Gilberto Fernandes

Actors on stage performing opening scene about the rescuing attempts at the Hoggs Hollow construction site. Left to right, crowd of onlookers in distress stand behind a police officer. Reporter Frank Drea takes notes while interviewing a distressed site superintendent Murray Frank. The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Actors on stage performing second scene about the coroner's inquest on the Hoggs Hollow tragedy. Left to right, the prosecutor interviews a witness, a former tunneler who sits alone at the centre of the stage. The other witnesses sit in a row on rhe right. The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Actors on stage performing fourth scene about a Brandon Union Group union rally. Union leader Charles Irvine speaks at the podium while resting his shillelagh on his right shoulder while Bruno Zanini, to his left, holds a picket sign over his head saying: "If not for yourself, fight for the future of your sons." The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Actors on stage performing last scene featuring ghostly apparitions of the five dead workers. Actors wearing black clothes and white phantom-like masks hold black and white portraits of the men who died while standing in a row facing the crowd. The backs of audience members can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Great opening night for Basta! No More Fear! The Toronto Workers' Theatre Group did a wonderful job bringing to life this tragic story about a mostly forgotten milestone episode in our city's past. All shows are "sold out," but come anyways if you don't have a ticket and we'll try to find you a seat

08.05.2025 13:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This evening, 7.30pm, at the Steelworkers Hall on 25 Cecil St., is the opening of the play I co-wrote "Basta! No More Fear!" about the Hoggs Hollow disaster that killed five Italian tunnellers in 1960 and the immigrant construction workers' uprising that followed.

07.05.2025 21:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

BASTA! NO MORE FEAR! Remembering the Hoggs Hollow Disaster of 1960 - Mayworks By the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group

I co-wrote a play about the Hoggs Hollow tragedy of 1960 and the subsequent uprise of Italian construction workers. It will be performed by the Toronto Workers' Theatre Group at the Steelworkers Union Hall, May 7-11. Entrance is free but registration is required. mayworks.ca/project/bast...

10.04.2025 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Where is the Ontario student movement on this issue? In Portugal, high school and university students launch protests and go on strike frequently on a range of things. Or in Quebec in 2012.

06.03.2025 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Porque ninguém está muito preocupado com esta "crise" para além da bolha politica e mediática em Lisboa. Há questões existenciais a serem debatidas na Europa e no mundo das quais Portugal não se pode alhear nem adiar para primeiro lidar com uma eleição que ninguém quer exceto a extrema direita.

05.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

C'mon say it with me Canada. C-o-a-l-i-t-i-o-n. Want to be less like the U.S. and more like the EU? Then act like adults around our democractic system. Instead of a Lib. minority with the NDP's volatile support, we could have a gov. that actually represents the majority. This should be a no-brainer.

05.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Currently in Europe and scanning the news in Canada. It doesn't seem like people in Canada realize that pundits over here are now openly talking about preparing for an EU war with Russia outside of NATO. Where does that leave Canada, now that the transatlantic alliance is in shambles?

21.02.2025 01:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤦‍♂️ugh

13.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you.

11.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👋 Hi. Canadian historian here. Thanks for putting this starter pack together.

11.02.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I wrote about the hypocrisy underlying our national conversation around housing. People & politicians blame immigrants for unaffordable housing (ignoring the real causes), then quietly rely on immigrants to fill the most precarious, low-paying jobs to build our housing supply.

29.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 55    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 0

"They want to close the borders and I agree. But if they want to take someone...they should deport the bad people. Not the people who are working. These employees of mine are not criminals...I am left without my employees," said the employer. It's already starting to blow up on their faces.

24.01.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"I think they were discriminating against Hispanic employees...they didn't ask the white people who were there anything...That doesn't make sense. Either you ask everyone or you don't ask anyone," said the Portuguese-American owner of business raided by ICE where 3 Hispanic migrants were arrested.

24.01.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Looking forward to being part of this panel on January 30, 6pm, at @museumoftoronto.bsky.social. See here for more: www.museumoftoronto.com/collection/b...

21.01.2025 23:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada

You might find Ep. 8 especially interesting. Lots of cool stuff on the website too storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cda7...

04.01.2025 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Collaboration with Vhils in mural honouring Cleaners’ Action The internationally renowned street artist Vhils (Alexandre Farto) has created a mural in Toronto’s Little Portugal neighbourhood – on 1628 Dundas St. West (just west of Brock Ave.) – honouri…

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😉

17.12.2024 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Same thing in most Portuguese cities.

04.12.2024 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting in one hour.

27.11.2024 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Laborem Ex Machina Podcast Part 1: Modern Construction Machines and their Makers

A funny thing about the car-centric attack on bike lanes is that Ontario owes much of its road network to bicycle advocates whose lobbying led to the creation of one the first Dept. of Highways in Canada and the intro of modern road building technology. See ep. 2 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/26f7...

27.11.2024 00:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Neoliberal "merit-"based and individualist workforce development policies miss the fact that promoting the trades and opening more apprenticeships is not enough w/out holistic social policies and community supports, i.e., affordable transit, daycares opening earlier, social housing, bike lanes, etc.

26.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An important piece to understand how simply promoting the building trades is not enough to make it appealing and accessible to new apprentices or retaining existing ones, especially women, indigenous peoples, and other groups who have been historically marginalized in the construction industry. 1/2

26.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Apanhados na rede Gilberto Fernandes - Toronto - Gilberto Fernandes, a viver em Toronto há vinte anos, tem na história pública a sua paixão. É professor na Univers

Obrigado Ana Jordão pelo seu interesse no meu trabalho e por o divulgar no seu podcast Apanhados na Rede.
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24.11.2024 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This Nov. 26, 8.30 p.m., I will be participating in the Q&A session following the screening of Sérgio Graciano's film about the revolutionary April Captain, Salgueiro Maia, showing at the Spadina Theatre, as part of the EU Film Festival. See link for details. euffto.com/singlefilmpa...

21.11.2024 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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21.11.2024 01:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0