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She/her. In Kijpuktuk in the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi'kmaq. (Halifax, NS) Acknowledge 400 years of African N.S. Struggle and achievement. #settler #landback #anticapitalist #BLM #unions #coops #socialism #theplanet #anarchism
More gifts for the mining industry: Houston government doles out $2 million for airborne survey by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social
More gifts for the mining industry: Houston government doles out $2 million for airborne survey - Halifax Examiner
While it could not find money for arts and culture, diversity and environmental programs, Houston’s government was able to find lots of money for those who would mine and frack the province.
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Pipelines; polluting-wild-salmon-killing fish farms; no $ for workers... but plenty for shareholders... Sigh. Glad he did not give in to the Cheato demands... but not otherwise a huge Carney fan. I did enjoy his speech on Sat. am -- but just cause I loved him telling Trump et all to suck eggs. LOL
First Nations, conservationists fear Ottawa may backtrack on pledge to phase out B.C. salmon farms
Indigenous groups that support aquaculture, however, warn a ban would cost jobs and threaten food security
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Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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Canada rejected Trump’s bad deal. Good. Now Canada must stand firm, use our leverage to get a deal that works for workers, and act urgently to protect the people and communities impacted by Trump’s trade war. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/c1kQFfan
All in for good jobs and workers’ rights
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The humidity yesterday nearly killed me - staying in the one room with AC, today! (I have data entry I have been neglecting in favour of talking to workers...so not a total loss!)
Waterfront Media HFX @wfmhfx.bsky.social · 2w agoToday's weather for the Halifax area A mix of sun and cloud for today with a chance of showers in the afternoon and high of 28c (36c humidex) Cloudy tonight with a chance of showers and low of 19c
...minimum wage is currently $16.75 an hour & is set to rise to $17... But the CCPA says that’s still $10.60 short of a living wage. “People are struggling. They’re really struggling to make ends meet,” said Christine Saulnier, the group’s Nova Scotia director. #nspoli globalnews.ca/news/1197314...
Labour advocates warn Nova Scotia wages aren’t keeping pace with cost of living - Halifax | Globalnews.ca
Researchers are calling for employers to offer a living wage, as recent data shows more Atlantic Canadians are struggling to hold on to their paycheques.
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THis will be a lot of fun! I am going... who's coming? mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/field-...
Field Trip: Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum | Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax
Heritage home of early 20th century socialist and artist Charles Macdonald! Join us for a field trip to the Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum. Labour folklorist Emma Lang (guide of … Continued
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Join myself and all the other "cool kids" on this field trip! mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/field-...
Field Trip: Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum | Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax
Heritage home of early 20th century socialist and artist Charles Macdonald! Join us for a field trip to the Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum. Labour folklorist Emma Lang (guide of … Continued
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This is egregious. His name will never be cleared of association with this, & he spent 18 months incarcerated in a provincial facility (they are all hell on earth) I hope he gets a very big settlement as work will be hard to get, even as innocent man, with this trailing around. How awful. #abolition
CTV News Kitchener@ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · last mo.An innocent man from Dartmouth, N.S., spent 18 months in prison because of a police typo - The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has acquitted a man who was convicted on three child pornography-related offences and introduced new evidence in his case.
But don't worry - Carney has it well in hand. Increasing our sales of fossil fuels (with little in the way of royalties and taxpayers footing the bill for the pipeline so shareholders make more money) will be sure to trickle down and make us all rich enough to live underground... #canpoli #Cdnpoli
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · last mo.Record-low Danube River affects tourism and industry as drought and heat grip Central Europe www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
But don't worry about global warming.. (every day a myriad of people on some social media platform tell me I am "being duped". LOL
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · last mo.Cases of Maryland flesh-eating bacteria raise concerns about swimming in Chesapeake Bay www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
“For people who are feeling the squeeze and maybe feeling like they’re bad with their money… this is not a budgeting failure it’s a math failure,” she says. “When the bulk of your income is going to rent and essential food, you can’t budget your way out of this.” #nspoli #canpoli #housing #rent
Safe Kjipuktuk@safehrm.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Halifax’s cost of living has been ranked as “extreme” in an index ranking cities’ typical monthly income, rent prices, and costs of essential food" www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
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Note to @mark-carney.bsky.social You could solve the housing crisis if you were to decouple from your corporate mindset and start believing that the government you lead can accomplish great things without throwing money at the capitalist class. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Mexico is solving its housing crisis. Why aren’t we?
