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Find out why Mary Simmerling wants: No More Excuses, Indifference; Failures and #NoMoreDeadGirls! #VAW #IPV #NST #OAITH #DVDRC #FordIsKillingUs #FemicideEpidemic
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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Just got my copy of Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald's newest book! Thanks for signing it Jeanne and Linda and for acknowledging my editing contribution!
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Jesse Lewis & Rachel Van Staalduinen create innovative, inclusive theatre. See Karl the Cat & the Junkyard Pack Nov 6 to 9 at Sweet Action Theatre, 180 Shaw St, Toronto. Buy tickets here. #PlaydoughProductions
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With roots deeply embedded in their South Asian heritage, Two2Mango fuses diverse art forms – including improv, clowning, bouffon, Indian classical dance & music. Performances spark laughter & conversations about societal issues & human experiences. #HINPROV
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November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Decolonise Your Ears Festival is holding space Oct. 10, 11, 12 at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton. This pay-what-you-want event features readings of plays by IBPOC playwrights. It's always a wonderful experience! #RedBeti #DYEFestival #RadhaMenon
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October 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
As an “Indigenous artist,” you're kind of expected to produce buffalo skulls and teepees and eagle feathers and etc. And, for me that was where I saw [the] Truth and Reconciliation process at that point. It was lip service. John Brady McDonald
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September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Criminal lawyer Allison Craig discusses the role a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income could play in preventing many nonviolent crimes as well as the role teaching life skills and providing trades training could play in reducing recidivism. #FordIsKillingUs #BasicIncomeNow #UGLI #Mincome
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Julie Nolke is living her dream by Dying on the Outside.
Nolke recently completed a sold out run in four cities across Canada before the comedian and content creator brought Dying On The Outside to Hamilton.
September 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Basic Income Waterloo invites you to sign a petition calling for the Prince Edward Island GBI Project to be carried out with the goal of a est a national GBI.

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September 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Julie Nolke is living her dream by Dying on the Outside!
Read my interview with actress & writer Nolke who's YouTube channel has over one million subscribers & close to two million views tomorrow on Small Change: doreenn.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In case you need another reason to turn that grass lawn into a pollinator habitat: Co-ordinated plan needed to save ‘alarmingly low’ monarch butterfly population: study www.thespec.com/news/canada/...
August 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A local bbq cleaning comp poured a pail of black liquid into my sewer. 11 days after reporting the incident to ON MOE, a Burlington Parks and Rec truck pulled up outside my home. 1 worker removed the sewer grate and said. "nothing to see here."
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August 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Check out my interview with Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard re solitary confinement in the Summer Herizons herizons.ca
and check out my Spring Herizons interview with Hamilton playwright and artist Radha Menon herizons.ca/archives/cov...
August 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Still waiting for a response from Halton/Peel MOE to my Sept 2024 inquiry. I asked about the impacts dumping hazardous materials down the storm water sewer system has on infrastructure; streams, rivers & lakes; animals & plants. #EnviroDefence
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tell Ontario and Canada to Reject Kinross' Mine! Tell US Decision-Makers to Stop Line 5 & protect the Great Lakes before the August 29! Gather on August 29 in Sault Ste. Marie (ON) to stand up for the waters we all rely on -- free lunch, film and panel.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
David Garneau's book, Dark Chapters, launched March 25/25. 17 poets, fiction writers, curators and critics engage with his paintings. An exhibition of the same name is touring the country. Read my conversation with David on Public Parking. #doreennicoll
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August 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Rev Billy holds pop up protests outside iconic American institutions, calls Monsanto & Disney the devil, Mickey mouse the anti-Christ, exorcised Walmart & protested anti-consumerism & anti-materialism in front of Trump Tower. Earthalujah! #LoveEarth
August 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Rev Billy holds pop up protests outside iconic American institutions, calls Monsanto & Disney the devil, Mickey mouse the anti-Christ, exorcised Walmart & protested anti-consumerism & anti-materialism in front of Trump Tower. Earthalujah! #LoveEarth
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August 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Garneau is a painter, writer, curator, and professor who currently creates metaphorical still life paintings. Dark Chapters encapsulates one of the darkest, most troubling chapters in our nation’s history—the Indian Residential School system.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
David Garneau and his brilliant art exhibition, Exploring Dark Chapters, is amazing. Read my conversation with David on Public Parking Publication out of Manitoba, Canada. #DavidGarneau #DarkChapters #UniversityofReginaPress
August 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Karen and Julia join me Thursday to discuss why after seven long years the City of Burlington is taking Karen to court because their naturalized garden apparently “doesn’t conform to bylaw standards."
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August 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This amazing fundraising event is tonight! Be sure to get tickets!
July 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hamilton Fringe has ended, but Radha Menon and Red Beti Theatre are launching a new production at their fundraiser July 31 at Theatre Aqaurius.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Alone in a Cell: Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard Advocates to End Solitary Confinement in Canada by Doreen Nicoll and in the summer edition of herizons!
July 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hamilton Fringe Festival has ended, but Radha Menon and Red Beti are launching a new production, The Hanging, at their fundraiser on July 31 at Theatre Aqaurius. Check out my interview with Menon in herizons magazine.
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July 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM