Why people should know about “Hidden Exposures”

Have you ever stood beside a perfume counter or walked down the detergent isle and felt a headache coming on? Have you ever started rubbing your eyes for no apparent reason? Maybe perhaps you might be reacting to something in the air environment. How would you know? Allergy tests are not always conclusive.

In Toronto, South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) and Toronto Public Health (TPH) took it upon themselves to warn…

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I would like to present you with a poem that I wrote and read to an audience celebrating mothers in Guelph. It was published by Ed VIDEO.



I am mother.

Spelled M-O-T-H-E-R

Call me mother

Not Mum

Only my child calls me "Mum"



That is my child, not my kid

I am not a goat and neither is she!

I am not a chrysanthemum

I am not a flower to be plucked out of the earth

Away from my roots

To be stared at, Isolated, talked about

Until… Continue