The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I was hoping for this compilation.

Carney to defund Canada We've seen this movie before

Carney is placing Canada on a collision course with fascism. My latest at Substack.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/carney-to-...

Thinking of how Canada reacted to the Two Michaels vs the 55 people and 1 dead in US ICE detention.

#cdnpoli

Thank you @unifor.org - important to see labour speak out against these unfathomable atrocities #canlab

Some ‘special interest groups’ seem more special than others when it comes to bending N.S. Premier Houston’s ear - Halifax Examiner Houston refused to identify the people or groups he labelled “special interests” – presumably anyone who cared about protecting the coastline and environment, and tackling the climate crisis. He was d...

Some ‘special interest groups’ seem more special than others when it comes to bending N.S. Premier Houston’s ear

by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Mayor Fillmore's vision of an inclusive and equitable city is one where everyone gets to be stuck in the same traffic jam, breathing the same fumes, making the same car payments 🌞

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

a group of people sitting in front of a screen that says tbs hd on it Alt: a gif of Oprah doing a giveaway but with the word bees on it and superimposed bees flying around making the people's celebrations look like they are being attacked by bees as Oprah dances

arguably the funniest gif

Solidarity with the postal workers. Canada Post is a public service and should be funded as such. @cupwsttp.bsky.social #CanLab

Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.

135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.

Love it - 8-year-old recently asked if we could put on "camel with no legs" (a.k.a. Horse with no name)

Jagmeet Singh calls out genocide in Gaza, people in Israel and Palestine both deserve to live in peace.

#debate2025

Blanchet is using his radical Islamist line about who is attacking Jews again (said it last night) --

Let's be clear though, the RCMP has found that the biggest threat to increase antisemitism is actually the far right.

#debate2025

More proof our governments care more about developers' profits than they do about housing.

Substitute "Quebec City" for "Halifax." There is no "strategic" vote for the Liberals in our city.

Stop lying to yourself about strategic voting The other day, I saw my first Conservative placard.

My latest -- honest takes on strategic voting are few and far between, so here something to chew on.

Tom Mulcair is desperate for someone -- anyone -- to be a bigger loser than him

Tell me again that Fascism is not threatening Amerika.

An excellent read

'Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act - Halifax Examiner The guardrails limiting government influence over research and teaching in our postsecondary institutions are there for good reason. Tim Houston’s government is taking them off in the name of accounta...

‘Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act
By Karen Foster

Time To Think Beyond ‘Worthless’ Free Trade Agreements: Economists “Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”

NEW: free trade is dead, the current agreement with 🇺🇸 is worthless, and it’s time to imagine a very different future, economists tell @taylornoakes.bsky.social 👇
www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...

I don't begrudge MLAs this overdue raise. But it's hard to stomach when @cupescfp.bsky.social education workers who keep our system afloat might have to strike AGAIN just to inch closer to a living wage.

The purpose of the Office of the Auditor General is to "provide independent assurance to the people of Nova Scotia that public money is spent properly and provides value". If this bill becomes law, the current gov would be able to fire the AG on a whim. Critical reports would never be made public.

A gov unwilling to be subjected to scrutiny is a gov I am deeply suspicious about but I suppose I must be one of those "special interest groups" they keep talking about. You know, because of my "special interest" in democratic process & govs being publicly accountable.

Bill 1 - Government Organization and Administration, An Act Respecting BILL NO. 1 (as introduced) 1st Session, 65th General Assembly Nova Scotia 3 Charles III, 2025   Government Bill   An Act Respecting Government Organization and Administration   The Honourable Tim Hous...

Nova Scotia we are in big trouble. This bill tabled by an emboldened Conservative gov is a glimpse of our increasingly dystopian future where opposition is stifled, evidence based decision-making is dead, & if you say something Houston doesn't like you're fired.
nslegislature.ca/legc/bills/6...

Tomorrow is budget day in Nova Scotia. For the first time in the 14 years I’ve covered budgets, the government is also having bill briefings that afternoon on things unrelated to the budget. It’s an unprecedented attempt in Nova Scotia at message control by the provincial government. #nspoli

You see the same misunderstanding around the phrase “banality of evil” when they assume it means Nazis were boring when it actually means everyone was a Nazi. No one wanted to be anything else.

To not be a Nazi was deviant behaviour

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread