Kenyon Wallace
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Toronto Star Business Reporter focusing on the intersection of private business and publicly funded healthcare | Comments my own | Retweets not endorsements
Joined June 2009
A 50-year-old six-minute song about a shipwreck is number one on Billboard:
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Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is No. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time following the shipwreck's 50th anniversary.
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Collab w/ @R_SPatel: Everyone wants the new TTC subway cars to be made in Canada. So why are Ottawa and city hall butting heads over them? https://t.co/rGNZH4UlMw via @torontostar
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The project to replace the TTC’s Line 2 subway trains has been stalled for weeks over an apparent misunderstanding between Toronto city hall and the federal government.
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Disturbing errors at Ontario fertility clinics destroy couples' baby dreams years after province abandoned oversight plans. My latest investigation for The @TorontoStar
https://t.co/rgMhEc2MLI
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Proposed regulations were supposed to better protect patients. But the reforms were never put into effect.
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It took me a year to get this data because Shoppers Drug Mart didn’t want it public. It reveals Ontario taxpayers footed a $61M bill for more than 1.2 million meds checks done by Shoppers over 14 months, via @TorontoStar:
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Three former Shoppers pharmacists say they faced intense corporate pressure to meet growing quotas. Shoppers says there's "an important need for this service."
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BREAKING - A judge has granted all existing supervised consumption sites in Ontario that were scheduled to close on April 1 an injunction so they can continue operating until a final decision is rendered in a court challenge. More here:
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Injunction says sites can be open past the April 1 deadline, including the site in Toronto’s Kensington Market that launched the Charter challenge.
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ICYMI: Councillors voted to give themselves a 24% raise after a report found they made less than their peers in other cities. It was criticized by some staffers in councillors' own offices, whose wages are frozen as they try to unionize. https://t.co/Wx6oyvZeym via @TorontoStar
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Toronto city councillors voted to give themselves a 24 per cent raise on Thursday after a report concluded they made less than their peers in other municipalities.
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Canadian Blood Services’ partnership with a private company that pays for plasma puts the ethics and safety of our blood system at risk, critics say. My story today in the @TorontoStar:
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Canadian Blood Services’ partnership with a private company that pays for plasma puts the ethics and safety of our blood system at risk, critics say.
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This line: About an hour into the most recent Hudson's Bay court hearing, four or five screens "showing sexually explicit videos appeared on the courtroom Zoom call and stayed up for about 15 seconds, shocking those present:"
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Justice suspends hearing after pornographic cyber-hijacking of Zoom session sends shockwaves through courtroom for 15 seconds.
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My @TorontoStar colleagues and I will be running a live blog during the 45th election, you can follow along here #bookmark! #cdnpoli Live updates: Carney expected to call snap election today; Poilievre to hold news conference at 11:30 ET https://t.co/VK2REvGOZj via @torontostar
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has called a snap federal election, sending Canadians to the polls on April 28. Canada’s major political parties have launched their campaigns.
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Scoop from @mahdishabibinia and me: Toronto councillor Jennifer McKelvie plans to run for Liberals in federal election: sources https://t.co/wTn0qPR0kL
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Sources told the Star Toronto councillor Jennifer McKelvie would likely run for the Liberals in the federal riding of Ajax in the upcoming election.
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The biggest storylines of this federal election campaign here’s an election scene setter from @R_SPatel @markramzyy @RyanTumilty @aballinga
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Here’s what’s at stake for Canada’s federal parties as a the nation’s monumental 45th general election campaign begins.
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Hudson’s Bay, a company older than Canada itself, will begin liquidating all but six of its stores Monday, bringing a story 355 years in the making close to its end:
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Hudson’s Bay says it will try to save six of its 96 stores from liquidation, including its flagship store at Yonge and Queen Streets in Toronto.
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What a scoop from @robertbenzie: Ford's call with Poilievre was a chance for the premier "to express his displeasure to Poilievre at how some federal Tories disparage his three-term government as "not conservative enough:"
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford told Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre he would be too busy governing Ontario to help in the upcoming federal election campaign.
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From the front page of the Toronto Star: Andy Takagi with more on internal @fordnation reports that contradict almost everything Ford & @PrabSarkaria have told the public to justify the removal of Toronto bike lanes
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The documents, which include confidential briefings and a government-commissioned engineering report, show that the government was warned that its plan to remove bike lanes on Toronto’s main thorou...
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Rosaria Giovanniello says when she was referred to a private clinic for cataract surgery, no one told her that the procedure was covered by OHIP, the government-run public health insurance plan for Ontario, via @TorontoStar:
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The office of Ontario’s Patient Ombudsman received some 4,429 complaints in the 2023-24 fiscal year — the most since it opened in 2016.
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Mark Carney says he'll meet Donald Trump on trade when there's 'respect for Canadian sovereignty' as Canada fires back at $29.8 billion worth of counter-tariffs. My latest: https://t.co/OL9B5YXdso via @torontostar
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Carney said Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs are "unjustified," and that they breach the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade deal.
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The Bank of Canada is cutting key interest rate for the seventh consecutive time on Wednesday, via @anabpereiraa @TorontoStar:
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Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem emphasized that the bank will remain cautious about future rate cuts as it cannot offset the destructive impacts of a trade war.
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Amidst a recent rash of violence in Toronto — including a brazen Friday shooting spree at a Scarborough pub — Mayor Olivia Chow is decrying gun violence witnessed by citizens in as many weeks, saying everyone “needs to feel safe in our city.”
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is decrying gun violence witnessed by citizens in as many weeks, saying everyone “needs to feel safe in our city.”
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‘It’s simply incredible nobody was killed’: 12 injured in brazen gunfire attack inside Scarborough pub as police hunt for 3 shooters From yesterday, w/ @KenyonWallace, @PeterEdwardsTS, @nbawaan and @ElissaMendes: https://t.co/MmGGYlxShL
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The mass shooting at a pub in Scarborough has been linked on social media to ongoing towing industry violence but Toronto police won’t confirm a connection.
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