Laura Krabappel

Nova Scotia is practically giving away 'some of the purest water in Canada' - Halifax Examiner Every year, two corporations withdraw hundreds of millions of litres of groundwater from wells in Colchester County. They bottle the water — which the companies market as “pristine” and “some of the p...

Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)

The Nova Scotia government is handing out $700,000 in vouchers for people with failed wells caused by the drought, so they can buy bottled water.

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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up. Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

'Dismissing our Mi’kmaw voices': Passage of bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders Passage of Bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders especially in Cape Breton where blockade continues at Hunters Mountain against logging.

'Dismissing our Mi’kmaw voices': Passage of bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too
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Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
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I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Rally at city hall in the morning:

Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently. A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

#Halifax council isn’t perfect—who is?!—but there are solid voices speaking out, including Janet Steele. Removing the bridge tolls, making parking free at hospitals, not promoting working from home all add to congestion. That’s Premier Tim Houston’s doing, not bike lanes.

HaliSky, I know we’re all tired of the distraction of fighting about bike lanes that this summer has become.

But the motion about Morris St at council tomorrow really is about a threat to democracy.

If you can muster the energy to send an email to council, the premier & your MLA, please do so!

In the discussion of what is acceptable in art and writing, it's always interesting to me that there are a million sexuality-based restrictions, but they never mention regular degular violence. Can't have a boner, but I can cut the head off anyone with a sword and drink their blood

Critical Mass Halifax is today! Meet at Grand Parade at 6pm.

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please email the premier (and your MLA) and tell him to get his hands off Halifax. PREMIER@novascotia.ca

"Either the mayor is not understanding his job, or he's deliberately misleading people, and either one is terrible," said Coun. Kathryn Morse.

you know what
I said Andy was going to be a shitty Mayor

but he has far exceeded the level of shitty I thought
and it's not even a year

Why are we reluctant to recognize Israel’s genocide in Gaza? | Kenneth Roth

"One would have hoped that a history of genocidal victimhood would yield an appreciation for human rights standards that prohibit oppression, but some leaders seem to have drawn the opposite lesson," writes the former executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth.

Israel blocking aid from Gaza is creating ‘chaos and death’, say humanitarian groups Letter signed by agencies including Doctors Without Borders condemns Israeli military attacks on Palestinians

“As starvation spreads, Israeli killings of civilians has increased. One person was killed by Israel every 12 minutes in July.”

The universe is an unjust and cold place, but it does have incredible comedic timing some days.

(This is the street the province declared all of four days ago must remain open to two-way traffic, or else the provincial economy will spiral to nothing).

This is an important case study about pushing through with key policy decisions and not being cowed by bullshit. Kathy Hochul was part of the bullshit. I hope people in NY never forget this.

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

Event poster for Critical Mass Bike Ride. text reads: July 25, Grand Parade, critical mass, Halifax. Image is an illustrated yellow bicycle, on a lilac background, and a QR code on the bottom left.

Critical Mass is back! FRIDAY JULY 25.
Meet at Grand Parade (City Hall) 6:00pm, rolling out at 6:30

If the premier was truly concerned with the port as an economic driver, we wouldn't be sending trucks willy-nilly through the downtown. Morris St. has nothing to do with the viability of the port. That's what the Windsor St Exchange update is supposed to help solve.

This provincial government and mayor matchup is fucking brutal

This is fucking wild

The erosion of The Coast: Founders of Halifax's storied alt weekly have quit, and the new owner is publishing AI slop - Halifax Examiner With nothing more than grit, hard work, and determination, Christine Oreskovich and Kyle Shaw created and built the famed alt weekly, The Coast.

We've taken my article about The Coast out from behind the paywall

This is a disgusting and transparent smear campaign. OTC provided the absolutely best care and support they could with the FUNDING and SITE provided by the province.

I can guarantee you resident’s won’t have better conditions in their TENTS when they’re kicked out.

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