Sheila Reid
@shewolfwrites
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journalist/washed up athlete | @TorontoStar
Toronto, Ontario
Joined October 2022
Computer science grads used to be a hot commodity — now they fear they’re being replaced by AI. Experts say entry-level positions are disappearing due to artificial intelligence, an uncertain economy, and too many students entering the work force. https://t.co/uXZCvbKpQS
thestar.com
There was a time when computer science was considered one of the hottest degrees, promising six-figure salaries and fun, perk-filled workplaces.
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"In 1997, I was a 29-year-old award-winning art critic and journalist when I was stricken by a violent and disabling onset of manic depression. I managed to avoid the street for 26 years after my diagnosis. The idea of homelessness was terrifying. When I faced it in 2019, I
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Studies from around the world show bike lanes ease congestion, reduce emissions and are a boon to businesses.
cbc.ca
While many people, including Ontario's Premier Doug Ford, say that bike lanes increase traffic congestion, research from around the world shows that's not the case.
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'Perfect rat storm' -- Two of Ontario's largest cities, Toronto and Ottawa, struggle to fight increasingly visible rats,🐀by @shewolfwrites
https://t.co/9BkYVVdpqL via @torontostar
thestar.com
The municipality's infrastructure committee recently adopted a motion asking city council to direct staff to craft an "action plan" to reduce rats in the city.
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Are Canadians really nicer than Americans? @GoodmanRob1 joins @SVRuparelia to discuss the founding myths and moral character of the two countries, and how Canada can protect its democracy. https://t.co/53STFIBcXU
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Walter Kehm, a prominent landscape architect, has walked away from the Ontario Place revamp, in opposition to clearing 800+ trees. “Nature is calming for the soul,” he told me. “You don’t need a spa for that. You need trees.” Latest for @TorontoStar
https://t.co/vCN3UlvLbe
thestar.com
Walter Kehm said he could no longer be tied to a project that threatens a decades-old wildlife habitat.
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An October TMU security alert was based on unevidenced claims of a “Global Day of Jihad”
ontherecordnews.ca
Mistranslated call for protests was transformed into misinformation amplified by right-wing news sources
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When she was eight years old, Evy Mages was taken to a mysterious Austrian villa, where she was humiliated and surveilled for months. Decades later, she became determined to uncover what, exactly, had happened.
newyorker.com
As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why.
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Q&A with Canadian filmmaker and TMU film school grad D. W. Waterson who debuted at #TIFF with their cheerleading film, Backspot
ontherecordnews.ca
Canadian director talks about TIFF, their new cheerleading film, and their time at TMU
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My colleague @ColinDMello asked Premier Doug Ford —if what happened with the Greenbelt land swaps and deals that will enrich developers to the tune of billions — is corruption. “That’s pretty nasty you saying that.” Colin keeps pushing on the line of questioning.
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Toronto’s Black neighbourhoods hard hit by displacement
theglobeandmail.com
Researchers pointed specifically to high levels of displacement in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood, an area hard hit by almost incessant transit construction
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It's Living+ but real. (written by me, a real estate expert)
Canada sees the rise of mall cities
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Canada sees the rise of mall cities
theglobeandmail.com
Mono-culture shopping centres are opening up to expanded residential housing use
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Much of the essence of conservatism can be found distilled in these tweets: the overriding belief that there are structures somehow both innate and natural but also so fragile and persistently on the verge of collapse the state must constantly work to impose and reify them.
Any society that isn't normatively based on heterosexual family formation is definitionally doomed to collapse. Pretending that society ought to be apathetic about such matters -- or even worse, condemnatory of the presence of traditional norms -- is civilizationally suicidal.
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The Toronto Society of Architects calls on the Province of Ontario to listen to the feedback of Ontarians and not only reassess the current redevelopment plans for #OntarioPlace but the public consultation process around it. Read our full statement: https://t.co/RYdzkmYQFs
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Grateful to all the #students who opened up about their #PersonalFinance struggles for my latest @globeandmail story: https://t.co/sShw0Szkbp.
theglobeandmail.com
As the Bank of Canada has raised interest rates from 0.25 per cent to 4.5 per cent since last year, students have been among those hit hardest by soaring cost of living expenses, rents and grocery...
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I’ve been covering real estate for @globeandmail and wrote this thing about a project I liked.
From a tweet to full page cover spread in the @globeandmail, the most read newspaper in Canada. Yes Twitter has faults, but this website is also pretty amazing.
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From a tweet to full page cover spread in the @globeandmail, the most read newspaper in Canada. Yes Twitter has faults, but this website is also pretty amazing.
We took one old house and turned it into twelve gorgeous new ones.
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“What’s your sign?” may have been a cheesy pickup line from the 70s but #astrology is back. It’s online, on apps and in ads. It’s also very lucrative. @maggiemreid examines the rise of astrology and how it fits into consumer capitalism. #Horoscope
https://t.co/FkoHiOvtFh
cbc.ca
Belief in astrology is on the upswing, especially among younger people. That’s maybe not surprising given that astrology’s popularity rises in times of crisis and uncertainty. But since it has no...
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