Jim Allison

Dad, husband, educator, reader, laugher, Labrador companion, coach, sports fan, old hockey player, fortunate & happy Canadian. Life is good.

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Interested in helping support graduating students in @RichmondSD38? Please consider donating and/or joining us for this great community event on Saturday, May 23. Donate by May 1 to receive a cool t-shirt! 🚲💙

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Why it is important to take moment on Remembrance Day. 🇨🇦

https://t.co/DHxwltrAZS

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The antidote to polarization, anger, and divisiveness? Exemplary public education.

https://t.co/trrWYABl8u

[Jim Allison @Jim_Allison]

Ivy League student
Lawyer
Father
Author of multiple highly regarded books
Member of Parliament
Cabinet Minister
Thoughtful and proud Canadian

And six time Stanley Cup champion and 1972 Summit Series winner

RIP Ken Dryden 🇨🇦

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#UkraineIndependenceDay August 24 🇺🇦

The Russian invasion of Ukraine started in 2014. Putin has also abducted 20,000 Ukrainian children and legislated forced adoptions to make them “Russian”.

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Canada is vast, imperfect, diverse, complex, beautiful, progressive, and fortunate. Canada is home. ❤️🇨🇦#HappyCanadaDay

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This is a relaxed, fun event that generates scholarships for grads at all 10 @RichmondSD38 secondary schools. Please donate & register to join us on Saturday, May 24. 💙🚲

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Find 7 minutes to listen to the president of Finland. Calm, articulate leadership (and English is not his first language). Finland shares a history and a 1343 km border with Russia.

[Malinda 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺🇬🇧🇬🇪🇩🇪🇸🇪 @TreasChest]

Listen to the Finnish president—this is what a real leader sounds like, unlike the nonsense Trump says.

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For 500 years, maps of area around St. Lawrence River used “Canada”, adapted from Huron-Iroquois word “Kanata” for village. The maple leaf a distinctly Canadian emblem since late 1800s & our iconic flag 🇨🇦 on February 15, 1965. Beautiful flag; beautiful country
#NationalFlagDay

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This is more WJ gold than the USA, Finland, Sweden, & Czechia combined. More than Russia and USSR combined. Canada is deep and lots of talented, eligible players were not on the 2025 team (including Bedard & Celibrini). 2/2

Canada will be back, and hungry in 2026.
🇨🇦👊🏼

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Canada had a very disappointing #WorldJuniors2025, but the vitriol, hand wringing, and personal attacks on social media embarrassing. These are still kids, and any group of players thrown together will not always gel. Canada has won 20 WJ gold🥇, including 2022 and 2023.
1/2

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This platform is increasingly home to anonymous accounts & echo chambers posting vitriol and divisiveness. The post below is about #RemembranceDay and the critical importance of excellent public education in Canada. #LestWeForget 🇨🇦

https://t.co/lrouf3HgHe

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After 16 exciting days, I’m going through #OlympicGames withdrawal! Some thoughts on the Olympics and Team Canada…🇨🇦
https://t.co/QbhWzuESTf

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Loved watching the diverse #Olympics in beautiful #PARIS2024. So many inspiring athletes and tremendous people. #TeamCanada had a record Games. Important to note the strength of women in sport - 17.5 of 27 medals in Paris and 18 of 24 medals in Tokyo won by Canadian women.
🇨🇦🤩

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Summer offers a perfect time to reconnect with people you have not seen in a while. A short piece on old friends.

https://t.co/civKBS4e7p

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#SD38Ride2024 is a fabulous event & 100% of proceeds go towards scholarships for Richmond students. 💙🚲

Saturday, May 25
To donate & register:
https://t.co/G6jJ6R1rSE

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As I watched our son and his wife depart for another province in a loaded moving truck at 6AM, I was once again struck by the concept of time.

https://t.co/Zu69EV8XOr

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@BenSteiner00 Exhibition games impossible to gauge. Best of 3, 5 or 7 championship series would be very close. Top USports rosters filled with 3 & 4 year CHL players. NCAA are ex-JrA players. USports teams a bit older too. NCAA has some future NHLers, but not most players.

Love to see it.

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January 24, 2024 is #BellLetsTalkDay across Canada. So how are you doing?

https://t.co/B9nlMM59PN

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November was mental health awareness month. So, how are you doing?

https://t.co/ALK3B5lyJt