Aleesha

The city budget is fragile and we're on a downward spiral towards being broken.

"Mr. Houston listens only to industries, facilitating their wish to make money by degrading the land and its freshwaters. Those who speak for nature and environmental consequences are labelled “the enemy.”"

Tax me, daddy

I’m really impressed with all the HaliSky folks who’ve come together to advocate for fiscal sustainability in Halifax.
Unlike the astroturf landlord group with their clickbait facebook survey, we now have a website with facts & tools for folks to contact council. Send those emails!
#TaxMeDaddy

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Girls be like “I need this”
And it’s just the premier getting boo’d on repeat.

I'm trying to figure out what kind of animal could. A kangaroo? Monkey?

I've been bitten, scratched & kicked by more different types of animals than most people, but never punched.

In Alberta, this is what we call manufacturing a fiscal crisis to defund services.

Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.

All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?

$300 million.

Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?

I would happily pay one more percentage point on the HST, for bridge tolls, and for parking to help fund grants, museums, bus passes for students, and more #taxmedaddy.

The African Nova Scotian community simply isn’t having it. ✊ -ND

‘Sounding the alarm’: Advocates express concern about austerity budget impacts on poverty and affordability in Nova Scotia  - Halifax Examiner CCPA-NS hosted Friday event called "Communities Respond: What the Budget Means for Nova Scotians: A public forum on poverty, affordability, and the road ahead"

“This [#Nova Scotia budget] will deepen inequality, whether you look at it by income, by gender, by race, by rural community,” @csaulnier.bsky.social said.
“Women actually make up 63% of public sector jobs. They will be disproportionately affected by cuts.” www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Tim Houston in opposition: The Premier needs to be held to account.
Tim Houston as Premier: How dare you try to hold me to account?

Media Release of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs.

Its telling that he tabled that awful budget then runs off to conference wth these guys rather than face Nova Scotians.

Premier Promotes Critical Minerals Opportunities to Developers, Investors

Tim Houston made hundreds of thousands in cuts to tourism and culture, but had $300,000 to gift to mining developers, citing that “mineral exploration brings $35 to $50 million per year to Nova Scotia communities”

Meanwhile tourism revenue in NS in 2025 was $3.7 billion, growing ~8% per year.

The NSPC caucus is clearly a toxic work environment. This guy wasn't invited to the meeting but was expected to face the fallout. That he's willing to do that is concerning. Hopefully he and his colleagues have been/will be embarrassed enough to rethink their allegiances, but I doubt it.

N.S. culture minister faces questions about cuts to tourism, arts On Wednesday, Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage Minister Dave Ritcey deferred to staff when asked if stakeholders would be given a reason why certain programs were chosen for funding cuts.

The minister can’t provide a single coherent reason for cutting $130M in grants to community organizations.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

While all these cuts are horrifying, I want to be clear that, at the moment, these are PROPOSED cuts. There’s still time to your voice heard. Call or email your MLA. Call or email Tim Houston’s office. Call or email the Ministers related to the cuts you’re most angry about. See below for contacts.

If these cuts aren't reversed, anyone with cash to spare is going to be paying way more than $12/month to arts groups, trails groups, hospitals, etc.

Taxation spreads the responsibility for shared life. And that shared life is more than just fire, police, and highways.

You know what I am willing to do to avoid these cuts?

Put the 1% tax cut for business back.

Put the bridge and road tolls back.

I’ll pay taxes and tolls before I watch frontline services and grants be gutted. #nspoli

Hey @novascotiandp.bsky.social here's free advice, run that clip, uninterrupted, on TV and radio.

THANK YOU! This number being thrown around like it applies to everyone is crazy-making.

About that $1,400 average tax cut. There is no actual average Nova Scotian. The avg includes the higher income and the lower income; one benefits 10 times more (fr HST & PIT cut). Income of $290,000 or more, taxes reduced by $2,600, income of $25K and less by $256. (Using SPSD/M stats can modelling)

Attacking reporters and ascribing malice to legitimate questions are part of a growing comms strategy among politicians who abhor accountability.

I just got confirmation that Tim Houston’s PCs cut the entire Writers in the Schools program.

This man is cutting a program that lets children meet and learn from local authors (among many many other things) so he can spend $5 million teaching civil servants to use AI.

The $1.2 B deficit caused entirely by them spending $1.6B outside the budget without debate or oversight.

So really a $400M surplus if they hadn't gone on a semi legal spending spree

I'll fumble writing this but the outrage that Houston and Fillmore whipped up over bike lanes partly led to these drastic and horrific cuts. There were successful in getting some people blaming bike lanes and people who ride bikes for other issues in the city and province. 1/2