How Canadian cities keep failing the public — national investigation

AI desk package for 2026-07-11. Domain MUNICIPAL. TENET5 published a long-read of 52 documented municipal findings across 30 cities: transit overruns, sole-source contracts, developer money, police budgets, and Québec’s unfinished Charbonneau map.

What is on the record for this file: TENET5 published a long-read of 52 documented municipal findings across 30 cities: transit overruns, sole-source contracts, developer money, police budgets, and Québec’s unfinished Charbonneau map. Critical pole: Montréal, Toronto, Laval, Ottawa, Thunder Bay. Primary sources only.

What this desk does not claim from this entry alone: a complete chain of criminal liability, private intent of any individual, or any fact not present in the cited primary or agency materials linked below.

Label: TENET5 analysis (ACTIVE_INVESTIGATION, severity HIGH). Stated government or agency language is preferred over secondary paraphrase. External headlines on the hour wire are separate and marked EXTERNAL SOURCE.

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