Thorben Wieditz
urban geographer | researcher and campaigner | co-founder of https://metstrat.ca | doer of things
- Reposted by Thorben WieditzThere is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
- "Premier Doug Ford’s job approval remains sharply negative. The PCs have lost 5 points since a high of 47% in October." press.liaisonstrategies.ca/ontario-pcs-...
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- Reposted by Thorben WieditzNEW investigation from me! The #ontpoli gov't swears an "adult entertainment club" didn't get taxpayer money... but documents we obtained suggest further connections. ‘Adult entertainment club’ faces new questions after business licence filing and millions in provincial cash
- Every time Brad Bradford cosplays mayor, remember: “In the 2023 mayoral byelection […] Bradford received just over 1% of the vote.” lhttps://www.thestar.com/news/gta/how-olivia-chow-and-john-tory-might-do-with-voters-if-an-election-were-held/article_ee93da13-3934-4386-9dff-02edf140e477.html
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- Reposted by Thorben WieditzToday is the last day for Ontarians to weigh in on the Doug Ford government's plan to consolidate 36 conservations authorities into seven regional ones. Here's everything you need to know about it: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
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- Love the sound of this. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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- Reposted by Thorben WieditzI did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Ontario pumps money into a fraud to develop chat bots with funds meant to help actual workers develop skills. www.thetrillium.ca/news/politics/two-companies-under-firm-of-ontario-securities-commission-sanctioned-ceo-got-skills-development-fund-grants-11603743
- Way to go. www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...
- Here we go.
- Reposted by Thorben WieditzFishing expedition or improper shield? Doug Ford personal cellphone fight heads to court globalnews.ca/news/1157267... #onpoli
- Vancouver and community benefit agreements … vancouversun.com/news/local-n...
- What could go wrong? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
- “New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won in part because he had an obsessive focus on improving life for transit users. His promises included free bus trips – an idea that is controversial in transit circles – but also making these vehicles faster and their arrival more predictable.”
- If Ford’s gig work reform that lets Uber get away with paying workers for “engaged” time only apply to his caucus, they would see a signific pay cut. #ONpoli www.thestar.com/politics/ont...
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- Here we go again, another story about Silicon Valley’s corporate assholes Maple washing their operations in Canada. Airbnb's new Canadian country manager has plenty of experience working for U.S.-based companies, so getting her to do the job tracks. www.thestar.com/business/can...
- “Piccini himself told NewsTalk1010 that he had personally intervened to approve the grant to Keel.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
- Pretty sure you can do that in Toronto as well.
- Uber, Airbnb, Sidewalk Labs, Waymo… Silicon Valley keeps promising us the future www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
- There is still some good news coming out of Ontario every once in a while. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
- You can’t make that shit up.
- Reposted by Thorben WieditzJust as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
- Reposted by Thorben Wieditz"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
- Reposted by Thorben WieditzResearch on strikes and lockouts depends on consistent longitudinal data. We need it to identify trends & shifts in labour relations. Without good data, you can’t properly analyze, compare & contextualize current labour conflicts. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #canlab #cdnpoli
- Airbnb is at it again… Whitehorse is experiencing a housing crisis, with very low vacancy rates, rising rents, and growing homelessness, yet the U.S. platform giant tells locals to oppose housing protective rules that restrict short-term rentals to principal residences. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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- Well done. That’s the kind of environmental policy review to contextualize the Ford government’s environmental track record in light of current policy proposals/legislative changes. We need the same for labour policies and the incremental loss of democratic oversight/ transparency in this province.
- Thank you @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for publishing my analysis of #Onpoli’s Skills Development scandal. Has the nature of political scandals shifted in the past decade under populist right-wing governments? I do think so.
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- Wow. It doesn't sound like this person wasted your time, @nickhunebrown.bsky.social. It made for a really great story and a fascinating read. It reminds me of people offering services to write assignments for students willing to pay, except this is now reaching an entirely different level of fraud.
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- Ford’s so-called Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act doesn’t protect workers — it protects Uber. All it really does is help U.S. platform giants suppress wages, with Ford and Piccini setting up the system for them. Thank you, Captain Canada. www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...
- Reposted by Thorben WieditzICYMI: I spoke to 12 staff from 12 conservation authorities (many of them anonymously for fear of government retribution) who say Doug Ford's plan to consolidate the unique agencies from 36 to 7 may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ over development & flood protections thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
- What an incredible article. I feel like I read it before, but for anyone interested in greenbelt legislation and the Ford government’s consistent undermining of environmental protections in ON, take a few minutes and read this piece. thepointer.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Thorben WieditzThe Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
- Just realized Ford was about to cut a deal with the same nightclub operator and labour union at Ontario Place that scored tens of millions in SDF money. No wonder those names looked familiar. Small world, huh.🤔 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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- What a racket. “Before McNaughton stepped down as labour minister shortly before leaving elected politics altogether in the fall of 2023, the ministry paid about $5.1 million to Carlo Biasucci’s Elite Practice business.” www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
- 👀 … “there are plenty of progressives up here — the people you might call Chow’s base — who wish she would take advice from Mamdani. Because nothing in Chow’s own campaign or unfolding agenda seems quite as dramatic.“ www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
- First tracks. Winter’s here early.
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