John Michael McGrath
@jm_mcgrath
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Ontario policy and politics, TVO | [email protected] | jm_mcgrath.01 on signal 'JM will do all the nerdy public policy stuff' -@spaikin
Toronto
Joined February 2009
A Canadian man is suing OpenAI, claiming his interactions with the company’s ChatGPT chatbot destroyed his reputation, alienated him from his family and sent him into a mental health crisis. https://t.co/KvIFoCDab7 via @the_logic
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Allan Brooks, one of the plaintiffs, spent weeks speaking to ChatGPT about a mathematical formula he had devised that could bring down global financial systems. Then he realized it was all a lie.
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In an effort to bolster housing production & new development, The City of Baltimore has; 🚗eliminated minimum parking requirements citywide, 🏙️allowed single-stair buildings up to 6-floors, and 📐shrunk setback requirements. 📍Baltimore, MD
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Tried this out at the No Frills near work today and I gotta say I'm a fan.
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Loblaw is launching a fresh new grocery shopping experience at three of its downtown Toronto No Frills stores to save their customers time, but will they bite?
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A stray cat in SF gets run over by Waymo and a supervisor organizes protests and it makes national news. A baby (and family) is hit by a driver near a school 4 weeks ago (true story), not a peep.
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constitutional crisis averted
#EXCLUSIVE: ‘I was under duress’: Prince Harry apologizes to Canada for wearing L.A. Dodgers hat during World Series https://t.co/PDVcvFdiXh
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Miami did not disappoint! From cold plunges to cool drinks, we took that LIVE. FIT. GO. lifestyle to a whole new level to celebrate the release of our Limited Edition Spritz Vibe Snowball Frost!
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Ontario's highest court said that if Ontario was going to have a GHG emissions target and strategy then its policies had to comply with the Charter; the Ontario government has decided to do away with its GHG target and strategy.
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LOL there goes the Mathur v. Ontario case which will now be moot
BREAKING: The Ford government is making major changes to GHG tracking: Eliminating the province's requirements to establish reduction targets, create a climate change plan and report progress to the public. This was included in the Fall Economic Statement. #onpoli
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"With an average home price of $381,500 and a happiness score of 65.9 according to Leger’s Happiness Index for 2025, Winnipeg has the distinction of being the most balanced Canadian city." https://t.co/IUoaOVUCuZ
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Legacy VC funds keep complaining there’s too much capital out there, “theres too many funds.” Meanwhile, the founders actually building hard, meaningful products are the ones getting turned away by those legacy funds. “What you’re building is too complicated.” So what’s a
Generators, grid transformers, heavy equipment, Cooling systems, robotic arms, CNC machines, airplanes, are all in global shortage right now with long lead times. But apparently, the AI lawyer is the real priority for vc funding.
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Now more than ever in this crazed era, read my memoir about how William F. Buckley, Jr., one of the foremost Catholics of the 20th century befriended me, a Jewish kid, when I was 19. We need more of this and to celebrate it. WFB was a giant and we miss him more than ever! @NRO
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“We are subsidizing the companies who are going to take your job and you’ll pay higher electricity prices as they try to do so.”
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MLB says 51 million average viewers watched Game 7 in US, Canada and Japan combined, its most-watched game globally in 34 years.
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None of the big Dem winners - Spanberger, Sherrill, even Mamdani - talked a lot about the climate. But their wins are all good for the climate! Maybe climate activists should think about this before yelling at Dems to talk a lot about the climate.
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Between this and Trump telling GOP Senators to nuke the filibuster we're approaching dangerous levels of "don't threaten me with a good time"
Gorsuch asks whether a different president could declare a national emergency on climate change. Sauer says he thinks they probably could. So a GOP administration is arguing to the Supreme Court that a climate change emergency is probably allowed, for the sake of tariffs.
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Politics is not a game, my country is not a game, etc. Granted. But. Maximum chaos scenario that would make me giggle: ONE more CPC MP defects to Liberals. Carney gets stuck one short, Poilievre takes another hit.
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HAPPENING NOW: Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy says the federal budget lacks ambition, is just tinkering. He spoke with his federal counterpart this morning
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I wrote an op-ed for @TorontoStar on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision for the future of our City. Gift link here:
thestar.com
We need to accept that Toronto is now a big city.
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“While [Toronto] has grown rapidly since 1989, the number of local neighbourhood retailers has dropped precipitously from 2,137 to 1,406.”
I wrote an op-ed for @TorontoStar on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision for the future of our City. Gift link here:
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One of Mamdani's superpowers is that he doesn't seem to think that people who disagree with him are bad people. He tolerates disagreement with a smile. This has allowed him to bring along a *lot* of New Yorkers who don't necessarily love all his ideas but like *him*
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