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Renée Sylvestre-Williams

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Journalist. Book author - The Singles Tax, coming January 2026. Newsletter writer. Trinidadian Canadian. Traveler. My journalism: https://muckrack.com/renee-sylvestre-williams/articles

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Honest to god, editors are sacred.

04.12.2025 17:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

02.12.2025 02:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Singles Tax: No-Nonsense Financial Advice for Solo Earners Sylvestre-Williams is friendly and relatable as she shares advice from experts, stories, trials, and triumphs from single Canadians across the country, as well as her own personal experience of being ...

Which you can pre-order now: ecwpress.com/collections/...

01.12.2025 20:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

Discussed The Singles Tax: No-Nonsense Financial Advice for Solo Earners with The Globe and Mail's Erica Alini. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

01.12.2025 20:58 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

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

20.11.2025 16:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

20.11.2025 00:54 👍 3404 🔁 1128 💬 34 📌 48

You know, I was thinking this exact same thought earlier this year.

20.11.2025 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No.

20.11.2025 16:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

20.11.2025 02:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

16.11.2025 02:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More than likely.

11.11.2025 01:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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”

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”

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-...

05.11.2025 21:00 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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”

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”

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-...

04.11.2025 17:00 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The Singles Tax cover is here! This week has been not great due to having the cold.

open.substack.com/pub/budgette...

16.10.2025 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.)

06.07.2025 21:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Holyday is trash.

06.07.2025 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to channel your rage against pointless billionaires I try not to think about billionaires and despite my best efforts, I know about Lex Luthor’s* wedding in Venice. Ugh but I love how they had to move their...

'How to channel your rage against pointless billionaires'. buttondown.com/TheBudgette/...

27.06.2025 20:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wrote a whole book about it that's coming out in January 2026.

25.06.2025 00:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same. In and out in less than 10 minutes.

28.04.2025 14:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

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...

25.04.2025 15:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Why we all need vex money One Friday, three years ago, I woke up to the sound of the news on my radio.

Why we all need vex money
open.substack.com/pub/budgette...

09.04.2025 00:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Canada's Trudeau calls Trump tariffs "a very dumb thing to do"
Canada's Trudeau calls Trump tariffs "a very dumb thing to do" YouTube video by CBS News

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

04.03.2025 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Damn, Trudeau spat fire

04.03.2025 19:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

24.02.2025 00:55 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

O'Leary lied.

24.02.2025 00:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yet, you went ahead and did what you did, Ian. I'm embarrassed for you.

24.02.2025 00:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Far Can “Buy Canadian” Really Go? | The Walrus Boycotts work, but only if they don’t fizzle out

Wrote this piece for @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/buy-canadian/

21.02.2025 15:09 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

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

15.02.2025 23:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

14.02.2025 02:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

Better than the $1.7m quoted a few years ago, I guess? ca.yahoo.com/finance/news...

12.02.2025 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0