Philip Toman

Six years ago … This beautiful mother, sister, and daughter .. Stephanie Warriner .. was taken from her family. Hospital security in Toronto restrained her in the waiting room… because her mask was down while she fought for air with COPD. She never woke up. This is what government fear and mask mandates did to people. Hospitals turned into enforcement zones instead of places of healing. Never forget Stephanie. Never let them do this again. RIP 💔 🕊️

@briankeepsworth @roddreher Is it a public elementary school, or a Catholic elementary school?

Maybe because there's no adultery flag flying at the public elementary school by my house.

@AlexiSargeant Looking forward to the full edition

Presenting: the definitive and most fully faithful translation of the opening of the Odyssey: Sing, Muse, of the man called Ulysses, Full of twists like an eel chasing fishies, He snagged gold of Troy's, Then got lost with his boys, Who turned out to be negligent sissies.

Greatest one-line tweet ever.

This imports the specious assumption that what is now "the West" has any continuity whatsoever with the great civilisation that came before. It has severed its ties to its patrimony. It holds its patrimony in contempt. The only Western thing about "the West" is its geography.

@jonkay As a former high-level CBC employee, I can assure you this breaks all the rules. Every single person involved in has violated written guidelines and should be fired.

@worked_over @8Littlee286235 @JimmyeatPugs @TuominenPiia @markhoro @angpeacock1111 @_AndersSorensen I was on Paxil for 20 years. Every time I tried to get off it, I would be forced back on. I'm current experiencing the same things I did all the other times, but I've never really been sure myself if it's withdrawal, or relapse. I'm still not sure. That's why I was curious.

@8Littlee286235 @JimmyeatPugs @TuominenPiia @choratech @markhoro @angpeacock1111 @_AndersSorensen I was on Effexor 75 mg for 25 years. Unable to get off for decades and it stopped working after 5 years. My inability to get off was proof for my doctor that I needed to stay on, but it started causing health issues for me which my doctor thought were unrelated.

I think this is reason number 7 that doctors mis-diagnose withdrawal - that it can be delayed in onset. In a study of patients with withdrawal problems average time to onset was 4 weeks, SD 13 weeks which means 1 in 6 had onset more than 4 months after stopping. We don't know why that is but presumably it takes downstream effects time to accumulate to a threshold as for many bio effects. This timing leads many doctors to dismiss these symptoms as unrelated to the drug. But we know adaptations to the drug can persist for years after stopping so this is plausible.

This was carved from a single block of marble by a 23 year old in 1622. Bernini turned stone into flesh... The sculpture is called the Abduction of Proserpina, and it depicts the moment described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, when the goddess Proserpina was gathering flowers in a meadow and the earth opened beneath her. Pluto, king of the underworld, rose from the dark to take her. Out of every instant in that abduction, Bernini chose the one when her feet leave the ground. She is suspended in his arms. She is no longer in the world above, and not yet in the world below. Her left hand pushes desperately against Pluto's face. Her right is thrown back toward a sky she will never see again. And where the god's fingers close around her thigh, the marble surrenders to them, dimpling inward as living flesh would, as though Bernini had reached the deepest secret of stone and discovered that it had always been waiting to give in. He used to boast that in his hands, "marble became as impressionable as wax and as soft as dough." On her right cheek, a single tear has been running for four hundred years... The work was commissioned in 1621 by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who wanted it as a showpiece for his own villa. He kept it for less than a year. In the summer of 1622, with a new pope newly elected, he gave it away as a political gift to the pope's nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. It disappeared into private hands for nearly three centuries. The Italian state bought it back in 1908 and returned it to the room it had been made for. It has been there ever since. I have stood in front of it, and I can tell you that nothing prepares you for the moment you actually see those fingers in her thigh. The marble seems alive and you forget, for a few seconds, that it is stone at all... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: James-lucas.com/welcome If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Fairy Tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What they give the child is his first clear idea of the defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the Fairy Tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

@JimmyeatPugs @markhoro What were the symptoms?

@markhoro I was tapered off in 7 weeks after being on for ten years, thought I was good to go. 4 months later I ended up in Hell

"Define yourself in three words." "Lazy."

We need to rebuild regional residential psychiatric facilities. @fordnation, how about positioning Ontario as the pioneer of a beneficial and far-reaching social policy shift?

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” - CSL

Dude scores one of the most impressive goals in playoff hockey 🤯

@KonstantinKisin The West has long since forgotten what its actual values are. Now it's all pornography, profiteering, and degeneracy. Rule by the consent of the people has been supplanted by oligarchy of the super-wealthy, who enforce their will through massive social control structures.

The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else. The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order. But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar world will eventually produce a new dominant civilisation, with its own values imposed on everyone else. The real question is: are those values better than ours? I don't think so.

Signal is now warning that it could exit Canada over Bill C-22. The government has called Signal, Apple, Meta, US Congress, and cybersecurity experts all wrong. But this isn't a bluff. Canadians will lose access to secure services if the bill passes as is. michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/bill-c…

@MadelnCanada I'm done with Tim's. The service is slow, the shops are filthy, the quality is poor, and the orders are wrong much of the time. So yeah, bring on Dunkies.

Who has better coffee & donuts, Tim Hortons or Dunkin Donuts? 🍩 ☕️ 🇨🇦

Why are the @CBC and @APTNtv using public funds to go after cancelled and powerless people like @NewWorldHominin, @jerryamernic, @Dallas_Brodie, and me?

LEST WE FORGET - When two security guards were acquitted for murdering a female patient in a Toronto hospital because she was wearing her face mask on her chin due to labored breathing nationalpost.com/news/danielle-…