@suzanneleb.bsky.social
Long time clean air advocate. Human development happens in social systems. Socialist. Love is my rudder. she/her
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Sharing this again because we need to find each other and our communities on here. 💙
We need to be connected now more than ever. 💛
If you create new starter packs, please include as many of us as possible.
go.bsky.app/KnwWePQ
We need to be connected now more than ever. 💛
If you create new starter packs, please include as many of us as possible.
go.bsky.app/KnwWePQ
November 8, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Sharing this again because we need to find each other and our communities on here. 💙
We need to be connected now more than ever. 💛
If you create new starter packs, please include as many of us as possible.
go.bsky.app/KnwWePQ
We need to be connected now more than ever. 💛
If you create new starter packs, please include as many of us as possible.
go.bsky.app/KnwWePQ
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How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy
If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.
whowhatwhy.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
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By Gini coefficient (standard statistical measure of income inequality), Canada's doing way better than the US.
US's GC is similar to Haiti & Papua New Guinea
🇨🇦 is like Norway & Sweden.
Gini Coefficient by Country 2025 share.google/zZL2Ly2fimRk...
US's GC is similar to Haiti & Papua New Guinea
🇨🇦 is like Norway & Sweden.
Gini Coefficient by Country 2025 share.google/zZL2Ly2fimRk...
Gini Coefficient by Country 2025
A brief overview of the Gini coefficient by country, providing insights on income inequality levels across various nations worldwide.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
By Gini coefficient (standard statistical measure of income inequality), Canada's doing way better than the US.
US's GC is similar to Haiti & Papua New Guinea
🇨🇦 is like Norway & Sweden.
Gini Coefficient by Country 2025 share.google/zZL2Ly2fimRk...
US's GC is similar to Haiti & Papua New Guinea
🇨🇦 is like Norway & Sweden.
Gini Coefficient by Country 2025 share.google/zZL2Ly2fimRk...
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Just gonna remind everyone who voted for this ding dong that he didn’t understand the job when he got it. And now just fragrantly says “fuck the rules”.
I can’t even believe we’re stuck with this guy for probably many many more stupid years .
I can’t even believe we’re stuck with this guy for probably many many more stupid years .
In apparent violation of public meeting rules, Mayor Andy Fillmore hosted secret meeting with councillors and Construction Association of Nova Scotia to talk regional plan
reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social
reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social
In apparent violation of public meeting rules, Mayor Andy Fillmore hosted secret meeting with councillors and Construction Association of Nova Scotia to talk regional plan - Halifax Examiner
Coun. Sam Austin expressed concerns with that meeting, saying while he thought the intentions were "good," he asked if the invitation was the "epitome of a backroom meeting?"
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just gonna remind everyone who voted for this ding dong that he didn’t understand the job when he got it. And now just fragrantly says “fuck the rules”.
I can’t even believe we’re stuck with this guy for probably many many more stupid years .
I can’t even believe we’re stuck with this guy for probably many many more stupid years .
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6 years of Covid and while it obviously bothers me that it is still around, I mean yeah the world changes sometimes, that is life/nature/existence for ya, the thing that bothers me more is that as a species we refused to willingly change with it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
6 years of Covid and while it obviously bothers me that it is still around, I mean yeah the world changes sometimes, that is life/nature/existence for ya, the thing that bothers me more is that as a species we refused to willingly change with it.
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@landofsticks.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social It is difficult to prove wish income assistance recipients in NS fits where. See this BLOG for why. worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/deba...
Debating Statistics on Social Isolation is a Distraction
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@landofsticks.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social It is difficult to prove wish income assistance recipients in NS fits where. See this BLOG for why. worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/deba...
Kendall’s perspective is always one to notice.
@landofsticks.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social @unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social In this BLOG post here worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... I provide an update on the Halifax Homeless Situation.
The housing market in Halifax takes a Turn for the worse.
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Kendall’s perspective is always one to notice.
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@landofsticks.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social @unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social In this BLOG post here worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... I provide an update on the Halifax Homeless Situation.
