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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

20.11.2025 04:19 — 👍 26648    🔁 6672    💬 7    📌 222

A beauty morning to take the ferry for so many reasons

14.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

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17.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 19687    🔁 15824    💬 122    📌 460

I listen to the Daily on the bus to work most days. I have found no episode as chilling as today's which is about the media landscape in America and the war on the freedom of the press.

25.03.2025 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Halifax Examiner is responding to Tim Houston's bid to Dismantle Democracy - Halifax Examiner The first part of responding to a crisis is to properly name it.

The Halifax Examiner is responding to Tim Houston’s bid to Dismantle Democracy www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

24.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 88    🔁 39    💬 4    📌 5

'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

21.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 29    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 5

Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government - Halifax Examiner This is not about one election or another. Governments come and go, left, right, and centre. But never before have previous governments, even super-majority governments, made such radical changes in t...

Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by me

21.02.2025 14:40 — 👍 140    🔁 73    💬 10    📌 17

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him,” our columnist Ezra Klein says.

04.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 673    🔁 166    💬 65    📌 30

Wikipedia’s Elon Problem Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

Elon Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia, Lila Shroff writes. What happens if they succeed?

05.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 214    🔁 92    💬 25    📌 23

This might be a good time to switch your subscription dollars to a locally owned independent publication.

02.02.2025 19:21 — 👍 244    🔁 79    💬 6    📌 11