Burning Out Their Pharmacists | The Local At corporate pharmacies like Shoppers Drug Mart, pharmacists say they face overwhelming pressure from their parent companies to perform medically unnecessary tasks in the interest of profit.

Corporate pressure to earn more $$ is driving pharmacists away, at a time when Ontarians are relying on pharmacists to take on a greater share of health care. Excellent reporting by
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Thank you, @sgrimbly.bsky.social ! 😄

Understanding the Eglinton Crosstown in Seven Illustrations | The Local From Shohei Ohtani’s salary to the tunneling rate of a mole—an unorthodox guide to the numbers behind Toronto’s newest transit line.

This is brilliant. Data Illustration by Michael DeForge with text by Wency Leung
click through and be amazed!!! (the comparison to diamond studded Rolex watches alone. I can't even.....)
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Some spots drawn for thelocal.to, illustrating some of the many delays that led up to the completion of the Eglinton LRT

Understanding the Eglinton Crosstown in Seven Illustrations | The Local From Shohei Ohtani’s salary to the tunneling rate of a mole—an unorthodox guide to the numbers behind Toronto’s newest transit line.

The tunnelling rate of a mole, Kardashian career-spans, Jamaican patties-per-capita—we had to pull out unorthodox units of measurement to understand the Eglinton Crosstown. Amazing art by the great @michaeldeforge.bsky.social. thelocal.to/understandin...

"Out of 25 transit projects that started in 2011 around the world, from Beijing to Instanbul to Moscow, the Crosstown is the last to open."
Also lol at the Jamaican patty cost estimates.