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Husband & father. Joined 20 Oct 2024 “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito". I retweet interesting. Reposts do not mean I agree.

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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 4h
What Cornell's alleged rape case and the Hockey Canada trial's striking parallels reveal Prosecutors have reopened Cornell 7 investigation after lawsuit filed by Jane Doe www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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What 'Cornell 7' and 'Hockey Canada 5' assault cases reveal about consent and trauma | CBC News
Several legal experts note there are some striking similarities between the alleged gang rape case unfolding at Cornell University this week and last year's Hockey Canada sexual assault trial in Lond...
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 14h
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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🇨🇦 Novid Scotia @novidscotia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine if Pierre Poilievre were doing everything Carney is doing right now. BlueSky Libs would be crashing out.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 01/10/2026
Buy Canadian? BC Ferries might soon be buying fuel from an American-owned company — with strong ties to U.S. President Donald Trump and the governing Republicans. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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BC Ferries Heads to $1.3-Billion Deal with US-Owned Fuel Supplier | The Tyee
Despite Eby’s ‘buy Canadian’ focus, a firm with MAGA connections is the likely contract winner.
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Domtar, previously known as Paper Excellence, is working on scamming @governmentofbc.bsky.social so it can reopen a mill. They are part of the complicated and opaque multi-billion-dollar corporate empire of Sinar Mas www.coastreporter.net/local-news/h...
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
‘Left me there like trash’: Sainte-Anne students, staff, say university has failed to properly address sexual assault on campus by Yvette d'Entremont
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'Left me there like trash': Sainte-Anne students, staff, say university has failed to properly addre...
Two of the students behind a campaign calling on Université Sainte-Anne’s administration to address campus rape culture said they’re raising awareness to protect others and facilitate change. “...
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Generally @nsgov staff does not provide much info when asked a question. Why? "… are not permitted to send info directly to the public. This is done through the FOIPOP process to protect private information belonging to the Approval Holder" @privacylawyer.ca what can "Approval Holder" keep secret?
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, Europe is increasingly dependent on US after banning Russian imports … and after the US-Israeli war against Iran"
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US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face export ban — Reuters
The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, said three people close to t...
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what we’ve normalized. Playing candy crush or whatever while operating heavy machinery capable of ending lives and leaving a wake of trauma.
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Truck driver sentenced to 6 years for causing deadly pile-up near Montreal while playing cellphone game
An Ontario truck driver who admitted to playing a game on his cellphone while driving and causing a deadly, seven-car pileup near Montreal has been sentenced to six years in prison.
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Apparently Halifax is a major grain handling port. Yet 40% of its business is wood pellets - NS forests shipped to Europe www.producer.com/news/halifax...
producer.com
Halifax elevator wants to handle more Western Canadian grain
The Halifax Grain Elevator buys milling wheat from Western Canada and stores it for the P&H flour mill located next door.
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eliminate NIMBY, use MOBILE methane gas peaker plants. The systems can provide either temporary or permanent power. Another BS solution interestingengineering.com/energy/sieme...
interestingengineering.com
119 gas turbines to bring 1.7 GW of mobile power to US data centers
Siemens Energy will supply 119 gas turbine cores for mobile power systems delivering more than 1.7 GW in the US.
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We [NorthStar] are not accusing anyone of RETALIATION or suggesting that we know why these events occurred in this sequence. We do not know. That is precisely why we are asking the province to explain it,” @nsgov.bsky.social www.pictouadvocate.com/news/blindsi...
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin's puppet the Orange Ape comes thru again www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
aljazeera.com
Indian firm building $15bn Trump-announced steel mill has deep Russia ties
Russian cash helped Essar, the firm behind the steel factory, manage major debts. Now the group's investing in the US.
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Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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How Nova Scotia became one of Canada's most expensive rental markets | CBC News
Real estate watchers in Nova Scotia say rapidly rising rental prices show no sign of slowing down. They point to various factors, ranging from lack of tenant protections to high operating and construc...
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-year-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept that she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?”
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Ghoul Friday 👻 @girlfriday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He’s the most difficult child I’ve raised. He was upset that I called EHS - but guess who was right??! Me. I was. Maybe he’ll listen to me from now on? Probably not. But maybe.
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Claudia Chender @claudiachenderns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People deserve to see the plan to keep emergency rooms open and lower wait times. But so far, this government hasn't been able to provide it. Years of spending and a record-setting deficit later and the results—and answers—aren't there.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026
If the purpose of a customer service department is to tell people to go fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of delivering the service. 25/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026
Just as every aviation CEO should be required to fly basic coach at least one out of three flights (and one of two long-haul flights). 9/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026
Zitron's stunt stuck with me because it's so simple and so apt. Every tech designer should be forced to use a stock configuration Acer Aspire 1 for a minimum of three hours/day. 8/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026
"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn't want to do this in the first place and we don't care if it's done well." 21/
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wind turbines reduce radar coverage by 7% and increase blind spots by 15%, study finds Large offshore wind arrays may interfere with coastal radar, reducing coverage and generating misleading “ghost” vessels interestingengineering.com/innovation/w...
interestingengineering.com
Wind turbines cut radar coverage by 7%, boost blind spots by 15%: Study
New study finds that offshore wind farms can create radar blind spots and false targets, making ships harder to track near busy coastlines.
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Discussion poster as seen in Vancouver.
A black-and-white poster on the city pole that says Community can we have a safe route for our kids to walk back to school 
City: no a driver might get mad
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
MLB signs more international players from the Dominican Republic than any other country. Despite widespread acknowledgement that Dominican baseball needs to be overhauled, the industry has only gotten worse. Read the full story:
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How the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False Promises
Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
There’s an open secret in Major League Baseball: MLB teams routinely make handshake deals with young Dominican players, an informal system that has created perfect market conditions for predatory moneylenders. Watch @ggarciaroberts.bsky.social break down his investigation 👇
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey @bluejays.com 50:00 draw foundation: Why $59 million cash on hand at the end of last year from $64 million total revenue? @sportsnetpr.bsky.social
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Does anyone know how to login into CBC Gem? I'm stuck on the update profile page. And yes my email login and password are correct. If I choose Forget my Password it tells me they are correct.
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jgreenwood @jpgreenwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This interview on CBC’s The Current this week brought me to tears 💛 I’d love for EVERYONE to listen to it. 🙏🫀🫶
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you ok with this @ianhanomansing.bsky.social ? If not, it's time to speak up publically
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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🇨🇦 Novid Scotia @novidscotia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are you a crony capitalist? A member of the Epstein Class? Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has a bridge to sell you! ...no, really. yourhalifaxnow.ca/liberals-pus...
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Liberals pushing for answers on cost of replacing MacKay Bridge in Halifax - Your Halifax Now
We are just less than 15 years away from needing to replace the MacKay Bridge and the Liberals are grilling the Houston government for answers on how it would
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is an amazing interview
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels 🇨🇦 Food Inspection (CFIA) gives them a free pass re fungicides and insecticides www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Orange Ape has long coveted the oilfields of other nations and declared an agreement with Venezuela to be “the biggest oil deal in world history”. But the agreement is almost certainly doomed to collapse amid a wide array of legal and logistical issues, a Guardian investigation has found
theguardian.com
The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“If homes were able to be found in three months, it would have happened long before,” What's next Premier Houston - Euthenize these Nova Scotians after 3 months of support? www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
‘IT WILL BE COMPLETE CHAOS’
Northstar claims funding cut after refusal to kick out resident

