Sal Sawler

@timbousquet.bsky.social, you hero, I know you’re covering a lot. But is there anything you can help with here? If there’s anything we can do, I feel like you’re the one who would be able to dig it up.

Wind in their sails: Billionaires’ SailGP event spared from Houston government’s budget cuts - Halifax Examiner $1 million grant to Sail Nova Scotia to sponsor the event, which allows a handful of rich and mostly white men to come to Halifax Harbour this summer to race their high performance boats, was spared.

Wind in their sails: Billionaires’ SailGP event spared from Houston government’s budget cuts

reported by me

Oops, thank you

Correction/clarification

I realize the PCs have a majority, so I vote if non-confidence is unlikely. But we, as citizens, must have legal avenues when the gov in power is violating democratic rules and norms.

Just watched @lisalachancemla.bsky.social ’s latest video. Today’s Question Period was reduced to 1 hour and that many Ministers left or didn’t show up in the first place. I would love a journalist to investigate/explain how, as citizens, we can fight back against this disregard of our democracy.

Update—discovered you can’t send screenshots through my contact page. Just send let me know which MLA you emailed and what their email address is.

That’s the other one. Andy Fillmore. Definitely easy to mix up the two.

Oh woowwwww. That’s even better.

Was he actually there? Couldn’t tell from the video if he was zoomed in or there in person and projected. (I hope with all my heart he was there in person hahaha)

5/5 it’s up to you. I don’t need to see it. What I really want IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO EMAIL. That’s it.

***Other artists and authors encouraged to copy this idea and run with it!

4/? say “great job” (but I’m pretty sure those people are few and far between). There are also lots of things to be mad about. Whether you write about the arts cuts, the career exploration cuts, the mental health cuts, or the cuts to Black and Indigenous orgs,

3/? sending the screenshot from).

-I’ll enter you into a draw for 100 Things You Don’t Know About Nova Scotia and 100 Things You Don’t Know About Atlantic Canada for Kids

I don’t need to see what you have to say—I’m not trying to tell anyone what to think. Maybe you LOVE the cuts and you want to

2/? …March 4
-send a screenshot via the contact page on my website. Not much info needed, just some indication of “Sent”, the timestamp, your MLA’s email address, and your email address (must match the email you’re

1/? Running a lil email-writing contest. Given the sweeping cuts to *checks notes* almost everything good about Nova Scotia, I’d like to provide a little material motivation to write your MLA.

March 4th is crunch time. So here’s what you need to do:

-email your MLA before the end of the day on…

I will let him know.

Hmmmm I call Mike-related bias 🤣. Long red hair, leggings with a purple-blue tunic, full and purposeful stride towards a kooky murderer??

I appreciate you.

Excuse the dust. But isn’t that weird?

3/3 Turns out that’s a glass fish that looks like Daphne when you look at it head-on.

He disagrees.

Back me up here: doesn’t that thing look like Daphne???

2/3 with a turtle and a dachshund for backup.

He looked at me like I’m bananas, and asked what I was talking about. “Where is Daphne?!” he asks. And I’m like “Right there!! Literally in the middle of the shelf!!”

1/3 Settle a debate for me. Sitting at the kitchen table with my partner, who loves collecting lil things. I was looking at this shelf from where I’m sitting, and asked him what was going on in the lil scene he’d set up, with Daphne from Scooby Doo striding across the shelf,

Haha, flow state is a gift.

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.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Highly recommend all Nova Scotians read this article by @timbousquet.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca for a clear-eyed analysis of what’s happening here. Link in next post.

Cabinet The current cabinet consists of 21 members of the Executive Council. The cabinet members are displayed in order of precedence.The cabinet is the decision-making authority of the executive branch of go...

Find the minister you want to contact at the link below, and then google their name + the word “contact”. It’ll bring you to a page with their contact info at the bottom. Lets turn this around. nslegislature.ca/members/cabi...

Cabinet The current cabinet consists of 21 members of the Executive Council. The cabinet members are displayed in order of precedence.The cabinet is the decision-making authority of the executive branch of go...

Phone’s about to die, but in the next reply, there‘s the list of ministers. Due to the sweeping cuts, almost all of them are involved in this in one way or another.

Minister of Advanced Education and Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Brendan Maguire. Phone: 902-424-5705
Fax: 902-428-1055
E-mail: MinisterAdvancedEducation@novascotia.ca

Minister of Service NS and Cyber Security and Digital solutions Jill Balser. Phone: 902-424-3302
E-mail: SNS-Min@novascotia.ca

Minister of Health and Wellness Michelle Thompson. Phone: 902-424-5818
Fax: 902-424-0559
E-mail: Health.Minister@novascotia.ca