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writer. therapist-in-training. recovering journalist. ex academic. prodigal poster.
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this is also how a two-party system works
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it has come to my attention that a local troll is attempting to maliciously out me as bisexual. it is with great regret that i must confirm this is true. i would like to take this opportunity to apologize to my community for being extremely fucking cool
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the reason kids have to stay home but restaurants can stay open is because the virus cant infect you if youre spending money
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he was a complicated man but we can all at least agree that Fidel Castro was good at selfies before most of us were born
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it's finally friday. you know what that means, folks: absolutely nothing because time is fake now
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talk is cheap. affordable & accessible meds and counselling for those who need it or gtfo. breaking down stigma is great but doesn't help when you're uninsured and have to choose between rent or groceries and buying your pills, or waiting 20 months for a psych intake appointment
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i like that it went on so long and so close that trudeau had to look down at this hands and then back up at trump
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wrote a couple weeks ago that the border panic fomented by conservatives was just the beginning of canada's "white nationalist edging" and now we're having a national discussion about whether the PM was too rude to a literal racist activist for "just asking questions." good shit.
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three days under state of emergency have taught me the four key resources of newfoundland life are: smokes, beer, pepsi, and chips, in that order. (fuel is a bonus.)
control the corner stores, control the island.
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For years, you have been asking: who is Donny Dooley?
Today,
@IndependentNL
can finally tell you the answer.
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pleased to see Scheer take a firm stance against Big Lifejacket
My family and I geared up and hit the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean this afternoon. My Prairie-born kids loved being able to fish for mackerel on a big “lake” with no land in sight.
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breaking: NL premier to send team of NL nurses and doctors to NL
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alright folks. sometime ago I said I had some ~personal news~ for 2019.
here it is: starting in January 2019, I will be the editor of the Newfoundland and Labrador Independent (
@IndependentNL
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last day of st. john's SOE. we've shared some laughs & some tears.
but in the end, i think we can all agree that living in a city where you need a car to do literally anything + where a solid 1/3 of ppl are <12 missed hours of work away from bankruptcy/death is, maybe, fucked up
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I'm no fan of Il Duce. But when someone says something controversial like "blood alone moves the wheels of history," the correct response is to ask "whose blood?" It's not to assume the worst and shriek. If we can't manage even this level of rationality, civil discourse will die.
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[calmly inhaling a full cigarette in a single drag while thinking about how NL not collapsing by summer hinges completely on the b'ys behaving this weekend]
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counterpoint: people will die if things reopen too soon
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st. john's under state of emergency for five days is a social science experiment that would never pass research ethics
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love to close the border to every country except the one on our border with no real containment measures and a broken healthcare system
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all the politicians at the climate marches realize they're the ones being protested, right
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I used everything I learned in six years of graduate education in political science for my analysis of The Handshake
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i can't believe people went out to the bars after we reopened the bars
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"if i was poor, i would simply make better choices" - a lot of motherfuckers on this website
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Some Personal News: in january 2024 i am starting the master of arts in counselling psychology program at yorkville university. i might dabble in some freelancing during my studies but otherwise i'm leaving journalism for a new career in psychotherapy. it's a very welcome change.
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easily the best part of newfoundland history is that john a macdonald was not our prime minister
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in retrospect, the atlantic bubble puff piece last week was an obvious jinx
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i'm at the covid outbreak. i'm at the democratic crisis. i'm at the combination covid outbreak and democratic crisis
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credit where it's due. this is pretty funny
I’m not your typical smooth talking politician.
And I love my family. Despite whatever flaws I have, I want to ensure that the future here is bright for my loved ones and yours.
Thanks, Rachel and Olivia. I love you both.
#BringBackJobs
#LetsGetToWork
#PCNL
#WindsorLake
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happy birthday to the luigi of marxism
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this article is how i learned that monitoring the health of fish stocks around oil platforms has been contracted out to oil supply companies
NEW | Lobby for N.L. oil industry aid falls flat with 'crickets' from Ottawa
By:
@TRobertst
#cbcnl
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love to read an article about the problems with the canadian left that spends the entire time talking about the liberal party.
what if the biggest problem with the left in canada is that most of the people prominently writing and speaking about it don't know what it is?
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get a load of this john candy-looking motherfucker
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PREMIER: we are the only province with a standalone department for the status of women
WOMEN: that's great. what is it doing
PREMIER: it has its own department
WOMEN: what does it do though
PREMIER: women's issues
WOMEN: ...
PREMIER: it's a standalone department, for your issues.
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the entire bar is booing the andrew scheer ad.............. this country is alright
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something that's very cool is that mental health counselling is more or less inaccessible without private insurance. but also, non-psychologist counsellors (who often specialize in more varied/effective techniques than CBT) aren't covered much/at all by insurance. awesome system.
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weird how the rebel flirting with white nationalism only started troubling some canadian conservatives this week
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bad news, folks. the legal weed doesnt work. turns out the only thing we were getting high on was crime. we've made a terrible mistake.
