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Suzanne MacNeil @esooze.bsky.social · 12d

The general strike in Italy is one of the most hopeful things in the world right now. It shows the way for both solidarity with Palestine and a critical
lesson in how to oppose a far-right government.

John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 12d

'The dockers’ determination to block weapons and stifle trade has been a crucial component of the pro-#Palestinian uprising in Italy as pressure mounts on #GiorgiaMeloni’s far-right government to take a stronger stance against #Israel.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni

With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stance

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 12d

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Against Erasure

Jewish life must be protected. Palestinian life must be defended.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 12d

That’s not how it works. A dangerous law from a government dancing to the Reform drum.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Suzanne MacNeil @esooze.bsky.social · 12d

“The media and gov’t want us to believe that Canada Post is both an inefficient waste of money that we can do without and also a vital part of our country’s infrastructure that must not shut down for a labour disruption.” Read @springmagca.bsky.social on CUPW strike: springmag.ca/postal-worke...

Postal workers are striking to save public services (again) - Spring

This past Thursday, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) resumed their strike in response to the proposal announced by Joël Lightbound (Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and P...

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Sep 12

There’s no audience at the Davis Cup in order to protect Israeli players’ fee-fees

Morning File by me

There's no audience at the Davis Cup in order to protect Israeli players' fee-fees - Halifax Examiner

There's a broad cowardice in our society, a refusal to use plain language to decry horrific crimes.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Erica Fischer @ericafd.bsky.social · Jul 12

Postering and summer social with @cupe3912.bsky.social and @j4wns.bsky.social

#NovaScotia, it’s time to #MakeItFair

#cdnpse #HigherEd #canlab #CollectiveBargaining

@csaulnier.bsky.social @esooze.bsky.social

CUPE staff and members of Local 3912 holding their fist up and posters. One of then reads: Nova Scotia, is time for higher wages for precarious workers in higher education at Dalhousie, SMU, MSVU and NSCAD. The other one has a graph showing their salaries are and have been for 10 below the rate of inflation

2 cupe 3912 members putting up posters on Quinpool Road

Using wheatpaste to put up posters along Quinpool Road

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · Jul 27

There’s a huge culture of entitlement and lack of accountability in boys and men’s hockey in Canada.

That culture doesn’t exist for girls and women who play. They don’t even get the same kind of money!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

After 5 ex-Hockey Canada players not guilty of sexual assault, talk of 'vindication' but also devastation | CBC News

Five former world junior hockey players on Thursday were found not guilty of sexual assault, prompting a wave of reaction — including from the NHL and NHLPA — and a scathing rebuke from defence lawyer...

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · Jul 27

“I think it’s a serious breach of professional ethics for any professor to be involved with an organization whose explicit aim is to deport our students.”
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...

The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy

GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Suzanne MacNeil @esooze.bsky.social · May 4

Anyone else getting ads for paid plasma? With the guy on disability who donates twice a week. It is bleak as hell.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Mar 19

We've taken the first part of my multi-part series, "Nova Scotia's Policing Panic," out from behind the paywall for everyone to read for free.

This is the wildest story you'll read all week:

Nova Scotia's Police Panic, Part 1: ‘A coupla suckers’
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/investigatio...

Part 1: 'A coupla suckers' - Halifax Examiner

Sidney Rafuse and Gerald Freckleton had a plan: they were going to rob a bank. As they say, that’s where the money is.

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · Mar 17

Over 200 organizations - and growing - have signed the statement by Canadian feminist organizations expressing concern at the elimination of a standalone minister for women and gender equality in Carney’s cabinet. Including one former Status of Women minister. www.criaw-icref.ca/statements/j...

Joint News Release on Minister of WAGE - CRIAW

Canadian Government Eliminates Minister for Women and Gender Equality Amid United Nations Women’s Rights Summit For Immediate Release New York UNHQ – It is unacceptable that the new Canadian Prime Min...

www.criaw-icref.ca

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · Mar 17

Hey Halifax, today is my last day with The Coast. The changes made at TC last week were the impetus I needed to start making planning a reality. It'll take a few weeks to finish getting everything set up, but you can continue to find me on the Grand Parade pod in the interim; maybe in a new ep today

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · Mar 3

Custodian union suing Halifax, cleaning company over contract for Alderney Gate

Story by me

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/labour/custo...

