‘Not fair, transparent or accountable’: Ontario’s auditor general weighs in on $750M in Skills Development Fund grants (www.cp24.com)

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Many of those successful lower-ranked applications to the Skills Development Fund (SDF) were backed by lobbyists, whose projects received $126 million in funding, raising a spectre of possible preferential treatment, the report said — all of it a significant expansion of concerns about the troubled fund.

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[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Ford is corrupt. Period, end of sentence.

The longer he retains power, the worse it is for everyone, including the legitimacy of a government completely lacking in any mechanisms by which his corruption can be properly dealt with

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago

This is NOT small grants. This is MASSIVE.

In one case, Toronto-based company Scale Hospitality received at least $11 million in grants to train workers in its chain of restaurants, despite receiving a low score from bureaucrats.

In another case, CTV News revealed a casino, spa and hotel company got some $9 million in grants — millions more than had been announced. Its CEO is also a PC donor.