Why 2024 Will Be the Year of the Caregiver
My New Year’s resolution is to work hard at the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence to get a national strategy for caregivers – ALL caregivers, patients and families. The third…
2023
My latest: Hamas’ willing co-conspirators
Two sides. One side hasn’t shot up schools for little kids. It hasn’t firebombed community centers and places of worship. Its clergy haven’t called for a deity to slaughter the…
The Questionable Mindblind Theory of Autism
There was a cute social media post recently that asked kindergarten kids what gifts would be best for 30-year-olds. Of course there were lots of hearing aids and hip replacements…
Next year in Ukraine, expect the unexpected
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a crowd at an end-of-year press conference in Kyiv, December 19, 2023. Photo courtesy President of Ukraine/Flickr. “No other activity is so continuously or universally…
Imagine Toronto.
Toronto, a city on the north side of Lake Ontario, is not a planned city. It is more of a happening place than people realize. After many years of haphazard…
What can we expect from the UCP in 2024? Not just more of the same – a lot more!
The Alberta commentariat was asked: What can we expect from the United Conservative Party in 2024? The Alberta commentariat has answered: More of the same! Here are a couple of…
Musical interlude
Sofia Kourtesis – Madres
Cartoons for 2022
It’s a LondOntLife #6 PDF
Today’s tonic: “Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors”
Wow! Leadership on protecting trans youth from a Republican governor! How refreshing! "Ohio’s Republican governor has vetoed legislation that would have barred transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, he said…
Today’s tonic: “Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors”
Wow! Leadership on protecting trans youth from a Republican governor! How refreshing! "Ohio’s Republican governor has vetoed legislation that would have barred transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, he said…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your 2023. – Shannon Hall discusses new research showing that the positive effects of COVID-19 vaccination include a reduction in long COVID in children. And Erin…
Today’s tonic: “Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors”
Wow! Leadership on protecting trans youth from a Republican governor! How refreshing! “Ohio’s Republican governor has vetoed legislation that would have barred transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, he said…
It’s a LondOntLife #7
Fresh off of the desktop, this year’s collection of cartoons is live and available as a PDF digital download with 89 cartoons across 52 high resolution pages. It’s a LondOntLife…
He Had Her
“I don’t take advice from men.” This TicTok is gaining in popularity. Paige Turner explained the missing pieces from the success story of Casey Neistat. (Who? He’s a vlogger and…
Gendering genocide
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza outside a morgue in Rafah, December 19, 2023. Photo by Hatem Ali/AP. The Israeli attacks on Gaza have resulted in…
Lee Sun-kyun’s death is a reminder of the lie of South Korean liberalism
South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. This week actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for his role in the 2019 film Parasite, took his own life. Why? Because…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Recently, some well-known progressives — like Russell Brand, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Matt Tiabbi — have switched sides. Michelle Goldberg writes: Part of the answer is probably that the…
Harry Remembered.
It was actually Lou Rosen, I first met. We were in that little custom tailoring shop he and brother Harry had opened on Parliament Street in Toronto. A fellow salesman…
Letter implores Edmonton mayor and council to intervene to halt ‘violent and disruptive decampment’ planned today
With Edmonton Police Services ready to start breaking up some of the homeless camps in downtown Edmonton this morning, opponents of the mass clearances will circulate a letter to Edmonton…
Odds and ends – from dancing ladies to dancing daddies, and dogs, of course
So tonight I have been going through various Bookmarks and other saved posts and I’m finding some great stuff to share. This month I saw two different cartoons based on…