The parallel housing journeys Mexico and Canada have been on since the 1990s are now diverging. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has shown that another path is possible. Canada’s misguided strategies, b...
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Best book written yet (2023) on Canadian mega fires.
Pensacola Beach, Florida. The US military in 2026 under #Trump and #Hegseth. #fuckingidiots
Dutchy Patrick@dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 2mo agoMaybe it is time to lower the testosterone level a bit...🫢
People are going to die, as they have in the past, (BC -- 619 died in heat dome mostly in their own homes) if we do not do something.... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Advocates call for maximum heat temperature bylaws in rental units as summers get hotter
Health Canada recommended maintaining a maximum indoor temperature of 26 C in a June, 2026, report
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Carbon capture has a poor track record carbonherald.com/when-carbon-...
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2mo agoCutting emissions. Catalysing massive private investments in clean tech. Creating thousands of good jobs. The Pathways Project will be the world’s largest carbon capture, utilisation, and storage project — built right here in Alberta.
N.S. emergency medical dispatchers could go on strike this Friday, union says #NovaScotia www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
N.S. emergency medical dispatchers could go on strike this Friday, union says
More than 60 emergency medical dispatchers could go on strike this Friday if they do not reach an agreement with their employer, according to their union.
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“Pierce is an expert level greenwasher, and it’s a tactic she uses to distract from her plans to continue expanding #oilandgas and extract every ounce of revenue for Shell.” www.readthemaple.com/email/5c9a7a...
Mark Carney Appoints Former Oil Executive As U.S. Diplomat
An advocacy group accused Susannah Pierce of being a “climate villain painting Big Oil green.”
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I’ll give them credit for pausing the fare increase this time. We waited several years from the time fares increased to “pay for fare box technology” to the time that technology was actually implemented.
Suzanne Rent@suzannerent.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘Truly a mess’: Halifax council votes to pause transit fare hike until December with delay in tap and pay Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
It’s like a vision of hell, except it’s actually the future everyone denying or delaying climate action wants.
Jules Sherred (he/him)@geekyjules.julessherred.com · 2mo agoKid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
#NovaScotiaStrong It's worth noting that the Houston government is doing nothing to assist others. In fact. We're getting a new gas plant. That nobody wanted there. Kudo's Berwick. #nspoli
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 2mo ago#NovaScotia This N.S. town wants to use 100% renewable energy. It’s more than halfway there #Berwick, N.S., is using solar, hydroelectric and wind power in effort to become a zero-emissions community www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
10,000 excess deaths in Europe in June due to the climate-created heat wave, but here in Canada we are focused on adding new oil pipelines. Apparently, profits are more important than people or future generations. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
This is how many more people died in Europe's June heat wave | CBC News
European countries reported more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heat wave that engulfed the west of the continent in late June, official data shows.
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"... it is also something else: a permanent war economy dressed in the language of collective defence, sustained by threats that are partly real, partly constructed & enormously profitable for those who have made the manufacture of insecurity their business." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/nato...
Nato summit: How a fractured alliance is fuelling a permanent war economy
Massive surge in arms spending is justified through the language of collective defence, and sustained by threats that are partly constructed
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Houston and the NS regressive conservatives have no use for independent expertise and democracy. #nspoli #netzero #environment
Halifax Examiner@halifaxexaminer.ca · 2mo agoPresident of agency pushing for Pictou gas plants has career in the gas industry Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
Atlantic Canada rent up 5.3% to an average of $2,271/mth - not far from Vancouver's average rent of $2,723/mth. WTF?! 1/3 of New Brunswick's population doesn't even earn $20/hr! #nbpoli #nspoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canada #realestate rentals.ca/national-ren...
Asking Rents Extend Seasonal Rebound as Affordability Remains Top Concern for Renters
On a monthly basis, average rent was up 0.2% from May, the third consecutive monthly increase since reaching a 35-month low of $2,008 in March.
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