Margaret Shkimba's Avatar

Margaret Shkimba

@margaretshkimba

Writer. Grandma. Hamilton, Ontario Contributing columnist, Hamilton Spectator.

2,675
Followers
1,300
Following
208
Posts
26.07.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Margaret Shkimba @margaretshkimba

Post image

“…in meeting the world where it is, we run the risk of jettisoning any aspiration to where we want it to be. Is Canada giving up?”

Seems so.

Feeling nostalgic for the principled position of Jean Chrétien.

open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

06.03.2026 15:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So proud of the USA Olympic Women’s Hockey Team for showing moral backbone and integrity unlike the Men’s Hockey Team who quickly gave into fascism.

24.02.2026 06:02 👍 3540 🔁 647 💬 117 📌 25

If someone’s in the habit of pedophilia, what makes anyone think they’d tell the truth about anything? Even under oath. Which means nothing to people with no conscience or moral compass.

21.02.2026 21:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Well… duh!

21.02.2026 11:05 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

😕

21.02.2026 03:21 👍 29089 🔁 8641 💬 727 📌 477

I hope OpenAI gets sued into the sun

21.02.2026 09:35 👍 267 🔁 71 💬 13 📌 0
Preview
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

21.02.2026 04:00 👍 1624 🔁 797 💬 40 📌 60
Preview
Francesca Albanese, UN Watch, and the Politics of Digital Warfare UN Special Rapporteur on the OPT Francesca Albanese has come under fire from several European nations who are demanding she step down over comments she made that they claim are anti-Semitic.

Digital manipulation is easy for anyone with half a brain, as evidenced by the recent attempt to silence UU Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Shame on the Canadian connection.

open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

20.02.2026 15:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Video thumbnail

I have never bawled my head off from watching dance before, but this had me sobbing uncontrollably.

This tribute to Renee Good & Alex Pretti dipicting #ICELawlessness is something EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN NEEDS TO SEE!

Bravo to the dancers of Hungryman Productions & choreographer Mathew Steffens!

18.02.2026 10:52 👍 1539 🔁 665 💬 61 📌 63

How has no one resigned or been fired for the budgetary bombshell that hit the Barton-Tiffany shelter project?

www.thespec.com/opinion/colu...

17.02.2026 14:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m typically reluctant to let loose on women in the public eye, they are so often the object of scorn and derision in our misogynistic culture, so my comments have been well considered and are not off the cuff or in any way knee jerk. But Bondi has demonstrated an obscene lack of compassion and sense of justice for the victims and survivors of the predations of Epstein et al. It’s astounding the level of blind partisanship she demonstrates in her defence of convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump. Her contempt of Congress is arrogant and dismissive.

I’m typically reluctant to let loose on women in the public eye, they are so often the object of scorn and derision in our misogynistic culture, so my comments have been well considered and are not off the cuff or in any way knee jerk. But Bondi has demonstrated an obscene lack of compassion and sense of justice for the victims and survivors of the predations of Epstein et al. It’s astounding the level of blind partisanship she demonstrates in her defence of convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump. Her contempt of Congress is arrogant and dismissive.

Excerpt from article posted below by @margaretshkimba.bsky.social

16.02.2026 14:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

“Bondi has demonstrated an obscene lack of compassion and sense of justice for the victims and survivors of the predations of Epstein et al. It’s astounding the level of blind partisanship she demonstrates in her defence of convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.”

Her contempt of Dems is palpable.

14.02.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Bullshit Barbie Pam Bondi Takes the Stand US AG Pam Bondi testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about all things DOJ. What’s top of everyone’s mind is: why has no one been charged in relation to the Epstein files yet?

What a shit show of unprofessional partisan delusion.

open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

13.02.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I know Americans have been fed bullshit their whole lives about Cubans and Cuba 🇨🇺 but take it from someone who has been there a half dozen times— they are the loveliest, hard working, self-respecting people who just need 🇺🇸 to take its foot off their necks. Don’t you dare attack them.

03.01.2026 20:06 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Post image
08.02.2026 20:05 👍 94 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 2
Post image

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

07.02.2026 06:59 👍 11959 🔁 2668 💬 180 📌 201
Post image
07.02.2026 10:54 👍 200 🔁 96 💬 4 📌 5
Preview
Ontario’s hospital funding is in shambles The Ford government has failed to bring hospital funding into the 21st century.

Hospital funding is in a shambles.

www.thespec.com/opinion/colu...

03.02.2026 19:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
SCTV - Exorcising with Reagan Blair
SCTV - Exorcising with Reagan Blair YouTube video by westnyacktwins

From an early SCTV episode, exercising Exorcist style with Catherine O'Hara. At times, it seemed she was the go-to when they needed a feral character.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lY...

30.01.2026 21:59 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Post image

Excellent. No notes.

25.01.2026 21:15 👍 2721 🔁 464 💬 36 📌 9
Post image
23.01.2026 17:07 👍 60 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
Post image

@andrecarrilho.bsky.social

25.01.2026 21:16 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Post image
25.01.2026 21:21 👍 76 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 0
Preview
The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’ A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.

A grim day to note that Canada Pension Plan Investments has ~$264M in PALANTIR, which is enabling muderous ICE + its horrific terror campaign. Pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy!!! (see👆post re BCI)
Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...

25.01.2026 02:48 👍 105 🔁 80 💬 8 📌 43
Post image

@laugh-about-it.bsky.social

25.01.2026 19:33 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

Canadians: Buy Canadian!
Canadians: Invest in Canada!
Canadians: Travel in Canada!
Doug Ford:

25.01.2026 19:32 👍 44 🔁 12 💬 12 📌 5
Preview
Inside the politics and lobbying that helped derail Ontario’s deposit-return system for cans and bottles The province is one of only two in Canada without a bottle return system that has long been the norm in Europe.

"Circular Materials" is Loblaws, Clorox, Pepsico, Metro, McDonald's, Minute Maid, Sobeys, Kraft, P&G, Restaurant Brands (Tim's), Nestle, Costco, Keurig, Maple Leaf Food and CocaCola.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

25.01.2026 19:37 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
25.01.2026 19:37 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

At this meeting, Dennis Modry claimed that Premier Danielle Smith said she prefers the title 'Prime Minister' over 'President,' in a discussion about her possible leadership in an independent Alberta. 1/5

#abpoli #AlbertaIndependence

25.01.2026 04:10 👍 59 🔁 53 💬 8 📌 12

Thinking a lot today about how Conservatives these days so readily conflate democratic socialism and liberalism with communism, but when you call them fascist for cheering on Trump’s murder gang it really hurts their feeling.

25.01.2026 19:50 👍 192 🔁 46 💬 10 📌 2