Renée Sylvestre-Williams
reneesw.bsky.social
Renée Sylvestre-Williams
@reneesw.bsky.social
Journalist. Book author - The Singles Tax, coming January 2026. Newsletter writer. Trinidadian Canadian. Traveler.

My journalism: https://muckrack.com/renee-sylvestre-williams/articles
I have not watched Heated Rivalry yet but I have finished the book. I have warmed up.
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Discussed The Singles Tax: No-Nonsense Financial Advice for Solo Earners with The Globe and Mail's Erica Alini. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
The power of one: A new book shares financial advice for singles
Journalist Renée Sylvestre-Williams’s The Singles Tax discusses saving on groceries, avoiding the ‘single supplement’ while travelling, and more
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This isn't surprisingly. Anyone who followed Johnson's pre-political and mayoral career would have predicted this.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Renée Sylvestre-Williams
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!
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No.
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.

As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I can only conclude that Toronto drivers are illiterate since they can't read signs.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by Renée Sylvestre-Williams
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-...
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Renée Sylvestre-Williams
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-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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.)
Councillor Nick Mantas asks staff about a hypothetical where there's a sixplex, where each unit has three or four car owners, wouldn't that mean, like, 20 vehicles?

"I don't assume that every person or every bedroom is going to generate a vehicle," staff say.
July 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Holyday is trash.
Councillor Holyday was also the only councillor to oppose an item about the mayor's efforts to expand school food programs. It was APPROVED 17-1. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
July 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Same. In and out in less than 10 minutes.
God I love a Canadian election. Even with the early bird lineup, was in and out in 10 minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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...
Tax Cuts Won’t Make Life More Affordable | The Walrus
Politicians like promising them to the middle class. But they often benefit the wealthy
thewalrus.ca
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Spitting fire. The man is our Prime Minister and part-way through his speech, the PM of the United States. youtu.be/CHo8T4j5kqg?...
Canada's Trudeau calls Trump tariffs "a very dumb thing to do"
YouTube video by CBS News
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Damn, Trudeau spat fire
March 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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.
February 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
O'Leary lied.
Kevin O'Leary to @ianhanomansing.bsky.social on Cross Country Checkup, rough quote: "The Canadian dollar has dropped 40% against the US dollar under Trudeau."

Fact check: the CAD has dropped 34% from the 2011 peak, but just 4% of that drop happened under Trudeau. The big drop happened under Harper.
February 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The conservatives must be worried based on the new line of attack ads they've started running in the last couple of weeks.
February 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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.
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Better than the $1.7m quoted a few years ago, I guess? ca.yahoo.com/finance/news...
Canadians expect they will need $1.54M to retire, BMO survey finds, amid inflation pressures
Canadians are managing to save more than in previous years for their retirement.
ca.yahoo.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Another crash? No one asked for this to be a MayDay/Air Crash Investigation marathon. It's horrifying.
February 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM