Michelle da Silva

Writer and editor | Previously @globeandmail @xtramagazine @nowtoronto @georgiastraight | she/her

[Michelle da Silva @michdas]

@TTChelps wondering where 31 Greenwood southbound buses are? Been waiting at a stop and the time just keeps getting pushed

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

"how could this have happened," we cried from our vacation home while our kids were barely affording groceries

[emily may @emilykmay]

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.

[Angela Pacienza @AngelaPacienza]

A personal essay about how The Eras Tour kept me going during my breast cancer treatment https://t.co/4QgfJzvS2u

[Mark Medley @itsmarkmedley]

The @globeandmail is now accepting applications for its (amazing) summer staff program: https://t.co/3OYr9Aj3t9

[Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social @fatimabsyed]

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

[Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social @fatimabsyed]

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?!??!

[Michelle Cyca @michellecyca]

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

[Michelle da Silva @michdas]

@stacyleekong Congrats, Stacy! Sounds like a great mag. Looking forward to reading (and hopefully contributing) stories!

[Michelle da Silva @michdas]

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

[Matt Frehner @mattfrehner]

🚨🚨🚨 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

[Michelle da Silva @michdas]

@michellecyca As a journalist who also had a baby last year and is thinking about how to “make it all work” once my maternity benefits end, this was really helpful to read! Thank you for sharing, Michelle!

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

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

[Paige Cornwell @pgcornwell]

Can we get her photographed reading a newspaper

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

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 https://t.co/6GpOkqfJXo

[Jana G. Pruden @jana_pruden]

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

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Nordstar puts Metroland newspaper group into bankruptcy, more than 70 weekly papers to go digital only https://t.co/Q1QXVTh3Wd

[Brian Sullivan @SullyCNBC]

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 https://t.co/ymIUO9tkp3

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

#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.

[Karen Howlett @kahowlett]

Ford government’s appointee to Greenbelt Foundation had family ties to developer /via @globeandmail https://t.co/87msKz2jEE