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Anne Carbert
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Here for informed views on the polycrisis & voices for justice, action, hope, & care … plus sharing some art & natural beauty!

Ontario transplant living in Cumberland NS, Mi’kma’ki
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There are alternatives to the austerity budget. We HAVE to stop giving handouts to the wealthy and a free pass to polluters while making everyone else pay the price while inequality spirals out of control.

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Alternative federal budget 2026: Taxation | CCPA
What the Canadian government should do on taxation. Because true independence needs a new economic model.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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If Tim Houston is so concerned about democracy, he’d sit in the legislature for more than eight days, wouldn’t override decisions of Halifax regional council, would talk with reporters, and wouldn’t consider giving part of a provincial park to a private developer for a golf course.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I dealt with a lot of fossil-fuel propaganda in my book, but the lie that “by doing what we’re already doing we’ve avoided the bad outcomes” has in the past two years turned out to be the most popular and the most pernicious of all the disinformation I discussed.
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM