A Ford government minister didn’t attend the prestigious U.S. university his official bios claimed.
Michael Tibollo never went to the University of Southern California — it was the online-only ‘California Southern University.'
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Michael Tibollo never went to the University of Southern California — it was the online-only ‘California Southern University'
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Years into a freedom of information fight over the Greenbelt scandal, @jessiecatherine.bsky.social (The Trillium) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social FOI changes could block the records. "This does matter." At 8pm with Salvator Cusimano (@transparencycan.bsky.social) | Producer: @colinellis81.bsky.social
NEW: A company that got $2M from the Skills Development Fund is run by a dentist who boasts about having the Ford family among his patients.
Ford says he had nothing to do with it getting a grant: “I don't believe in micromanaging.”
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In this op-ed, former premier Kathleen Wynne writes about having to face "uncomfortable, sometimes humiliating experiences" because of information unearthed by FOI requests.
That, she argues, is part of our democracy, and Ford's FOI changes will weaken it.
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In the course of our investigation into the Skills Development Fund, we've filed a lot of FOI requests. We recently got some high cost estimates for records and decided to ask the public for help.
Read all about our crowdfunding campaign here.
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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🧵It's been less than a month since the government changed the freedom of information laws, but a slew of updated rejection notes have started to land in the inboxes of journalists, advocates and others.
Here's a look at the first few. #ONpoli
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The Ford government's weakening of its FOI regime has cut off public access to hundreds of records about the Greenbelt scandal that were about to be released to @jessiecatherine.bsky.social.
Processing versus cancelling timelines are notable. #Onpoli
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NEW: Ontario civil servants processing freedom of information documents within the Ford government have been told to pause their work, putting thousands of transparency requests in limbo. #OnPoli
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The company’s CEO also worked closely with the wife of the minister in charge of the grant program at the time
A message sent to senior staff within the government's access to information departments before the long weekend told them to stop releasing all official communications.
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
