JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪
@ottawakiwi.bsky.social
Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer working where law meets conscience.
Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
Pinned
The so-called “wine moms” are proving remarkably effective in remoralizing the public sphere.
They are using their race and class privilege to confront ICE abuses and defend the rule of law.
Private care becomes public conscience.
#Feminism #RuleOfLaw #Resistance
They are using their race and class privilege to confront ICE abuses and defend the rule of law.
Private care becomes public conscience.
#Feminism #RuleOfLaw #Resistance
A toast of whiskey for the last day of the much loved Michael D Higgins.
#Ireland #President #MichaelDHiggins #Sláinte #Éire #IrishPresident
#Ireland #President #MichaelDHiggins #Sláinte #Éire #IrishPresident
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A toast of whiskey for the last day of the much loved Michael D Higgins.
#Ireland #President #MichaelDHiggins #Sláinte #Éire #IrishPresident
#Ireland #President #MichaelDHiggins #Sláinte #Éire #IrishPresident
Enjoying a uniquely Canadian experience: eating a grocery store warm dinner in the parking lot during a snowstorm on the way home from a day in court 90 minutes away
#LegalAidLawyering
#OttawaLife
#LegalAidLawyering
#OttawaLife
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Enjoying a uniquely Canadian experience: eating a grocery store warm dinner in the parking lot during a snowstorm on the way home from a day in court 90 minutes away
#LegalAidLawyering
#OttawaLife
#LegalAidLawyering
#OttawaLife
Thou shalt not treat others as unworthy of life
Thou shalt not treat the bodies of others without dignity
#Necropolitics
#HumanDignity
#ChristianFaith #Poverty
Thou shalt not treat the bodies of others without dignity
#Necropolitics
#HumanDignity
#ChristianFaith #Poverty
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Thou shalt not treat others as unworthy of life
Thou shalt not treat the bodies of others without dignity
#Necropolitics
#HumanDignity
#ChristianFaith #Poverty
Thou shalt not treat the bodies of others without dignity
#Necropolitics
#HumanDignity
#ChristianFaith #Poverty
This brightened my day amidst the world’s gloom and doom. It brings me pure joy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Made it home. Survived US airport chaos, a government shutdown, unscheduled stay in fleabag hotel in NJ.
Canada never looked so good.
#HomeAtLast #TravelTales #EverythingIsFine
Canada never looked so good.
#HomeAtLast #TravelTales #EverythingIsFine
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Made it home. Survived US airport chaos, a government shutdown, unscheduled stay in fleabag hotel in NJ.
Canada never looked so good.
#HomeAtLast #TravelTales #EverythingIsFine
Canada never looked so good.
#HomeAtLast #TravelTales #EverythingIsFine
Everything’s fine
#DontWorryBeHappy
#DontWorryBeHappy
In 1982, Soviet propagandists said that the Soviet Union is a powerful economy with rich resources, which will make it through blockades and sanctions.
In less than 10 years, the Soviet Union collapsed.
In less than 10 years, the Soviet Union collapsed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Everything’s fine
#DontWorryBeHappy
#DontWorryBeHappy
Right?
Follow me for more tips on how to clean those tough corner spots. 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Right?
Omg. Laughing out loud
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Omg. Laughing out loud
He discovered the car. So now it’s his
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
He discovered the car. So now it’s his
I cannot recommend this account highly enough
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I cannot recommend this account highly enough
That’s my goofy laugh for the morning
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
That’s my goofy laugh for the morning
Trauma changes you but so does healing.
You’re not broken, you’re transformed.
#Healing #Transformation #Resilience #Growth
youtube.com/shorts/etum1...
You’re not broken, you’re transformed.
#Healing #Transformation #Resilience #Growth
youtube.com/shorts/etum1...
🫖 Give me 60 seconds and I’ll change the way you think about trauma with a teapot and a hammer 🔨
YouTube video by Millie | The Pocket Psychologist
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Trauma changes you but so does healing.
You’re not broken, you’re transformed.
#Healing #Transformation #Resilience #Growth
youtube.com/shorts/etum1...
You’re not broken, you’re transformed.
#Healing #Transformation #Resilience #Growth
youtube.com/shorts/etum1...
Sometimes I forget that I am the centre of the universe for three furry friends
#HomeFromHoliday
#HomeFromHoliday
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Sometimes I forget that I am the centre of the universe for three furry friends
#HomeFromHoliday
#HomeFromHoliday
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New Zealand
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November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
New Zealand
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And I'll say it again:
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
And I'll say it again:
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
Childcare and maternal policies in the USA are the worst in the developed world, and have been for years.
This flies in the face of all economic and human development evidence. It never ceases to boggle my mind.
#Childcare #SocialPolicy #GenderEquality #HumanDevelopment #EconPolicy
This flies in the face of all economic and human development evidence. It never ceases to boggle my mind.
#Childcare #SocialPolicy #GenderEquality #HumanDevelopment #EconPolicy
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Childcare and maternal policies in the USA are the worst in the developed world, and have been for years.
This flies in the face of all economic and human development evidence. It never ceases to boggle my mind.
#Childcare #SocialPolicy #GenderEquality #HumanDevelopment #EconPolicy
This flies in the face of all economic and human development evidence. It never ceases to boggle my mind.
#Childcare #SocialPolicy #GenderEquality #HumanDevelopment #EconPolicy
Just got home to Ottawa on United Airlines flight from Santo Domingo. It should have been one simple transfer in Newark but the delays in Santo Domingo meant I missed the connection, and the flight today was delayed nearly 3 hours.
#EverythingIsNormal
#ThingsAreFine
#EverythingIsNormal
#ThingsAreFine
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just got home to Ottawa on United Airlines flight from Santo Domingo. It should have been one simple transfer in Newark but the delays in Santo Domingo meant I missed the connection, and the flight today was delayed nearly 3 hours.
#EverythingIsNormal
#ThingsAreFine
#EverythingIsNormal
#ThingsAreFine
Just landed at YOW. Snow and customs ahead, but hallelujah.
(Also: why does everyone leap up the second the plane stops, then wrestle for their bags like it’s a sport?)
(Also: why does everyone leap up the second the plane stops, then wrestle for their bags like it’s a sport?)
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just landed at YOW. Snow and customs ahead, but hallelujah.
(Also: why does everyone leap up the second the plane stops, then wrestle for their bags like it’s a sport?)
(Also: why does everyone leap up the second the plane stops, then wrestle for their bags like it’s a sport?)
Incarceration is terrible, terrible policy at the best of times
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Incarceration is terrible, terrible policy at the best of times
Reposted by JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪
Trump’s priorities seem a bit out of sync with the rest of us.
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump’s priorities seem a bit out of sync with the rest of us.
Airport observations: someone just lost her shit over another delay. She stomped off saying, “This is ridiculous. I’m just going to rent a car and drive.”
Sure, from your lips to Trump’s ears. That’ll fix ‘em
#TravelInterrupted #AirportAnthropology #ShutdownDelays
Sure, from your lips to Trump’s ears. That’ll fix ‘em
#TravelInterrupted #AirportAnthropology #ShutdownDelays
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Airport observations: someone just lost her shit over another delay. She stomped off saying, “This is ridiculous. I’m just going to rent a car and drive.”
Sure, from your lips to Trump’s ears. That’ll fix ‘em
#TravelInterrupted #AirportAnthropology #ShutdownDelays
Sure, from your lips to Trump’s ears. That’ll fix ‘em
#TravelInterrupted #AirportAnthropology #ShutdownDelays