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‘Patient 357’ inspires project to mourn unnamed asylum dead
Photos by Anne ZbitnewA Stitch in Time: Mourning the Unnamed is a research and art project that honours the children and adults who lived...
a love letter to the one i work to forget
Last week we ran a poem called thoughts that live in the hole of my brain by 17-year-old Lexin Zhang. “When I was young, I thought abou...
Dear Everybody: It's time to end stigma
Check out this TV ad in Holland Bloorview's new anti-stigma campaign, Dear Everybody, which launches today.Dear Everybody is an open lett...
thoughts that live in the hole in my brain
LexinZhang is a 17-year-old student participating in Holland Bloorview's Youth@Work program.This is a poem she wrote about having cerebra...
How 'there's a new rule' broke me
Hoops. This is another story about the unnecessary hoops people with disabilities and their families are forced tojump through to get gov...
It's the little things, like shoes
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
A doctor reveals her hidden disability
Dr. Paige Church is a neonatologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a developmental pediatrician who sees children with spina bi...
A cousin's memory fuels this Kenyan trainee
Susan Wamithi grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. But her medical studies have taken her from Alabama to Grenada to England to Nairobi to Toronto....
'We laugh, we encourage each other, and there's no judging'
Photos by Chelsea DeeIn 2013, BLOOM covered a unique sewing project in Maai Mahiu, northwest of Nairobi, that was changing the lives of K...
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