Dave Gray-Donald
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@TheGrindTO publisher & editorial director @dgrdon.bsky.social
Joined September 2013
👀Not Rob Godfrey's first time with being at a company accused of 'unfair advantage' in receiving contracts from friends in government.
globalnews.ca
An external investigation, alongside almost 500 pages of communications, memos and notes, suggests two firms with links to Brampton council members may have received an advantage.
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Very interesting that the CEO of the company at the middle of the Skills Development Fund scandal is the son of Paul Godfrey.
CEO of Keel is Rob Godfrey, Paul Godfrey's son. Godfrey is former CEO of Postmedia, controlled by a NJ hedge fund of Trump's friends. They owned the National Enquirer, which ran catch and kill for Trump for decades. Postmedia owns the vast majority of newspapers in Canada.
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🚨The Israeli occupation army dumped medications of cancer patients returning to Gaza from Al-Quds (Jerusalem) through the Erez Crossing. A Palestinian man welcomed his sick mother and sister home after two years of treatment in Jerusalem, only to find that she was returning to a
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Evidence that they really didn't trust each other not to mess up.
Notably, the CPC and NDP both had 2 abstentions. So they both covered themselves to allow budget to pass, regardless of what other party did.
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Right now, protesters are outside the pre-taped 2025 Giller Prize ceremony with a puppet of David Fingold (the asset manager at Scotiabank responsible for the bank's Elbit Systems investment) asking: Who funds the Giller Prize?
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Abstenions appeared to have been: NDP MP Gord Johns NDP MP Lori Idlout Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux All other opposition MPs voted against, except for Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, who voted “yea” alongside the Liberals.
🚨 NO ELECTION 🚨 The vote barely squeaked by thanks to abstentions. Final tally: 170 yeas, 168 nays
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More on the budget and its lack of coherent climate plan here.
theenergymix.com
A climate competitiveness strategy that sidesteps emission reduction mandates for fossil fuel producers and sets the stage to repeal a hard-fought cap on the industry’s carbon pollution is a centre...
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Canada's emissions were 694 Mt CO2e in 2023 and again in 2024. The 2030 target is 443 Mt. That's a 36% reduction in five or six years. Since singing the Paris Agreements, Canada with the federal Liberals in government has seen a 6% reduction in the last 10 years.
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Hard to believe Elizabeth May is naive enough to believe Canada is on track to meet its 2030 Paris Agreement target with this pro-oil budget. Voting for it with that rationale gives false confidence to many people. In reality, we're way off track from the target.
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Toronto parents have spent years pushing to make TDSB schools safer, more equitable and more supportive. Since the Ford government's takeover of the board, their efforts have disappeared, @emmapaling reports. https://t.co/5mAbBJOcBr
thegrindmag.ca
Toronto parents spent years pushing the TDSB on disability support, air quality, Palestine and more. Now, the Ontario government’s takeover has washed away their efforts.
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Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada https://t.co/VXFYnxVKBO
@martinshawx @kthalps @faisalkutty @NaomiAKlein @MarkKersten @sarahleah1
aljazeera.com
Falk, who is in Canada for Palestine Tribunal, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
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Another dental sector biz that got millions in Ontario labour funds had ties to then-minister’s wife
thetrillium.ca
The company of a dentist-turned-businessman who worked with the ex-minister’s wife through another organization received $5.1 million of taxpayer funds
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#ONED Judging from this email I just received, there will be no more trustees at any school board in the very near future. Instead, parents will simply be stonewalled by talking to yet another superintendent. This is tragic for students. No more wondering about support…..
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Last call to advertise in our next print issue, going out free in TTC stations and to 450+ other spots! There are a few discounted ad placements left. ads[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein Worked on Wire Transfer to Israeli Spy Who Stayed for Weeks at a Time at His Manhattan Mansion w/@MazMHussain
dropsitenews.com
Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his apartment.
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NEW: What really happened at the IDF soldiers talk in Toronto last week. Thread🧵 The incident became international news, with many reports omitting the violence of one of the IDF soldiers and repeating false claims. This @TheGrindTO investigation is the most in-depth so far.
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"Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show" The project of flattening Gaza continues>> https://t.co/55zfy2AvRO
bbc.com
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸JUST IN: CCTV footage shows dozens of masked Israeli settlers raiding a dairy factory near Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to two trucks and two vehicles.
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A new article from @TheGrindTO is thus far the best look at what actually happened at the Combat on Campus event in Toronto. https://t.co/Bg2ptdzdcv
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