Last year, artist Jason Stieva completed work on “Leviathan – Ark of the Apocalypse,” a spectacular, 7-foot-long, 8-foot-high sculpture of a ghostly pirate ship. Steiva is an assemblage sculptor and tattoo artist from Whitby, ON who spent 15 months on the ship, which is populated by a variety of readymade Warcraft miniatures and other findings.
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Profiles in criminal Canadian bumblefuckery: Canadaland on the Ford Family
Dynasties is the latest special series from Canadaland Commons, a podcast that deeply investigates the sleazy, dysfunctional wealthy dynasties that dominate Canadian politics, media and business.
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Big Tech lobbyists and “open for business” Tories killed Ontario’s Right-to-Repair legislation
In February, Liberal Party opposition MPP Michael Coteau introduced Right to Repair legislation after he was charged $400 to fix the cracked screen on his daughter’s Samsung phone; that bill is now dead, as are dozens of Right to Repair bills introduced in US state houses, after Conservative MPs, heavily lobbied by US Big Tech firms, killed it before it could proceed to committee.
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Ontario’s low-budget Trump-alike wants to eliminate sedation for people getting colonoscopies
Doug Ford (previously) is the trumpian buffoon elected to the office of Premier of Ontario by rural voters who never experienced his laughable bumblefuckery firsthand (the people of Toronto — who suffered under his tenure on city council while his asshole crackhead brother was mayor — resoundingly voted against him).
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Ontario parliamentarian calls for Right to Repair legislation
Michael Coteau, a member of the Ontario provincial parliament from the opposition Liberal party has announced for provincial Right to Repair legislation, which he will introduce in a private member’s bill — he says the legislation was prompted when he was charged nearly $400 to fix his daughter’s Samsung phone screen and he recalled a CBC special on US efforts to pass Right to Repair laws at the state level; Coteau says he’s looking for co-sponsors from the NDP and the ruling Conservative Party (whose caucus is a disgraceful shambles).
Thunder Bay: podcast about Canada’s hate crime and murder capital is a cross between Serial and Crimetown
The remote north Ontario city of Thunder Bay leads Canada in murders and hate crimes and features a local government mired in scandal, from a mayor who was charged with extortion to a police chief who went on trial for obstruction of justice.
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Ontario businesses want trumpy Doug Ford to kill leave for domestic abuse survivors, allow mandatory high heeled shoes
Ontario’s “A Plan for Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs” (AKA Bill 148) legislates leave for domestic abuse survivors, provides for 10 days of paid emergency leave, three weeks paid vacation after five years’ employment, and a ban on employers requiring their employees to wear high heels.
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Toronto councillor praises gerrymandering plan to silence “left-leaning” voices in the city
Robbo Mills writes, “Speaking at a press conference at the Provincial Parliament in Queen’s Park on Monday, Toronto Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti said Premier Doug Ford’s plan to gut Toronto City Council is a good move because it would silence ‘left-leaning’ voices on council.
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Trumpian Ontario premier Doug Ford will gut Toronto’s city council to punish his Tory rivals
Doug Ford, AKA Laughable Bumblefuck II, won the Ontario provincial elections with a cowardly, trumpian campaign that kicked off with a bitter leadership race within his own party, whose top spot was up for grabs because the previous leader was accused of getting young party activists drunk and then having sex with them.
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Hackers say they stole tens of thousands of health records of Ontario home-care patients and they want to get paid
CBC reporters have verified health record files provided by hackers who say they acquired them by breaking into the computers of CarePartners, a company that contracts with the Ontario government.