Ryan Wedding’s alleged $100,000 a month cartel subscription

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Good morning. This is the Thursday, Nov. 12 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign up to get it earlier each day, in your inbox.

I know some of you have been waiting for my permission: Now that Remembrance Day is over, you may begin your holiday-season decorating or shopping or marketing. The Eaton Centre lights its tree today, the Distillery opens its holiday market, and the Shaw production of “A Christmas Carol” opens at Harbourfront. It’s on. (Still, in my house, by order of my daughter Mary, we don’t play any Christmas music until December. And then we don’t play anything else until January.)

Trivia Time: In today’s Conversation, I discuss how the chairs of Metro Toronto were elected by Metro Council. This was true for all but one of them. That one, who has a highway named after him, was appointed by the premier of Ontario. Who was he? The answer is at the bottom of today’s email.

U.S. authorities say the ex-Olympian-turned-alleged cocaine kingpin joined a service where, for a monthly fee, Mexican crime bosses received stolen police intelligence and alerts of impending arrests. The allegations come from an indictment filed against another alleged cartel member in Mexico City. Wedding is accused of running a drug ring that worked with Mexican cartels and ordered multiple murders around the globe. Once one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives and the subject of a $15-million reward, Wedding was arrested in Mexico in January. Calvi Leon reports on the latest indictment.

Voters across Ontario showed up to elect new mayors just over two weeks ago. But on Tuesday, in many cities and towns, Premier Doug Ford appointed regional chairs — basically super-mayors who will oversee the most important issues where they live. No election necessary (or even allowed).

One NDP MPP accused Ford of setting up a “dictatorship.” A Liberal MPP said he was “steamrolling local democracy.” It isn’t hard to see their point.

The regional governments of Peel, Halton, York, Durham, Niagara, Waterloo, Simcoe and Muskoka act much like the old Metro level of government once did in Toronto: handling the largest portfolios, such…

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