Thoughts

Today marks a significant anniversary in Canada: the 95th celebration of Persons Day.  This historic day commemorates the 1929 decision that finally recognized wo…

I have a complicated relationship with my name. Tudor. It’s different, right? You probably don’t have a friend named Tudor. In my younger years I accepted that p…

It started slowly, insidiously, and incrementally. I had taken a job overseas as a communications professional and volunteer working with disenfranchised inner-city yo…

I was at my daughter's dance recital when I got the news that would change our lives: My husband, Harry, had cancer. Harry and I met in Germany when I had just turned …

It took two years for my coworkers to get my name right. With a name like Adriana, the mispronunciation wasn’t malicious — it’s just not a common name. And the consistenc…

No refunds or exchanges — the shocking truth about periods and perimenopause  Menopause brings an end to menstruation, but leading up to this “rite of passage,” m…

Lucie Gauthier on her Harley Davidson motorbike My lungs were full of blood, and I was drowning, gasping for air.  I remember the moment that the social worker…

Zandra consulting at the UOHI’s Women’s Heart Health Clinic I am frustrated with how familiar this patient story has become: It took four emergency room visi…