by AARON BESWICK

The executive director of a New Glasgow homeless shelter says its funding was cut a day after refusing a provincial government demand to kick out a man who had served time for a crime against a prominent Pictou County family.

“He had just been released from corrections regarding a situation involving an influential family in Pictou County; he’s a senior, he’d served his time and we haven’t had any trouble with him,” said Lisa Deyoung, executive director of Northstar Shelter and Support Services.
“They asked us to throw him out on the street. WE ASKED THEM TO MAKE THE REQUEST IN AN EMAIL rather than over the phone. THEY WOULDN’T DO THAT. We refused to kick him out, and the next day our funding was cut.”

In response to a request from The Chronicle Herald regarding whether this is true, the Department of Opportunities and Social Development issued a written response saying it cannot comment on the “circumstances of an individual accessing shelter services.”

The statement continued: "Work to strengthen emergency shelter services and expand housing and support options in Pictou County has been well underway for some time. The safety and well-being of Nova Scotians and communities will always be a priority as we do this work. As part of that broader work, an expression of interest for a new service model was announced (Wednesday).

“The decision is not connected to any one individual or incident. As that work moves forward, the province will continue to put the safety and well-being of Nova Scotians and communities first.”
The department issued a news release Wednesday stating that the shelter’s funding would end in 90 days.

“Provincial funding for the New Glasgow shelter, operated by Northstar, will end following a 90-day transition period,” reads the release.“A transition team of outreach workers and professionals experienced in complex case management will…
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chronicle Herald - New Glasgow homeless shelter claims funding cut a day after it refused to kick out resident who committed crime against 'influential family in Pictou County' #NorthStar #ViolasPlace www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
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New Glasgow homeless shelter claims funding cut a day after it refused to kick out resident who committed crime against 'influential family in Pictou County'
The executive director of a New Glasgow homeless shelter says her funding was cut a day after refusing a provincial government demand to kick out a man who’d served time for a crime against a prominen...
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Angela Capobianco @ange-sometimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Nova Scotian women are asking for more accessible pre-natal and postpartum mental health supports. With 49% of women nationwide saying they’ve experienced perinatal mental health concerns, one advocate says more screening is needed. globalnews.ca/news/1207221...
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Nova Scotian mothers bring attention to perinatal mental health care, call for more resources - Halifax | Globalnews.ca
Two Nova Scotian mothers are speaking out about their experience with prenatal and postpartum anxiety and depression.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Deference was deafening as US president rolled out red carpet for world’s biggest jailer of journalists – perhaps he was seeking tips
theguardian.com
Trump swoons over strongman soulmate Xi – are you feeling jealous, Vladimir?
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Premier Houston's @nsgov.bsky.social evicting homeless Nova Scotians at Xmas. No plans until April. Winter in a tent Perhaps New Glasgow will offer bus tickets to homeless www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That was 2023, before PMJT left he put in a change that they had to follow, it’s taking time for the grocers to make it
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Nova Scotia Energy Board @nsenergyboard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As of Sep. 23, 2026, the minimum price of diesel in Halifax, Hants, and part of Colchester counties (Zone 1) is 268.3 cents/L, down 5.6 cents/L from the previous period. The price of gasoline is unchanged. See the full price schedule here: nserbt.ca/sites/defaul...
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is fascism.
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While these seniors were being arrested for trying to show MPs photos of the ravages of the fossil-fuel-driven climate crisis, Carney’s “Liberal” minions were pushing a bill removing environmental and climate protections to enable pipelines and other massively destructive projects. It is to weep.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Carn(ey)age. Rolling back a half century of progress in environmental and climate protection. For what? Oh right, profits for the already very fucking rich & some jobs in the extractive sector, while the rest of us are fucked by climate, ecological and democracy’s collapse. Danger: Banker At Work.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the actual "launchpad", photo within, is hilarious
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