Julie Devaney
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Julie Devaney is an author and healthcare activist. Her memoir, My Leaky Body, will be published in 2012. Based in Toronto, she is the writer and performer of the critically acclaimed show and educational workshop series of the same name.

Julie has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Master's Degree Critical Disability Studies from York University.

Website: www.myleakybody.com

Twitter: @juliedevaney

Blog Entries by Julie Devaney

Rob Ford and Kevin O'Leary: Selfish Redemption

Posted January 23, 2012 | 01/23/12 02:27 PM ET

So I promised last week that I'd tell you more about Kevin O'Leary (or as I call him, K-OL). And in the last day or so, my twitter-feed has exploded with the Toronto City Council budget and Premiers rejecting Flaherty's proposal for a new health accord.

There's a...

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Kevin O'Leary: Everything That's Wrong With the One Per Cent

13 Comments | Posted January 11, 2012 | 01/11/12 09:42 AM ET

I love Kevin O'Leary, or as I call him, K-OL. Now it's not the kind of love where I feel warmth, affection, or respect. It's more the kind where I'm massively grateful that someone is willing to publicly embody such a caricature of everything that's wrong with the...

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From Tommy to Jack: A (Hallucinatory) Dream of Universal Health Care

Posted August 26, 2011 | 08/26/11 05:53 PM ET

Tommy Douglas appeared to me once in a drug and trauma-induced hallucination. It was 2002 and I was bearing the brunt of British Columbian Premier Gordon Campbell's vile cuts to healthcare. My immobile body on a stretcher was literally being stored in a closet in an over-crowded Vancouver emergency ward....

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