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JIM FURLONG | Who Are You?

Posted on February 25, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Opinion, Politics, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

*The following column appeared in the February 20 – 26, 2022 issue
What is my question to the members of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that held Ottawa and some other places hostage recently.
You said you were a trucker convoy, but you became something else and that was a very

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JIM FURLONG | Valentine Tears

Posted on February 14, 2022
By Jim Furlong
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I sat down to the computer a few days ago to write something meaningful about Valentine’s Day, but I became distracted for a particularly good reason so I gave up.
I knew something of the tradition of St. Valentine’s Day, but the words would not come easily. It’s because thoughts

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JIM FURLONG | I am So Tired of It

Posted on February 13, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I don’t exactly “need my head examined” as my mom used to say in the politically incorrect days of yore, but there’s no question that these times of isolation are starting to get me down.
I expect it’s like that for a lot of us. Surely to God there must

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Remembering Edward Roberts

Posted on February 1, 2022
By Jim Furlong
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We are much diminished by the passing of Edward Roberts. He’s the smartest man I ever knew. We were not friends in the real sense of the word, but we kept company in some areas quite apart from news.
He actually had worked as summer relief in our newsroom when

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Jim Furlong: The Right to be Wrong

Posted on January 26, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I was angry first and then sad. I had my COVID booster shot last week. It was just before those anti-vax protesters, operating out of ignorance rather than malice, shut down a COVID vaccine clinic on Topsail Road.
The clinic was for seniors, like me, over 70. I lined up

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Jim Furlong: Not a Clue

Posted on January 17, 2022
By Jim Furlong
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At this time of the rolling year some pundits put forward some notions on what the New Year might bring. It’s hope in vain if something is expected from me.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and I swear to God I know less about what is going on then

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Jim Furlong: Another Taste of Yesterday

Posted on January 14, 2022
By Jim Furlong
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Taste and smell are very dramatic memory triggers. They can take you back to the past better than any photograph.
A few years ago, I brushed against a fur coat that was hanging in a closet. In an instant I was transported back to my childhood home and the soft

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Jim Furlong: The New Scribbler

Posted on January 10, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

In school at the beginning of the year we got new exercise books. Now we have talked about that before. Renewal, a turning of the page, etc. This was a long time ago. We called the books scribblers.
They were actually called Caribou exercise books. They were made of dirt

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The Story of Christmas

Posted on December 30, 2021
By Jim Furlong
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Christmas is pretty good you know. It isn’t all celebration. It is deeply religious. It has “Jesus” written all over it in our western world … It really is something beyond “Rocking around the Christmas Tree” or “I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”
Christmas and its spirit goes beyond too

The Keepers of the Facts

Posted on December 30, 2021
By Jim Furlong
on Column, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I was going to write about this a while ago when the Mayor of St. John’s appeared to be telling reporters what they could or could not write about in the ongoing controversy over the Growlers getting a temporary boot out of the newly named Mary Brown’s Centre.
I didn’t

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