Is AI messing with your career? For @macleans.bsky.social magazine, I'm looking to speak with people in Canada encountering troubles with AI in their workplace, from industries being out-done by clever AI to folks drowning in crappy workslop. If that's you, shoot me a message!
Anthony Milton
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Journalist. Assistant Digital Editor at Toronto Life magazine. Words in Toronto Life, Maclean's, TVO. MJ from @journalismTMU. Portfolio: http://anthonymilton.journoportfolio.com
Attention Toronto folks! Is your home a multi-generational one? Have you embarked on a co-ownership scheme with friends? Or are you part of a housing co-op of any sort? I'm a journalist for Toronto Life magazine, and I want to speak with you! Email me at amilton@torontolife.com.
How did Jontay Porter, a promising young big from Missouri, get banned from the NBA and implicated in a sports betting conspiracy? For @torontolife, I took a deep dive into Porter's personal history to find out. torontolife.com/deep-dives/f...
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal - Toronto Life
Jontay Porter may have been a Toronto Raptor, but as the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, he was playing for another team. The story of a...
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I'm a Canadian journalist looking to interview Americans planning on moving to Canada in response to Trump's policies. If that's you, shoot me an email at anthony.milton@stjoseph.com.
I'm an editor at Toronto Life looking for GTA folks who are making personal sacrifices to join the US boycott - whether that be selling US property at a loss, cancelling booked vacations, or the like. If that's you, shoot me a DM!
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There's truly nothing like a good TO council meeting
"I want to use my comments to unmask what I think is a deeper philosophical conversation. I think it's about defining what a proletariat is," says Councillor Stephen Holyday. Huh. Well. Okay. Did anyone have "proletariat" on their Council Bingo card?
Pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men’s pro team in Canada, on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club
"Baseball is for everyone": Meet legendary pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men's pro team in Canada - Toronto Life
The world’s best woman pitcher on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club, breaking into the sport as a young girl and why she’s crossing the world to...
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For those who aren’t inclined to read all 941 pages of the auditor general's report, we present a holiday-themed guide to the six most ho-ho-holy crap revelations, complete with lumps of coal
A holiday-themed guide to the auditor general’s annual naughty list - Toronto Life
Lumps of coal included
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Rumour has it Taylor Swift made an unexpected stop at Inter Steer, a long-standing no-nonsense bar on Roncesvalles, after her final show in Toronto. But is it true?
Wait: Did Taylor Swift really visit a Toronto dive bar? - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
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Ron Oliver is the Hallmark Channel’s most prolific, flamboyant and unapologetically sappy director
I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
Latest by me, in today's Toronto Star. These Canadian cities are finally doing something to fix the housing crisis. Almost none are in Ontario. www.thestar.com/opin...
These Canadian cities are finally doing something to fix the housing crisis. Almost none are in Ontario
While British Columbia and Quebec move to address the lack of housing, Ontario is going backwards.
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Twenty years after taking the Indie scene by storm, Tokyo Police Club is calling it quits, playing four back-to-back farewell shows this week. I spoke with singer and bassist Dave Monks and keyboardist Graham White about quitting while they're ahead: torontolife.com/culture/toky...
“It’s cool to be ending the band on our own terms”: Tokyo Police Club on their farewell tour - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
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Crow's has become one of Toronto's coolest theatre companies - their plays have made comedies out of City Hall bureaucracy and housing bidding wars, to hilarious effect. My interview with artistic director Chris Abraham: torontolife.com/culture/inte...
“There’s untapped beauty in our beleaguered democratic institutions”: Chris Abraham of Crow’s Theatre on turning the Sidewalk Labs fiasco into a hit play - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
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Hello newcomers! Let me introduce myself: my name is Anthony, and I'm a freelance journalist and editor living in Toronto. I write about urbanism, culture, and politics. Let me give you a tour! 🧵
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Draft briefing for cabinet warned bike lane changes could worsen congestion
A leaked government document says removing bike lanes in cities could backfire
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I have removed the bike lanes that were in the road and which you were probably using to get to work Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so cold
"We're here to protect the people who elected us" Behold, the core incentive problem of city politics. Don't add more housing - it could mean people that would vote you out!
"We're here to protect the people who elected us," says Councillor Stephen Holyday. He adds: "The backlash has already started in Etobicoke Centre" about recent planning changes, saying people "don't feel included in this process."
Legalizing 12-story buildings on avenues is huge and great, but note that doesn't mean *any* street ending in .Ave, which would be so much better. I am once again asking you to demolish my childhood home.
Up now: increasing permissions for new mid-rise buildings on the city's avenues. Councillor Holyday has concerns. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
And they said yes. This is going to be so gloriously petty
Councillor Mike Colle moves to look at installing signs reading "This road congestion and traffic delay is the result of Premier Ford's Bill 212" in places where there's construction work to remove bike lanes.