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Tim Houston - Premier of Nova Scotia Parody @dimhouston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay look. The @nsgeu.bsky.social TV commercial for Tim Houston’s Careless House of Cuts is appalling. It would be an absolute shame if it kept getting more traction. Do not share this! Bad! youtu.be/C1Dj8JU04FA
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Tim Houston's Careless House of Cuts!
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Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is unprecedented in NS. I do not recall a mass ban on protesters in my 30 years at Province House - the “people’s house”. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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36 people banned from N.S. Legislature for protest over budget cuts | CBC News
People who were present or participated in a protest that shut down Province House in March are now facing bans from the legislature's grounds.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 16/07/2026
Nova Scotians respond to European-style austerity with European-style protest
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Nova Scotians respond to European-style austerity with European-style protest
WOLFVILLE, NS - Police were summoned to Acadia University on Wednesday afternoon, after demonstrators voicing displeasure with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston’s European-style austerity measures opted...
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Halifax’s CFO said legal expenses from Mayor Andy Fillmore’s office ‘could be deemed fraudulent’ Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
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Halifax's CFO said legal expenses from Mayor Andy Fillmore's office 'could be deemed fraudulent' - Halifax Examiner
Concerns about legal expenses filed by mayor's office were first flagged in February.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 03/07/2026
Add your name to tell Prime Minister Carney to protect our future over Big Oil profits: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/06/2026
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...
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Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe
The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If you watch one thing today make it this. Absolutely phenomenal debunking of the idea that social media and cell phones are causing a youth mental health crisis, and who that false narrative ultimately serves
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What we're getting wrong about teens and tech
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 24/06/2026
A little-known advocacy organization founded by some of the richest people in the country has big ambitions to radically change Canada. Christopher Holcroft explains. #canpoli
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Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs | The Tyee
Build Canada’s advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 30/05/2026
"When the majority of residents have limited political rights and little formal influence over urban policy, the question of representation becomes inseparable from the question of design." Erick Villagomez reviews a new book edited by two Vancouver urban planners. 🏙️ thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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When Urban Planning Works Too Well | The Tyee
The conditions that make it effective are not always the ones that make it democratic.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
to wit, there are a lot more things that should be government services and “money-losing.“ Internet. Cell phone service. Higher education. Health insurance. all could be free. Not being free is a choice
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
CANADIANS Please consider signing Elizabeth May's petition to have the federal government recognize endometriosis and adenomyosis as part of the disability law in Canada. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-6929 - Petitions
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/03/2026
We deserve better trains
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2025
Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push aje.io/7xi4oe
Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/12/2025
Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.
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‘Result of aid obstruction': Gaza storm passes, misery remains as 14 killed
Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2025
For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
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Gaza's displaced face storm disaster with almost nothing
For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2025
LIVE: At least 10 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm aje.io/jj1ljm
LIVE: At least 10 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2025
ICC judges stoic in face of US sanctions over Israeli war crimes cases aje.io/evaca4
ICC judges stoic in face of US sanctions over Israeli war crimes cases
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2025
Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.
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Israel bombards areas across southern Lebanon in latest truce violation
Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/12/2025
Israel has kept attacking Gaza during the first phase, so what will the second phase bring?
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Are Israel, Hamas entering the second phase of the ceasefire?
Israel has kept attacking Gaza during the first phase, so what will the second phase bring?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/12/2025
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
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Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/12/2025
“Gaza now hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history.” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7eexx4
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/12/2025
This three-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza celebrated her birthday on the rubble of what was once her home.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/11/2025
BREAKING: Israeli forces have stormed the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, report our colleagues on the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oapeu6
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/11/2025
Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.
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Israel escalates aerial assault of southern, central Gaza past yellow line
Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/11/2025
BREAKING: Israel has killed 20 Palestinians, including four children, and injured 83 others in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/73c1bj
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/11/2025
BREAKING: The death toll in Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire began has risen to 318 Palestinians after seven more bodies were brought to hospitals across the enclave in the past 48 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gsnkj
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/11/2025
Surveillance video shows a group of Israeli settlers as they attacked and set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of al-Jaba in the Bethlehem area of the occupied West Bank.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/11/2025
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
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Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/11/2025
BREAKING: At least three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex has told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/yi35jt
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/11/2025
BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/11/2025
Despite the ceasefire, Israel’s strikes and severe restrictions on aid leave Gaza’s civilians struggling to survive.
