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Canadaland @canadaland.com · 1d

It’s election time in Newfoundland and Labrador — and beef with Quebec is back on the menu.

Can Newfoundland Finally Stand up to Quebec?

This week, host Sam unpacks how a 1969 deal turned Newfoundland’s mighty river into Quebec’s cash cow, earning Hydro-Québec billions while leaving Newfoundland with scraps. Now, decades later, the province says it’s finally taking back control.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Sep 9

Come meet the St. John's city council candidates running for the at-large seats "under the whale" tomorrow. They'll be serving up their visions for the city.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Aug 25

There is an election about to start in this province - if you feel like you are being left behind, ask the candidates why they have no serious policy proposals to deal with this challenge.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Aug 25

Releasing today - the 2025 regional living wages. Our takeaway this year - too many people are working long hours for incomes that don't cover a conservative estimate of essential household expenses.

Report here: www.policyalternatives.ca/.../2025-liv...

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 13

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Building a Campaign and Communicating Change panel featuring:

Deatra Walsh
Jess Puddister
Shannie Duff

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

See you tomorrow!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Building a Campaign and Communicating Change discussion. Features three professional headshots: Deatra Walsh (white woman with curly brown hair wearing dark top against red wooden siding background), Independent Consultant; Jess Puddister (white woman with long blonde hair and glasses wearing dark blazer against yellow wooden siding background), Strategy and Operations Manager with Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation; and Shannie Duff (white woman with short curly reddish hair wearing gold/yellow top against blue background), Former Mayor of St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Jun 12

Wow immigrants are almost entirely hardworking members of the community and America would be worse off trying to deport them all? You’re telling me this now for the first time

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Via @acyn.bsky.social on Twitter - Trump says he's going to make an exception on deporting farm and hotel workers because farmers and hoteliers are mad that great people are being taken away. Watch for the way he dances around so he doesn't have to take any blame for this.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 12

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth panel featuring:

Hope Jamieson
Jen Crowe
Doug Pawson
Grant Horwood

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth discussion. Features four professional headshots: Hope Jamieson (white woman with blonde hair wearing red top and black jacket), Affordable Housing Researcher and Consultant; Jen Crowe (white woman with brown hair wearing black blazer), Executive Director of Choices for Youth; Doug Pawson (white man with receding hairline wearing light blue collared shirt), Executive Director of End Homelessness St. John's; and Grant Horwood (white man with gray hair wearing dark suit and blue shirt), Secretary of Happy City St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 12

More great St. John’s politics content.

Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 12

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth panel featuring:

Hope Jamieson
Jen Crowe
Doug Pawson
Grant Horwood

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 11

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities panel featuring:

Rob Nolan
Dr. Schwartz
Dr. Giwa
Sarah Worthman

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

Stay tuned for more!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities discussion. Features four professional headshots: Rob Nolan (white man with brown hair and beard wearing dark sweater), CEO of MNL; Dr. Elizabeth Schwartz (white woman with curly brown hair and glasses wearing gray top), Assistant Professor of Political Science; Dr. Sulaimon Giwa (Black man wearing yellow shirt), Associate Professor of Social Work; and Sarah Worthman (white woman with blonde hair and glasses wearing orange/yellow top), Writer & 2SLGBTQIA Activist. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 10

🗳️Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Meet our panelists!

Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure and Resilience panel featuring:

Dr. Tolulope Akerele
Dr. Mahyar Masoudi
Luke Quinton

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code!

Happy City St. John's Municipal Election Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure, and Resilience discussion. Features three professional headshots: Dr. Tolulope Victoria Akerele (Black woman with glasses wearing black top), described as Visionary Leader, Urban Planner and Researcher; Dr. Mahyar Masoudi (man with glasses wearing blue patterned shirt), Assistant Professor in Department of Geography; and Luke Quinton (white man in red checkered shirt with arms crossed), Writer and Audio Producer. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 10

More exciting @happycitysj.bsky.social content

Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 10

🗳️Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Meet our panelists!

Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure and Resilience panel featuring:

Dr. Tolulope Akerele
Dr. Mahyar Masoudi
Luke Quinton

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code!

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · Jun 9

@owasow.bsky.social is one of the best political scientists thinking about broader impacts of protests and demonstrations on politics, in case you follow me and don't follow him.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 2

🌟 We're hiring!

Happy City seeks a Website Coordinator for Major Events - Summer 2025.

8 weeks, 35 hrs/wk, $16/hr.

Apply by June 13 at happycity.ca

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 9

@happycitysj.bsky.social has a very exciting day of discussion about municipal politics and policy challenges as a lead in to this fall's municipal elections - really looking forward to this.

Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 9

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City is hosting a Campaign School for the St. John's Municipal Election!

Keynote Speaker: Joshua Smee, CEO Food First NL

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002)
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 9

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City is hosting a Campaign School for the St. John's Municipal Election!

Keynote Speaker: Joshua Smee, CEO Food First NL

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002)
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 9

The NATO 2% goal has always been a shell game, but it is absolutely the lowest, of low hanging fruit, to fold the Coast Guard into the national defence budget (as other countries do) to substantially *increase defence spending. Maybe we could even fund effective SAR now?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney to announce Canada will meet 2% NATO spending target by March | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce that his government plans to meet the NATO benchmark target of two per cent of the country’s gross domestic product by the end of the current fiscal year ...

www.cbc.ca

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 5

Have to say, I'm pretty proud to see my work cited in this list of people - obviously this is an awesome lit review.

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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · Jun 4

2025 Vincent Lemieux🏆 winner - gagnante Congrats!!!
Meaghan Williams @uoft.bsky.social
Jury Koning @uofgpolisci.bsky.social @russellawilliams.bsky.social
MJ Zahar @umontreal.ca

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats to all the finalists - they were amazing. If you get asked to be on this jury… do it. I learned so much. And congrats to Meaghan Williams.

🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · Jun 4

2025 Vincent Lemieux🏆 winner - gagnante Congrats!!!
Meaghan Williams @uoft.bsky.social
Jury Koning @uofgpolisci.bsky.social @russellawilliams.bsky.social
MJ Zahar @umontreal.ca

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · May 28

St. John's peeps: Head's up if you are interested in the upcoming municipal elections, @happycitysj.bsky.social is hosting a campaign school for people trying to get more involved. Panels on running campaigns, policy issues confronting the city and snacks.

Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · May 26

🗳️ Happy City Campaign School for St. John's Municipal Election!

For candidates, campaign staff & anyone wanting to learn about municipal politics.

📅 June 14, 9:00 AM
📍 Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002)

📱 Register via QR code in flyer!

✨ Stay tuned for more details!

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · May 23

Total provincial funding for eduction has gone up 61% since 2014 - its largely inflation. Funding to CNA has gone down. Funding to Memorial has gone down. Apparently inflation doesn't touch post secondary education.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · May 23

Just reposting this for all my Memorial University peeps wondering why they are being asked to get rid of more people.

It’s easy. This government has other priorities. It’s a choice.

Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · Apr 9

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador's transfer to Memorial University (not including the medical school) was $371 Million in 2014. 11 years later it is $313 Million. Just ignore inflation...

You have to quite the galaxy brain to tell people you have increased the budget.

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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · May 22

I was told by the government and MUN admin that the provincial budget was good news for education and the University(?) If anyone wonders why the University is dying it’s because this gov’t is confident no one can do math.

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