[I haven't had the drive to share anything here lately, but I was just about to post an obscenely long response to someone on FB, and decided not to do that to her. It's more appropriate here, I guess, as it is a bit of a rant:] A few days ago, I stumbled upon a protest rally outside Toronto Police Headquarters. I'm not positive about exactly what incident people were protesting, but some of their signs were deriding the police for killing mentally ill suspects who were committing acts of aggression. I couldn't help but think: this mob is protesting the wrong location. Their beef should have been with a lack of funding available to provide assistance to the mentally ill before one of the ill climbed aboard a TTC streetcar and threatened the safety of others (I think that was the inciting incident for this rally). I couldn't help but think that if mental illness was funded at an appropriate level -- a level that actually met the need, rather than just paid