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Thorben Wieditz

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urban geographer | researcher and campaigner | co-founder of https://metstrat.ca | doer of things

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    Thorben Wieditz @twieditz.bsky.social

    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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    Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

    What we’d once consider a scandal is now just another day in Doug Ford’s Ontario.

    A $16 orange juice once ended a political career. Today, government shrugs off allegations of a billion-dollar slush fund — the result of a decade of far-right impunity.

    ricochet.media/politics/wha...

    #onpoli

    Once a $16 orange juice could end a career. Today, Ford’s government shrugs off allegations of a billion-dollar slush fund, revealing a political culture reshaped — and degraded — by a decade of far-r...

    What we'd once consider a scandal is now just another day in Doug Ford's Ontario

    Once a $16 orange juice could end a career. Today, Ford’s government shrugs off allegations of a billion-dollar slush fund, revealing a political culture reshaped — and degraded — by a decade of far-r...

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    Thorben Wieditz @twieditz.bsky.social

    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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    Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social

    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...

    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.

    Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local

    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.

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    Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social

    Hot take: It's a bad thing for a ride-hailing driver to work 139 hours in a week. Bad for him, bad for traffic safety. Just bad www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

    Rules guarantee minimum wage $17.20/hour for “engaged time” — spent actively completing trips or deliveries — but ignore time spent waiting for work.

    This GTA rideshare driver says his earnings have never been lower. Why he and others say Ontario’s new minimum wage law isn’t helping

    Rules guarantee minimum wage $17.20/hour for “engaged time” — spent actively completing trips or deliveries — but ignore time spent waiting for work.
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    Thorben Wieditz @twieditz.bsky.social

    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...

    Rules guarantee minimum wage $17.20/hour for “engaged time” — spent actively completing trips or deliveries — but ignore time spent waiting for work.

    This GTA rideshare driver says his earnings have never been lower. Why he and others say Ontario’s new minimum wage law isn’t helping

    Rules guarantee minimum wage $17.20/hour for “engaged time” — spent actively completing trips or deliveries — but ignore time spent waiting for work.
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    Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social

    ICYMI: 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...

    Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7

    Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal

    Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
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    Thorben Wieditz @twieditz.bsky.social

    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...

    After secretly working to destroy it, Ford government silent on long overdue review of Ontario’s Greenbelt

    After secretly working to destroy it, Ford government silent on long overdue review of Ontario’s Greenbelt

    After secretly working to destroy it, Ford government silent on long overdue review of Ontario’s Greenbelt
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