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Father | Settler | Lawyer working for Indigenous Peoples | Award-winning beard grower | I don’t make the rules, I just interpret them | Tweets, not legal advice
Dec 8, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
As a member of @DowntownHalifax, extremely disappointed they are calling for more police and not more resources to deal with root causes: poverty, mental health, addiction, trauma. @downtownpaul Likewise disappointed with @DT_Dartmouth. There are better ways of addressing community safety. @Dartmouth_Tim
Dec 8, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Remember how important it was to get kids back in the classroom so they could learn? Remember how the province got tens of millions from Canada for COVID mitigations and used it to pad their surplus instead of improving ventilation in schools?
Oct 12, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
New Brunswick says Mi’gmaq students from Quebec no longer welcome /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… Bear in mind that colonial officials arbitrarily drew a boundary through the middle of their territory, and then forcibly relocated the community of Listiguj to the Quebec side of the river to make way for a gravel mining operation.
Feb 29, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
Anyone who thinks that decal depicts a *consensual* sex act with a *17 year-old* should have to hand in their badge 660citynews.com/2020/02/28/rcm… Also, defending it by saying that there are even more graphic and obscene stickers making the rounds in the oil sands just raises more red flags.