Author: Matt Guerin

Let’s call a spade a space. Gender-non-conforming kids and queer kids in our schools are extremely vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, harassment, and violence.  This was my experience as a gay youth in my high school.  Sadly, it’s the experience of most queer youth.  Kids who are questioning their identities aren’t

Today’s tonic: “My question for Doug Ford: When it comes to gender who is indoctrinating whom?” by Toronto Star writer Emma Teitel. “This entire gender identity freakout rests on the wildly idealistic belief that “woke-ism” has eviscerated age old gender norms. In truth, it’s hardly dented them. In order to

(From left to right) OLP leadership candidates Bonnie Crombie, Nate Erskine-Smith, Yasir Naqvi, Dr. Adil Shamji, and Ted Hsu As many know, I’ve been an activist with the Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) since the 1990s.  I even worked full-time for a handful of elected Ontario Liberals at Queen’s Park from

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce Today’s tonic: “Stephen Lecce’s stance on gender identity in schools is a recipe for more homeless youth”, by writer Emma Teitel.   Let’s imagine young Stephen Lecce tells his teacher at his Ontario high school in the 1990s or 2000s that he’s gay and suffering from

My dear late friend Kyle Scanlon I’ve been heartbroken watching the repeated, nasty attempts south of the border and now in Canada to demonize transgendered people, all for political gain.    Trans folks have become the latest targets of the hate-filled right in North America determined to distract the masses from

There has been much talk in recent times about what went so very wrong for the Ontario Liberals.   What factors led to such a calamitous decline of losing party status in not one but two straight elections?  I’d like to share my take as these thoughts will very much determine

Thank you, Michael Coren, for your advocacy and inspiration.   “Jesus doesn’t mention the issue, and St. Paul’s comments, mainly in his letters to the Romans, are more about men using young male prostitutes in pagan initiation rites than about loving, consenting same-sex relationships. There is, however, one possible discussion in the New Testament. It’s

The buck stops with nobody! The Ontario premier who came to power alleging corruption by a previous Liberal government now presides over a corrupted political process of his own making, Toronto Star’s Martin Regg Cohn writes. “…Obediently and quietly, this government rewrote the rules of the game — shifting timelines,

Justin Trudeau has such a knack for triggering homophobic conservative men who make up the bulk of his irrational opposition.  It’s hilarious and sad this simple photo of a father taking his son to a movie has gotten the reaction it has in the awful social media universe.    We’ve heard

The madness that the narcissistic man-child criminal rapist sociopath Donald Trump has unleashed on this world has always been hugely unwelcome by sane, reasonable, rational human beings who know far better how to behave in this life and how to treat our fellow human beings.  That’s an understatement, for sure. 

Counter-demonstrators in Ottawa June 9 Today’s tonic: “Protests during Pride. Pushback against LGBTQ events. Inside the fight galvanizing some conservative Muslims in Canada” by Toronto Star staff reporter Omar Mosleh. This fair and thorough piece does a good job detailing both sides of the ongoing debates in our societies.  It

  MSNBC’s super awesome host Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes a new superseding indictment filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-A-Lago classified documents case this week, including new details about Donald Trump’s co-defendants Walter Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira trying and failing to get security camera footage deleted. Most of

Today’s tonic: “Canada’s conservative rage farmers get a taste of their own crop,” by National Observer columnist Max Fawcett.  “Farmers aren’t usually caught off guard when it comes time to harvest the crops they’ve dutifully planted and fertilized. But some of the prominent conservative pundits who have spent years farming

Today’s tonic: “Trump is gearing up for his ‘final battle’. So should we,” by Robert Reich “Trump and the Republicans will lose this battle. Even if they win Republican primaries, they will lose the general election…”

Today’s tonic: “Why the world backs Canada in its battle with the Big Tech bullies” like Google and Meta, by Damian Collins OBE MP, is a former UK government Tech Minister and chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee. “…I have been watching with great interest –

Olivia Chow speaks with supporters I am quite disappointed with the mediocre results former mayor John Tory achieved for the city of Toronto.    In eight years, Tory mostly dithered while the city was going to shit.  Apparently, he worked long hours but I don’t know what he actually achieved that

Today’s tonic: “York’s Catholic school trustees are abusing their power by refusing to raise the Pride flag. Their day of reckoning is coming,” by Martin Regg Cohn I couldn’t  agree more with the columnist on this.   It’s long past time for an Ontario leader to be brave enough to take

Tonight’s tonic: “Debunking three big myths about bike lanes” by Taylor C. Noakes, a public historian and independent journalist. I couldn’t agree more with these facts.  Enough of the neo-con nonsense that Mark Saunders is spouting in this election, which is just being pushed to divide Torontonians against Torontonians simply

Today’s tonic: “The Leap: Alberta Conservative Lee Richardson on Why He’s Voting NDP” “Policy: Why won’t you be voting for Danielle Smith?  “Richardson: I am a Conservative, a Progressive Conservative in the Peter Lougheed tradition. Danielle is not a Conservative. “Sadly, she is not the Danielle Smith I first knew