98 library staff positions at risk. Council votes March 31. Email your councillor in 60 seconds.

Although there’s uncertainty around her future as a school librarian, Kristin Welbourn is certain of one fact: she loves her job.

“HRM has made the decision that they will no longer be funding librarians in schools” This quote, although not a word for word transcription, was posted on social media this past weekend by Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Brendan Maguire in response to questions being raised by school librarians in Halifax. At issue was a fairly robust rumour that, amid the current round of budgeting decisions, Halifax City Council was looking at changing the way it provides supplemental funding for HRCE schools.

Well, the hits just keep on coming. As the world watches on with a mix of idolization, awe, revulsion, and fear (political stripe depending), US President Donald Trump and his band of billionaire merry men have continued their blitzkrieg on the very foundations upon which their country was built: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the ideal of a government "Of the people, by the people, and for the people."