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Can someone @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social please explain to me how Metro Morning gave a lengthy interview to a paid consultant of a private company for their own advertising purposes? Does the CBC provide advertising airtime to foreign corporations now? #thermecanada #ontarioplace
May 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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joshmatlow.bsky.social
Taking a Stand to Protect Ontario Place and Our City’s Public Waterfront. Here’s our motion for this week’s city council meeting. Please write to the Mayor and your local Councillor to express your support!
April 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
The only question for Doug Ford (and Ontario voters) on Ontario Place: is this your government‘s incompetence or your government’s corruption?
April 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Wild @nytimes.com story about the Therme deal at Ontario Place. The company claimed it operated multiple spas while only operting one (and it was losing money), heavily implied they owned spas they didn’t own, and took their name & logo from another company. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
The investigation, based on corporate filings in three countries and interviews with a dozen people involved in the company’s operations and the bidding process, found that Therme falsely presented itself as an industry player that operated as many as half a dozen spas in Europe. In fact, it had built and operated just one, outside Bucharest, Romania. And as it pitched its vision for Toronto, Therme’s finances appeared to be shaky. Auditors found it was losing money and had less than 1 million euro (about $1.1 million) in equity. While the German spas continued operating as distinct businesses, they became indistinguishable from Mr. Hanea’s Therme in public discourse and, importantly, in submissions to the Ontario government. A company representative said Therme’s wording could have been more precise, and that references to its success in Germany were meant to communicate that the concept of Therme had been successful, because of Mr. Wund’s track record in Germany. Mr. Hanea replicated the model, the representative said, and felt he had contributed to it in his conversations with his friend and an agreement between the two companies to share information. In an interview with The Times, Mr. Hanea recounted touring the spas and water parks of Europe in the mid-2000s, looking for inspiration for a piece of land he owned near Bucharest that sat on top of geothermal springs. That brought him to the thermal baths of Erding, Germany, a town northwest of Munich, he said. The owner was a businessman and architect named Josef Wund who had built several spas and communal baths across the country. Mr. Wund’s company was called Therme. The two men struck up a friendship, and when Mr. Hanea launched his Bucharest spa in 2016, he called it Therme Bucharest — a kind of homage to his friend’s company. Mr. Hanea’s new venture used a variation of Mr. Wund’s company logo, but the two ventures had no business connection.
April 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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joshmatlow.bsky.social
The @nytimes investigation into Ontario Place was a bombshell. It’s time for Toronto to take a stand for Ontario Place and against Doug Ford’s corrupt and incompetent government. I’m asking city council to fight to protect our public waterfront.
April 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM