Isaac Wright

The Houston gov’t lost more than $300 million in revenue annually by cutting bridge tolls and 1% from HST. They also spent more than $6 billion outside of budget processes over the last few years. Now they cut two of our biggest economic sectors (tourism and arts and culture) to deal with deficit?

What the fuck is even happening right now??!!
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Fact checking Fillmore: No, Mr. Mayor, the landlord survey is not a scientific study - Halifax Examiner Fillmore called a municipal issues survey from the Rental Housing Providers of Nova Scotia "an unbiased scientific survey."

Fact checking Fillmore: No, Mr. Mayor, the landlord survey is not a scientific study

by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Nova Scotians rally outside Nova Scotia Power headquarters to demand fair rates - Halifax Examiner The Warm Homes, Fair Rates Rally was organized by Nova Scotia ACORN and attracted Nova Scotians “demanding fair energy bills for our communities."

Nova Scotians rally outside Nova Scotia Power headquarters to demand fair rates
By @mmughees.bsky.social

NSGEU • “Just eight days before these Visitor Information Centre staff at the airport were unceremoniously laid off, they were visited by the Premier himself, who told them to keep up the good work. We guess he meant to add: "... for one more week." Is this the kind of respect our Premier has for the public service in Nova Scotia?” Photo attached of Tim Houston posting with two staff members (their faces are covered) at the airport.

Tim Houston

Back to the Halifax budget. Fillmore had a motion up about cutting all program grants. I missed the exact wording. Timmy did it in his budget, and Andy doesn’t want to be different.

White bungalow covered in snow and with "FUCK ICE!" spelled out across the eight narrow front windows

today in local art

Cut out letters of different colors & sizes on a piece of yellow paper, spelling out "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair."

Here's a little bit of art I created today. Thank you @prisonculture.bsky.social for shining your light & reminding us to hold onto our joy & resolve during these very hard days.

After pushing to cut millions, Halifax mayor looking for 16 per cent increase to his office budget Andy Fillmore is spending 29 per cent more than former mayor Mike Savage

"The budget for bike lanes this year is $960,000 and we’ve spent days, hours, evenings, meetings, meetings, meetings on that, and yes, we approved the police budget very, very quickly and HRP alone is $103 million.”
-Steele

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Remarks from Kay Macdonald at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2

Nancy Hunter's remarks today at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2

"Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones" Novella by Torrey Peters : Torrey Peters : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She’s a charismatic trans woman furious with the way she sees her trans friends treated by society and...

As they’re coming for HRT, vaccines, ADHD meds, antidepressants, cancer research, I think it’s a good time to share this free download of Torrey Peters’ Novella "Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones"

Both of andy's seats (MP and mayor) are empty right now. Have we considered that he is putting on a performance art piece on how elected officials are unnecessary?

Incredible police work here

I don’t post much, but am an abolitionist social worker + social work researcher, down to be added!

Old black and white archival photo of a man standing in front of a mountain of tens of thousands of bison skulls and another man standing on top.

About 50 Million bison were purposely murdered in order to starve Indigenous people to steal the land.

Starvation as a tactic to steal land and commit genocide is well documented here.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and may your olive groves flourish again for your children in a land that knows freedom.

A graphic shows text: Tired of banking discrimination? Help us start a credit union. Take the Survey.

Have you had bank issues due to working porn/sex industry?

The Free Speech Coalition seeks to know if there are enough people interested in joining a credit union to make it financially viable. If this is you: please fill out the survey! (And share!)

Survey: www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

Easy way to share your support for Canada Post workers! 📬
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Mate if you're worried about picking up a respiratory virus what with holiday travel, I have an UNBELIEVABLE hack for you

Annual reminder: In addition to preventing virus transmission, N95 masks are great for keeping your face warm in the winter! 😷❄️

Ooh I thought of one more—I bet you have encountered @miamingus.bsky.social’s critical work on pods/pod mapping that was so widely adopted early in the pandemic (among so many huge contributions!)

Can’t recommend the follow enough.

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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Public to have say on Halifax police board's extra duty, off duty policies for cops - Halifax Examiner Board also requested that police chief create and release public communications plan explaining off duty, extra duty employment.

HRM staff Josh Bates talking about off-duty, extra duty policies for cops.

I wrote about this in October. The public will get its say on this. Not sure of a date yet, though.
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