Anakana Schofield: My pharmacy ran out of the estrogen patch. Then things really got heated It is a melancholy object to behold a perimenopausal woman currently in search of a 37.5 microgram estrogen patch when she discovers there is a global shortage.

Over at the @thestar.com I wrote about the shortage of the 37.5 microgram estrogen patch. Solidarity to all in search of it and who are hot as bedamned.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

🥚She searches for herself in the "Today's Child" column on children for adoption: "I realized that some of the language sounded familiar because it was used during the 18th and 19th centuries in both slave auction ads and fugitive slave ads to describe Black people who were enslaved in Canada."

A page from the book 1984

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

Great piece, Liz. Thanks for it.

I wrote quite a ranty column about living in a carsick city after your child gets hit by a car www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

That's commitment. I taught my daughter and my immigrant husband that it's Skydome. The people take back the power of naming.

They can never make me say R***** C*****. It is and will always be Skydome.

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Tonight they were up 2-1 and then in the top of the 9th Oakland scored to tie it. Bottom of the 9th, two out ... Jays came back to win it without the need for extra innings. Gets the blood running...

Did you see that "doomscrolling" was the answer to a Jeopardy clue tonight?

Book cover for The Tin Flute: A Bitter Sweet Love Story by Gabrielle Roy. A large black rectangle sits in the centre with the title The Tin Flute and the author name Gabrielle Roy in white lettering. Around it are illustrated portraits of six characters arranged in pairs on the left and right sides. Their names appear beside them: Florentine, Jean, Emmanuel, Alphonse, Azarius, and Rose-Anna. The background shows stylized city scenes with buildings, streets, and a church tower. The colour palette is mainly muted reds, blues, and beige with a mid-century illustration style.

Bonheur d'occasion (Secondhand Happiness), known as The Tin Flute in its English version, was one of the most important Canadian books of the 20th century.
It helped lay the foundation of The Quiet Revolution and remains an important work to this day.
This is the story.

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It was indeed. She's amazing.

Darcy Ballantyne: I spent last summer trying to find myself in the classified ads The piece ran in the Star every week from the 1960s to 1980s.

Darcy Ballantyne discovered her father was Austin Clark. Here her powerful adoption story. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Is he working out in jeans???

It's a great read. I am in the middle of it now

It’s hard to watch the testimony at sexual assault trials. Especially since our system is still failing to get complainants the representation they deserve A system that gives victims and survivors of sexual violence the right to independent legal representation would be instrumental change

The ongoing blame and shame in the Stronach trial demonstrates why complainants need independent legal representation, Angela Marinos writes
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Every time I commissioned a book review - if they were going to be negative, they had to write better.

Oh good grief

Hockey-loving kids just witnessed their heroes acting like cowards If 12-year-olds knew something was wrong with the extravagant endorsement of the Trump administration, how did, say, Auston Matthews, the captain of the Maple Leafs not know this?

@davebidini.bsky.social had some thoughts on the Team USA hockey. He's impassioned - and he's right. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Jerry Brewer, a senior columnist, on the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team: “Their triumph is now attached to Trump. His track record suggests it won’t be used to celebrate everyone. It is more likely to be framed as dominance than shared aspiration.”

From @theathletic.com: "The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the 'Miracle on Ice' 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone," our columnist writes. "By the next day, it didn’t." nyti.ms/4s1Csv8

Yep. They called that one wrong

It's great to see. While we think their elitism is more entrenched than North America's, it's not always the case. Different class lens

Still have all my copies.

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by:

Graham Greene
Alice Munro
Thomas Hardy
Salman Rushdie
Margaret Atwood

I went all out for romantic love and the need to hear great love stories that endure …this week in the Toronto Star. Many thanks to my editor @debdundas.bsky.social
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Lansdowne and Dundas right now. Two out of service vehicles stopped and blocking traffic. What gives @ttcriders.bsky.social

And here's a piece I wrote about the importance of telling these stories - all gift links:
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

About | Dear Lara Find out more about the film, the director, and the team behind Dear Lara

And deep respect to @larastjohn.bsky.social for her courage and congratulations on the world premiere of her documentary 'Dear Lara' at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this weekend. www.dearlara.film/about/about

Lusiana Lukman: Boris Berlin sexually abused me during my piano lessons when I was 15 I was 14 when I came to Canada to study and barely spoke English. I didn’t see myself as vulnerable at the time

@bsky.app Deep respect to @lusianalukman.bsky.social Lukman for sharing her story - shining light on abusers helps to save lives: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

God I remember that. In grade 13 as a protest we had our school declared a nuclear free zone, and had in experts to talk at a school assembly after showing this movie. Powerful