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Palestinians face hunger, cold and loss amid ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza
Despite the ceasefire, Israel’s strikes and severe restrictions on aid leave Gaza’s civilians struggling to survive.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/11/2025
Despite the ceasefire, Israel’s attacks on Gaza and severe restrictions on aid leave Palestinians struggling to survive aje.io/iwge48
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/11/2025
Israeli strikes on Gaza this week have killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier.
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Deadly Israeli attacks shake Gaza ceasefire as more bodies exchanged
Israeli strikes on Gaza this week have killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/10/2025
Palestinians mourned 15-year-old Yamen Samed Hamed, killed in an Israeli raid on Thursday in the occupied West Bank town of Silwad. Israeli forces reportedly blocked an ambulance from initially reaching the boy injured in the raid that used live rounds, tear gas, and stun grenades.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/10/2025
Candidate Kat Abughazaleh decried the charges as 'political prosecution' amid a Trump standoff with Democratic cities.
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US Democratic congressional candidate indicted for Chicago ICE protest
Candidate Kat Abughazaleh decried the charges as 'political prosecution' amid a Trump standoff with Democratic cities.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/10/2025
Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have faced a wave of Israeli settler violence as they try to reach their olive groves. Here are the latest figures from UN OCHA 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/yo5bqd ⤵️
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/10/2025
Trump orders US Defense Department to 'immediately' resume nuclear weapons testing on 'equal basis' with other powers.
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Trump says US to resume nuclear weapons tests, backs S Korean nuclear sub
Trump orders US Defense Department to 'immediately' resume nuclear weapons testing on 'equal basis' with other powers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/10/2025
Mediators insist truce is strong after Israel kills over 100 people, mostly children, before 'returning' to ceasefire.
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‘Calm turns to despair’ in Gaza as Israeli strikes shake hope in ceasefire
Mediators insist truce is strong after Israel kills over 100 people, mostly children, before 'returning' to ceasefire.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/10/2025
BREAKING: A 9-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed and three others injured when a war-damaged building belonging to the Balawi family collapsed on its residents in the Sabra neighbourhood in southern Gaza City. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/6xxw6m
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/10/2025
BREAKING: At least four Palestinians have been injured following an Israeli air attack on a car in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, al-Awda Hospital told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/b2212k
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/10/2025
Israeli authorities are refusing to let in 600 aid trucks per day as specified in ceasefire deal, UN official says.
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UN again calls on Israel to open Gaza’s Rafah crossing, stop blocking aid
Israeli authorities are refusing to let in 600 aid trucks per day as specified in ceasefire deal, UN official says.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/10/2025
Israel targets bus in Gaza City's Zeitoun, killing 11 family members, as Palestinians wait for Rafah crossing to open.
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Israel kills 28 in Gaza since ceasefire, Hamas urges accountability
Israel targets bus in Gaza City's Zeitoun, killing 11 family members, as Palestinians wait for Rafah crossing to open.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)
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Nova Scotia is practically giving away 'some of the purest water in Canada' - Halifax Examiner
Every year, two corporations withdraw hundreds of millions of litres of groundwater from wells in Colchester County. They bottle the water — which the companies market as “pristine” and “some of the p...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/10/2025
BREAKING: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire east of Gaza’s Khan Younis amid the first phase of the ceasefire, according to sources at Nasser Medical Complex. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ttcve3
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/10/2025
BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n
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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
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Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.
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Kepheus Ikarius @kepheusikarius.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
And here's our budding little dictator Timmy hanging with the cool kids instead of in the legislature. We told him that Doug kid was trouble, but would he listen? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News
Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/10/2025
BREAKING: Israeli forces have opened fire on a young Palestinian man near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/72upo8
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/10/2025
The Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza.
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Israeli military intercepts Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessels: Report
The Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/10/2025
Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza as ceasefire talks enter third day
Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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