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Emma McIntosh

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Emma McIntosh

@EmmaMci

Investigative reporter at the @torontostar. Formerly @thenarwhalca. Fan of FOI & lake swims. Reach me on Signal: emmamci.76

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Joined August 2014

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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Jun 14
My latest. This story is based on FOI documents released before the Ford government changed the law. Under the new rules, the province will now be able to keep records like this secret.
Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
Jun 14
Star Investigation: As a Ford government staffer, he helped get through permits for a controversial gold mine. Now he works for the company as a lobbyist. #onpoli New from @EmmaMci: trib.al/WeC3iH3
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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
May 3, 2021
BREAKING: The federal government has decided it will step in and take over the environmental assessment of the Ford government's Highway 413 project. This is huge news. Many believe this decision will effectively kill the project as the fed EA is much more rigorous. #onpoli
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Feb 10, 2023
Pretty much everything @fordnation just said about the Greenbelt at the presser just now is false or misleading. Quick fact checking thread. #onpoli
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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Sep 21, 2023
Folks, I’m afraid I must report that the new Ontario Parks merch kinda rocks
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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Jun 23, 2023
Dunno if everyone knows this, but in Canada, public airwaves belong to all of us. In exchange for using the airwaves, broadcasters have long been required to provide local news service. So Bell is asking here to abandon its foundational responsibility to the Canadian public.
Steve Faguy
@fagstein
Jun 23, 2023
Bell Media asks #CRTC to eliminate all local news requirements for CTV, CTV2 and Noovo stations blog.fagstein.com/2023/06/23/bel…
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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Jan 27, 2023
Updated this story with Premier Ford's comments today: he's arguing the Greenbelt is provincial jurisdiction. It is, but — courts have affirmed that climate issues are federal jurisdiction, and Greenbelt is a climate issue. So this could get interesting!
Feds could intervene on Ontario Greenbelt development | The Narwhal
From thenarwhal.ca
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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Apr 16, 2021
So Doug Ford just legalized carding?
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Jan 31, 2019
BREAKING: The Supreme Court of Canada has reached a decision in the #Redwater case. When energy companies go bankrupt, the cleanup of their old oil and gas wells must take priority over paying off creditors, the court found. Sides with Alberta Energy Regulator. Story soon.
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Mar 14, 2022
I am once again asking male journalists to stop claiming that if only people had known that a politician was accused of sexual misconduct against 19-year-old instead of an 18-year-old, it totally would have been OK and that politician would have been premier
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Oct 22, 2024
If you’re writing about Toronto experiencing 26-degree weather in October as a super fun thing, and not mentioning the words “climate change,” you are not reporting the situation accurately and you are doing readers a disservice. This isn’t normal and we can’t pretend it is!
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Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Nov 22, 2021
#BREAKING: @OntarioAuditor has released five reports on the state of the environment under Doug Ford, and they're absolutely blistering. Full reports at the link, some highlights in the thread below. #onpoli auditor.on.ca
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Dec 5, 2020
A Saturday evening #onpoli shocker: the chair of Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Council, former PC MP David Crombie, has resigned over changes to conservation authorities. Calls them “disastrous, and “high-level bombing” that “needs to be resisted.”
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Nov 17, 2022
Why would anyone spend millions on Greenbelt land that can't be built on? Six developers did since 2018 — now, their land is set to be taken out of the Greenbelt. Lucky bet? Or did they know? A ✨Starwhal✨ investigation by me, @njaved and @BKennedyStar
Developers who bought Greenbelt land after Ford’s win set to profit | The Narwhal
From thenarwhal.ca
Emma McIntosh
@EmmaMci
Aug 30, 2023
By far the biggest jaw-dropped in the integrity commissioner report so far: typed notes from a meeting indicate the Premier directly gave files about three sites to Ryan Amato. Amato, Premier Ford and Premier's Office staff deny this.
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