Archive for February, 2010
Baby Blues
There was a Family Day rally at Queen’s Park. About 60 couples protested the fact that OHIP doesn’t cover invitro fertilization for those who can’t conceive. The procedure goes for about $10,000. per treatment and sometimes several rounds are needed. For many couples, it doesn’t even work.
Read More..>>Journey’s End
He made it! My brother is “there”. He’s in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego. He arrived on his road-worn BMW motorcycle during a blizzard and he tells me hundreds of people, locals and fellow tourists, took his photo as he pulled into the city.
Read More..>>The Pope’s Playlist
The Vatican newspaper, L’Ossertavore Romano, has published its picks for the best popular music. It suggests this is a “semi-serious” list of 10 classic albums to take to a desert island.
Read More..>>The Game of Sex
You can’t say the Middlesex-London Health Unit is shying away from educating teens about sex.
Read More..>>Death of a Designer
When the 680 News alert came out that designer Alexander McQueen was dead my first response was, “Who?”
Read More..>>Kit-sanity!
I don’t want to leave the impression that spending the night in Lucan at the home of Sir William the kitten was a chore. It was not. I would do just about anything for my friends, the humans belonging to this feline. But I think it was a lesson from the Great Gazoo.
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