Megan Kinch
@meganysta.bsky.social
Electrician/writer of journalism and creative non fiction. New column in @CDN_Dimension, contributor to @westendphoenix @TheGrind. https://linktr.ee/meganysta twitter: @meganysta
Worked on the bench today. Some of the old art is peeling off.
Coming up on Sunday! A discussion on the legacy of social movement journalism in Toronto and the path ahead, featuring Eric Mills, @meganysta.bsky.social, @aliyapabani.bsky.social and @dgrdon.bsky.social. Tickets are PWYC: eventbrite.ca/e/1985960054...
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!
Current Ballot – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
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Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 5mo agoCome out to hear Su J Sokol and I discuss the role of art — and speculative fiction in particular — as a tool of community organizing and social justice imagining, and fighting fascism.
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...
No Danny Boy
St. Patrick’s Day is more than green beer and parades. For Irish-Canadians, it’s a reminder of a complex history—of famine, migration, and complicity in colonization. This year, writes Megan Kinch, we...
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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.
No Danny Boy
St. Patrick’s Day is more than green beer and parades. For Irish-Canadians, it’s a reminder of a complex history—of famine, migration, and complicity in colonization. This year, writes Megan Kinch, we...
canadiandimension.com
NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER
Mysterious large steel cylinder suddenly emerges from the ground in Japan
Japanese authorities were investigating Friday how a large steel cylinder suddenly emerged from the ground during sewer construction work and rose to the height of a four-storey building in the city o...
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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...
The trades remain a danger zone—especially for women workers
This year opened with the murder of a Minnesota woman by ICE agents. Last year closed with a workplace murder of an American woman tradesworker, also in Minnesota. This is not mere coincidence. The sa...
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"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:
The trades remain a danger zone—especially for women workers
This year opened with the murder of a Minnesota woman by ICE agents. Last year closed with a workplace murder of an American woman tradesworker, also in Minnesota. This is not mere coincidence. The sa...
canadiandimension.com
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.
Matt Yim@mattyim.bsky.social · last yr."I have found actual consent not vitiated by fear.” An incredible statement.
In her latest, @meganysta.bsky.social argues Conservative politicians' attacks on harm reduction impact a constituency they say they hold dear: skilled trades workers.
TorontoToday@torontotoday.ca · last yr.
“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...
Sleeping in cars, the ravine, on a job site — West End Phoenix
Writer Megan Kinch talks to construction workers dealing with homelessness while trying to hold down a job. “People with addictions or mental health problems are especially vulnerable, but the last fe...
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"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
TorontoToday@torontotoday.ca · 2y agoExcited 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.
TorontoToday@torontotoday.ca · 2y ago"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:
On life as a single mom working in the construction industry
In that time of morning that seems like the dead of night, I quietly get dressed. My six-year-old stirs and I ask her to climb onto my back like a tiny monkey. I leave my apartment unit and carry her ...
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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
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 2y agoan important thing about america's current media elites is that they're basically just the dregs of an industry that has been constant contraction since the 90s and thus a lot of them are nepobabies who don't actually want to do any work
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...
Hard times are here
People like me and my family members who work in the construction and restaurant industries are canaries in the coal mine of the economy. New condo starts have been down for some time, which is an ear...
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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...
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.
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"People like me and my family members who work in the construction and restaurant industries are canaries in the coal mine of the economy." NEW from @meganysta.bsky.social on Canada's painful slide into recession:
Hard times are here
People like me and my family members who work in the construction and restaurant industries are canaries in the coal mine of the economy. New condo starts have been down for some time, which is an ear...
canadiandimension.com
"If we want to turn the tide of deindustrialization and create manufacturing jobs for the economy of the future, we need to be bold. And it starts now, not in some distant future." NEW from @stevenhigh.bsky.social:
Now is the time to turn the tide on the deindustrialization of Canada
The rise of the populist right in deindustrialized areas, like the US Rust Belt, is a legacy of neoliberalism and free trade. We need to break this cycle. If we want to turn the tide of deindustriali...
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In the spirit of Go Birds, I wrote a few thousand words about trying to capture a bird call, singing, being alive and Marshmallow on Bob's Burgers www.anxietyshark.ca/seagulls-sin...
Seabirds singing like doves
For months I thought there was an owl outside.
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If you saw someone being sexually harassed on the bus, would you know how to help? If you witnessed transphobia at a coffee shop, would you feel safe to step in and de-escalate? If not, give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you effective intervention - it's free! Feb 17 Noon EST
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It starts by taking action right now. Join us for a one-hour, interactive, virtual training to learn how to intervene when you see harassment happening. We’ll talk about what harassment looks like — f...
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OMFG. With literally minutes to go, Biden has commuted Leonard Peltier's sentence www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
Statement from President Joe Biden | The White House
I am issuing pardons to Gerald G. Lundergan and Ernest William Cromartie. I am also commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he
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“Sometimes I would go to work, and go to the booze can here, then sleep in that alley. Then I’d go to work hanging off the side of a building doing balcony construction,” SLEEPING IN CARS, THE RAVINE, ON A JOB SITE From the December Home Issue www.westendphoenix.com/stories/slee...
Sleeping in cars, the ravine, on a job site — West End Phoenix
Writer Megan Kinch talks to construction workers dealing with homelessness while trying to hold down a job. “People with addictions or mental health problems are especially vulnerable, but the last fe...
westendphoenix.com
30% Of LA fires are being fought by inmates They’re being paid between 16¢ to 74¢ an hour. They’re fed a bologna sandwich and an apple while fighting the fires. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
Due To “Slavery Clause,” 30% Of LA Fires Are Being Fought By Inmates
30% of those battling the Los Angeles wildfires are Inmates firefighters. There maximum day rate of $10.24 is due to the 13th Amendment's 'Slavery Clause'. Is this fair?
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“Sometimes I would go to work, and go to the booze can here, then sleep in that alley. Then I’d go to work hanging off the side of a building doing balcony construction,” SLEEPING IN CARS, THE RAVINE, ON A JOB SITE From the December Home Issue www.westendphoenix.com/stories/slee...
Sleeping in cars, the ravine, on a job site — West End Phoenix
Writer Megan Kinch talks to construction workers dealing with homelessness while trying to hold down a job. “People with addictions or mental health problems are especially vulnerable, but the last fe...
westendphoenix.com
I'm so happy to see that my op-ed in the grind- about my young daughter denied help at the public library- is the second most read (by clicks) in The Grind this year. Much thanks to everyone who read my long form analysis and story and went beyond just the viral tweet
