Ontario Autism Placation

Over the past two years life has been more fraught than ever for autistics in Ontario. It all began when the provincial Conservative government decided to trash the existing Ontario Continue Reading →
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Over the past two years life has been more fraught than ever for autistics in Ontario. It all began when the provincial Conservative government decided to trash the existing Ontario Continue Reading →
There’s a children’s song with the words, “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.” In Ontario over the last month, and specifically on March 7th, Continue Reading →
Yet another day and month with a focus on a marginalized people. March 31st was Transgender Day of Visibility. April is a month that focuses on autism and April 2nd Continue Reading →
I think I want to get a cat and name it Autism. Then I’d be a family with autism. Or, maybe I’ll name it Depression and be a family with Continue Reading →
It’s December again. That time of year when we in North America face a deluge of Christmas music, Christmas sales, cries about “the war on Christmas”, and the seemingly endless Continue Reading →
Pride is not the most friendly place for someone with sensory processing issues and/or chronic illness. In my own case, the two start a feedback loop and result in exhaustion Continue Reading →
This is the dvar, the teaching, I delivered during the Kulanu Toronto Pride Shabbat dinner on Friday June 16, 2017 held at The 519 on Church St. in Toronto. This Continue Reading →
CW: This post discusses right wing Christian fundamentalism and may cause a reaction in those who have been, or are part of it On Monday night I came across an Continue Reading →
This is an edited version of the talk I gave this past Sunday at The Unitarian Fellowship of Northwest Toronto. They were a wonderful group to speak to and the Continue Reading →
My reply to the response from the LCBO on Friday (Follow Up: The Salvation Army at the LCBO) was also sent to John McAlister at the Salvation Army. He replied Continue Reading →