That's TRIPLE 2026 AURORA AWARDS-NOMINATED author and podcaster Rachel A. Rosen discussing speculative fiction on Thursday, along with @cycling2asylum.bsky.social, moderated by @meganysta.bsky.social, on Thursday, by Kensington Market!
"Make people afraid to give then you email and phone number due to constant spam" and "send the same email multiple times to the same address"
These are children
Switching constantly is probably bad for me and gives me work whiplash but I also can appreciate both. However that does not stop me from whining.
Time for a green beer? Or maybe not. What does it mean to be Irish Canadian? WE have a history beyond the famine and the Fenian raids? We also have a choice...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
St. Patrick’s Day isn’t just green beer and parades. For Irish-Canadians, it’s a history of famine, migration, and complicity in colonization. This year, @meganysta.bsky.social calls to embrace solidarity and remember the struggles that shaped Irish-Canadian identity.
Aw thank you so much!
I am both a professional writer and a professional trades worker. I've been working in the trades since 1999. We act like the passage of time will make things better but it only gets better if we acknowledge the real problems and fight for change.
It means there entire areas of the economy where women are not present or barely so. It means encouraging girls to study tech then throwing them to the wolves when they try to work in the field
he issues that tradeswomen face effect all women- It means that women who hire tradespeople are often faced with sexism or allowing people they feel uncomfortable with in their own homes or communities. It means that its much harder for women to learn to DIY things which adds to the cost of living
We don't get anywhere by being Pollyanna-ish about women in trades. People's basic rights to safety are being denied. And its not just about sexual harrssment- there is a fair amount of just straight up violence. Downstream of that is lots of other forms of discrimination and bulllying
For international women's day I'd like to be real. Women in trades are dealing with some really messed up stuff at work. Stuff you probably don't of. Death threats, false imprisonment, attempted murder- and this is happening on big union sites even. My latest: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Its partly because there are so many different warring agencies that run the station- TTC, Go/metrolinx, Via rail, CN rail, Port Authority, City of Toronto. When I worked there the city maps on the wall still had the bus terminal in the old spot
Did they have to find the bus terminal lol? I worked in union station for a bit as an electrician and got interrupted at least once an hour by someone looking for the bus terminal...
"The same forces that devalue women’s lives and organize to attack us in our neighbourhoods are at play in both the killing of Renee Good and the life and death dramas that women are prey to in our construction workplaces."
NEW from @meganysta.bsky.social:
I think that was implied
Ok Canadians. Who does the land belong to?
a) Indigenous people
b) A King with a Crown living across the ocean who has better bloodlines than the rest of us
For weeks now, us experts have been saying that this is fundamentally the crux of this trial : Does the legal system understand coercion? Today's conclusion is a loud and resounding no.
In her latest, @meganysta.bsky.social argues Conservative politicians' attacks on harm reduction impact a constituency they say they hold dear: skilled trades workers.
“The moment I got some work, I got my phone stolen. And that was it,” he says. “I lost the job.”
SLEEPING IN CARS, THE RAVINE, ON A JOB SITE
@meganysta.bsky.social talks to construction workers dealing with homelessness while trying to hold down a job.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/slee...
"The battle over trades workers’ votes and trade unions’ endorsements is not only pivotal to electoral politics — we are also the manual labourers that bring election promises to fruition."
From @meganysta.bsky.social
Excited to publish @meganysta.bsky.social and her nuanced take on the growing trend of construction and manufacturing unions endorsing Doug Ford.
Megan, a construction electrician, argues manual labourers are the people who bring election promises to fruition.
"When I show up to a worksite having been dispatched by my union, I feel like Anne of Green Gables, with the foreman silently conveying, 'We clearly requested a boy.'"
Megan Kinch (@meganysta.bsky.social) on life as a single mom working in the construction industry:
most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt
From Canadian Dimension, 1992
I got laid off last month. My kid's dad and my brother got laid off the same week. Working in food and construction,we are the canaries in the coal mine of recession. Hard times are here. My second column in @canadiandimension.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
My Tweet About a Librarian Not Letting My Kid Use the Phone Went Viral. Here’s Why
Toronto electrician and writer Megan Kinch talks about how her super-viral tweet sparked conversations about libraries, parenting and the state of the world. @meganysta.bsky.social www.thegrindmag.ca/tweet-librar...
