Rad, Aghast

Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.

All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?

$300 million.

Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?

Girls be like “I need this”
And it’s just the premier getting boo’d on repeat.

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"

- Mark Carney

Detransitioners who devote their lives to barring trans people from access to life-saving care and info are intellectual kin to divorced men who become loudly and virulently anti-marriage: something that works for other people did not work for them, and they decided to make it the world's problem.

Inuit face food insecurity, cultural loss 13 years into Labrador caribou hunting ban – The Independent A caribou from the Mealy Mountains herd in Labrador. Photo courtesy Jeff Martin. Oswald Allen sits at his kitchen table, eager to share caribou hunting

FEATURE: Inuit face food insecurity, cultural loss 13 years into Labrador caribou hunting ban

Read the full story from Frey Blake-Pijogge 👇
theindependent.ca/indy-archive...

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Bill M233 — Human Rights Code Repeal Act Tara Armstrong presented a bill intituled Human Rights Code Repeal Act. Tara Armstrong: I move that a bill intituled Human Rights Code Repeal Act, of which notice has been given in my name on the order paper, be introduced and read a first time now. The purpose of this bill is to end the assault on freedom of speech by our Human Rights Tribunal. Last week, they fined Barry Neufeld three-quarters of a million dollars for refusing to believe that a man could become a woman, for his own personal opinions. This bill will protect ordinary people with common beliefs from politically motivated financial attacks. The Human Rights Code Repeal Act is the only solution to this assault on our rights. This bill will protect the freedom of speech of Canadians. It will abolish the Human Rights Tribunal, a kangaroo court, and repeal the human rights code that the Left is using to punish and profit from anyone who doesn’t adopt their views. The bill will terminate the position of a Human Rights Commissioner, who makes over $300,000 a year to police speech, and it will invalidate any outstanding orders made by the tribunal against Canadians like Mr. Neufeld. Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of our democracy. The judgment last week was a wake-up call, and Canadians are demanding their freedoms back. To the members in this House, this is our chance to answer their call. Therefore, I urge you to vote in favour of this bill. The Speaker: Members, the question is first reading of the bill. Division has been called. [10:25 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.] Draft Segment 007 The Speaker: Members, the question is first reading of the bill introduced by the member for Kelowna–Lake Country–Coldstream. [10:35 a.m.] Draft Segment 008 Motion negatived on the following division: YEAS — 37, NAYS — 50. [See Votes and Proceedings.]

Tara Armstrong is a danger to BC residents and to Canadians of all walks of life.

Seeking to kill the entire human rights enforcement mechanism in B.C. for the sake of allowing anti-trans hate to go unchecked is perhaps one of the most significant attacks on trans rights in Canada I've documented.

Oh my god

🚨 If you know anyone who lives in Kansas, please share this info with them ASAP & maybe save a life!

Colorado borders Kansas. This is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate: Trans Continental Pipeline.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #Kansas #Trans

tcpipeline.org

A gallery wall of prints from various artists, a ceramic mushroom hanging, a child's painting, pressed flowers, and a trans pride flag all on a warm brown wall.

For me, the hanging is not the hard bit. It's sourcing the exact bloody frames.

UPDATE: we are now less than $700 away!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who has given so far, I honestly don't know how to thank you. For anyone looking to do a good deed for #Ramadan, #Lent or just because, whatever you contribute will help GREATLY!

Please help 😭

#mutualaid #KeepEyesOnSudan

'Shock and awe' at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction - Halifax Examiner Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft describes the elimination of the division and today’s changes to the department as “absolutely disgusting.”

BREAKING:

‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction

reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

A protest poster set on a photo of 2025’s International Women’s Day protest in Montreal. FEMINISTS AGAINST TERFASCISTS MARCH 8 • 12:30 • 1455 de Maisonneuve O. Contingent to Montreal’s International Women’s Day Protest.

FEMINISTS AGAINST TERFASCISTS:

At the next International Women’s Day March in Montréal.

12:30pm, 8 March, meetup at 1455 de Maisonneuve O.

A powerful decentralized campaign forced Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems.

@desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in the Epstein files and it is incumbent on Canadians to demand an investigation into Canadians that did ‘business’ with Epstein. It is awful, it is uncomfortable, and it requires our courage to root out corruption.
#cdnpoli #Canadasky

This list is ghoulish. There are ways to raise funds, for example driving demand for transit by reallocating car lanes to bus lanes. HRM councillors should be ambitious, not ditch all that is good.

THIS is the plan @andyfillmorehfx.bsky.social is pitching so that he can keep taxes low for his landlord buddies upset because their parasitic business plans don’t work. Making literally everyone else pay so his friends can avoid paying their fair share.

Absolutely disgusting.

Protest. Protestors hold, in the centre, a banner saying “Borders kill”.

Protest. In the centre is a protestor holding a sign “Personne est illégal sur des terres volées”. Beside is a sign saying “Fuck ICE Garda complice”.

GardaWorld HQ in Montreal.

I organized a protest against ICE and Quebec’s own complicity in profiting off of said agency today.

That protest got brutalized to hell and back by the Montreal police.

What they’re doing to children in these camps are crimes against humanity.

Kids have been incarcerated for 8 months.

They scream “let us out”.

They’re fed moldy food and unclean water.

On Thanksgiving they thought they were getting a feast, but it was a trick

The food was for the guards

I forgot how much I hate watching other people watch my work.

That doesn't help me want to get back into filmmaking. Oof.

For the families of Tumbler Ridge.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

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One week to go -- we're excited to see you!

Join us from a cozy spot for our online update! We'll reflect on the work of 2025 and give you a peek into what we're working on this year. Everyone is welcome!

📅 Tuesday, February 17 | 12:30 pm NST
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Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.

Can we help our pals @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social expand their programming and build a fabulous workshop?

crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

Hey Toronto folks: do you have a favourite restaurant that needs some love or a little spruce up?

I'm assisting on a project that helps struggling eateries (sorry, super vague at the moment) and I need recommendations for businesses to reach out to.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