Parents: this website is a great resource from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) that provides trustworthy advice on what to do when your child is sick aboutkidshealth.ca They've just posted a new resource on using adult anti-fever tablets for kids assets.aboutkidshealth.ca/AKHAssets/How_… h/t Allan Grill

Today marks ten years since this infographic back page about the Kowloon Walled City was published by South China Morning Post. I explained in a few lectures the ins and outs of this project, and now I will do it here. Long 🧵

What to eat when your cultural staples aren't in Canada? I present "Fresh off the Shelf," a six-part The Tyee series on the consuming work that diasporas put in to source ingredients, machinery and knowledge to put food products back on the table. Part1: thetyee.ca/News/2023/04/2…

articles of interest is the best thing right now in fashion media. it's smart, in-depth, and talks about things ppl care about. the latest episode is about the hidden world of factory audits, which sits at the core of ethical production. a must listen articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/inside-the-f…

"Is it better to create a highly varied health marketplace for consumers to navigate or establish a public right to essential health care that is evidenced-based and easily accessible?" Terrific piece on wellness profiteers by Michelle Cohen, MD Healthy Debate healthydebate.ca/2023/05/topic/…

800 restaurants created street side patios that transformed the city during covid. Today, the bureaucracy is back, onerous fees are back, and restaurant & bar owners are left in limbo, waiting. Summer is short. Note to Toronto Council: fix this. thestar.com/business/2023/…

Montreal for the win: 10 (ten!!) commercial arteries to become pedestrian-only streets this summer. The well established link between pedestrian streets and commercial vitality is driving policy making in Montreal. montrealgazette.com/business/local…

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ A HUGE CORGI-SIZED METEOR IS APPROACHING EARTH TOMORROW. Take shelter with us for the Pawsome ProtoCorgi Launch Event on June 15th between 11:45 and 1:30 GMT-3. steamcommunity.com/games/1039280/…

Here's your easy guide to Taste of Lawrence 2023! The Festival Map can also be downloaded from our website for convenient access. See you there! 🎡 🎶 🍢 #TasteofLawrence #TOL2023 #scarborough #streetfestival #wexfordheightsbia

Just talked to a Swedish who was astonished hearing that my income tax rate is around 3 percent, including Health Insurance and pension fund. ‘How can TW maintain its infrastructure and healthcare system, which is public funded and of excellent quality?’ she asked. 🧵

Calling female identifying game designers... You might be in this Hasbro event. spark.hasbro.com/womeninnovators

A handful of developers who were in the know about the future site of a new and unnecessary highway have been buying up these lands in recent years, spurring a huge increase in land values along the highway corridor. Where have I heard this before. Let me think. Disclosure of

‘Its heyday as the foreign flagship of Chinese food may be over, but the irony is that the excellence of real Cantonese cuisine has never been truly recognised in the west. Anayeli Garcés Dunlop reports from Hong Kong on China’s great culinary secret on.ft.com/3L9ScsP

Arabica beans have long been the gold standard among coffee pros, but robusta coffee is finally getting a second look. saveur.com/culture/robust…

Both ‘inch’ and ‘ounce' come from the Latin ‘uncia’ meaning “a twelfth part.” An inch is 1/12th of a foot. The original ounce was 1/12th of a pound.

Here’s a factoid… ‘Factoid’ originally meant “an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.” It has evolved to also mean “a briefly stated and usually trivial fact.”

An interview with author Anya von Bremzen will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about pizza, mole, and ramen. saveur.com/culture/nation…

Nice to see this feature of Dr. Danielle Brown-Shreves Toronto Caribbean News discussing how we can improve access to #primarycare for African, Caribbean & Black communities Read findings from the #OurCare roundtable done with Black Physicians' Association of Ontario TAIBU Community Health Centre & Durham CHC at OurCare.ca/communityround…

Excited to play Scared Stiff? Follow the Pinball FX page and repost this tweet to win one out of five game codes on the platform of your choice. T&C: zenstudios.com/promotional_te…