John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath
Writer, podcaster at Ontario's provincial public broadcaster. | [email protected] | 'John Michael will do all the nerdy public policy stuff' -@spaikin tvo.org/author/john-mi… Toronto Joined February 2009-
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“I was warned by friends in the film community that no one would talk to me about TIFF. I spoke to 10 people for this piece. Among the 17 others I contacted, most did not respond.” My feature on the TIFF Lightbox has dropped. canadianbusiness.com/ideas/how-did-…
BREAKING: An Ontario judge has ruled the police officers involved in the death of Ejaz Choudry cannot have their names shielded from the public. Superior Court Justice Paul Perell knocks down Peel Police's motion for a publication ban.
BREAKING: An Ontario judge has ruled the police officers involved in the death of Ejaz Choudry cannot have their names shielded from the public. Superior Court Justice Paul Perell knocks down Peel Police's motion for a publication ban.
NEW: Immigration minister Marc Miller says COVID-era exemption to off-campus work rules for foreign students will not be renewed - starting in the new school year (September) students will be limited to 24 hours a week.
Policy matters.
I find this funny: vegan cheese wins a "best cheese" contest, is retroactively disqualified, and the traditional dairy industry pushback uses many of the same rhetorical tics that you see in the housing space. washingtonpost.com/food/2024/04/2…
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
Nostalgia for the Roman Empire is weird
NEW: As the Ford government throws recruitment bonuses at its struggling forest fire program ahead of a potentially difficult season in the north, Global News can reveal one in five of its crews are unstaffed while several aircraft behind schedule. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/10454085/…
Scoop: Ontario to give wildland firefighters presumptive coverage for cancers, PTSD #onpoli theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
#StarExclusive Ontario to introduce tough new limits on cellphones in schools: sources thestar.com/politics/provi…
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Live Now: A Lightning Rod Issue at Queen's Park x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Godzilla x Kong opened in Japan. Here are my favorite reactions from Japanese audiences, translated, for better or worse, by Google:
You know those condo towers where people say you can't raise a family? In Toronto, Spadina-Fort York's population rose much more than in any other ward from 2016 through 2021, and nearly 10pc of the increase was kids under 15
You know those condo towers where people say you can't raise a family? In Toronto, Spadina-Fort York's population rose much more than in any other ward from 2016 through 2021, and nearly 10pc of the increase was kids under 15
‘It’s a delicate balance’: Why Canada could use a sugary-drink tax, and how to make it fair — by @jm_mcgrath tvo.org/article/its-a-…
New from me at TVO, on a policy the current government will not be implementing. tvo.org/article/its-a-…
Here's a great visualization: Austin's rent relative to the country (@zillow's measure) is now the lowest it has been in at least a decade.
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Just got the news that I am promoted to full professor...
Owning a cottage either means you ran in a hedge fund in 2024 or taught grade 6 in 1980.
@beheshtialex @jm_mcgrath @EricDLombardi Illustrates just how difficult it is to effect change in this domain. Council changes policy, approvals policy still thwarts new approaches. The Tories can huff & puff about gatekeepers & penalizing cities by withholding infra. $$ but they can’t fix this. City needs to fix it.
I tried to warn you....
Mars? Black spiders? @straczynski this you? livescience.com/space/mars/hun…
Getting my sever year chip tonight. About half way to being sober for longer than I drank.
I like this Back On Track branding. We need to away with the notion that Tory put us in a stable place. Things need to get done for a functional city.
@jm_mcgrath But think of the neighbourhood character that we've preserved.
@jm_mcgrath "Oh God, there's JMM, going on about the Public Accounts Committee again"
Horse race politics
Courts have long recognized that governments have wide latitude to make policy decisions — but these plaintiffs may be able to draw on an unusual precedent, writes @jm_mcgrath #onpoli tvo.org/article/former…
learning to cook when you grew up without being taught feels like a super power.
I have been on a journey the past few weeks with @jm_mcgrath in learning to memorize the email address for TVO's #ONpoli podcast 🫶🏻 If I ever have feedback I don't feel like tweeting, I now know I can send it to [email protected]
@hexagraeme I have a degree in “Book and Media Studies” with a minor in Philosophy so I’ll leave that to you
@JohnLorinc @jennyfoxter @GiulioCescato I worked on this exact scenario and it was extremely not welcomed with open arms and the CoA refused it too. (118 Havelock)
@jm_mcgrath Fantastic movie. Not at all the direction I thought it would go in.
@ArmandDoma @watn_tarnation > People foam at the mouth at the mere suggestion of building a new house. You live in California
@M_C_Klein @tylermacro10 @JamesBalliol @mattyglesias also when you are looking at the incomes of Americans over the age of 40 there is an element of literal survivor bias
In nice news, I will be Canadian in a little over a week. I am more emotional about this than I expected.