The housing market in Halifax takes a Turn for the worse.
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@landofsticks.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social @unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social In this BLOG post here worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... I provide an update on the Halifax Homeless Situation.
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Let this short thread radicalize you.
Normand Meunier is a Canadian man with quadriplegia who accessed MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being left for 96 hours on a stretcher in the ER.
His requests for a specialized mattress were denied.
He wasn't turned regularly.
He developed bed sores so bad, he opted to end his life.
His requests for a specialized mattress were denied.
He wasn't turned regularly.
He developed bed sores so bad, he opted to end his life.
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Let this short thread radicalize you.
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@suzanneleb.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @landofsticks.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social @unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social The start of December is still a week away. I am sharing this today as it never early to prepare. worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Feelings of Coming Into the Month of December 2025
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
@suzanneleb.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @landofsticks.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social @unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social The start of December is still a week away. I am sharing this today as it never early to prepare. worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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From the UK’s governmental COVID inquiry. Pay attention Canada. Please spread this message and hold Canadian decision makers and communicators accountable too. @ipaccanada.bsky.social @govnb.bsky.social
12.40: "... government messaging in all four nations focused for too long on handwashing and failed adequately to communicate the risks associated with airborne transmission."
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsAirborne
Modules 2, 2A, 2B, 2C - Core decision-making and political governance - Volume II - UK Covid-19 Inquiry
The independent public inquiry to examine the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK
covid19.public-inquiry.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
From the UK’s governmental COVID inquiry. Pay attention Canada. Please spread this message and hold Canadian decision makers and communicators accountable too. @ipaccanada.bsky.social @govnb.bsky.social
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« I have coworkers who are homeless, who live in their cars or sleep on friends’ couches, because they aren’t being paid enough to afford rent,” CUPE 1259 President Dawn Vardy said. These are long term care workers, severely underpaid. An essential public service. #nspoli @cupens.bsky.social
Union filing for conciliation as long term care talks with province break down
The union representing some long term care workers is beginning the process of filing for conciliation as it says talks broke down on Monday with the provincial government. In a news release, CUPE say...
halifax.citynews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
« I have coworkers who are homeless, who live in their cars or sleep on friends’ couches, because they aren’t being paid enough to afford rent,” CUPE 1259 President Dawn Vardy said. These are long term care workers, severely underpaid. An essential public service. #nspoli @cupens.bsky.social
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«Canada should engage in a proper reckoning by developing real in-house expertise to regulate Big Tech. Adopting measures like reviving expert councils, launching proper public consultations, and fixing loopholes in transparency and accountability»
Solid oped.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Opinion: Canada’s digital sovereignty is crumbling under aggressive U.S. lobbying
After years of insisting Big Tech has to support domestic content, Ottawa is in retreat
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
«Canada should engage in a proper reckoning by developing real in-house expertise to regulate Big Tech. Adopting measures like reviving expert councils, launching proper public consultations, and fixing loopholes in transparency and accountability»
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Excellent public health messaging from New York City!!
Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.
How can you do that?
Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.
It’ll help keep you and your community safe.
Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.
How can you do that?
Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.
It’ll help keep you and your community safe.
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Excellent public health messaging from New York City!!
Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.
How can you do that?
Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.
It’ll help keep you and your community safe.
Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.
How can you do that?
Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.
It’ll help keep you and your community safe.
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@unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social Hello, I am a local Poverty advocate here in Halifax Nova Scotia. Please see this BLOG post here worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... For your interest and information.
The Christmas Wish List 2025
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social Hello, I am a local Poverty advocate here in Halifax Nova Scotia. Please see this BLOG post here worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... For your interest and information.
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"We wish for the N.S. government to do better. In 2026 provide people on Income Assistance a much more substantial living allowance, than we received in 2025!
...For some sort of mental health service to become available over the actual 2 weeks of Christmas..."
...For some sort of mental health service to become available over the actual 2 weeks of Christmas..."
@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social It is my pleasure to bring you this worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... As the upcoming Christmas season approaches us.
