Michael Lacasse

CityNews broadcaster. Ottawa digital. Recent graduate from @FanshaweCollege Broadcast Journalism program. Tips and leads welcome! Ex-hospitality industry guy.

[Robyn Doolittle @robyndoolittle]

BREAKING: Alex Formenton, a former NHL player with the Ottawa Senators and 2018 junior player, has turned himself into London police. "Alex will vigorously defend his innocence and asks that people not rush to judgment without hearing all of the evidence.” https://t.co/7zjnNqvJsK

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@nilikm Hi Nili. I'm sorry this has been happened to you. Do you mind emailing me at [email protected] to talk about this with CityNews?

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@ampharan Hi! I'm a journalist with CBC London - are you willing to talk about what happened at Woodland Heights PS?

[Christine Duhaime @cduhaime]

So, many of the big Toronto companies on Bay Street have cancelled 2024 internships (accounting, law, advisory, banking); the biggest of these employers who hire interns is advisory, who hire interns and permanent MBA from usually 2 unis in Ontario. Also, the 2023 interns who just started may not been kept after Dec, so basically two years of graduate finance, law, banking, business students being affected, at least in Toronto where biggest grad pool is recruited and employed. On the other side - the two universities in Ontario that are the primary ones big advisory firms, banks and law recruit from, are saying that most 2024 internships and permanent grad jobs are cancelled (so some sort of confirmation from both sides). A recent position for one graduate business grad garnered 2,000 applications. To cope, the firm ran resumes thru AI to pull out resumes with key words to narrow pool down to manageable number before selecting the remaining ones with A average in their last year to interview. Brutal for our grad students, and I feel for them.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@annafoat Hi! I’m a reporter from London doing a story on the massive MRI wait times. Would you be willing to have a quick chat?

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@rubysageybur Are you in London? I’m doing a story on this and am looking for people affected.

[980 CFPL London News @AM980News]

THIS JUST IN: West Lorne has won #KraftHockeyville 2023. They will play host to an NHL pre-season game and win $250,000 in upgrades for the West Lorne Arena.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

A perfect example of how disinformation spreads and festers despite tireless fact checking.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

New from me:

On the internet, she #DiedSuddenly. In real life, she's very much still alive.

https://t.co/Rm8nrA6zwe

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

I can't get over the Facebook group about exposing scammers that's now 99% scammers trying to scam people by claiming they can recover scammed money. Scamception.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@steinkobbe @parismarx She is right in that it’ll be a business school case study.

[Matt Navarra @MattNavarra]

The best take I've read today on Elon owning Twitter

great read from @reckless https://t.co/CrlryLwks7

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

We recommend avoiding the vague jargon officer-involved or police-involved. Be specific about what happened. If police use the term, ask for detail. How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, say so.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@benfll Zuck recently announced he discovered the eldritch secrets of bringing legs to the Metaverse, making FaceMeta the first company to use legs in a virtual environment, ever. It turns out it was all a lie though and he still hasn’t reached the power level of VRChat.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@Axolotl_Forever @FilmCow https://t.co/pBVCPQVnZh

This is literally Mario's voice actor. Martinet could play Chris Pratt in an animated Chris Pratt biopic and do a better job.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

@foomper @heckmanatee @TheGoodLiars It's possible that Elon Musk decides to bequeath his fortune to me and then fly off to Mars but nobody remotely sane would ever entertain that notion.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

I’m doing a story on snowbirds here in Ontario affected by #HurricaneIan for @XFMNews

If you have property or even family in Florida, are from SW Ontario and want to share your story my DMs are open.

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

The London Food Bank is working to adapt to the growing demand for food as more Londoners than ever need their services. https://t.co/ApbKq5wf7A

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

“We’ve heard horror stories and we don’t want that for him.” The Lavelle family on keeping their grandson out of foster care. My latest on XFM: https://t.co/3olAUpWfIE

[London Police Service Board @LPSBoard]

Good Morning #ldnont! Join us for our public meetings starting at 2 pm today. Agendas are packed with lots of interest items, including a COAST interim update, femicide recommendations, Assessment Growth/budget submissions and more. @lpsmediaoffice

[Michael Lacasse @MikeLacasse_]

It's absolutely wild how important, and powerful, framing is.

[Bay Area People’s Republic 🚩☭ @21stcentury_ML]

BBC reporting on DPRK (North Korea) overlaid on queen funeral procession