Custodian union suing Halifax, cleaning company over contract for Alderney Gate - Halifax Examiner

SEIU Local 2 alleges new contractor for Alderney Gate is not complying with municipality's living wage policy.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Feb 24

Premier Tim Houston is withdrawing his proposed legislative changes affecting the office of the Attorney General

PREMIER’S OFFICE--Premier Agrees with Auditor General, Will Amend Legislation
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NOTE: The following is a statement from Premier Tim Houston.
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I understand that the original proposed changes to the Auditor General Act came out of a scan that looked to modernize the office by looking at best practices around Canada. This scan identified a variety of practices used across the country. There was never any intention on my part to change the existing Auditor General.

After discussions with the Nova Scotia Auditor General and her team, I am no longer supporting the proposed amendments. This afternoon, I asked the legislature to withdraw them.

Sometimes things become something that they weren’t intended to be, and I believe this is the case with the Auditor General-related amendments.

I have nothing but respect for the Auditor General and look forward to continuing our working relationship. This is why we’ve increased funding for that office in this year’s budget. As always, we remain focused on what is in the best interests of Nova Scotians and believe an open and accountable government is part of that.

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Suzanne MacNeil @esooze.bsky.social · Feb 24

Attn folks in #hrm #halifax #novascotia ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Contacy Mayor Fillmore, CAO O’Toole & your city councillor to demand that the new janitorial contractor hire the current Alderney Gate janitors at a liveable wage, adopt the existing union contract & delay the new contract at least 1 month for review.

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Suzanne MacNeil @esooze.bsky.social · Feb 24

12 Janitors at Alderney Gate are about to lose their jobs because the #HRM decided to go with a cheaper non-union contractor.

Emergency rally taking place at Halifax city hall, tomorrow at 6:00pm. HRM needs to do the right thing and make sure these workers’ jobs and contract are upheld! #halifax

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Feb 24

Dismantling democracy: this is not business as usual www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Dismantling democracy: this is not business as usual - Halifax Examiner

Taking the approach that this is business as usual makes it much easier to eventually accept full-blown authoritarianism as inevitable

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Suzanne MacNeil @esooze.bsky.social · Feb 24

How would you define Canadian made? This is a serious question - my car was assembled by Canadian autoworkers at the Cambie plant in Windsor. But between manufacture of parts and various other bits of labour along the supply thing, it’s been back and forth over the border several times.

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · Feb 19

I and my NDP colleagues wrote an urgent letter to Prime Minister Trudeau urging him to urgently respond to the threats made by Donald Trump against the people of Gaza.

Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cohort represent the greatest threat to Canada and to humanity that we have seen in decades.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Feb 21

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

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...

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Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stoo.ca · Feb 16

The Bloomfield Site is now sadly a burnt out husk.

Developer Alex Halef, president of the BANC Group of Companies bought the site in 2020 and is now less than a year from meeting the conditions included in that purchase.

#Halifax #HaliSky

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Feb 16

This was predicted. It could be terrible. www.reddit.com/r/halifax/co...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Feb 13

so here we are. I wrote this when RFK Jr's presidential campaign was being laughed off by the self-styled serious people.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beware: we ignore Robert F Kennedy Jr’s candidacy at our peril | Naomi Klein

Given the strengths that Kennedy possesses as a candidate, we should expect him to continue to build momentum. Ignoring him is not an option

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · Feb 15

"Cease and desist letter says shelters violate municipal code"
Sounds familiar, remember Mutual Aid Halifax
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Toronto orders creator of tiny mobile homes for unhoused people to stop | CBC News

The City of Toronto has sent a cease and desist letter to a man who’s built several tiny mobile homes to give temporary shelter to those experiencing homelessness, ordering him to have them removed fr...

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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · Feb 14

Is the #NovaScotia government really not going to invite @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social to the stakeholder lock-up? Is our analysis really that threatening?
Budget is tabled at 1pm Feb 18. I will be down at the NS Leg to respond regardless; we do appreciate the 40 mins extra to read & ask questions.

a black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a mirror and saying `` i mean ... '' .

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman Lucille Ball standing in front of a mirror and saying `` i mean ... '' .

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