The Christmas Wish List 2025
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"We wish for the N.S. government to do better. In 2026 provide people on Income Assistance a much more substantial living allowance, than we received in 2025!
...For some sort of mental health service to become available over the actual 2 weeks of Christmas..."
...For some sort of mental health service to become available over the actual 2 weeks of Christmas..."
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This is not a drill: Sandy Lake's future may be decided in the coming days.
If we want a say in the future of our communities, we need to show up.
HRM Open House re: Sandy Lake is TONIGHT: engagehalifax.ca/sandy-lake-s...
This is our chance to defend our right to shape the communities we live in.
If we want a say in the future of our communities, we need to show up.
HRM Open House re: Sandy Lake is TONIGHT: engagehalifax.ca/sandy-lake-s...
This is our chance to defend our right to shape the communities we live in.
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is not a drill: Sandy Lake's future may be decided in the coming days.
If we want a say in the future of our communities, we need to show up.
HRM Open House re: Sandy Lake is TONIGHT: engagehalifax.ca/sandy-lake-s...
This is our chance to defend our right to shape the communities we live in.
If we want a say in the future of our communities, we need to show up.
HRM Open House re: Sandy Lake is TONIGHT: engagehalifax.ca/sandy-lake-s...
This is our chance to defend our right to shape the communities we live in.
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In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital.
During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.
During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.
April 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital.
During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.
During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.
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@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social Here is my Latest and I recommend reading this one worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... as it touches on no Increase in the CDB.
The Recent Federal Budget Came as a Disappointment to the Disability Community
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November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social Here is my Latest and I recommend reading this one worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... as it touches on no Increase in the CDB.
When you build up communities you don’t need more police.
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
When you build up communities you don’t need more police.
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Remember last November when he shamed a school principal? Is he going to pull similar stunts every Remembrance Day?
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/so-youve-bee...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/so-youve-bee...
So, you’ve been publicly shamed by Tim Houston. Good leadership doesn’t inflame rage online - Halifax Examiner
By Suzanne Rent This item originally appeared as VIEWS in Morning File, November 14, 2024 A week ago today, Premier Tim Houston took to social media to call an elementary school principal a coward. If...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Remember last November when he shamed a school principal? Is he going to pull similar stunts every Remembrance Day?
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/so-youve-bee...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/so-youve-bee...
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@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social For my Latest on the Import issues I report on see worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-i...
On “Inappropriate” Body Language and Encounters with Security Guards
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social For my Latest on the Import issues I report on see worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-i...
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In many places, these covenants banning multi-unit housing served to perpetuate exclusion and class segregation after racially discriminatory clauses became unenforcable. They continue to keep apartment dwellers out of some of Halifax's most walkable, centrally located neighbourhoods.
As Halifax deals with a housing crisis, some of the wealthiest Haligonians have a different concern. Residents of some south-end peninsula neighbourhoods are concerned about “losing single-family density”
(Aside: I would definitely not call these the “final” hurdles to development)
(Aside: I would definitely not call these the “final” hurdles to development)
Halifax has removed the final hurdle to development in some areas — and neighbours are fighting back | CBC News
A wealthy Halifax neighbourhood with tree-lined streets and grand homes on the Northwest Arm has become one of the latest battlegrounds in the city’s push to build more housing.
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In many places, these covenants banning multi-unit housing served to perpetuate exclusion and class segregation after racially discriminatory clauses became unenforcable. They continue to keep apartment dwellers out of some of Halifax's most walkable, centrally located neighbourhoods.
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@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social
See here for an important open letter I had written worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-o... with addressing important issues.
See here for an important open letter I had written worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-o... with addressing important issues.
An Open Letter to Minister Barbara Adams
worthmatters.blogspot.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@adsumforwomen.bsky.social @sujo.bsky.social @girlfriday.bsky.social @writenrun.bsky.social @cisp-icps.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social @stillots1.bsky.social
See here for an important open letter I had written worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-o... with addressing important issues.
See here for an important open letter I had written worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-o... with addressing important issues.