Twelve Thirty Six

Share this post

Julie Payette’s worst workplace review

1236.substack.com

Julie Payette’s worst workplace review

She won’t be adding it to LinkedIn

Jan 28, 2021
Share this post

Julie Payette’s worst workplace review

1236.substack.com
Twitter avatar for @HuffPostCanada
HuffPost Canada @HuffPostCanada
The review found dozens of people who called the working conditions there hostile, negative, toxic or poisoned.
huffp.st‘Poisoned Work Environment’: Payette Report Alleges Hostility, HumiliationThe report includes allegations of “yelling, screaming, aggressive conduct, demeaning comments and public humiliation.”
2:50 AM ∙ Jan 28, 2021
3Likes2Retweets

The report examining workplace culture at Rideau Hall was released in heavily redacted form, but had enough for headlines to further explain why Julie Payette is no longer the governor general. Along with the Conservatives arguing that Payette shouldn’t receive all ex-GG benefits comes wanting to offer suggestions for her replacement.


Scenes from bureaucrat Slack

Twitter avatar for @TrueNorthCentre
True North @TrueNorthCentre
Elections Canada was inundated with media requests, emails and social media engagement after the agency’s Twitter account was retweeted by former president Donald Trump in November, internal documents show. @AndrewLawton reports. #cdnpoli
tnc.news“This is quite unfortunate”: Elections Canada bureaucrats scramble after Trump retweetElections Canada was inundated with media requests, emails and social media engagement after the agency’s Twitter account was retweeted by former president Donald Trump in November, internal documents show.
3:01 PM ∙ Jan 28, 2021
6Likes1Retweet

A poop emoji was the highlight of obtained virtual office chat from Elections Canada, but one official considered it a “good thing” that their tweet denying any association with Dominion Voting Systems was retweeted by Donald Trump as evidence of voter fraud. This week, Toronto-founded Dominion sued Trump’s loudest lawyer for $1.3 billion.


BlackBerry’s $1.2 billion rebound in a time of stonks. Day traders who pushed the share price to levels not seen in nine years are being taken seriously as a reflection of CEO John Chen cutting deals for things like sensor data in vehicles. But the Waterloo company is also part the Reddit-driven frenzy that’s been boosting GameStop.


MF Doom lives in spray paint

A two-month delay between the Halloween death of metal-masked rapper MF Doom and its announcement on New Year’s Eve further burnished his mysterious history, a subversion that Daniel Dumile demonstrated when he played Toronto in 2010. Now, the hip-hop super-villain is immortalized with a mural in a back alley of the city’s Chinatown:

Twitter avatar for @brooklynvegan
BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan
MF DOOM honored with new mural in Toronto brooklynvegan.com/mf-doom-honore…
Image
10:45 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2021
67Likes11Retweets

The political journey of a man who used to call himself Joey Shithead. Something Better Change is a planned documentary of how the frontman for the Vancouver band D.O.A. became Burnaby, B.C., city councillor Joe Keithley. His four decades of dedication to the punk rock cause no doubt helped contribute to the crowdfunding success.


Finally, rap dancing in the dark

Connor Price was six years old when he started acting in Toronto, most notably in Cinderella Man, leading to connections that may have come in handy when he decided to try hip-hop instead. But it was evidently just answering a challenge from Idris Elba on Instagram to fill in a verse that led the two of them to make friends with Courteney Cox:

Share this post

Julie Payette’s worst workplace review

1236.substack.com
TopNew

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Twelve Thirty Six
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing