Michelle da Silva
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Writer and editor | Previously @globeandmail @xtramagazine @nowtoronto @georgiastraight | she/her
Toronto, Canada
Joined May 2009
"how could this have happened," we cried from our vacation home while our kids were barely affording groceries
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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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A personal essay about how The Eras Tour kept me going during my breast cancer treatment
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The fans. The outfits. The setlist. I was riveted by the narrative unfolding among Taylor Swift’s fans, and I wanted to be part of that happy crowd
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The @globeandmail is now accepting applications for its (amazing) summer staff program:
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The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news
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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. https://t.co/e01zErAehq
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Internal documents show government downplaying need for adaptation, despite severe risks posed to farms, people and infrastructure
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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?!??!
.@Torontounion power just turned off, evacuating basement due to flooding. #floodto #transit #topoli
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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:
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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
https://t.co/TgyBr6mDt7
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Call it burnout, quiet quitting or something else. But we can no longer deny what is happening to a generation with too many economic, family and mental-health burdens to bear
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🚨🚨🚨 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 https://t.co/3GpC4ttQvX
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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: https://t.co/HOMBQ7UTmS
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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
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Doug Ford's Greenbelt decision reversed as Ontario premier apologizes for breaking promise and opening land in protected area to development
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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: https://t.co/0PAwiirkzP
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True Crime Podcast · Weekly Series · Amber Tuccaro was 20 years old when she left her infant son with a friend at a motel on the outskirts of Edmonton, and got into a vehicle with an unknown man. She...
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Nordstar puts Metroland newspaper group into bankruptcy, more than 70 weekly papers to go digital only
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Nordstar-owned Metroland Media Group says the move came in response to ��unsustainable financial losses stemming from the changing preferences of consumers and advertisers’
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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
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Government advisers say the leading decongestant used by millions of Americans to treat nasal congestion doesn't actually work.
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#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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Ford government’s appointee to Greenbelt Foundation had family ties to developer /via @globeandmail
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Former vice-chair Susan McGovern’s husband and brother operate the Rice Group, one of a select few developers whose land was opened up for housing construction in the protected area
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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.
Raymond Moriyama 1929-2023. One of the most important architects in Canadian history passed away today.
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