LoveisThicker 🇨🇦
@loveisthicker.bsky.social
🔸 Rooted in Love. Open to Complexity
🔸 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ & BIPOC ally - always learning
🔸 Science-informed & Spirit-aware
🔸 🇨🇦 Canadian & committed to kind conversations
🔸 I seek understanding across divides
🔸 Let’s transcend the echo chambers and grow together
🔸 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ & BIPOC ally - always learning
🔸 Science-informed & Spirit-aware
🔸 🇨🇦 Canadian & committed to kind conversations
🔸 I seek understanding across divides
🔸 Let’s transcend the echo chambers and grow together
Here’s Bailey.
December 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Here’s Bailey.
It’s 9C in Toronto today, warm enough to be able to sit outside comfortably. Bailey is enjoying it.
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s 9C in Toronto today, warm enough to be able to sit outside comfortably. Bailey is enjoying it.
Toronto Street, Winter Morning (1920). Painting by Lawren S. Harris one of the founders of the Group of 7. Hope you all have a great day. ☀️
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Toronto Street, Winter Morning (1920). Painting by Lawren S. Harris one of the founders of the Group of 7. Hope you all have a great day. ☀️
For all the commentary and fact checking of the Felon-in-the White House’s lie laden tirade last night, none of it matters when the source of news for republicans are all echoing the bs. Not a single fact checked at Fox News, Newsmax or OAN. Trump supporters live in an echo chamber of bulls#*t.
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
For all the commentary and fact checking of the Felon-in-the White House’s lie laden tirade last night, none of it matters when the source of news for republicans are all echoing the bs. Not a single fact checked at Fox News, Newsmax or OAN. Trump supporters live in an echo chamber of bulls#*t.
Blessed are you, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who makes us holy through Your commandments, and commands us to light the Hanukkah lights.
Blessed are you, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who performed miracles for our ancestors in their days at this season.
Blessed are you, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who performed miracles for our ancestors in their days at this season.
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Blessed are you, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who makes us holy through Your commandments, and commands us to light the Hanukkah lights.
Blessed are you, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who performed miracles for our ancestors in their days at this season.
Blessed are you, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who performed miracles for our ancestors in their days at this season.
Sunday Thoughts: my faith is focused on making the world a better place for everyone. That is why I lift up the marginalized and push back on those that marginalize them (especially within the church). It’s literally What Jesus Would Do.
December 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sunday Thoughts: my faith is focused on making the world a better place for everyone. That is why I lift up the marginalized and push back on those that marginalize them (especially within the church). It’s literally What Jesus Would Do.
This is Princess Bailey (it was her birthday)!
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is Princess Bailey (it was her birthday)!
It’s a brisk one (-6 C) but with sunshine and blue skies we enjoy every minute at a wonderful Christmas Market north of Toronto..
December 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It’s a brisk one (-6 C) but with sunshine and blue skies we enjoy every minute at a wonderful Christmas Market north of Toronto..
Morning snow in Toronto. The quiet of a snowfall is beautifully peaceful.
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Morning snow in Toronto. The quiet of a snowfall is beautifully peaceful.
We had a great family holiday event today seeing The Sound of Music play in downtown Toronto with our girls. This was especially wonderful after traveling to Salzburg, Austria in September to stay at the filming location for the movie at the VonTrapp home. Definitely a memorable time!
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We had a great family holiday event today seeing The Sound of Music play in downtown Toronto with our girls. This was especially wonderful after traveling to Salzburg, Austria in September to stay at the filming location for the movie at the VonTrapp home. Definitely a memorable time!
Canada’s reputation continues to rise on the global stage in 2025 jumping to #3 in the Anholt Nation Brands Index while the US drops to #14. This is one of the most robust global studies in its 20th year with a sample representing more than 70% of the world’s population (and 80% of its economy).
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Canada’s reputation continues to rise on the global stage in 2025 jumping to #3 in the Anholt Nation Brands Index while the US drops to #14. This is one of the most robust global studies in its 20th year with a sample representing more than 70% of the world’s population (and 80% of its economy).
Even more important this year we observe Transgender Awareness Day in 🇨🇦. We need to take the words of our anthem seriously to ‘Stand on Guard for Thee’ and push back on the provincial right wing governments trampling on their Charter Rights.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Even more important this year we observe Transgender Awareness Day in 🇨🇦. We need to take the words of our anthem seriously to ‘Stand on Guard for Thee’ and push back on the provincial right wing governments trampling on their Charter Rights.
