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We don't normally post on Fridays but, as of today, we ARE!

It will be our FRIDAY THREAD. (The first one is here: https://www.threads.net/t/CuZR2Ong9_l/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D)

It's a short video to wrap the week and we'll post them in my Threads feed and on the Story Studio Network YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@storystudionetwork/featured) The audio will land here.

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We continue to hit record high average temps globally this week. The warm Antarctic winter is a major contributor.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-the-earths-average-temperature-remained-at-a-record-high-wednesday/

The Economist has a fascinating in-depth story on the tech advancements in warfare. It doesn't make it any less bloody. There's been more Russian casualties since the war started 18 months ago in Ukraine than the Soviets suffered during the decade long war in Afghanistan.
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/07/03/the-war-in-ukraine-shows-how-technology-is-changing-the-battlefield

Retired Canadian Major General David Fraser says 2023 will be the bloodiest year yet in Ukraine.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/1-click-2-cyber-chaos/id1624498560?i=1000615989070

Rogers and Bell aren't all that thrilled with Larry Tannebaum's plan to sell off a portion of his shares in MLSE.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-block-mlse-sale-canadian-pension-fund/

We're all cheering for Sports Talk Radio legend Bob McCown to make a full recovery after he suffered two strokes a week or so ago.
https://torontosun.com/sports/sports-talk-legend-bob-mccown-says-hes-on-mend-after-two-strokes

And it FEED DROP Thursday on NOW and NEXT, so, we continue highlighting the first show we produced in Story Studio Network…the NEXT NORMAL…all about taking advantage of the opportunity to build back better in a post COVID WORLD. Today, the roundtable embrace the opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence.

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News and views with Dave Trafford.

July 3rd was the hottest day on the planet since satellite records have been kept in 1979.

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66104822

The TTC is the least reliable transit service in the GTA says the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-had-least-reliable-transit-service-in-region-in-2022-report/

MLSE fights City Hall over its property tax bill

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-property-tax-owing-mlse-1.6896953

Hockey Canada has a new president and CEO.

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-hockey-canada-announces-katherine-henderson-as-new-president-and-ceo/

Queen's Park restores the King's Council (formerly the Queen's Coucil) for lawyers. Most of the new KCs are Tories including Carolyn Mulroney, (who's never practiced law in Ontario).

• https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/07/04/her-fake-honour-caroline-mulroney-was-called-to-ontario-bar-three-days-before-getting-kings-counsel-title.html

Netherlands: Phone ban announced to stop school disruptions! (Why you need to read beyond the headline!)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107027

AND Toronto Lawyer Courtney Betty, CEO of Bettys Law offers his analysis on two controversial rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States.







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We're trying something in response to all of the caterwauling over Bill C-18 and chorus of concerns over how we'll ever find Canadian news.

Do the way I've done it. Go to the source and pay for it when required. No Google search was done in the production of this episode!

Today's stories came from:

Environment Canada

CBC.ca

The Globe and Mail (paid subscription)

The BBC

The Toronto Star (paid subscription)

And The Queen's Park Observer (paid subscription)


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We highlight an episode from The Next Normal where we myth bust some of the assumptions and outdated ideas around career and skill development.

What do we need to foster in our workforce now that we’ve gone through this experience?
What have we discovered about education and training?
Have retirement expectations shifted?
Are there new skills gaps to address?

Today’s host, Challenge Factory President, Lisa Taylor, kicks things off by highlighting the assumption that that older workers were going to struggle the most with the rapid shift to working remotely.

This episode was originally published August 18, 2021.

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Pam Carter is the President of the Mariposa Folk Foundation. She joins us to talk about the health and well being of one of the longest running music festivals in Canada.This year's festival in Orillia marks 62 years since it's inaugural weekend in August 1961. The lineup feature a guy named Ian Tyson and a young woman named Syliva Fricker:)

The festival kicks off with The Way We Feel - a Lightfoot Celebration, marking Gordon Lightfoots close connection with Mariposa and his roots in Orillia.


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Bob Reid, Principal at Broadway Strategy and Communications, John Wright, SVP at Maru Public Opinion and Sabrina Nanji, Founder and and Publisher of The Queen's Park Observer join the podcast to review the by-election results that landed Olivia Chow in the Mayor's chair.

Can she hold a fractured council together to move her agenda forward?
How will she stickhandle her relationship with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who predicted Chow would be an "unmitigated disaster" as mayor of Toronto.

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Lisa Taylor, President at Challenge Factory joins us to talk about the current state and the future of work in Canada's media sector.

Lisa says the telecom owned media companies face two major challenges, particularly in the case of news and journalism. First, is to retain and regain the trust of diminsishing audiences. Second, it to retain and regain the trust of its workforce.

By design, Bell, Rogers and Corus have little or no meaningful connection with their small and medium sized markets across the country. It's not only resulted in diminishing audiences but diminishing revenues, particularly in local markets. As a predictable result, local news outlets have suffered.

Lisa compares this shift in legacy media to the shift mirrors to the shift we saw in the tech sector some 20 years ago. Tech companies became too big to the point where they lost their strategic edge, leading to broad spread layoffs. It made room for new spinoffs and startup opportunities.

Is that the way forward for strong media and journalism?

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John Tory's endorsement of Ana Bailao as the next mayor of Toronto may not be a surprise but it is the most noteworthy announcement we've heard during the course of this campaign. Is it too little too late?

Not at all. This campaign would need a supercharged dose of adrenalin to be considered anything more exciting than "sleepy". Up until now, Olivia Chow's name has been top of mind for many, thanks in large part to the media's willingness to report on the robo-polls that simply measure name recognition. Chow has received endless earn media and increased name recognition because the reporting has primarily focussed on the horserace numbers.

But as of Wednesday afternoon, Bailoa's name is in every headline and news story about the campaign simply because John Tory has given the former Deputy Mayor his blessing. Considering the short attention span of the electorate in this campaign, being the top of mind name heading into the final four days before election day can't be a bad thing for the Bailao campaign.

ALSO:
We feature episode 6 of the first show we produced at Story Studio Network. In this edition of The Next Normal we explore the post COVID Innovation Culture.

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Who does Toronto need in the Mayor's chair for the next three and a half years?
What does Toronto need from its next Mayor?

We look at the top 7 candidates running to succeed John Tory.

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