Sneh Duggal
@snehduggal
Deputy editor @Thetrilliumca | @JSchool_CU Alum | Previously @QPbriefing, Embassy News/@HillTimesGlobal, @OttawaCitizen, Contact FM (Rwanda).
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Company embroiled in skills fund controversy received Ontario cash last month during audit, via @jeffreybgray #onpoli theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
New: A murky timeline around the disbursal of millions of taxpayer dollars, two audits and a referral to provincial police is fuelling the Opposition’s claims of “corruption” in the Ford government. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/insider-news/p…
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Ford government dodges questions about company at the centre of Skills Development Fund scandal
Whether Get A-Head received funding after the forensic audit began remains unclear
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. thetrillium.ca/news/the-trill…
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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN: Help us investigate the Skills Development Fund
Your contribution can make hidden government documents public
NEW: The company involved in the Paris Wedding/Leafs game Skills Development Fund controversy has been the subject of a forensic audit. The province just got it back and sent it to the OPP. thetrillium.ca/news/politics/… by @AidanChamandy @CharliePinkerto and me.
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Ford government sends audit of company involved in Skills Development Fund controversy to OPP
The province says it sent police details of a ‘forensic audit’ of a company it’s paid $37M, and whose lobbyist’s Parisian wedding was recently attended by the labour minister
NEW: Ontario has negotiated a one-year extension of $10-a-day child-care program: education minister @snehduggal with the scoop thetrillium.ca/insider-news/e… via @Thetrilliumca
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Ontario has negotiated a one-year extension of $10-a-day child-care program: education minister
Paul Calandra issued a letter to child-care operators on Monday saying the extension will keep fees at a maximum of $22 per day, until at least Dec. 31, 2026
NEW: Millions from the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund is benefiting the owner of a new Toronto “adult entertainment club,” where strippers give lap dances & scantily clad aerialists perform while suspended from above by their teeth or hair. thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…
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Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment...
For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years
New: Ford govt says it’s having “conversations” to “better safeguard the use of seclusion rooms” in schools Advocates call the lack of provincial rules for such rooms “truly egregious,” esp after a teen was found unresponsive in a “sensory room” last yr thetrillium.ca/news/education…
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Ford government having discussions to ‘better safeguard the use of seclusion rooms’ in schools
Advocates say the lack of standards for such rooms, especially after a student died in a ‘sensory’ room last year, is ‘outrageous’
Province pulls funding for Parkdale supervised consumption site, forcing closure torontotoday.ca/local/health/p…
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Province pulls funding for Parkdale supervised consumption site, forcing another closure
The move follows a spike in the number of clients using the west end site — and an increase in complaints from its neighbours
New: The church where a Ford government cabinet minister was married got $2.8M from the Skills Development Fund and Labour Ministry. It’s one of three places of worship to get SDF grants, all with apparent PC connections. From me and @CharliePinkerto. thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…
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Church where PC cabinet minister was married got $2.8M from Skills Development Fund, ministry
Gurdwara that posted Ford endorsement also received SDF grant
NEW: ‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson. thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…
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‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals
John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson
Read this. @snehduggal dives into the stories of young people being charged with truancy for missing school, a practice most boards have rejected for doing more harm than good, particularly when the root causes are mental health challenges and homelessness.
‘It’s very barbaric’: Families, advocates decry truancy charges against Ontario teens thetrillium.ca/news/education…
NEW w/ @jessiecatherine: Premier Doug Ford's government gave Skills Development Fund grants totalling $6.5M to an organization training people to work at clubs run by a fixture of Ford Nation once dubbed "Rob Ford's favourite nightclub owner." thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…
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Group training workers for ‘Rob Ford’s favourite nightclub owner’ got $6.5M in provincial skills...
Training takes place at Zlatko Starkovski’s event venue at Exhibition Place
NEW: To get the first of $17M-worth of taxpayer-funded grants to run training programs, Toronto restaurateurs had a Ford government cabinet minister's office on its side — even after submitting a "low" scoring application "late," as internal emails show. thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…
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Minister’s office insisted restaurateurs be granted millions despite ‘late’ and ‘low’ scoring...
One of the company's owners had donated thousands to the PC party and was friendly with a key Ford aide, according to three well-placed sources
ICYMI: Ford friend's company seeking $500M from Metrolinx in expropriation dispute via @CharliePinkerto thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…
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Ford friend's company seeking $500M from Metrolinx in expropriation dispute
A development group wants a tribunal to force the transit agency to compensate it for air rights in downtown Toronto that it agreed to buy, but hadn’t paid for
“He's literally in a jail. It's just like a room, a concrete room.” That’s how Logan’s mom describes the room he attended an Ontario school in. She’d like to see funding for him reallocated — from the education system to Ontario’s autism program. thetrillium.ca/news/education… 🔓
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Mom pleads for province to fund son’s autism therapy instead of ‘jail’-like box at school
A Whitby mom says the province could likely save money by reallocating education-related funding for her 13-year-old son with autism to behavioural therapy for him
NEW: Since 4 Toronto safe consumption sites were forced to close, the number of overdoses per week at Metropolitan United Church has gone from 1 to as many as 6. "It's just carnage all the time. I feel like I’m staring at a bad motor vehicle accident.’ torontotoday.ca/local/health/c…
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Churches see alarming overdose spike on-site since safe consumption site closures
‘It's just carnage all the time. I feel like I’m staring at a bad motor vehicle accident,’ says one church property manager
Here’s the story that’s consumed me and @CharliePinkerto for the last couple of months.
Meet the bagman: the Ontario PC fundraising chief and his developer ties thetrillium.ca/news/the-trill…
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Meet the bagman: the Ontario PC fundraising chief and his developer ties
The top fundraiser for Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives works for developers, while also raising money from them for the party
NEW: Meet the bagman. Tony Miele is the top fundraiser for Doug Ford's PCs — & he’s quite good at it. He’s also a longtime “consultant” for developers. Sources, court & gov records shed light to @Thetrilliumca on why he’s known as such a powerful figure. thetrillium.ca/news/the-trill…
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Meet the bagman: the Ontario PC fundraising chief and his developer ties
The top fundraiser for Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives works for developers, while also raising money from them for the party
New: After responses about expanding GO train service to Vancouver and an electrification schedule 18,000 years into the future, Metrolinx says the @GOtransit account will no longer use AI. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/news/municipal…
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GO Transit X account will no longer respond to riders with AI: Metrolinx
'We recognize that we did not meet our customer support standards, and we have provided clear direction to our vendor that AI cannot be used under any circumstances,' the agency said
NEW: ‘Stupidest thing ever’: Ontario students say cellphone ban isn’t working @villagemedia spoke to high school students in several cities about the govt’s cell ban. Here’s what they said: thetrillium.ca/news/education… 🔓 Plus, one teacher shared how his school is making it work
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‘Stupidest thing ever’: Ontario students say cellphone ban isn’t working
Village Media spoke to high school students across the province about the government’s cellphone ban after one year
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