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The Limits of Forgiveness

Looking forward to attending The Limits of Forgiveness tonight. Thank you Marlee Liss for your courage and determination in bringing your story forward. Stories like this matter. They open conversations many people are still afraid to have.

Flying Kotex

Flying Kotex is a chapter from my book Breathing the Night Out: A Story of Intergenerational Sexual Violence and Healing. It tells the story of getting my first period, a moment that could have been filled with confusion and shame, but instead became something else. In an unexpected and deeply human way, my big brother […]

A Billionaire Warned Us. We Ignored Him.

Listen to this billionaire, Nick Hanauer. He gave this warning 12 years ago. And we did not listen. Now look at where things are heading. Growing inequality. Growing fear. Systems getting tighter, not freer. He told us this would happen. So I am asking you to actually listen this time. Not because he is rich.Not […]

Minister of Empty Buildings

Hey Mark Carney, I just wrote my own job description for you to offer me. And Prime Minister Mark Carney, I accept the position of Minister of Empty Buildings… with all my heart, I accept đź’– Let’s fix housing, grow food, and create jobs together. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow, what […]

The Hidden Numbers: Child Sexual Violence and Canada’s Justice Gap

The Hidden Numbers: Child Sexual Violence and Canada’s Justice Gap My nephew has been sitting in Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay for almost six months for stealing two cars. Triple time. Meanwhile, his grandfather, my dad, served two months for raping a child. That’s the system in action. That’s what Canada values. Property gets […]

This is How I Heal

This is how I heal. I carry the weight of child sexual violence trauma every day. I wake in the middle of the night and count my breaths. This is how I heal. And yet Canada offers no real support for people like me. I am not alone. There are 8.5 million survivors of child […]

I Went for Food. I Left With Dignity

I never imagined I would be here. I worked full time from 1979 to April 2024. Forty five years. Then a surgery changed my life. I came out of it with brain damage and everything shifted. I burned through my life savings and line of credit trying to recover while navigating a system that is […]

Females, Disabled Females & Child Sexual Violence

This is a story about females, child sexual violence and money. Why do numbers hit harder than words? Tragedy becomes a number and numbers become scale. Scale is impossible to ignore. The infographic $ focus is for FEMALES only. Stay tuned for the everyone. But take a look at 1984. This is what Canada’s researchers […]

Where Beauty Meets Pain

When I write, I process my emotions. When I breathe, I feel them fully. When I move in silence, I invite the pain and in doing so I discover the beauty hidden within it. Sometimes it takes days, weeks, months, even years, but it always arrives. The wisdom is carried in both the beauty and […]