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Not reporting from her cottage
“Special correspondent to CityNews” is the title bestowed upon Lisa LaFlamme for her role of leading coverage of the Queen’s funeral across all platforms controlled by Rogers.
Five years ago, the evening newscasts on Citytv stations across Canada pivoted to an anchorless format, prior to combining radio and TV newsrooms.
CTV News naturally sent LaFlamme’s replacement, Omar Sachedina, to cover the U.K. mourning after his moment of interrupting regular programming.
York Region’s school board sent a memo telling educators that honouring the Queen “could be triggering” to students. Ontario’s government begs to differ.
Shouting out from the scrum
David Akin of Global News later apologized for being “rude and disrespectful” to Pierre Poilievre with confrontational questions before a Parliament Hill press conference began.
The new Conservative leader called Akin “a Liberal heckler,” even though the parliamentary correspondent actually used to work for the Sun News Network.
Press secretary Anthony Koch tweeted that Akin told him to tell Poilievre to “go fuck himself” beforehand, upon being told that questions weren’t welcome.
The subsequent fundraising email to Conservatives declared party ambitions to “go around the biased media.” With that comes a comparison to Trump.
Toronto election dos and don’ts
Formal campaign events aren’t permitted at Nathan Phillips Square, which was news to Gil Penalosa, given how John Tory has been making some announcements on city property.
The difference is his team brought a microphone, a speaker and giant letters—which are all prohibited under these circumstances during an election.
Penalosa came to city hall to announce the housing platform part of his long-shot campaign for mayor, up against Tory claiming that he can fix everything.
The failure of Sidewalk’s smart city to conquer Quayside is chronicled in Josh O’Kane’s newly published Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy.
TIFF got twisted before it’s over
Vera Drew is the filmmaker who withdrew The People’s Joker after one screening at the Toronto International Film festival, evidently due to intellectual property enforcement.
Sarah Polley is basking in accolades for directing an adaptation of the Miriam Toews novel Women Talking, but she’d rather take a hike than watch it again.
Anna Kendrick getting rescured from a stuck elevator drew attention to the fact that more than 1,700 people had a similar experience in Toronto this year.
Zac Efron used TIFF to debut his new chin during his first public appearance in three years. The surgery happened in the aftermath of a running accident.
Finally, at home with Kate Beaton
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is the new graphic memoir from the Nova Scotian artist, who chronicles her relocation to northern Alberta at age 21 to get a job that could pay off her student loans. Kate Beaton first got noticed for webcomics during that period, while her personal perspectives were transformed: