Michelle Cyca
@michellecyca
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it's "see-sa" | nêhiyaw | journalist | editor @thenarwhalca | writer @thewalrus | contributing editor @macleans | she/her. ✌️
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excited to share that
@hingstonolsen
press is publishing my 2022
@macleans
magazine story "The Curious Case of Gina Adams" as a gorgeous limited-edition book, which you can order today!
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my parents bought their house in 1976 for $58,000. in 2022 dollars, that would be $279,160.
their 2022 assessment valued the house at $2.09 million.
i don't think getting married at 34 instead of 24 is the reason my generation can't buy homes. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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I do not want to encourage my daughter to fixate on her appearance, but I do love when she dresses herself in the most chaotic outfit (strawberry dress, purple tutu, seagull leggings, bunny socks under rainbow sandals), then looks in the mirror and whispers “I look perfect.”
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shout out to the man who catcalled me from his truck as he drove up from behind and then caught a side view and yelled “oh my god, I’m sorry!” as he sped past. making the most of this fleeting opportunity to dress like a jump scare for sexual harassers.
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what's the worst land acknowledgement you've ever seen? i don't know that anything will ever top this:
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very tiresome when people co-opt the language of social justice ("bike lanes are ablest," "being anti-fast fashion is classist") to defend their preferences, as if all of their personal behaviours and habits are actually political acts of solidarity.
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happy for the cbc editor who finally got to deploy this reference after waiting 26 years
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someone posted about how dads in her son’s class offloaded domestic labour to their wives without thinking about it, and guys are defending it with everything from “men can’t read” to “men have no memories” to “it could lead to an affair.” incredible!!!
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just another day thinking about my all-time favourite Demented Depiction of Journalism in a Romantic Comedy— which is a very crowded field, folks
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my personal theory for why it's impossible for hollywood to make a plausible period piece for TV/film in 2023 is cosmetic dentistry. these fake teeth simply did not exist in the 70s.
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@jillreports
@CityofVancouver
personally I think if someone cannot avoid driving over (!?!) a bright-yellow concrete barricade than perhaps they should not be trusted to safely navigate the road at all.
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actually, my mom is the one who bought the house. and we never went camping.
@michellecyca
And your Dad was probably making $5 or $10 an hour at what would be considered a good job. They probably lived within their means too. Ya know not buying new cars, their kids didn't have every new toy available, nor did they travel by plane to exotic vacays. Maybe local camping.
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a lot of people replying to this to explain historical interest rates to me but one of the privileges of not owning a house myself is that i do not need (or want!) to understand them.
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Becoming embarrassingly apparent than many people in this country have no idea what a protest is, and assume it should operate like a parade with a pre-approved route and permission from authorities.
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woke up to a lot of replies from people who are learning about the deranged vancouver real estate market for the first time. i should explain that this is what a $2M house looks like here:
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in case it wasn’t clear, i don’t need bootstraps— i’m the beneficiary of intergenerational wealth, unequally distributed by the whims of an overinflated housing market!
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@karenpinchin
there are definitely non-COVID viruses out there that cause terrible symptoms, but they're also not colds! feels like "it's a cold" has become a catch-all for "it's a virus that doesn't require me to take precautions around others"
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a truly disturbing number of replies from men who are like “i would never exchange an email with a woman who isn’t my wife” ???
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Teens today don't appreciate how good they have it when it comes to skincare. In my day there were only four products: St Ive's apricot sandpaper scrub, Clearasil to burn your face off, The Body Shop tea tree oil, and that weird cucumber mask that peeled off like plastic wrap.
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Very fun when your kid develops their own fashion sense, though it’s painful that she is rejecting all the classic vintage denim jackets I thrifted for her… turfed for being “not rainbow”
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british actors can still pull it off because they're more likely to keep their normal human teeth. this is why keira knightley is so perfect for period films.
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people replying to this to say “why doesn’t everyone move somewhere cheaper”… aside from the futility of proposing individual solutions to collective crises, consider what happens to affordable communities when there is a massive influx of new buyers from more expensive areas.
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this is a very common attitude in Vancouver: many people seem to believe that the millions of dollars in wealth represented by their home does not make them, objectively speaking, wealthy.
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Canada is on track to face its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and federal government officials said their modeling shows increased wildfire risk in most of Canada through August
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I cannot believe how many variations of this situation are being offered as examples of economic hardship in my replies!!
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if you own a $2m home, a “punishing” 9% property tax increase would be $485/year.
if you rent an average 1-bedroom for $2,800, the 2% allowable rent for 2023 increase is $672/year.
As Vancouver seeks to avoid years of punishing property tax increases, councillors are now looking at fee hikes for everything from parking permits to business licences to the cost of owning a pet.
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muting this before the replies inevitably get weird, but as a general rule if you are this sick, regardless of the precise viral nature of your illness, please stay home and rest!
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this guy heard that Jordan Peterson was the most famous embarrassment associated with U of T and thought “I can do better”
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serious competition from the washington department of corrections, provided by
@vogon
... incredible stuff.
