Writer and editor | Previously @globeandmail @xtramagazine @nowtoronto @georgiastraight | she/her
Joined May 2009
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
12 Nov 2024
"how could this have happened," we cried from our vacation home while our kids were barely affording groceries
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
12 Nov 2024
two things can be true: it is not your child's responsibility to give you a grandchild, and you are allowed to be sad about it.
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
8 Nov 2024
A personal essay about how The Eras Tour kept me going during my breast cancer treatment theglobeandmail.com/arts/mus…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
2 Oct 2024
The @globeandmail is now accepting applications for its (amazing) summer staff program: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
To those arguing today's rain has nothing to do with climate change: the Doug Ford gov't conducted the first Ontario-wide climate study and found extreme precipitation is going to become more extreme and, without climate action, have devastating impacts.
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
Three levels of government spent $824 million of taxpayer money on the renovation of Toronto's Union Station and you're telling me they didn't prepare for heavy rains???!?!?! And you want me to care about Presto being on Apple wallet instead?!??!
16 Jul 2024
.@Torontounion power just turned off, evacuating basement due to flooding. #floodto #transit #topoli
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
11 Apr 2024
I'm often horrified at gun violence in the U.S. & how it's tolerated as a necessary precondition of supposed freedoms— but in Canada, we treat cars the same way: normalizing their death toll & capacity for devastation, treating driving like a right and not a privilege
#BREAKING: A Vancouver crash that killed a baby and seriously hurt her father in 2021 was the result of a tragic, momentary lapse of attention and not a criminal act, a B.C. judge has ruled, acquitting the driver of all charges.
READ MORE: trib.al/lfI8NWL
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10 Mar 2024
As @aliwong once said: I don’t want to lean in, I want to lie down. Feeling every word of this @annhui piece in @globeandmail
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
16 Jan 2024
🚨🚨🚨 PHOTOJOURNALISM JOB ALERT
We have a rare posting for a full-time photo editor on @globeandmail's visuals desk
It's a great opportunity to work with some of the best photographers in the business, and an all-star team
Any questions feel free to DM
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
5 Oct 2023
The Ford government paid Mark Saunders $171,000 to be a special advisor on Ontario Place development, but there is no record of any of his work. An FOI request for any copies of advice or reports during his time in the role found “no records exist.” Story: toronto.citynews.ca/video/20…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
27 Sep 2023
Can we get her photographed reading a newspaper
Travis Kelce jerseys saw a nearly 400% spike in sales after Taylor Swift attended his game, TMZ reports.
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
21 Sep 2023
BREAKING: “It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt,” Premier Doug Ford said, adding that the land opened to development would be returned to the protected area — which he says he will never touch again. #onpoli via @EmmaMci @fatimabsyed thenarwhal.ca/ford-reverses-…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
18 Sep 2023
I’ve spent the past several months working with the brilliant Kasia Mychajlowycz on an eight-part narrative true crime podcast about the life of Helen Naslund, who got 18 years in prison for killing her abusive husband.
You can listen to the trailer now:
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
15 Sep 2023
Nordstar puts Metroland newspaper group into bankruptcy, more than 70 weekly papers to go digital only theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
13 Sep 2023
bonkers story. Popular decongestant is challenged by scientists in 2007 as being ineffective
FDA apparently says “hey, let’s keep it on the market”
Tens of millions take it.
16 years later FDA votes 16-0 that it really, truly doesn’t work apnews.com/article/sudafed-d…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
11 Sep 2023
#BREAKING cell service will soon be available to all TTC passengers, regardless of their carrier. The federal government is forcing all carriers onto the network Rogers is building underground by October.
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
8 Sep 2023
Ford government’s appointee to Greenbelt Foundation had family ties to developer /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Michelle da Silva retweeted
2 Sep 2023
We are saddened by the passing of Raymond Moriyama, co-founder of @moriyamateshima and the architect behind many of our city's & country's landmarks inc. Scarborough Civic Centre, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto Reference Library and the Ontario Science Centre.
2 Sep 2023
Raymond Moriyama 1929-2023. One of the most important architects in Canadian history passed away today.
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