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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Ontario Government does municipal road design now apparently. "wants bidders to provide plans to “remove or relocate” islands, medians and gutters and “incorporate congestion relief measures at all major intersections to improve traffic flow, such as traffic signal adjustments"

spacing.ca

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Damn, the West Toronto Railpath just reopened, and now most of it is closed again. This is very sad and discouraging.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I ended up in an elevator yesterday with three people ranting about "twelve year olds being permanently castrated." When I told them that I could testify from direct experience that this does not and cannot happen, they replied, "It happens in New York!" Then I had to get out of the elevator.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Soon, poetry will be solved, and no one will ever have to read a poem again. Soon, landscapes will be solved, and no one will ever have to look at a mountain again. Soon, love will be solved, and no one will ever have to have an emotion again.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ten minutes of the most amazing saturated rose-orange light in the wake of the storm ...

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"IntegrityTO" is now running ads on Facebook (pushed to *me* of all people) about some anonymous/imaginary dude who asked a cop why he wasn't cracking down on drug use and the cop said he couldn't because "the city has declared drug use a human right." JFC.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I mean, if Canadian consumers had been slipping in their commitment to boycotting US goods, the fact that US food is basically poison now has definitely got things back on track already. (I have seen so much more origin labelling in food stores this month ...)

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Amnesty International's report on the anti-trans movement is being scrubbed from the internet. Download it if you can. It's hard to find but I found a download link here: ddosecrets.org/article/censored-amnesty-international-uk-report

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Don't judge me by the title, it was said in a context ...

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“The research also found that, while rental housing supply has grown across Canada in recent years, the benefits have not trickled down to those in most need. Rather, the new housing supply has been added to the higher end of the rental market.”

theglobeandmail.com

Rising cost of low-end rental units driving increase in homelessness, report shows

Findings challenge assumption that other factors, such as mental health or substance use, are the reason rates have surged in Canada

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Under what legal framework does buying a physical copy of a book give you legal ownership of the contents? Were that the case, I personally would have the copyright of thousands of books, many still in print. I want my royalties!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/07/2026

THIS SUMMER, THE WOMEN WILL COME AND GO, TALKING OF MICHAELANGELO PROOFROCK: COMING 2028

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

larger implications aside it’s always funny when an LRB piece breaks containment because it’s like a crowd shows up with machetes on your porch and you are. an old Man whittling whistles or making cups out of willow bark

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I can't make it to the No Jets TO rally/victory party tomorrow, since they have scheduled it at the same time as church and I have a professional obligation to be at church. But I hope as many people as possible still show up. We all know this could be a fragile victory, and a good showing will help

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's been so long since there's been any kind of good news on any political front, I kind of don't know how to process it. I'm still expecting it to be taken back tomorrow. But it seems that it's real.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My lifelong ambition was to be published by Coach House Books. Took me a while to get there, but I made it. They are just the best.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I grew up with my mother telling me stories about the sky turning black at noon over Liverpool. Who knew the bad old days would make such an exciting comeback, here in the permanent dusk of smoke-filled Toronto.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Carney's trying a new rhetorical move where he says he wants to know what you're for rather than what you're against and it's like okay I'm *for* normal skies, breathable air, and a habitable planet. Your move Mr. Prime Minister.

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Eric Squair @ericsquair.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I feel like Carney should equally be remembered for this speech, where he says action against climate change is too expensive and “divisive”, and thus his government is giving up. Wow. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

cbc.ca

Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was 'too expensive' and 'divisive' | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney echoed critics of the previous Liberal government's climate plan in a video posted on Tuesday, saying the plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive.

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Same experience today, but now because of the smoke. Apologies for mentioning this, though, since worrying about climate change is a Trudeau-era fad that we’re supposed to have moved on from.

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m always reluctant to directly attribute any one weather event to climate change. But Canada’s current fossil-fuel boosterism does hit a bit harder while considering whether we have to keep our 6-year-old home from the baseball camp he’s been excited about, because of potential record heat.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The shootings on St Clair were a terrible tragedy, and we prayed this morning for the victims, and I'm sure many others did too. But last night someone died from toxic drugs in the park by my house, and we are still not even sure who it was, and no one else prayed for them, because no one else knew.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Gosh. Thank you, library readers!

