When did Canadians become convinced that fitness requires a monthly payment? Long before gym memberships, fitness apps, and subscription-based wellness, children learned how to move through schoolyards, sports fields, neighbourhood games, and programs like Jump Rope for Heart. This letter explores what happens when a society forgets its own successful ideas, and why the answers we need may already exist in our collective memory.
Category: Letters from Karny to Carney
Letters from Karny to Carney is a living correspondence between the personal and the political — between two names that sound the same, spelled differently; between two lives shaped in the same country, yet lived in very different rooms. These pieces carry the view from the ground: kitchens, workplaces, shelters, bedrooms, waiting rooms, and the invisible economies of care and harm. They are not petitions for rescue, but records of reality — written with the belief that policy should meet lived truth, and that a single honest voice can open a public conversation
Same name. Different spelling. One shared responsibility.
Rationing Is Back: A Modern Woman’s Money Protest
In an era of rising prices and shrinking quality, one woman declares a quiet rebellion: the Grandma Wartime Money Protest Era. Inspired by the rationing wisdom of past generations, this letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney explores how modern adults can reclaim control through discipline, resourcefulness, and the forgotten survival skills of history.
The Charger, The Car, and Other Small Acts of Humiliation
My laptop died like an ex-boyfriend with no closure, and my car payment showed up like a bouncer with a clipboard. Somewhere between ordering a charger I couldn’t afford and applying for Ontario Works, I realized dignity has a monthly subscription fee. This is a letter about money, shame, and refusing to shrink on command.
Women Who Guard the Cage
For the younger me, and for every woman who learned too early that silence can be organized. This essay examines how harm is administered not only by loud men, but by quiet systems and the women who keep their keys. Testimony, not vengeance. Record-keeping, not rumor.
Modern Work Isn’t Broken. It’s Working Exactly as Designed.
An open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney on wages, housing, and the hidden realities of modern Canadian work.