2026-09-22: reposted due to several recent events having posts locked.

Hello everyone

I’m a 38-year-old woman from Southern Ontario, currently searching for a living kidney donor. I have been looking for a donor for over a year.

My kidneys originally failed when I was 17 years old. I spent five years on dialysis before receiving a kidney transplant in 2010. That transplant gave me 15 wonderful years of life and freedom from dialysis, but unfortunately it failed last year, and I’ve been back on dialysis since September 2025.

As you can imagine, going through this for a second time has been a very difficult adjustment. While I remain hopeful, I am now searching for a living donor.

Both my father and brother recently completed the initial screening process, but unfortunately neither is able to donate due to their own health issues. My transplant team has encouraged me to continue reaching out and exploring every possible avenue.

Aside from kidney disease, I am healthy, active, and looking forward to getting back to living my life. A transplant would mean the opportunity to spend more time with my husband (diabetic, not able to donate) , my family, my two dogs, and to pursue the things I love.

If you or someone you know has ever considered living kidney donation and would like to learn more, I would be incredibly grateful to hear from you.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story. ❤️

Note:

I am blood type: O+

**If your blood type isn’t O+, please don’t assume you can’t help.*\*

Canada has a Paired Kidney Exchange Program. This is how a LOT of recipients receive their transplanted kidneys since donors aren’t always a match. If you aren’t a direct match for me, you may still be able to donate a kidney to another recipient who is compatible with you. In return, another compatible donor in the program would donate a kidney to me. It’s essentially a “kidney swap” that allows multiple people to receive compatible transplants when the original donor and recipient aren’t a match.

The Living Donor Program coordinates all of the testing and matching, so you don’t need to know whether you’re compatible before reaching out. If you’re interested in learning more, they’ll guide you through the entire process, and there’s absolutely no obligation to continue at any stage.

Living donor program at London Health Sciences Centre
📧 [livingkidneydonation@lhsc.on.ca](mailto:livingkidneydonation@lhsc.on.ca)
📞 519-685-8500 ext. 33552

Hey everyone, I'm in Ottawa and I've hit a wall I didn't see coming. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

I'm trying to sell my 2016 Nissan Rogue. When I went to book the safety inspection, I found out that under some new rules the inspection station has to take a photo of the VIN sticker on the driver-side door jamb. My car doesn't have one. Without that photo, they won't do the inspection. Without the inspection, I can't sell the car.

I bought it in 2023 from a guy on Facebook, and the missing sticker was never an issue back then. I honestly have no idea if it got removed or fell off while I owned it, or if it was never there to begin with.

I've spent days chasing this and keep getting sent in circles:
Nissan dealers: I called several around the region. Every one said Nissan corporate doesn't allow them to do it.

Nissan Canada customer care: They said that since I'm not the first owner, they can't help me.

Service Ontario: They told me to get it from Nissan Canada or a "third-party seller," but couldn't say who that is or what would be accepted.

So the dealers point to corporate, corporate says no, and the government points back to Nissan. Meanwhile I have a car I can't legally sell.

If you've dealt with this, even on a different brand, I'd love to hear what worked. Did you find a third-party shop or seller that made a replacement label an inspection station accepted? Did you get another way to verify the VIN?

I'm running out of options here, so any lead at all would help. Thanks!

Just wanted to put that out there. 3.5 more years to go. I just don’t understand why :(

The Ford government repealed the Endangered Species Act. It was once the strongest law of its kind in Canada.But the Ford government replaced it with the Species Conservation Act to move projects faster.

Doug Ford’s new law:

Shrinks habitat to a den or a nest excluding feeding, breeding and migration zones
Ends expert review, developers can simply register online and start work
Drops more than 100 species from Ontario’s list of species at risk

Ontarians filed more than 61,000 comments opposing Bill 5 but Doug Ford passed it anyway.

Now developers can just show up and start bulldozing the habitats species rely on.

Just got an email today, it’s happening. They are decreasing 60 full time, 25 part-time RNs across the inpatient and outpatient teams, in addition to removing 31 RN positions across its ambulatory and outreach teams. This is all because they were in a 4.8 million dollar deficit. No one knew this was happening until this morning. What are some of these people going to do, there’s barely any nursing jobs right now, everything is so expensive. Such a terrible and sad time to be an RN in Ontario. During the pandemic we were hero’s, but now it’s like we mean nothing