Bailey is Queen of the pumpkin patch!
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Bailey is Queen of the pumpkin patch!
The marketing team for Wicked must have had a massive budget to pull this off.
Picture credit: Katie Byers
Picture credit: Katie Byers
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The marketing team for Wicked must have had a massive budget to pull this off.
Picture credit: Katie Byers
Picture credit: Katie Byers
I advocate we push back on all extremism (left/right/other) and reflect on the systems that foster radicalization. In this US study of domestic extremism, the data shows extremist events are primarily race based (49%) or right wing based (28%) but there is left wing extremist violence as well (8%).
September 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I advocate we push back on all extremism (left/right/other) and reflect on the systems that foster radicalization. In this US study of domestic extremism, the data shows extremist events are primarily race based (49%) or right wing based (28%) but there is left wing extremist violence as well (8%).
Left wing extremism is a lot lower than right but still exists. This study of domestic extremism from 2015-2019 showed 7 events out of 85 (8.2%) to be from the left. I suggest we’d be more effective pushing back on right wing extremism by pushing back on it all.
extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...
extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...
September 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Left wing extremism is a lot lower than right but still exists. This study of domestic extremism from 2015-2019 showed 7 events out of 85 (8.2%) to be from the left. I suggest we’d be more effective pushing back on right wing extremism by pushing back on it all.
extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...
extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...
Let’s put aside the heavy topics for a minute and celebrate of furry or feathered friends. Here’s my Bailey girl on her birthday. And yes she is a princess!
September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Let’s put aside the heavy topics for a minute and celebrate of furry or feathered friends. Here’s my Bailey girl on her birthday. And yes she is a princess!
It’s important to adjust your beliefs to provable data instead of adjusting data to fit your belief. Right wing extremism has been more prevalent and more destructive as this chart from a Washington Post article shows. But there is left wing extremism and we need to be able to denounce it as well.
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It’s important to adjust your beliefs to provable data instead of adjusting data to fit your belief. Right wing extremism has been more prevalent and more destructive as this chart from a Washington Post article shows. But there is left wing extremism and we need to be able to denounce it as well.
Left wing vs Right wing has devolved into Left Wing extremists vs Right Wing extremists. Instead of demonizing each other, it’s time to denounce extremism in all its forms. It’s time to take the best of left AND right and use the tools as needed depending on the global forces shaping society.
September 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Left wing vs Right wing has devolved into Left Wing extremists vs Right Wing extremists. Instead of demonizing each other, it’s time to denounce extremism in all its forms. It’s time to take the best of left AND right and use the tools as needed depending on the global forces shaping society.
Canada lost a legend today. Thank you for all you did. You will be remembered!
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Canada lost a legend today. Thank you for all you did. You will be remembered!
In politics, Ken Dryden served as MP from 2004-2011. As Minister for Social Development negotiated a federal child care program with all 10 provinces. Unfortunately that program was cancelled by the Steven Harper Conservatives in 2006 and only became a reality in 2021 under the Trudeau Liberals.
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In politics, Ken Dryden served as MP from 2004-2011. As Minister for Social Development negotiated a federal child care program with all 10 provinces. Unfortunately that program was cancelled by the Steven Harper Conservatives in 2006 and only became a reality in 2021 under the Trudeau Liberals.
He stood larger than life leaning on his goalie stick. I grew up in Toronto but my dad was a Habs fan from Kingston. We happily watched both teams but the talent in the 1970s rested in Montreal where Ken Dryden dominated in net for the Habs leading to 6 Stanley Cups in the decade.
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
He stood larger than life leaning on his goalie stick. I grew up in Toronto but my dad was a Habs fan from Kingston. We happily watched both teams but the talent in the 1970s rested in Montreal where Ken Dryden dominated in net for the Habs leading to 6 Stanley Cups in the decade.
It was ~3pm on September 28, 1972. I was 6yrs old sitting in the gymnasium with the rest of my school watching Game 8 of the Summit Series on an old black & white TV high up on the rolling TV stand. The day is etched in my memory. Ken Dryden kept us in the game to enable the famous winning goal.
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It was ~3pm on September 28, 1972. I was 6yrs old sitting in the gymnasium with the rest of my school watching Game 8 of the Summit Series on an old black & white TV high up on the rolling TV stand. The day is etched in my memory. Ken Dryden kept us in the game to enable the famous winning goal.
Following all. Here’s a pic of my pup in exchange.
September 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Following all. Here’s a pic of my pup in exchange.