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Alison Craig

@lawandchocolate

Criminal defence lawyer, sports fan, advocate against wrongful convictions, left wing pinko, OCR enthusiast, anti-pants, hopeless chocolate addict. She/Her.

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Craig Needles Podcast Episode 379: Dramatic Hockey Canada Trial Is Almost Over Seven years of legal twists and turns could soon come to an end for former NHLers Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote. The final legal arguments in the Hockey Can...

New podcast!

The Hockey Canada trial is winding down at the #ldnont courthouse and it has been... bizarre.

I talked with @lawandchocolate.bsky.social about that today, and we looked at the twists and turns, and what the result might be.

classicrock981.com/blogs/thecra...

03.06.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.05.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bunting with Myles Straw on deck is a fireable offence.

04.05.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh! You are quite right.

27.04.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We don't have to watch the Blue Jays be bad at baseball today! Happy Thursday!

24.04.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am not religious, but one of the last things that Pope Francis did before he passed away was visit inmates at a Roman prison.

Pope Francis understood that everybody - including prisoners - is deserving of respect and decency. That is a lesson that many people could use.

21.04.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

15.04.2025 05:48 πŸ‘ 38885 πŸ” 12017 πŸ’¬ 1153 πŸ“Œ 610

Thank you. Hopefully there’s endless chicken on the other side of the rainbow bridge!

09.04.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I lost my fur baby of nearly 20 years last week, and my dear friend had this made for me. Always remember that a little kindness can really lift someone’s spirits.

09.04.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™€οΈπŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

09.04.2025 00:44 πŸ‘ 1040 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 2

Can confirm.

06.04.2025 12:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/watch-disturbing-video-shows-jail-guards-carrying-out-violent-hours-long-retribution-at-maplehurst/article_8670bac7-ffeb-4117-b35d-64b7b0b080ec.html?utm_med...

Absolutely horrifying. This makes my blood boil every time I see it. I cannot accept that this is how inmates are treated in Canada.

Watch: Disturbing video shows jail guards carrying out violent, hours-long retribution at Maplehurst.

31.03.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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29.03.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Orbit is taunting the Mets by eating a pizza with a knife and fork (Italian hate crime) in front of their dugout

29.03.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 431 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 21
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My dad is using ChatGPT to turn pictures of me into cartoons. He just sent me this - entitled Alison’s View of Jays Management.

29.03.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t know that, but will check it out!

29.03.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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When you do a trial in Halifax, you get to spend the weekend at your dear friend’s Nova Scotia beach house. Note to self: do more trials in Halifax.

29.03.2025 00:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Waking up at 3:30 am to catch a flight to court seemed like a good idea at the time… … … why, I can’t quite recall…

28.03.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Almost none! Not sure how I feel about that πŸ˜‚

27.03.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes πŸ˜‚ But I’m here anyway!

27.03.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œYou simply can’t treat the airstrike group chat the same way you treat the friend’s girlfriend’s birthday brunch planning group chat. … I mean, these dumbasses are probably planning the invasion of Greenland on Snapchat right now.”

www.instagram.com/reel/DHmZMV9...

26.03.2025 09:54 πŸ‘ 16824 πŸ” 4203 πŸ’¬ 450 πŸ“Œ 161
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She thought leaving her nephew in jail would help him get clean. His fatal overdose raises hard questions about how drugs get inside Ontario's jails are deadlier than ever β€” and illicit drugs are the number one killer.

#StarInvestigation: She thought leaving her nephew in jail would help him get clean. His fatal overdose raises hard questions about how drugs get inside.

Ontario’s jails are deadlier than ever β€” and illicit drugs are the number one killer.

25.03.2025 12:33 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ontario’s jails are deadlier than ever β€” and this one is β€˜the worst in every respect’ Forty-six inmates died in Ontario provincial jails last year. More than a quarter of them were at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

#StarInvestigation: Ontario’s jails are deadlier than ever β€” and this one is β€˜the worst in every respect’

Forty-six inmates died in provincial jails last year. More than a quarter of them were at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

24.03.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

Good point πŸ˜‚

21.03.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Someone thinks I should call it a day.

21.03.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Always start your day with a good chin rub.

20.03.2025 09:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nellie says Good Morning.

14.03.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

09.03.2025 05:09 πŸ‘ 26219 πŸ” 4244 πŸ’¬ 945 πŸ“Œ 167
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My dear friend bought her first place, and we had an argument about tablecloths. I told her they were tacky, she said they weren't. So as a housewarming gift I got her her first tablecloth: a shrine to me. πŸ˜‚

09.03.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

True. It’s a bit of an insult to Beavis and Butthead.

07.03.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0