JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪

When Connolly wins, I want her to meet with Mark Carney — Irish citizen, Mayo grandparents.
Canada has a core Irish soul, especially Newfoundland. Face our dual role: witness and perpetrator of colonization.
@mark-carney.bsky.social

Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉

#Famine
#HumanitarianLaw

The silence of Mark Carney’s Liberal government is deafening – The Independent Three Newfoundlanders and hundreds of others, including more Canadians, are risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal and genocidal siege of Gaza. Has the Carney government abandoned its commitmen...

It should be no surprise that the courage of Newfoundland, with its Irish soul, stands out in the protests against genocide and starvation

Remember that Mark Carney is a citizen of Ireland

theindependent.ca/commentary/t...

Nous sommes le
Souffle lent des astres
L'essoufflement des sages
De beaux désastres
Aux grands yeux océan

Nous sommes
Dignes
Indignes
Mille millions de grives
Ivres sous les vignes

Nous sommes
Toi et moi
Roseaux frissonnants
Après le tremblement
Le silence

L'histoire est un voyage
Entre les forêts
Et les villages
Du sommet bleu des Alpes
Au creux du Grand Secret

Nous sommes
Des haltes
Des bêtes naïves au cœur du paysage
Cherchant dans nos failles
Nos rêves et nos batailles
Chevaux sauvages

YouTube video by BEYRIES BEYRIES - Nous sommes (Official Music Video)

Ce matin - Stabiliser ma foi en l’humanité et la fragilité de la vie
Stabilizing my belief in humanity and the fragility of life

L'histoire est un voyage
Entre les forêts
Et les villages...
Nous sommes...
Des bêtes naïves au cœur du paysage...
Nous sommes
Dignes
Indignes

youtu.be/-3su0Oaj7W8?...

Ten days after I hydroplaned over steam in bathroom tiles, and I’m STILL moving so slowly.
Grateful for court by videoconference today so I’m not limping around a courthouse.

...the world, as well as basic fucking common sense on our side. The war criminals have hate, lies, and weapons. Justice will prevail. Free Palestine.”

Greta Thunberg shares a video after arriving in Greece following her illegal detention by Israeli forces from aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The war machine has taken over. It’s like a self driving car now, rolling over Palestine, and crushing us all
Flattened humanity in its wake

Catherine Connolly is very likely the next president of Ireland - what a voice she will bring to the world.
A voice for peace, reason and leadership

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

I did not believe Israel would reach the point of starving people to death.
I did not believe it would, on average, erase a classroom of children every single day for two whole years.”

- Orly Noy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you. It is the Pinecrest Creek Corridor in Ottawa, part of the National Capital Commission (and right behind my house, so elderly beagle gets to sniff around).

Rencontre Trump-Carney | « On ne peut pas avoir d’attente », prévient Legault François Legault ne se fait pas d’illusion : il n’a pas de grandes attentes à l’issue de la rencontre entre le premier ministre canadien Mark Carney et le président américain Donald Trump.

Reconnaissante d’avoir Carney pour négocier pour le Canada, mais les attentes sont faibles. Cette histoire du 51e État est absurde. Même Legault n’en attend pas grand-chose. Encore du Trump : il fait plonger l’économie américaine et entraîne le Canada avec elle.
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...

Pills that are hard to swallow: giving up your career; there is no cure for your illness; accepting you are chronically ill; yearning to do things that your body no longer allows; losing friendships/relationships

Aren't speed cameras a kind of stupidity tax? I blame no one but myself when I get caught, frankly.
And if they slow people down, particularly in school and other sensitive areas, well, isn't this the nudge theory at its best?

I am no fan of Doug Ford, but he's doing well on the tariffs issue. And Carney is excellent on the US relations.

Glorious autumn in Ottawa

May the empathy we should have for those experiencing famine and genocide inform us better.

Mark Carney: ‘The more a country asks of its citizens, the greater their devotion to it’ Former governor of the Bank of England suggests how to fix financial system

This experience is part of the fabric of Canada, too.
Our PM, Mark Carney, is also an Irish citizen, with three grandparents from Co Mayo. www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

There Irish Catholics among the Famine refugees, and also Irish Protestants.
In Toronto, approximately 20% of the 1,124 Irish dead, in 1847, were Protestant. At Quebec, of the seven hundred Famine Orphans accommodated and placed in Canadian families, at least 100 were Protestant.

Irish names at the Irish Memorial National Site, Grosse Île, Quebec

In 1847, alone, at least 110,000 Irish left Irish and British ports for Quebec (90,000), Saint John, (17,000), and Halifax (2,000).

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Graves at the Irish memorial national historic site, Grosse île, Quebec

Form my visit to Grosse Île, the site of the quarantine station near Quebec City, summer 2024.
Some 7,553 people are buried here, and 1,545 are still unknown.
#IrishMemorialNationalHistoricSite

This woman is spectacular, not just for Ireland, but as a voice of sanity for the world.
Ireland has lived colonization, famine and the loss of millions to death and emigration, the re-building after the famine, and the rebuilding after the peace accord.
#ConnollyForPresident
#IrishDiaspora

Roulstons at Mussenden Temple, 1980

You know, I am not sure whether the existential crisis that is climate change, or the one that is fascism scares me the most.
I have memories of visiting the Mussenden Temple.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Perfect - just a nice, portable can of spray paint would do it. Wouldn't even leak in your backpack

you should see that cat glare when I am drafting legal documents. She gets madder than I do!

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

A bit of prime seasonal Canadiana ... the great Neil Young

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Mt...

You’d need the sound effects. Have you ever heard a beagle whining?

@tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social hey Theresa - is that plaque coming?
Great to celebrate this

Dog is impatiently waiting for her breakfast

Cat and dog sitting on bed

I have an audience while I get dressed