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Ford's SDF headache isn't going away

Plus: Gridiron government

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Sabrina Nanji
Oct 31, 2025
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DRIP, DRIP, DRIP — The bad-news headlines keep on coming for the Ford government’s $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund.

The latest: Per the Star, no one’s tracking whether those “100,000 new jobs” the Premier keeps bragging about are full-time, part-time, or temporary. CTV News piles on, noting that FAITH CHIPMAN, wife of embattled Labour Minister DAVID PICCINI, registered to lobby for a career-college group whose members received millions from that same fund.

And small world: KORY TENEYCKE, DOUG FORD’s three-peat campaign manager and head of Rubicon Strategy, whose clients got $100M in training grants, is related to DENNIS MATTHEWS of Creative Currency, the PC campaign shop behind that hot-potato RONALD REAGAN ad. As the chat groups were buzzing this week, Teneycke’s wife just so happens to be sisters with Matthews’ wife.

The link was brought up in Question Period, when Liberal lead JOHN FRASER pressed Ford’s benches on ties between Teneycke, who …

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