Daniel Dale is now CNN’s full-time Trumpwatcher

“The truth file” gets primed for 2020

Daniel Dale @ddale8

For the last three years, I’ve done most of the fact-checking on my "own" time, weekends and nights, while trying to do my actual correspondent job during the day. Now the truth file will be my full-time focus.

A month after a leaked Toronto Star memo about the departure of Daniel Dale, his new job with CNN was announced by the network. Meanwhile, the Walrus article on how Dale’s beat was seen as a potential saviour for the Star recently won a National Magazine Award.

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Mark Steyn feeling new déjà vu

The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial

"That is actually the age we live in, where people can have one infraction and their life implodes, their career implodes, they’re vapourized for it. That is actually one of the most disturbing trends on the free speech issue. "

thepostmillennial.com“Minor bureaucrats indulging strange James Bond fantasies”: The testimony of Mark Steyn to the Justice CommitteeThank you very much, Monsieur le Président, and also to the honourable members of the committee. I am honoured to

This committee also heard from Lindsay Shepherd and John Robson, but Conservative MP Michael Cooper’s quoting the Christchurch shooter was expunged from its record.

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How your Ontario PC social media sausage gets made. Global News got the document telling MPPs how to tweet about a wish for variety store alcohol. The biggest blunder was Christine Elliott showing up at a shop once busted for selling an e-cigarette to a minor.

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Spidey kept his secret identity secret

Mark Zilio previously made news for performing as “Peter Parkour,” which resulted in an alleged busker bylaw breach. Whether it was again Zilio in this Spider-Man costume is unclear, because the situation that police supplied attention to ended with no arrests:

Toronto Police OPS @TPSOperations

HAZARD: Spadina Av + Queen St -Man dressed as spiderman -Has thrown line/rope over streetcar wires -Is now 'webbing' off part of the sidewalk #GO1027674 ^dh

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Sidewalk will wait months longer to learn its fate. Waterfront Toronto’s board vote on whether to proceed with a smart-city was pushed back to allow for more evaluation. The proposal from Sidewalk Labs is expected later this month amidst mounting opposition.

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Kik gets kicked over its Kin

The messaging app, based in Kitchener, is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for selling its cryptocurrency to American investors without permission.

Kik @Kik

Our full response to the SEC complaint:

prn.toKik Responds To SEC ComplaintKITCHENER, Ontario, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Kik Interactive Inc. responded to the SEC’s filing of an enforcement action against Kik for its 2017...

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Keanu Reeves continues an unexpected renaissance. A cameo in the Netflix movie Always Be My Maybe has further sparked appreciation for the Toronto-raised actor, including Naomi Fry’s New Yorker piece declaring Reeves “Too Good for This World.”

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Finally, the pieces of Pal Hal

Harold Ballard is the focus of a currently ongoing series of 100 Lego dioramas, from Red Deer resident Joel Cadieux. The life story of the former Toronto Maple Leafs owner, who died in 1990, gave Cadieux a cantankerous nostalgia trip that he could build with his kids:

Joel Cadieux @JoelCadieux

Sittler was so distraught from losing his friend Lanny, he ripped the captain “C” from his jersey & gave it to Harold. Ballard was outraged and said that was equivalent to burning the Canadian flag. #Ballardstories

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