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Suzanne Rent
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Award-winning investigative journalist with the Halifax Examiner. Horsewoman. Birder. Opinions expressed here are my own.

Also writing as A Difficult Woman: https://suzannerent.substack.com/
Faith is a Bird: https://faithisabird.substack.com/

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · Mar 12
This took me some courage to write but here’s a new post on my newsletter.

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When the mean girls grow up
Sometimes a woman's worst enemy is another woman.
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This morning when I learned it snowed, I decided to go to Miners Marsh in Kentville. It was lovely with all the snow-covered trees and brush. It also made for nice background for these female and male cardinals. #birds #NovaScotia #wildlife
Bullrushes and evergreen trees covered in snow surround a cold and icy looking marsh pond. Three laden with snow along a gravel pathway in a small town park. There's a wooden bench in the background that's also covered with snow. A bright red male cardinal with a black mask, red beak, and red crest on its head sits on a snow covered branch of a tree. A female cardinal with a red crest and red wings, beige body, an orange-red beak sits on a branch among brush with leaves and red berries.
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I am tired of the doomerism on the left. Fight and be hopeful and optimistic about what can be done.
nikitagill.bsky.social Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Excellent piece: "A journalist doing her job can survive an insult and often put that insult to use in her work."
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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!!!! #squirrel #nature #wildlife
An albino squirrel with all white fur and a fluffy white tail and red eyes sits on top of a boulder contemplating if it will eat seeds from a woman’s hand. It didn’t
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Here's the agenda for #Halifax regional council's meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

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Halifax Regional Council - December 02, 2025
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November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Rent
halifaxexaminer.ca
Why the Halifax Examiner published a month-long series on ‘AI’

Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
Why the Halifax Examiner published a month-long series on 'AI' - Halifax Examiner
Countering all this takes independent and scrappy news publications that remain true to the values of holding the powerful to account.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Halifax staff identify 22 buildings on Dalhousie’s campus for heritage designation

Story by me

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Halifax staff identify 22 buildings on Dalhousie's campus for heritage designation - Halifax Examiner
A staff report on buildings went to the heritage advisory committee's meeting on Wednesday.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Colchester’s Rath athletic complex mired in controversy

Story by @dartjenhen.bsky.social

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Lots of questions still unanswered in this bonkers tale
Colchester's Rath athletic complex mired in controversy - Halifax Examiner
Nova Scotia’s minister of Municipal Affairs has been asked to investigate a controversial decision by the municipality of Colchester to terminate the operating agreement for the Rath Eastlink Communit...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Birds=happiness.
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 1d
"You seem happier"

Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Evergreen post.
espiers.bsky.social Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d
Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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You know what real leadership looks like? Paying your staff a living wage, benefits, and vacation time.
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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A friend sent me this photo with this message: “I know who you are, Suzanne. Mary Poppins.”
A screenshot of the movie Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews,, a smiling white woman with her dark hair in an updo, holding a red breasted robin on the top of her hand.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Shawn Cleary wants Halifax to gather more data on effectiveness of speed display signs

Story by me

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Shawn Cleary wants Halifax to gather more data on effectiveness of speed display signs - Halifax Examiner
A report on the speed display signs went to the transportation standing committee meeting on Thursday.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Oh boy.
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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NSLC will sell of its remaining stock of U.S. booze and give the net profits to Feed Nova Scotia and other community food programs. #NovaScotia

news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/11/2...
Province to Sell Remaining U.S. Alcohol
news.novascotia.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Look at this sweet male downy woodpecker that visited this morning. #birds #nature #wildlife #NovaScotia
A sweet male downy woodpecker with a white belly and throat, black back and wings with white spots, black and white stripes on its head with a tuft of bright red feathers on top. The bird is sitting on a wooden railing soaked after a rainfall.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A new level of #bird watching.
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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In today's Morning File, news on Dartmouth Cove, libraries in Nova Scotia, and Tim Houston seeking a third term.

I did an interview with Angela Misri, a journalist, author of seven books, an associate journalism prof about AI in newsrooms.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
'All of us are looking for the truth': What a Canadian journalist learned about AI in newsrooms - Halifax Examiner
Angela Misri talks about a study she researched with fellow professors, Nicole Blanchette and April Lindgren, from Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Journalism.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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What I do while writing Morning File.
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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My daughter the funeral director has made plans for my remains (when the time comes). An urn of my ashes will be in an indoor niche next to another niche where her and her boyfriend’s remains will be (eventually).

“You’ll be next door but will have your own space!” she told me.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This story has been updated with a response from Katie McIntyre Mills, one of the founders of Save #DartmouthCove

#NovaScotia
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Nova Scotia approves Halifax’s amended bylaw for Dartmouth Cove, with provisions

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www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...
Nova Scotia approves Halifax's amended bylaw for Dartmouth Cove, with provisions - Halifax Examiner
Minister of Municipal Affairs John A. MacDonald released his decision on Wednesday.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: #NovaScotia has approved HRM's bylaw on #DartmouthCove

news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/11/2...
Minister Approves HRM’s Planning Changes for Dartmouth Cove With Amendments
news.novascotia.ca
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Here's the Halifax Examiner's AI policy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Giving money to people IS politically palatable. It depends on who's receiving the money. Some white grifter with big talk and ideas gets money!

Everyday people who need food and shelter? No money for you! Giving everyday people money would have huge immediate, generational, and societal impacts.
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d
People need food. Market won’t provide it. The government can. The government should.
stewartdompe.bsky.social stewartdompe.bsky.social @stewartdompe.bsky.social · 3d
People needing food does not necessarily imply government run grocery stores. Just as it does not imply government owned bakeries or millers or wheat fields.

Direct cash transfers are strong as a policy but not politically palatable.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM