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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)
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.
March 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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.
March 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
When will Google and Apple start recognizing that the so-called "Gulf of Maine" is actually the Gulf of Canada?
February 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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”?
February 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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.
January 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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.
December 19, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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.
December 1, 2024 at 7:31 AM