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asked my kid what she wanted to do over the long weekend and she said "go to the big library and then eat a croissant." a flawless itinerary.
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@klagowski
the question assumes that bike lanes are an exhortation for everyone to ride a bike, which isn’t the case. it also suggests that car-centric transportation plans are inherently inclusive. in either case I’d say the term has little merit or meaning here.
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all credit for this stimulating sociological discussion to
@sonyabonczek
, please read the replies to her original tweet & enjoy losing your mind:
Been running into dads of my 3yo’s classmates and asking for their emails for his birthday party and so far 3 out of 3 dads have proceeded to give me their wives’ emails instead. This is now a social experiment.
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this half-baked observation is reaching that unfortunate threshold of twitter visibility where soon people are going to get mad at me
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"In Australia however, Queen Elizabeth II's imagery on their $5 banknote will be replaced with an Indigenous design to honour the culture and history of the First Australians."
King Charles III will be the new face of Canada’s $20 bill, coins
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temperatures are dropping to -16 tomorrow night. this is murderous.
This morning: Vancouver park rangers, with the assistance of police officers, removing people’s tents and belongings from Oppenheimer Park, where some homeless residents have been living for months. Story to come.
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For pro-choice folks in BC understandably horrified by what's happening in Texas, I think it's worth knowing that British Columbia has 35 "crisis pregnancy centres," anti-abortion orgs that masquerade as reproductive health clinics.
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can’t believe I have to clarify this but I’m not saying we should ignore the disabled community in planning or conversations about access! only that vulnerable or marginalized groups should not be thoughtlessly used as pawns to score moral points in arguments.
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genuinely very funny that our new mayor campaigned on "hiring 100 cops + 100 nurses on day one" only to say three days post-election that it was just an idea he had, he has no idea where to find those people, and that it's not his job to figure it out.
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this ad is insane, watch it now before they scrub it from the internet
Pedestrian safety is a two-way street. What pedestrians and drivers can do to make our roadways safer
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listened to
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@jessebrown
claimed that "no one has ever been inspired by Vancouver to write a great novel" so now I feel obligated to do a thread about great Vancouver novels:
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@sammymarie
getting flashback to the agonizing physical sensation of stepping on a small pebble, shielded only by a paper-thin sole
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Canadians really embraced Orange Shirt Day because it offers them moral absolution for the low price of $20, the cost of a London Drugs t-shirt that they wear once a year. We have turned the traumatic legacy of residential schools into another retail holiday.
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a lot of good suggestions here to bedazzle the denim jacket! will see if that appeals to her. 💎
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@klagowski
you can use whatever term you want! i'm not going to put you in bad opinion jail. but it's okay to just say "i hate cyclists and bike lanes." you don't have to use a faulty moral position as a smokescreen.
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wild that there is a made-up condition that supposedly only affects people while they are being assaulted by police, which can be used to claim that the assault didn’t cause their death.
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In August 2019, my former employer
@EmilyCarrU
hired Gina Adams, an “Ojibwe-Lakota” artist, as part of a restricted search for Indigenous faculty. Then people started asking questions about her identity— including me. My first feature for
@macleans
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this is such a direct, tangible example of reconciliation in practice that other Canadian universities could easily implement— here's hoping some of them do.
#UWaterloo
is proud to announce that a full tuition waiver will be offered to all qualifying students from two First Nation communities on whose traditional territory the University is situated.
More: |
#UWaterlooNews
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ok this one is also incredibly bad
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Seeing a lot of “I support the right to protest but it shouldn’t affect anyone’s day!!!” type posts which make me want to crawl under a rock and die of secondhand humiliation.
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if you liked this tweet you are now obliged to visit your local library.
this is what I'm picking up today from the
@VPL
if you need a suggestion:
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by this logic, people with massive investment portfolios are also not really wealthy— the only true wealth is a Scrooge McDuck vault of gold coins deep enough to swim in. let's! be! serious!
Kernel of truth here. Home equity is embodied in net worth, but it's illiquid wealth that can only be liberated thru selling one's home.
The main "winners" in an inflated RE market are rentier intermediaries like banks, developers, & investors. Homeowners benefit, but far less.
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you make one little observation like “a $2m home is a pretty significant asset, actually” and thousands of posters emerge like a cicada brood, hollering “you want my sweet grandma to sell her home and live in a DRAUGHTY GARRET? you think she should PERISH on the STREET?”
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Tech bros “discovering” that anorexia makes you hyperfocused and euphoric is the dumbest trend of 2019.
Runs two companies, eats no food, needs an intervention.
Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 wellness hacks:
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not sure you guys understand what i’m dealing with when i say my cat is “too long.” this is simply too much. someone cross-bred a cat and a snake and now i have to live with it.
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as documented by an alum, bookstore staff at
@emilycarru
were allegedly made to remove a display of books about Palestine and settler-colonialism
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@clhubes
ahhh to me it sounded like strep but I've never had HFM! either way it does not sound like a rhinovirus
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last night my 3-year-old put on her coat and boots and told me she wanted to "go outside for some air," stood on the back porch for 10 minutes and then came in and told me it was "very refreshing."
