A chapter in this on Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, facilitated by women's groups, is more my speed. I delivered an address on it for a UPEI seminar course when this book was new, at the behest of Dr. Henry Srebrnik, PhD, author of "Football Frats and Fun...".
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While part of me wants to go deep on the Ancien Regime, I'm more interested (sober) in Chateau Talbot, a wine once developed by France Aux-Lally baronets. Shared a bottle with friends in Gull Lake, SK in my drinking Katimavik days. Today, more a light reader.
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The son became a French peer (Seat 31) and kept ties with his relocated relatives in Tipperary (my ancestors). I look forward to its contents once we're a little deeper in snow drifts. P.S. the granddaughter of said Comte de Lally was a matrilineal descendant of Scottish scholar Elizabeth Fletcher!
Nice post. I reco Empires of Time by Anthony Aveni. Used to be in PEI Libraries. Will throw in there are thirteen Mikmaw Moons.
Thank you! I'll find it. Looks more fitting than Singer and Langdon's book on the French Empire titled "Cultured Force".
Would you review France's birthplace of procedural justice, a case known as "The Lally Affair" from the 18th century, and let me know what you think of it? I'll add that Voltaire got involved, and it's well known in French historical jurisprudence for "what not to do". Meanwhile I'm a Pasquier, too.
As said in Keifer Sutherland's popularized clip Mouseland, a story conceptualized by Atlantic Canadian Clarence Gillis, and went around the world as a Tommy Douglas speech, you can keep down a mouse or a man, but you can't keep down an idea. I worked in Swift Current, the birthplace of SK Medicare.
I've lived experience with three champagne problems: namely bipolar, ulcerative colitis, and severe obstructive sleep apnea. This diagnostic trinity is less than 10000 people worldwide, who are both diagnosed and on the grid about it, and yet they're far more common ailments. Diagnosis is hard.
These days I help members of the disability community learn to fill out forms the way the opaque Accessible Canada Act gets interpreted in enabling regulations by my province, itself the smallest province in Canada, but a superpower in per capita energy footprint, and per capital exports outputs.
In 2019 and 2020 I worked in the industry well documented since by Karen Pinchin in her bestseller "Kings of their Own Ocean". Anecdotally, I once apologized to the Souris dry cleaner agent how the clothes smelled of bluefin tuna. She said not to apologize, around Souris that's the smell of money.
In 2016 I went back to school for a post-BA, PLAR Paralegal Studies Diploma, at a school which Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom would call "Lower Ed", taught by a highly publicized litigant David Dunsmuir - the most referenced case in Canadian legal history, since superceded by the Vavilov trilogy.
My entry to national discourse was submitted in 2012, when I was in my 30th year. It's still archived online. Just search "House of Commons Conor Mullally" and it can be found. I was building on a 2009 honours thesis on what became CETA, described by MP Steven MacKinnon's father as a masters thesis.
There are too few Atlantic Canadians in AAI anymore. I've become a unicorn in a region of military mules, and that's okay. I called my first cohort of Katimavik Lethbridge kids my "Katimacrakers", borrowing a term from Margaret Atwood for a generation which didn't know her work yet, in April 2010.
This starts a series of posts on Prince Edward Island's catalyzing role in South-South relations. I'm the only one capable to provide this post, as Prince Edward Island's first (only) member of AIESEC Alumni International (AAI), and sole Atlantic Canadian to apply to AAI's Global Executive. #Canada
To my mother’s generation — and everyone who fought for fair ground beneath our feet — thank you.
You taught us that solidarity is love in action. And that even behind the camera, dignity belongs in every frame. 🎬💛
I never worked in film again, but I still appreciate what IATSE does — for what we see on screens, on stages, and in life.
Fairness isn’t just a contract term; it’s an act of care. Every time I see those four letters, I remember that summer — and the people who made fairness part of the story.
My generation lives in the afterglow of a civil and human rights–enshrined era of negotiators — my mother among them.
They believed fairness could be organized, not begged for. IATSE carries that same spirit — protecting art by protecting the artists who make it real.
My answer brought me back to the SARS summer of 2003, when The Ballad of Jack and Rose was filmed on PEI.
A cinematographer asked the director to make sure we Islanders were IATSE-affiliated. That small gesture meant fairness — pay, respect, safety. A small act, but a big shield.
Someone on Bluesky asked me today: “What does IATSE mean?”
A good question. It’s a labour union — the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — but it also represents something larger: the dignity of creative work and the right to be treated fairly. Thank you for asking.
Solid question. It's a labour union. Thank you for asking!