Christine Saulnier (she/her)

A Li’l Affair - Celebrating Lilith Fair | Events in HRM Celebrate International Women’s Day at A Li’l Affair on March 8th, 2026 in Dartmouth. Performances by LXVNDR, ADINA, Kim Wempe and more!

Witnessing that incredible art scene last night. Went to a wonderful International women’s day concert. Amazing local talent and so uplifting.They have another one tonight March 8. Dartmouth at the Sanctuary Arts Centre also a beautiful venue. Tickets aboutnovascotia.ca/hrmevent/a-l...

Imagine thinking: yes, let’s make this worse. Compounding bad decisions that will hurt the most vulnerable with more of the same—protecting rich property owners who just got a nice big tax break from the province. Imagine if we had any leader who said: time to share the wealth for real.

« Choosing to decimate arts and cultural funding, equity programs, and the like while letting big extractive industries run over the province without meaningful royalty payments is a political choice. » eg. 1% net royalty revenue for gold mining!

CCPA-NS director Christine Saulnier made the front page in Chronicle Herald’s print news, which highlighted the community forum hosted by CCPA-NS and NSACCW on Friday.

Read the article here: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

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Last week, the Halifax Examiner covered our community forum with NSACCW, where we broke down what this provincial budget really means for Nova Scotians.

Read the article here: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

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Took Halifax Transit to my DT destination. 6 min ride, 5 min walk. I feel fortunate, but do take this for granted. Could never have done this with my car, travel time, gas, parking; cheaper & more efficient is what transit needs to be. And got to read my book. I’d pay more tax for more of this❤️🚌🚏🚍

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Solidarity rally today Friday march 6 at 11am with @cupe3912.bsky.social striking educators—their TAs are currently being paid $17/hr. Their instructors less than $5000 per course. This will be their first agreement- it has been 3 years since they were unionized.

#NovaScotia #NSArts #SaveNSArts #ArtsFunding #NovaScotiaArts #SupportTheArts #NSBudget #DefendNSCulture #HalifaxArts #CanadianArts #ArtsCuts #NSArtsCuts

NEW RELEASE: Who Really Benefits from Nova Scotia’s Tax Cuts?
Our analysis reveals who will actually benefit from tax cuts in NS.

Families in the highest income group benefit 11 times more than families in the lowest income group.

These tax cuts also result in a $465 million loss of revenue.

'Please don’t do this': Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against Nova Scotia arts funding cuts The budget reduces operating grants for arts organizations by around 30 per cent.

'Please don’t do this': Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against Nova Scotia arts funding cuts
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Me three. This could mean not just reversing these cuts but more support where it is needed.

The other cut was to bus passes for recipients of income assistance. Make it make sense.

Actually, looks like they are going back to the HRCE transportation policy as per email from them. Distance not means-tested starting in Sept. Free passes for those in middle/high school « who live more than 2.4 km fr the school in their designated catchment area. » www.ednet.ns.ca/docs/schoolt...

‘Sounding the alarm’: Advocates express concern about austerity budget impacts on poverty and affordability in Nova Scotia  - Halifax Examiner CCPA-NS hosted Friday event called "Communities Respond: What the Budget Means for Nova Scotians: A public forum on poverty, affordability, and the road ahead"

“This [#Nova Scotia budget] will deepen inequality, whether you look at it by income, by gender, by race, by rural community,” @csaulnier.bsky.social said.
“Women actually make up 63% of public sector jobs. They will be disproportionately affected by cuts.” www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

N.S. Supreme Court strikes down former Liberal government’s wage restraint legislation | CBC News The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has struck down landmark legislation former premier Stephen McNeil’s government used in an effort to restrain wage increases for public sector workers as it attempted ...

This is a rather big deal. Chef’s kiss on the timing 😂

About that $1,400 average tax cut. There is no actual average Nova Scotian. The avg includes the higher income and the lower income; one benefits 10 times more (fr HST & PIT cut). Income of $290,000 or more, taxes reduced by $2,600, income of $25K and less by $256. (Using SPSD/M stats can modelling)

Yes.

His comment about how he gets that it’s some people’s jobs to make him look bad. This is not about you. You govern a province. It is about your government’s priorities and decisions. The deflections about making these ´hard decisions’ as good leadership, as if there weren’t other choices. Tax cuts?

I understand this may be offered but means-tested. So kids and families identify as low income to schools and bus drivers. Terrible stigmatizing policy change, if true.

There is an intersectional analysis to be done. We are able to analyze tax cuts and who benefits most (higher income, men); and we know women make up 63% of public sector jobs and will be hurt more by those cuts. They could easily do this analysis, but harder to defend their « difficult decisions ».

“I just heard that one of our NSCC sites where we have 2,000 members, they lost funding for their daycare,” she said. “I just can’t believe they’re closing a daycare in this province. That is absolutely absurd.”
What?!

Cut all grad scholarships (no need for phds or women in engineering) also cut support for the Transition Year Program at Dal and programs
support for Acadian health & African NS health. M’ikmaq friendship centre & cultural activities.
Result: reverse inclusion gains & break community connections

The breadth of sectors & cuts, to arts & culture, family resource centres do so much with so little, now with much less; cutting support for bus passes & transit. Index IA but cut other support; cut community rec. & sports;

Here's the full list of the Houston government's grant cuts to organizations. Tell us what you think. - Halifax Examiner The Houston government has cut $309 million from grants it gives to community organizations and universities. You can read the entire 13-page list of cuts here. The Halifax Examiner would like to hear...

Here’s the full list of the Houston government’s grant cuts to organizations. Tell us what you think.

'We're not giving up. We're not backing down': Let's stand together against the greed - Halifax Examiner "Together, let's tell Tim Houston to stop selling our futures, and demand that he respect the Treaties, our democratic rights and our community voices."

‘We’re not giving up. We’re not backing down’: Let’s stand together against the greed
By Sadie Beaton

Government programs and grants slashed for dozens of community groups and arts organizations in N.S. - Halifax Examiner The cuts range in size from 10% to 100%, with funding to most arts and creative industries down by at least 30%.

Government programs and grants slashed for dozens of community groups and arts organizations in N.S.

reported by @dartjenhen.bsky.social

This Friday.

The date changed to Tuesday March 3rd at noon. The NSGEU has a rally tmrw (wed Feb 25) at noon at Province House.

📣 Shoulder to Shoulder Rally - Tuesday March 3, 12 p.m. at the N.S. Legislature! 📣

In Nov, hundreds of people from communities across Mi'kma'ki/NS came out for the Shoulder to Shoulder rally to call on the Houston government to respect Treaty Rights and democratic processes.

Tim Houston's budget reflects an ideological project to remake the economic order - Halifax Examiner Budget discussions are necessarily discussions of values, and of morality.

"He wants to kill any notion that government can be a force for good in addressing the vast disparities of wealth & opportunity in our society by cutting that argument off at the knees: it’s either poverty forever or we give up all our interests to the corporate elite. No other vision is possible."