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choosing to believe in theory no. 2... there's an alternate ending somewhere featuring Kate Hudson getting her how-to into the hands of the UN just in time to broker an armistice (the UN negotiator is played by Chad Michael Murray)
I've now spent too much time wondering if this is a reference to the Tajikistan civil war of 1992-97 and whether this is an anachronism (since the movie came out in 2003) or if the movie is actually set in '97 and they're implying she helped bring peace to Dushanbe.
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A reality show where smug Canadians who live in cities east of the Rockies and make fun of Vancouver drivers have to get behind the wheel and navigate our unplowed slush/black ice-laden side streets.
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@brennaneleffler
so you can imagine how much worse it is for the 25% of Canadian seniors who rent and have no equity and no security
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working on a last-minute Halloween costume for the baby
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FYI the university took a break from living, laughing, loving, and learning to update their website but it has been preserved for ✨posterity✨ by
@notleora
@michellecyca
@PaulVermeersch
@Ian_Mosby
Have archived this, in case anyone doesn't believe it's for real!
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incredible that this story on the decline of point grey cites **online shopping** as a cause and not the fact that all the houses cost $3.5m and current residents oppose density, so no one can afford to live or shop there
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fascinating to see someone describing my ideal scenario— local daycare facilities springing up to meet demand, creating a critical density of childcare that serves the neighbourhood— as a worst-case outcome
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@clhubes
it’s been three years and i still think of the woman i met at baby’s birthday party who told me her toddler had “never seen a screen in her life, because i’m always fully present”
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possible that this movie actually did influence my approach to journalism
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today of all days, it's unfathomably grotesque to draw a false comparison between the legacy of residential schools and this hateful campaign to strip trans youth of their rights, in order to pander to a bunch of conspiracy theorists and bigots.
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I'm going to go eat an ice cream cone in the sun with my baby, but one last observation: a lot of people seem to think it's rude or hostile to accurately describe someone with a lot of material wealth as "rich" and I find that profoundly mystifying.
this is a very common attitude in Vancouver: many people seem to believe that the millions of dollars in wealth represented by their home does not make them, objectively speaking, wealthy.
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disheartening to see candidates who worked so hard on engaged, thoughtful, progressive campaigns crushed by a bland, largely faceless billionaire-backed group who ran on a fear-mongering platform stoking hatred against the poor.
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@bluestockinsara
@hoot_little
the vast majority of people who are shopping fast fashion are doing so by choice for convenience. i don’t think it’s shaming anyone to point out the enormous harms of that industry, and bad faith arguments to defend it should be critiqued.
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I cannot believe that people who live NEXT TO A PLAYGROUND are able to veto a neighbourhood daycare proposal because they hate the sound of children playing!
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For
@macleans
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several twitter economists have informed me that the pronouns in my bio are responsible for the housing crisis. i'm so sorry everyone. i had no idea.
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this tweet introduced thousands of people from around the world to the brain-liquifying reality of what “$2 million dollar home” means in Vancouver, and also germinated my
@macleans
feature how our national housing market got so fucked up. fruitful!
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one last point before i go back to tweeting photos of my cat. my parents worked very hard and i'm grateful to benefit from that. but secure housing is a human right— it shouldn't only be available to those who can attain high-paying jobs or who are born into wealth.
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if there’s an opposite of “quiet quitting” it’s probably turning your reasons for quitting into a cover story, but no one has ever accused me of subtlety.
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got a little spicy in
@macleans
about the limits of the settler imagination when it comes to reconciliation & Indigenous sovereignty
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contemporary parenting is a bizarre exercise, but one of the funnier parts is that before you put your baby down for a nap you gotta zip them up in a little bag first.
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as the entire country burns, one has to wonder: should fossil fuel companies be weighing in on our national climate change policy?
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had a healthy baby boy on Saturday night, so I will be taking a hiatus from arguing with strangers about housing affordability on here! not because I plan to log off but because it’s a bad postpartum vibe.
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very cool turnout at the VAG today. my baby and I stood near two blonde women who came for the anti-trans protest looked alarmed at all the rainbow signs and trans flags. “this isn’t what I expected,” one whispered, “where is everyone?”
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@CANADALAND
@JesseBrown
Eden Robinson's Trickster trilogy, where much of the action takes place in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood. Also maybe the only novels to namedrop BCIT??
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my kid has been telling people that her baby brother will be named “Chumley” and the state of contemporary baby names is such that everyone accepts this
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mostly angry i didn't run on my "bring a taco bell to vancouver" platform because i thought i needed a real plan for bringing a taco bell to vancouver. turns out i could have just talked about it a lot.
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at the ferry terminal getting coffee and a mask less older lady is urging the cashier to take off her mask, saying, “they can’t make you wear that anymore.”
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@janafalls
@cynaragee
coined “toddler grandma style” in one of my fave essays and I wonder if this is “grandma toddler”
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