Dad to two wonderful adult daughters; lawyer (KC); runner; reader; writer; Newfoundlander. “Don’t hate nothing at all - except hatred” - Dylan 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
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I wrote a little novel during the pandemic and finally got around to self-publishing it. It’s a medieval adventure/rebellion story, set on the south Mediterranean coast, with a few battles and a journey. There’s a free sample if you want to check it out! amazon.com/Shield-Brighter-T…
Very good news from Labrador. The work of our SAR community, some of whom are (highly-trained) volunteers, saves so many lives cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl…
Some excellent explanations here of complex legal concepts;
cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl…
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“And of my weeping something had been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.”
- “Strange Meeting”
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Tonight will be All Souls Night. Consider adopting, if only in your thoughts, that old Newfoundland tradition of setting a place at your dinner table this evening for the dearly departed.
Probably not healthy either that so many people want to send bombs to, or bomb, countries they don’t live in.
Earnest take: I think it’s probably not healthy for the practice of democratic self-government that so many people have developed strong rooting interests in elections in countries they don’t live in.
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But he IS the same person.
Very few humans would ever do what he has done. There is a very good argument that he should indeed have a sign on his forehead so that women can choose whether or not to be directly exposed to the risk that be poses to them.
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Dawn in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, early October 2026. The cathedral was completed in 1211 AD, the oak tree on the left is about 300 years old. They have faced each other across many dawns :
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We can have a robust democracy or our governments can continue to support western colonies in the Middle East, but it’s become obvious we can’t have both
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I’m only surprised it isn’t the Superbowl half-time show
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…
Great to see a local business providing the space for this :
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“an uncivilised process carried out by people who are pretty uncivilised …”
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200 years ago today in Trinity (🧵): circuit court was sitting this week and Slade & Kelson self-reports a victory over their mercantile rivals. This appears to have been a civil jury trial. Sadly, our current rules of civil procedure make such trials almost impossible to obtain
Saturday 30th Sept 1826. Wind blowing fresh from the West and fine all day. The Court was opened precisely at 10 A.M. and among the Causes pending there none was more novel or interesting than that resting between Slade & Kelson versus Messrs. Garland. [1/4]
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These are empty words, as the UK still enables Israel’s genocide and persecutes those who assist the resistance.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right'
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