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Jonny Wakefield
@jonnywakefield.bsky.social
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Edmonton Journal/Sun reporter on the justice beat, covering courts, crime, policing and corrections. American who moved to Canada, cat dad and (hopefully not totally insufferable) distance runner.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 17d
My latest long read: Jeff Kent is a serial conman who bilks vulnerable women out of their money. He’s the first fraudster in Canadian history to be deemed a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely.

He’s also someone who used to regularly call me from jail

edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/j...
Jeff Kent is a serial conman who defrauds women. Does he deserve the harshest punishment in Canadian criminal law?
Jeff Kent is a romance fraudster who bilks women out of their life savings. An Alberta judge just deemed him a dangerous offender.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 40m
When none of your housecarls has a fresh sword arm
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 46m
The teams have stopped play and have joined each other on the field to sing Christmas carols
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 47m
This game is the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Jays are the Normans
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 58m
Detroit pitcher literally talking to himself lol
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1h
Oh no Seattle had the winning run in scoring position? What happened next?????
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1h
“The winning run is in scoring position for Seattle” has gotta be one of the least intimidating phrases in sports
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1h
I mean same for Detroit at this point
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1h
“The winning run is in scoring position for Seattle” has gotta be one of the least intimidating phrases in sports
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1h
At what point do the announcers go from “wow what an amazing game, great pitching” to “this is just irritating now.”
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1h
I hate this game lol
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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 2h
Baseball
Two consecutive BlueSky posts—first says “how good is this?” and second says “this is excruciating.”
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 2h
Time for more suffering! But first, a message from Jimmy Fallon
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 2h
Hahahahhahaha
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 2h
Just a pure suffer fest of a sports viewing experience
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 3h
Respectfully, how dare you
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 3h
Jays made me forget that playoff baseball can be completely agonizing lol
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 9h
News: a former firefighter in Parkland County has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for possessing images of children being sexually abused. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...
Ex-Parkland County firefighter gets 15 months in jail for possessing child sex abuse material
A former firefighter has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after police found dozens of images of children being sexually abused.
edmontonjournal.com
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 9h
Alberta separatist lawyer reprimanded for second time in four months @matthewblack.ca edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta separatist lawyer reprimanded for second time in four months
Jeffrey Rath represents the Alberta Prosperity Project and was reprimanded on Friday for his role in a near-decade old legal case.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 13h
Good summary here of why the old term is really quite icky if you think about it for more than a couple seconds. www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Cr....
Appropriate terminology
We encourage the use of appropriate terminology to avoid trivializing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
www.interpol.int
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 13h
Learned in court this morning that today is the first day the much maligned term "child pornography" is no longer a thing in Canadian criminal law. It's now legally known as child sexual abuse material. laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/AnnualSt....
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (child sexual abuse and exploitation material)
Federal laws of Canada
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d
This is a very good local journalism
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Keith Gerein @keithgerein.bsky.social · 1d
On our second day of coverage looking into concerns with Alberta's restaurant inspection system, industry workers share their horror stories. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n... #yeg #yegfood #ableg
'We can certainly make people sick': Edmonton restaurant workers sound alarm on food safety risks
Edmonton restaurant workers sound the alarm on unsafe food handling practices, insufficient training and how the system is failing diners
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d
New from me: Loved ones of an Edmonton man who died after telling the police that he couldn’t breathe say they see no justice in the Alberta police watchdog’s decision not to recommend charges against the officers. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/n...
Family slams decision not to pursue charges against Edmonton police officers who hogtied man who suffocated
Family slams decision not to pursue charges against police who hogtied Edmonton man who died in custody
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d
The news is police have narrowed down the search area for Samuel Bird's body. No longer the triangle containing thousands of square kms they previously ID'd.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d
Best case scenario but Vicious is an extremely loveable Dominican-Canadian man who clangs dingers for a living, and also we got an extended backstory showing him as a chubby little kid hanging out with his dad
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d
This put it better than I could have bsky.app/profile/afer...
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Dave of the Dead @aferaldavid.bsky.social · 5d
if the Blue Jays have to take on the Mariners it will be like that moment in the anime where the two heroes have to fight each other but they are crying the whole time
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