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bashir was a student in the first class i ever taught and it has been amazing to see all the great work he has gone on to accomplish in edmonton. truly brave and genuinely good human being. really sad and angry to see him targeted for harassment by these absolute pieces of shit
my friend
@BashirMohamed
is being targeted by Rebel Media’s Keean “Rhodesia n00b” Bexte, who introduces him as an “Islamic refugee from Somalia”
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happy 90th anniversary of the colonial building riot to all who celebrate
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"Forty years of research with women fleeing male violence has taught us that men do not just “snap” and kill their partners. When a woman is murdered by her husband or boyfriend it is the climax of a deteriorating situation. These murders are executions."
“This is what a man killing his wife looks like. It is a very frightening way to die.“ There are too many people, men and women, that I wish could be forced to read this. You know who you are.
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controversial opinion, but: i do not care much for the novel coronavirus
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better than your white supremacist web store lol
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RNC WHEN YOUR HOUSE GETS ROBBED AND YOU KNOW WHO DID IT AND WHERE YOUR STUFF IS: sorry, this is too much work
RNC WHEN THERE IS PEACEFUL PICKETING ACTION BY MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS: yeehaw
@RNC_PoliceNL
officers, tactical squad units & inspectors have surrounded the entire block around the peaceful picket of striking
#Dominion
workers as a riot squad waited nearby.
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this is my last day as the only editorial staff at
@IndependentNL
. our new assistant editor starts on monday and our full-time summer journalist a week after that. we finally built a newsroom. deadly.
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weird how going for a nice walk in the sun makes for a better morning than rolling out of bed and immediately scrolling through all the horrible news on earth
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water street is manifestly so much better pedestrianized it is frankly wild that we let cars back at the end of the summer
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guess which beloved NL independent media outlet got a $50k grant to scale up operations 👀
Learn more about each grant recipient as well as the Indie Capital program here:
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trudeau wrote one speech, for winning a majority government, and by god he's going to give it
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Today is a great day for Newfoundland and Labrador. It's been a long time coming. Months of long days and nights, negotiating and organizing and building something incredible alongside a lot of amazing people.
Today we can finally bring you the brand new
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honestly tough to make five- and ten-year plans for yourself when you're trying to factor in a rough timeline for the decline of civilization
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it's not easy being premier of newfoundland & labrador. every decision is difficult and thankless; mistakes are often treated as unforgivable. it takes a big person to do the job. so say what you will, but kathy dunderdale resigned at a press conference, not in a pre-taped video.
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wild. i'm old enough to remember when peter mackay was a minister of the crown getting fun free trips on search and rescue helicopters while his government's response to a swine flu epidemic was sending body bags to manitoba reserves
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[squints in canadian] why don't they just count the paper ballots though
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@iD4RO
i too prefer it when i don't have to think about complicated things that make my job as a columnist too difficult and can instead just be a racist piece of shit in a national newspaper
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holy smokes!
Congratulations to our Community Written finalists:
🏆
@ToriMarlan
—Capital Daily
🏆
@ToriMarlan
—Capital Daily
🏆
@PasiekaOnPol
—New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
🏆
@drewfoundland
—The Independent
🏆
@GrantRants
—St. Catharines Standard
#CAJawards
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lol you walked past me in vocm this morning without making eye contact but yes sir go off about cowardice
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Hello NL twitter!
We're closing in on
@donnydooley
. We've identified the user & would like to have some "victim impact statements" for them to read.
So if you feel the Dooley account harassed or tormented you, please DM me or email dooley
@theindependent
.ca. Anonymity assured.
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i know it's easy to dunk on that awful barbara kay column BUT i think she's providing a valuable service by demonstrating that you are as likely to get racist brain poisoning from a mainstream canadian newspaper as you are from the fringes of the dark web or whatever
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"hello RNC... yes, i'd like to report a murder. yes. the vocm thread."
If you see suspicious activity in your neighbourhood, the
@RNC_PoliceNL
would like to know about it.
Coming up just after 8:00, we hear about the crimes that are being committed and why it’s important to report them.
RNC Media Relations Officer
@Jcadigan10
joins
@590VOCM
.
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takeaway from the newfoundland & labrador covid briefing this evening is that we are on the edge of perilous cliff and what happens this easter weekend will determine whether or not the healthcare system can absorb the blow. there are 57 ICU beds currently available.
STAY HOME.
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sincere + unpopular opinion: apply canada's aggressively health-conscious cannabis packaging laws to alcohol. wild that half the design space on a 1 g box of weed warns me about addiction & schizophrenia but a 26er of rum has just a tiny note saying pregnant women shouldn't drink
Canadian women are dying from alcohol abuse at a faster rate than men.
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getting concerned as days go by that post-covid restructuring will look more like papering over cracks in the old world than laying a solid foundation for the new
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the local CBC is running oil and gas propaganda that doesn't once mention climate change. cool! very responsible use of the public broadcaster!
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truly horrifying that trudeau's journalism bailout threatens to kill canada's robust free press of a half dozen toronto columnists who all share the same opinions
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some of the most sage people i know never finished highschool and some of the most ignorant people i know have a long train of elite academic credentials. humility is the crown of the virtues. but also, if you want your opinions respected online, maybe don't talk out of your ass.
