Member News
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Discount Deadlines Are Here
If you wanted to take advantage of the Early Bird discount, do it now! It expires on Thursday, 15 October 2020. $5 pansy mask discount for Early Bird Dues expires in days! If you don’t like the purple cotton sateen one, there’s a stretchy white pansy mask one! Check your spam folder or junk mail…
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Tri Delta Masks Are Now Available
Looking to upgrade your mask wardrobe ? Our webmaster Shireen has designed custom Tri Delta themed masks featuring a pansy and logo, allowing you to stay safe and show your DDD pride. The masks are made to order and produced in Montreal. We are offering a $1 discount to everyone. Take advantage of our early…
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Pansies for Sisters
You may have heard of the City of Toronto’s Digital Main Street program for small businesses and their addition of the ShopHERE program that includes artists? The former has been around for a while, I understand. Mayor John Tory announced the latter in May as a measure to help the economy during this pandemic, and…
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Honouring One Of Our Tri Psis
Some of you may be familiar with Olive Jeejeebhoy, a Tri Psi for over three decades, twice International President and I’ve lost count how many times President of our local Tri Psi chapter. Currently, she’s serving as Scholarship Chair for International Tri Psi. Olive is my mother, and I roped her into joining Tri Psi…
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Plum Blossom from the Bitter Cold
Exciting news from one of our Tri Delta sisters! The TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library has a new exhibit entitled, “Plum Blossom from the Bitter Cold,” and it includes photos of Tri Delta Arlene Chan and her late mother Tri Psi Jean Lumb. Arlene wrote in 2018: “When Toronto Public Library announced in…
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A Tri Delta At the BIST Expressive Art Show
The Brain Injury Society of Toronto holds an annual Expressive Art Show every Spring. This year it’s at Artscape Youngplace at 180 Shaw St. And I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be there with my book Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me! The BIST Expressive Art Show launches on Tuesday, May 21,…
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Are You Novelling?
Over the last few years, National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo has become huge. It’s a great way for anyone to express their creative side or for writers to finally get that novel written and finished. I’m always delighted when I discover someone I know is doing NaNoWriMo. Are you novelling this year? Please say…
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June is Brain Injury Awareness Month in Canada
June is brain injury awareness month in Canada. Other nations use other months to raise awareness about brain injury. But what does raising awareness mean? Do we simply want people to hear about it over their morning coffee, then go on about their lives, oblivious to the suffering all around them? Or do we want…
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Member News: Concussion Is Brain Injury is Published!
As you may remember, I crowdfunded an update to Concussion Is Brain Injury back in 2016. I’m pleased to announce that it’s finally launched! Kirkus Reviews: “the intricate details of the author’s experience are riveting and enlightening.” After many years of incubation, Concussion Is Brain Injury is re-birthed with a brand-new reader-friendly structure, all-new chapters,…