TorStar: Ford government defends tripling spending on ads
Auditor general Shelley Spence castigated the Tories for an Ontario Place redevelopment conducted in a way that was “not fair, transparent or accountable” with a $2.237-billion price tag five to six times original estimates.
Steven G Harris (GitHub): MarkupEditor: WYSIWYG editing for SwiftUI and UIKit apps
Jealous of those JavaScript coders with their WYSIWYG text editors, but just can’t stomach the idea of immersing yourself in JavaScript when you’re enjoying the comfort and joy of Swift? Yeah, me too. So when I was forced to do it, I thought I’d share what I did as a way to help others avoid it.
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CBC: Federal minister Harjit Sajjan defends accepting taxpayer-funded Taylor Swift tickets
Federal cabinet minister Harjit Sajjan is defending his decision to accept taxpayer-funded Taylor Swift tickets for himself and his daughter.
Sajjan, the minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, was invited by PavCo, a B.C. Crown corporation that owns and operates B.C. Place Stadium, where the concerts will take place.
PavCo has been donating Swift tickets to food banks and other charity organizations so that they could raffle them off and raise money. PavCo has also donated B.C. Place suites to be auctioned off, raising more than $1 million, according to the corporation.
MacRumors: Former Apple Employees Used Charity Scam to Steal Over $150,000
Apple has a program that will match or double employee donations made to charities, and the employees came up with a plan to make fake donations and collect money from Apple.
Ringleader Siu Kei Kwan had five other Apple employees make donations to the American Chinese International Cultural Exchange (ACICE) or Hop4Kids, both of which he was associated with. After Apple matched the donations, the original money was returned to the employees, and the matched money was kept. The employees also wrote off their fake charitable donations on their tax returns, earning them additional money.
Between July 1, 2018 and April 6, 2021, the employees collected approximately $152,000 from Apple’s program and overreported $100,000 in charitable contributions as tax deductions. Apple detected the fraud and brought it to the attention of the district attorney’s office.
NYT: Zeynep Tufekci: The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms
I’ve been studying social media for a long time, and I can’t think of any other incident when a murder in this country has been so openly celebrated.
Last Updated: 05.Dec.2024 18:58 EST
