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What comes first: legal reform or social change?

posted Tuesday, December 30, 2014

by: in Law

The other day I was watching TV and the new Tide commercial came on. I had seen the commercial at least two or three times before, but this time it clicked: hey – they are featuring a gay couple! Within a few minutes of Googling I learned that General Mills recently featured a gay couple […]

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Publicly Funded Physiotherapy- An Update

posted Friday, December 19, 2014

by: in Fitness Solutions Plus

In August 2013 the Ontario Government changed the way publicly funded physiotherapy is delivered in the community. Approved private clinics and Family Practice Health Teams are now able to offer OHIP funded physiotherapy. These clinics are granted a number of treatment blocks per injury/condition in a year, subject to a maximum of $312.00. Let’s say […]

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Aut in Ann Arbor

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2014

by: in Travel

Keith Orr is the co-owner of \aut\ BAR and the Common Language Bookstore located within the Kerrytown Braun Court district of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Orr and his husband, co-owner Martin Contreras, were among 300 other local same-sex couples who were married in March of 2014 after a federal judge struck down the state’s ban on marriage […]

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Singing Out! For My Son

posted Monday, December 1, 2014

by: in Parenting

My grief goes everywhere with me because it is me. No one can move forward without releasing it in the day-to-day activities, moving through the practicalities of life because if we didn’t we wouldn’t move at all. The one place it has suddenly jumped up to speak its presence is in choir. There are a number of […]

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Do tax laws discriminate against gay male couples pursuing surrogacy?

posted Friday, November 28, 2014

by: in Law

Clients of mine who are “intended parents”, people having a child through third party assisted reproduction, often ask me about tax write-offs. After all, paying for medical expenses involved with third party assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is very expensive. For example, a gay male couple having a child through ART must pay for fertility medications, […]

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Ho Ho Ho..No No No

posted Monday, November 17, 2014

by: in Parenting

Naughty or nice. That is the concept that The Ginger Menace and I am working on this holiday season. If he is old enough to write Santa Claus a letter with a wish list then he is old enough to understand “good” versus “bad” behaviour. However it is mommy who has to sometimes remember how […]

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Runnning injuries

posted Sunday, November 16, 2014

by: in Fitness Solutions Plus

So for all the runners out there, I thought I would summarize what I have learned from treating people with running injuries, and using the latest research. When most people have a running injury they tend to address what they can control themselves, either their shoes or orthotics. New Balance seems to have good advice […]

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Fort Lauderdale – Florida’s Gay Mecca

posted Thursday, November 6, 2014

by: in Travel

Fort Lauderdale has quickly become the destination in Florida for the LGBT travel market. This has come around in great part by the local Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) taking a full on directive to specifically target this market. This meant hiring one individual to fully oversee all initiatives, campaigns, and events. […]

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Victory for Trans Rights

posted Thursday, November 6, 2014

by: in Law

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) recently released a ground-breaking decision that made a clear statement about the rights of transgendered individuals and also, in a somewhat surprising development, their allies. Here is what happened… A cisgendered woman named Karen rented a retail booth and sold candles at a market in London, Ontario. One […]

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Before you pack your bags

posted Thursday, November 6, 2014

by: in Finance / Insurance

If you are like most Canadians you probably love to travel and are planning your vacation down to the very last detail. Maybe you planned your  dream wedding in the tropics and are all excited and taken up with the wedding planner, invitations, and are probably busy  making  arrangements as you read this blog for […]

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