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John Hale

@johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social

Criminal trials and appeals, NWT & Ont; VP of Criminal Lawyers Assoc. 2019-23; @LawMcGill alum; vinyl LP hoarder; marathoner x 25; fell in love with the North enough to move to Yellowknife in 2024 (he/him/his)

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

6:13 PM and still no power where we are on Latham Island in YK.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If anybody thinks that Survivor must, in its 48th season, be past its prime, watch last night’s episode. Not only the most moving episode of this series, but the best thing I’ve seen on Tv in the last year.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

There's better advice coming from The Onion than from the White House these days.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I was reviewing disclosure in a drug trafficking case yesterday. Much of it was communications between drug dealers and customers on Signal. If it's good enough for keeping your crack deals secret, it's good enough for highly sensitive national security discussions.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

When will Google and Apple start recognizing that the so-called "Gulf of Maine" is actually the Gulf of Canada?

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here in Canada we think that the New England states would make a great 11th prince or 4th territory.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Does anybody else find it jarring that Elon Musk speaks in front of the President, in the Oval Office, and refers, without any sense of irony at all, to the federal bureaucracy being “an unelected fourth branch of government”?

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I'm watching Donald Trump's post-inauguration "speech" in the Emancipation Hall. If this rambling diatribe is any indication of what to expect in the next 4 years, things are going to be worse than we could have possibly imagined. He is an angry, vengeful narcissist.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Somebody needs to tell Donald Trump that, if his insane idea to make Canada the 51st state had come true, there is no way he would have been elected President.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think passengers could fit in the overhead compartments in a pinch. Charge extra for a pillow.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Canada Post has had to keep the same infrastructure, including high payroll, despite the fact that we don't use the mail nearly as much. So much of what we used to mail can be submitted online now - for example, we receive and pay our bills online.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In remote communities there are no alternatives to Canada Post. In Inuvik in the NWT, e.g., there are no couriers, even Amazon relies on Canada Post. There are many places in Canada whose populations are too small and/or too remote to support private couriers.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What Canada Post workers don't seem to accept is that they work for a corporation that is operating at a massive deficit, given the alternatives to mail, and which cannot afford their demands. Sadly remote communities that rely heavily on Canada Post, such as in the north, are being hit really hard.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This ought to raise a few eyebrows - except Matt Gaetz's, of course, because his eyebrows have already been surgically lifted to maximum height.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Those look perilously close to falling upside-down onto the floor, with the package splitting open and the food soaking up whatever it rolls around in over there. Speaking from experience.

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John Hale @johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It's nice to see reasonable humans again.

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