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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I have not watched Heated Rivalry yet but I have finished the book. I have warmed up.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This isn't surprisingly. Anyone who followed Johnson's pre-political and mayoral career would have predicted this.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical. You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

As a writer, this is depressing as it's hard enough to pitch, get sources, write a compelling story for a maybe decent rate. I record everything to show I've actually spoken to people.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I can only conclude that Toronto drivers are illiterate since they can't read signs.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 05/11/2025

Affordability isn’t just about higher wages—it’s about whether your money still feels like it stretches. And for many Canadians, it doesn’t. Writer @reneesw.bsky.social explores if we’ll ever feel financially free again: thewalrus.ca/are-we-going-to-...

On the left: a side-by-side comparison of the same photo of a person holding a grocery basket. Left is labelled 2019 and right is labelled 2025; each has a different price due to inflation. On the right: text that reads “Are we going to feel broke forever? When it comes to lowering the cost of living, there’s not much any government can do”

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 04/11/2025

Groceries cost more. Rent is through the roof. Wages aren’t keeping up. Writer @reneesw.bsky.social asks: If inflation's “fixed,” why does life feel so unaffordable? thewalrus.ca/are-we-going-to-...

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I want to know how this is different from the assumption that each person in a four-bedroom house might own a car. (Yes, it's that stupid.)

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Same. In and out in less than 10 minutes.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Why do politicians start off with tax cuts during a campaign? For one, it's easy for people to understand but in all honesty, it's nothing but marketing. I explore this in my latest piece for @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/tax-cuts-ele...

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Tax Cuts Won’t Make Life More Affordable | The Walrus

Politicians like promising them to the middle class. But they often benefit the wealthy

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Spitting fire. The man is our Prime Minister and part-way through his speech, the PM of the United States. youtu.be/CHo8T4j5kqg?...

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Canada's Trudeau calls Trump tariffs "a very dumb thing to do"

YouTube video by CBS News

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'm going to say this as journalist. Not everything needs to be both-sided. Sometimes you just say, "That's not true" or better yet, don't provide space, time and amplification.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The conservatives must be worried based on the new line of attack ads they've started running in the last couple of weeks.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A confession. I've never felt close to the US. I didn't grow up in Canada so was well away of the US and its foreign interference, especially in Central and South America.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Another crash? No one asked for this to be a MayDay/Air Crash Investigation marathon. It's horrifying.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I thought this was misinformation, so I went to Congress' website and wow, it's not. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c....

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I need to stop reading about Trump wanting to annex us. I will not let that man give me high blood pressure. I know he's too bad to dead but I'm not.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I have reported on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in various fields for several years. DEIA just means acknowledging how systems have discriminated against different groups of people—in many cases for several decades—and strategic efforts to give those people jobs and opportunities.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"“Al Capone in his Syphillitic period” I love a way with words. #Trump

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Catherine Fife @waterloompp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The government of Ontario has threatened to expropriate 770 acres of farmland in Wilmot for an undisclosed industrial project. This is some of the best arable land in Ontario, and it's worth fighting for. #OnPoli #FightForFarmland @maritstilesndp.bsky.social

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Sent off edits to the manuscript: "Plus, as I once told a friend, you’re not only the sole earner, you’re also the chef, cleaner and social coordinator, writer and editor. I wrote this in seven months while working full-time at all the jobs I do as a freelancer, contractor and teacher.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.

New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Lots of conversations this week around marriage regimes, sabbaticals, solo earner budgets and housing.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

When the city of Vienna emails you back with answers to your questions. 😍

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Watching people and media twist themselves into knots justifying the nazi salutes is amazing. Go ahead and be on the wrong side of history.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just finished an interview about shared housing. #bookstuff

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

'This discourse is having an impact on views of the U.S. from north of the border. Favourability is down 15 points from June of this year. Further, Canadians are now three-times as likely to view the U.S. as an enemy or a potential threat compared with two years ago.' angusreid.org/canada-51st-...

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Canada as 51st State? Four-in-five Americans say a merger should be up to Canadians; 90% of us say ‘no’ -

Americans oppose a merger 2:1; just 52% say if Canada does join the U.S., it should get ‘full statehood’ January 14, 2025 – Comments once dismissed as “trolling”, “musing” or “Trump just being Trump” ...

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Love that Machel Montano was on @npr.org's Tiny Desk concert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1f0...

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Machel Montano: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Also love a good chat. (We talked for how long?)

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Ross Douthat is not Canadian. I don't care if his many times great grandmother was. Not after that ridiculous opinion.

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Started a new series in The Budgette called Money for One where single people share their spending with readers. Our first MfO is from Southern Ontario and spends money on camping, community fridges ans supporting their family. buttondown.com/TheBudgette/...

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