We got a lovely old school long-form, deep dive TVO Today | The Agenda panel for you tonight on all things TikTok -- from the ban and divestment to the nature of the threat it poses and if democratic countries should be in the business of banning social media platforms.

#tiktokban

They let me put my ugly mug on TV. If you're interested in mental health stuffs and how to live non-miserably, we get into some really weird & fun territory here. The insights psilocybin offers ppl feels weirdly applicable to, well, all of us. Check it!

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It’s an annoyingly deep repository of Ontario political history that Steve Paikin possesses — and we’ve decided to tap into it. The result? A new series, Ontario Chronicle. Our 1st ep? The story of the boy premier, the populist firebrand, Mitch Hepburn.

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TIL: French President, Emmanuel Macron (46), and new French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal (34), have a combined age that would make them younger than Joe Biden.

**Here we go** (Mario Voice)

“Not only is 2023 the warmest year on record, it is also the 1st year with all days over 1C warmer than the pre-industrial period'

Temperatures in 2023 will likely exceed those of any period in at least the past 100,000 yrs

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Just cleaning out my desk today and found this Lion King DVD Elamin Abdelmahmoud gave me in 2013. Just wanted to let you know I still have not watched the Lion King, Ela. But I’ll keep you updated. I’ve been told it’s good.

To the funniest man I know, to the man who has brought me immeasurable joy & frustration & endless arguments & bits, to the man who has made me a better journalist, a better thinker, a better man: thank you.

Love you brother, you beautiful cherub-faced dolt.

Wodek Szemberg TVO.me I may be the face of TVO Today | The Agenda but you have been the intellectual heart and soul of the show. We will do our best to keep that heart beating, but I'm under no illusions as to how hard that will be without you. You are the most brilliant and challenging person I know. Love you.

Today I asked Gary* for some AA batteries for my remote control car; a Doug Gilmour Pez dispenser (he wasn’t sure if those existed); and binding arbitration.

*Gary is a trademarked character of the TVO-CMG union and bears no likeness to anything at all whatsoever.

Week 6 on the picket lines presents many options: we can be sad, we can be mad, we can be indifferent (due to too much sadness or madness), or we can do this.

#SummerOfStrikes #DropKickMurphys #TwoIdiotsOneStrike

🤓​📣​Today was my last day as TVO's (TVO Today | The Agenda) Hamilton-Niagara reporter. I’m thrilled to be joining CBC Hamilton's newsroom on Monday! I loved the work I did at @TVO, and was fortunate do it alongside my amazing colleagues. I will miss them dearly.

We've lost 15% of our wages from inflation over the last decade. TVO knew this, and decided to lock away $17,000,000 just before our collective agreement expired.

Here's what Eric Bombicino has to say about that!

#onPoli #SupportTVOWorkers

Imagine TVO Today | The Agenda's episode on Ford's decision to reverse Greenbelt development. And John Michael McGrath's column(s).

TVO CMG is at work! journalists are yearning for a fair deal so they can get back to work informing Ontarians.

If only TVO had some money somewhere...
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It's now our 5th week of the strike and we recently got some news that surprised some of us. Others were angry. Some were confused.

I do my best here to make sense of this shocking little tidbit and also explain what the hell it is.

#17MillionReasons #onpoli #lamecliffhanger

Now would be a pretty good time to have an Ontario focused public broadcaster covering housing policy. Seems like something worth paying for.

This is really interesting to me, because when I was a contract employee for TVO in 2019, I was told I could only have two paid bereavement days off after my brother died.

🤡🤡🤡

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A very small fraction of the $𝟏𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 TVO.me has stockpiled under Jeffrey L. Orridge's leadership could have completely avoided the TVO CMG is at work! strike, now in its fifth week. Did you know about this Doug Ford & Stephen Lecce? If not, read below: newswire.ca/news-releases/… #onpoli

As we near the end of our 4th week of striking at TVO, which is surreal to say, there's been one thing in particular I've been thinking about. It's a little abstract, probably pretentious, and definitely obvious, but, hey, that's me.

#FutureOfJournalism #FundTVOLikeItMatters