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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you for inviting me to your podcast @torontomike.com and for the delicious lasagna. It fed the whole family. I can now say that this book is putting food on the table. 😄

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce that my book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s-70s, is out and available in every major bookstore, just in time for the Labour Day weekend. www.indigo.ca/products/mil... #canadianhistory #torontohistory #labourhistory

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

How did construction machines become staples of boyhood culture? Why were they given female/male pronouns? How did they impact ideas of masculinity and whiteness? Answers in "Gendering 'Intelligent' Machines: How Operating Engineers Constructed their Masculinity" in the latest Technology and Culture

On top of a wooden kitchen table, a copy of the October 2025 issue of the journal Technology and Culture, with a painting by Frida Kahlo on its cover, showing her naked and bloodied on a Henry Ford Hospital bed after giving birth to her child. Underneath the journal copy is a pamphlet for the Laborem Ex Machina podcast series. On the upper right corner, a toy figurine of the Paw Patrol character Rubble.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Great opening night for Basta! No More Fear! The Toronto Workers' Theatre Group did a wonderful job bringing to life this tragic story about a mostly forgotten milestone episode in our city's past. All shows are "sold out," but come anyways if you don't have a ticket and we'll try to find you a seat

Actors on stage performing opening scene about the rescuing attempts at the Hoggs Hollow construction site. Left to right, crowd of onlookers in distress stand behind a police officer. Reporter Frank Drea takes notes while interviewing a distressed site superintendent Murray Frank. The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Actors on stage performing second scene about the coroner's inquest on the Hoggs Hollow tragedy. Left to right, the prosecutor interviews a witness, a former tunneler who sits alone at the centre of the stage. The other witnesses sit in a row on rhe right. The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Actors on stage performing fourth scene about a Brandon Union Group union rally. Union leader Charles Irvine speaks at the podium while resting his shillelagh on his right shoulder while Bruno Zanini, to his left, holds a picket sign over his head saying: "If not for yourself, fight for the future of your sons." The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Actors on stage performing last scene featuring ghostly apparitions of the five dead workers. Actors wearing black clothes and white phantom-like masks hold black and white portraits of the men who died while standing in a row facing the crowd. The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This evening, 7.30pm, at the Steelworkers Hall on 25 Cecil St., is the opening of the play I co-wrote "Basta! No More Fear!" about the Hoggs Hollow disaster that killed five Italian tunnellers in 1960 and the immigrant construction workers' uprising that followed.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I co-wrote a play about the Hoggs Hollow tragedy of 1960 and the subsequent uprise of Italian construction workers. It will be performed by the Toronto Workers' Theatre Group at the Steelworkers Union Hall, May 7-11. Entrance is free but registration is required. mayworks.ca/project/bast...

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BASTA! NO MORE FEAR! Remembering the Hoggs Hollow Disaster of 1960 - Mayworks

By the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Where is the Ontario student movement on this issue? In Portugal, high school and university students launch protests and go on strike frequently on a range of things. Or in Quebec in 2012.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Porque ninguém está muito preocupado com esta "crise" para além da bolha politica e mediática em Lisboa. Há questões existenciais a serem debatidas na Europa e no mundo das quais Portugal não se pode alhear nem adiar para primeiro lidar com uma eleição que ninguém quer exceto a extrema direita.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

C'mon say it with me Canada. C-o-a-l-i-t-i-o-n. Want to be less like the U.S. and more like the EU? Then act like adults around our democractic system. Instead of a Lib. minority with the NDP's volatile support, we could have a gov. that actually represents the majority. This should be a no-brainer.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Currently in Europe and scanning the news in Canada. It doesn't seem like people in Canada realize that pundits over here are now openly talking about preparing for an EU war with Russia outside of NATO. Where does that leave Canada, now that the transatlantic alliance is in shambles?

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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I wrote about the hypocrisy underlying our national conversation around housing. People & politicians blame immigrants for unaffordable housing (ignoring the real causes), then quietly rely on immigrants to fill the most precarious, low-paying jobs to build our housing supply.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"I think they were discriminating against Hispanic employees...they didn't ask the white people who were there anything...That doesn't make sense. Either you ask everyone or you don't ask anyone," said the Portuguese-American owner of business raided by ICE where 3 Hispanic migrants were arrested.

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Looking forward to being part of this panel on January 30, 6pm, at @museumoftoronto.bsky.social. See here for more: www.museumoftoronto.com/collection/b...

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A funny thing about the car-centric attack on bike lanes is that Ontario owes much of its road network to bicycle advocates whose lobbying led to the creation of one the first Dept. of Highways in Canada and the intro of modern road building technology. See ep. 2 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/26f7...

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Laborem Ex Machina Podcast

Part 1: Modern Construction Machines and their Makers

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

An important piece to understand how simply promoting the building trades is not enough to make it appealing and accessible to new apprentices or retaining existing ones, especially women, indigenous peoples, and other groups who have been historically marginalized in the construction industry. 1/2

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This Nov. 26, 8.30 p.m., I will be participating in the Q&A session following the screening of Sérgio Graciano's film about the revolutionary April Captain, Salgueiro Maia, showing at the Spadina Theatre, as part of the EU Film Festival. See link for details. euffto.com/singlefilmpa...

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Gilberto Fernandes @gilbertofernandes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thank you for following me, everyone. I mostly post about my work. Check the links on my profile if you want to learn more about it or connect with me.

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