Ontario Unions Behind Almost 95% of Third-Party Election Spending: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what’s happening today:
1. The inequality at the heart of Rio’s smart city plan
“Rio’s vaunted plan to transform its infrastructure is poised to leave its poor even further in the dust while making life easier for the rich. ”
2. Ontario’s election system not unlike U.S. SuperPACs
“This is all completely legal in Ontario. While spending is capped for political parties at election time, third-party advertisers face no such restriction. And current rules do not prevent groups such as Working Families or Project Ontario from hiring strategists connected to political parties to work on their campaigns. It all raises the spectre of a system similar to U.S.-style SuperPACs: Groups that operate at arm’s length from politicians, but function as their proxies to attack opponents and circumvent the spending limits.”
+1: Tim Hudak is retiring from provincial politics, will become CEO of the Ontario Real Estate Association.
3. Teenagers don’t care about your first seven jobs
“The summer job, once a rite of passage, isn’t what it used to be.
“Many teens and their parents now have other priorities than starting out with the parade of part-time gigs and grunt work that older adults are remembering, fondly or otherwise, on social media with the hashtag #firstsevenjobs.”
4. Snapchat, Instagram Stories and the Internet of Forgetting
“The app’s introduction of an expiring highlight reel is more than a shameless grab for one of Snapchat’s core features. It’s a response to a demand: on an Internet that always remembers, we are fighting for places we can go to forget.”
+1: Facebook removes video of police brutality too readily, activists say.
5. Tenants in Toronto’s Kensington Market are reeling after massive rent hikes
“A new landlord with about a dozen residential and commercial units in Kensington Market is threatening legal action if tenants balk at proposed rent hikes of up to 50 per cent.”