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I assumed Newfoundland had a history in the slave trade but didn't realize it was so direct—19 slave ships were built here. Incredible exhibit.
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another offshore oil spill at Hibernia, barely a day after they restarted production since the last one.
controversial opinion but maybe industry shouldn't be left to regulate itself
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hot take: canada is going to spend the next few years inflicting incredible political own goals on itself and this will be in large part because a shocking number of the country's "thought leaders" do not take their ethical responsibilities as journalists/writers seriously
Big shoutout to all the conservative pundits who assured us Doug Ford was nothing like Donald Trump.
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glow up at the new place. (
@fogtownfemme
has all the aesthetic sense, i am just along for the ride.)
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Quillette > Canada > My Struggle: Someone Posted "fuck off mayo boy" At Me Online When I Said Residential Schools Were Good. Is This The Death of Discourse? (20,000 word EXCLUSIVE)
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PREMIER: I am here to make a big announcement
ME: great
PREMIER: as you know, the Tories did Muskrat Falls
ME: sure
PREMIER: they are horrible for doing it
ME: ok
PREMIER: and their leader sucks
ME: uh
PREMIER: your rates will not go up
ME: cool
PREMIER: thanks & goodbye
ME: what
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today marks the end of an era
The St. John’s Gay Men’s Chorus just got the party started with
@ChesCrosbie
getting into the mood
#yytpride
#cbcnl
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hello friends. let's gaze into the abyss called canadian politics together
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1030 pm local time is too late for a two hour federal debate. they should do a separate 'newfoundland english' one to air at a normal time
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uber will never come to st. john's not because of insurance reasons or market size or regulations, but because they know the second a newfoundlander encounters 'surge pricing' it will dominate the local news cycle for 3 weeks and there will be riots and an international incident
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i hate it when russian disinformation causes me to invite a nazi to parliament and give him a standing ovation
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hi i wrote a broadside against the United Conservative Party of Alberta and its aggressive homophobia in my debut piece for the
@guardian
. cheers
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st john's declares climate emergency as iceberg alley melts into mount pearl
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it's very cool that we go to the polls in two weeks to conclude this election about nothing between two parties who have more or less abdicated anything resembling leadership in favour of saying "no you're the one who sucks" back and forth until we're all resettled into halifax
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i'm at the MALL
the PEDESTRIAN MALL
(mall-mall-mallmallmall-mallmallmallmall)
where you wont get hit by an oversized car
if you're standing in the street with chips pop and a bar
you can dance all day at this open bazaar
called the MALL
the PEDESTRIAN MALL
(mall-mall-mallmallmal
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now that the embargo is over: the premier antagonized the entire provincial media apparatus over an 8 minute video that acknowledges the greene report exists, that they will do *something* about it, and that andrew furey is a doctor. questions tomorrow should be fun
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very, very happy to finally announce that
@IndependentNL
is growing.
we're recruiting two new volunteer members for our Board of Directors—and hiring for a paid, part-time Operations Manager position.
come help us build the future of journalism for Newfoundland & Labrador.
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foreclosing the future one step at a time
BREAKING | Memorial University to raise tuition to $6K a year, ending 22-year freeze
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that twitter rant from a prominent tory MP painting the media as political enemies is a little concerning. but thankfully flooding the electorate with disinformation has never worked as a political strategy and canadian journalism is an extremely stable & widely beloved industry
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@CPC_HQ
this ad is really good and everyone who says its bad is a communist. please make more
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morning prayer: God grant me the confidence of a fisheries minister convinced he has personally solved all racism in newfoundland and labrador by holding up the house of assembly for two days
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woke up this morning to bright sunshine and calm winds and some fog rolling in off the bay. happy easter
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don't listen to the haters mr premier. another task force addressing urgent social emergencies in consultation with stakeholders through a set of nonbinding recommendations delivered sometime in the indeterminate future is a great idea. you're a good boy who deserves a gold star.
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shutting down questions, one-way video broadcasts, a dysfunctional election designed to evade real discussion of "the state of the province"; at this point we have to openly acknowledge the premier and his coterie are actively contemptuous of media (and by proxy) public scrutiny.
At yesterday's COVID briefing, government placed new limits on reporters' questions, cutting them down from 5 to 3. I've just been informed by the premier's office that the new question limit will be permanent.
This is garbage.
#nlpoli
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weird it's almost like you can't moralize or fact check right-wing anger into submission
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you don't get any closer to heaven this side of the grave than frying up the cod you jigged two hours prior beneath the evening sun. mark it
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surprise covid briefing at 8:30 pm on friday. if this one of those "weeks where decades happen" the last 36 hours have been 8 years long
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well, no matter who wins the civil war sparked by NL being featured on a 45 minute CNN cooking show, the main thing is that we handled the whole ordeal - from the neurotic screaming about pronounciation to the desperate powerthirst for fleeting CFA validation - with quiet grace
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on a day of ugly weather like today, I take comfort in one of Ray Guy's loving tributes to winter in NL:
"Five solid months of blinding, suffocating, steady snow with scarcely a sign of hope. Trapped in a wretched white jail without the cheerful prospect of being hanged."
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