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“Have you met me? Have you been scammed by me?” Wanted posters around Liberty Village feature the face of 33-year-old Mike Lemke, who is accused of owing thousands in unpaid rent, the result of an alleged double-ended scam explained by CBC Toronto. Lemke is alleged to have rented three condos under false pretenses, refused to pay, then waited for the eviction process to drag out. Two would-be roommates say they now can't get their money back from this "cool guy."
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The Weather Network has over 8,000 viewers willing to write a love letter about it. Pelmorex played up the economic angle in its request for public submissions to the CRTC, explaining that the Weather Network being taken off basic cable would force loyal fans to pay more, beyond the 23 cents a month baked into every cable bill. The interventions filed ahead of the April 30 CRTC hearing are proof that the plea worked. So, the roughly $31 million a year in subscriber revenue will likely keep buttressing a challenge to Silicon Valley:
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“Page Six” goes trawling over tawdry tales of Vice. Back in 2003, Vice's founders published a book, in which Gavin McInnes detailed Montreal office pursuits like his then-partner Shane Smith stroking the hair of a “Vice Girl” model who they wanted a threesome with. Asked to comment on such passages, the current corporate braintrust acknowledged that they were “willing to sleep with media buyers to keep the magazine alive” and Vice “evolved into a very different company today.”
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