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The final 12:36 for the first half of the year

Begins with a story about basketball

Jun 27, 2019
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This video of a basketball hoop being removed at 6 p.m. got a swift reaction from the mayor—and now Toronto policy is to keep all of these rims intact unless a neighbour complains.


Aviva’s advert earns free media

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ICYMI: Pedestrian flags taken down after City of Toronto dismisses private road safety plan toronto.ctvnews.ca/pedestrian-cro…
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1:56 PM ∙ Jun 27, 2019
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The insurance company installed yellow flags in yellow canisters at what it deemed to be Toronto’s nine riskiest intersections, but the city told Aviva to knock the stunt off.


Six weeks of robotic mispronunciation. The strange way that the TTC’s automated voice says “Avenue” will be fixed come August 4. What bus riders are now generally hearing as “aVEENoo” was a quirk of wanting to make the voice sound less American.


The shady side of shitposting

After the CPC was accused of deliberately darkening Justin Trudeau’s face in an attack ad, it was pointed out that the PM’s mug was grafted onto a stock photo of an oil worker:

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This has been Trudeau’s objective all along: to eliminate the industry with no regard for the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who rely on it. #cdnpoli
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11:02 AM ∙ Jun 26, 2019
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Bird e-scooters about to zoom around Alberta. Calgary and Edmonton will be the first Canadian cities to acquire the ride-sharing fleet that has the rest of the country in its sights. (Electric scooter riding on public property is illegal in Toronto—for now, anyhow.)


Hudson Yards without all the stuff

While the proposed Sidewalk Toronto development is easily likened to that shiny new one in NYC, the developer of Hudson Yards has a Toronto plan that involves less surveillance:

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ICYMI: Oxford Properties announces plans for Toronto's largest-ever mixed-use project. $3.5B, 4.3M-square-foot office / residential / retail / public spaces to be known as Union Park. 4 towers. Details ... renx.ca/oxford-unveils…
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11:38 AM ∙ Jun 27, 2019

Anne Johnston dead at 86. First elected to Toronto city council in 1972, she also ran for mayor twice. The councillor who Johnston beat in the 2000 election, Milton Berger, died on May 19 at age 94. Johnston was ousted from city hall when those annoyed by her brokering a condo deal at Yonge and Eglinton found a candidate to successfully challenge her.


Scandal comes for Kinga Surma

Doug Ford named 31 MPPs to parliamentary assistant positions that will add $16,000 to their salaries—and that was after attention to public appointments linked to former chief of staff Dean French. And now there’s a whiff of nepotism involving a fresh Ford Nation face:

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I have never received so many emails and tips for other leads to look into as I have with this story. ipolitics.ca/2019/06/26/ont… #onpoli
ipolitics.caTory MPP Kinga Surma’s dad landed policy job in minister’s office: sources - iPoliticsTORONTO—Ontario MPP Kinga Surma’s father scored a job in Premier Doug Ford’s government after the spring 2018 election, according to sources in the Progressive Conservative Party. Surma, who has been in the premier’s inner circle since the two worked at Toronto City Hall, was appointed associate tra…
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Finally, the 12:36 newsletter will return on Tuesday, July 2. Catch up on other weekly newsletters from friends of 12:36: Retrontario, The Jumpstack, ms.info and SHuSH.

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