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy Three Corporations in a Trenchcoat Day

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

You can also visit A Community Was/Is Here: An Art Show at the church’s courtyard (103 Bellevue Ave., Toronto) until June 27! This art show memorializes the community that previously gathered in the courtyard’s encampment (which was cleared by the City on October 16, 2025) and which is still here.

Event poster for A Community Was/Is Here.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Last week at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, @maggiehelwig.bsky.social launched Instructions for the End of the World: Homilies of Comfort and Resistance 💥 Thanks to all who came out for this powerful conversation between Maggie Helwig and Noah Lamanna.

A photo of Maggie Helwig in conversation with Noah Lamanna at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church.

A photo of Maggie Helwig signing copies of their book for attendees.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This Thursday in Toronto! @maggiehelwig.bsky.social launches their book, Instructions for the End of the World, at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, in conversation with Noah Lamanna. Event will be livestreamed, too: www.facebook.com/events/28284...

Event graphic for Maggie Helwig's book launch for Instructions for the End of the World. Poster features the cover of the book alongside a small photo of Maggie, as well as a small photo of Noah Lamanna, who they will be in conversation with. Thursday, June 18, 7 PM start, at 103 Bellevue Ave., Toronto.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

GardaWorld is back patrolling the churchyard and photographing the concrete blocks. Because FIFA? Because the City heard we're going to do an art show? Your tax dollars at work.

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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#breadnotcircuses TUHU has organized a campaign to expose the displacement and violence from private security and law enforcement directed at us at Union Station and elsewhere as the World Cup approaches. Tuesday, may 26 at 10am, rally against FIFA related security escalations at Berczy park

An image of an umpire. ‘Foul play’ sign to protest how homeless ppl being criminalized more as #fifa comes to #toronto.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

SAFER FOR WHOM? Not safer for my friends.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I wrote to Air Canada about some upcoming flights because I had seat selection problems and it is essential that I am seated with my daughter, who has autism and cognitive delay. They responded by ensuring me that they had added wheelchair service to my file.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My God, the City of Toronto. Transportation Standards has just phoned *me* to complain that the benches on the sidewalk outside the church, which are City benches on what they have made very clear is City property, are "spraypainted and in disrepair."

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every generation gets the Spadina Expressway fight they deserve. This is ours. Toronto needs to defeat this. Please sign this petition, please share it: win.newmode.net/nojetsto/sav...

win.newmode.net

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I have spent the last six months thinking about when spring would come and my daughter and I would be able to walk along the waterfront, visit Little Norway Park, and visit Toronto Island again. Now apparently Drug Fraud is proposing to take all of this away from us forever.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

And once again, J.D. Vance is trying to school the Pope in theology, making it clear that in his view, "morality" is about people having the wrong kind of sex, and perhaps swearing, but nothing at all to do with economics or war. Dude, READ THE BASIC WORKS OF YOUR OWN CHURCH.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE IS WEAK ON PATENT LAW

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Did I ever suppose that I would want Jean Chrétien back, as a PM who could meet the moment? I certainly did not suppose. Yet here we are.

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Holy Week installation in our yard. Stencils read "Here lies island of humanity/Here lies compassion/RIP collective wellbeing/Here lies harms reduction/These principles can be resurrected with your courage and dedication."

Concrete blocks behind security fencing, with stencil added reading "Here lies island of humanity."

Concrete blocks behind security fencing, with stencil added reading "These principles can be resurrected with your courage and dedication."

Concrete blocks behind security fencing, with stencil added reading "Here lies compassion."

Concrete blocks behind security fencing, with stencils added reading "RIP collective wellbeing" and "Here lies harms reduction."

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We can't process around the church tomorrow as we have traditionally done on Palm Sunday, because too many fences have been put up around us. We will just have to walk in circles around our fenced-in yard. The layers of punishment, because we tried to look after our unhoused neighbours ...

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Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Announcing finalists for the 2026 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing: ◢ On Oil by Don Gillmor ◢ Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social ◢ On the Ground by Brian Stewart ◢ On Book Banning by Ira Wells ◢ Women Who Woke up the Law by Karin Wells writerstrust.com/ShaughnessyCohen

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

ARC for my new book, on sale in June ...

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

In a bizarre way, this is not inconsistent with closing safe consumption sites. Ford apparently does not want any safe or regulated or controlled consumption of anything. But he wants public uncontrolled alcohol consumption rewarded, while public consumers of street drugs should be in jail or dead.

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