"Thirty percent of the homeless population in St. John’s are between the ages 16-24. For them, and for many others, the holidays are not a happy time --- they're a reminder of being in a position of extreme vulnerability."
"I urge you to repeal these cuts immediately. If you do, I would be more than happy to continue in my current position as poet laureate. If you do not, then you cannot pretend to be the sort of city that deserves a poet laureate anyway."
"I will remember Ron's strengths. His powerful way of making someone else feel accepted. His encouragement. His amazing ability to turn words into vivid mental pictures."
"I couldn’t believe that, here was Ron Hynes changing my guitar strings in my house, right before my eyes!"
"We do not need more forms of unsafe extreme energy extraction such as hydraulic fracturing, or ineffective distractions such as carbon capture and storage. What we need are real climate and economic solutions, green economies, and renewable energy."
"We invite you to come remember the Man of a Thousand Songs..."
"Every person, no matter where they are, deserves to be heard."
We are right to remember those we have lost to war. But we owe it to them, to ourselves, and to future generations to abolish warfare once and for all.
During the federal election campaign the Liberals were patient and stayed out of the gutter, and delivered a positive message — which is what Canadians wanted.
"I'm going on my third year living in St. John's, and I've never been so hesitant to let people I meet know where and who I come from."
