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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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News Pride Toronto repaying over $505K after federal grant controversy [ CBC ] Pride Toronto is repaying just over $505,000 in grant funding after an accounting firm found the organization could not prove that it completed several projects despite receiving $1.85 million from the federal government.

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Suppliers’ Late Payments Woes Expand Across Borders

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Senator Rex Patrick, for example, recently attacked the nation’s largest construction firm, CIMIC, for its supplier payment practices, slamming them as a “material breach of their social license,” according to reports in The Australian. Closes In On Construction. India’s TReDS Challenges.