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Leslie Allen @cozywitch.bsky.social · 3h

As far as I'm concerned, this is a point of no return for journalism in Nova Scotia. The moment throwing out reporters becomes normalized, is the moment we accept that we don't need the powerful to answer questions they don't want to have asked. We cannot let this go unanswered.

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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder that Anthropic is on the hook for $1.5 billion in a class action lawsuit for training Claude on the stolen works of authors like me, and they’re also being sued by music publishers for copyright theft.

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 3h

"The ejection of reporters from a major public policy announcement is an assault on journalism and undermines the independence of a free press, a Charter right."

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3h

An open letter to Premier Tim Houston and MPs Kody Blois and Mike Kelloway From me, publisher of the Halifax Examiner

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An open letter to Premier Tim Houston and MPs Kody Blois and Mike Kelloway - Halifax Examiner

The treatment of Ms. Henderson and Ms. Baxter is outrageous.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, it was only a decision to not repair our '07 Outback. I think we'll try over the winter with bus, walking, Uber, and Communauto and see how we do. We're in a pretty great location to try!

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 5h

Adjusting to life without a car. Thinking every car trip is kind of the same? At the bus stop today, a man stood on the other side of the street for the longest time giving me the finger. Later, a woman maybe from Syria sat beside me and told me about her day and we had a truly lovely conversation

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Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social · 10h

Any company that wants to do business in NS should be open to scrutiny and criticism. If they are not, ask yourself why not?

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 8h

We're not in this business to be stenographers. We dig in deep and ask the hard questions. Please subscribe so we can keep asking.

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Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social · 10h

This is NOT normal. I cannot think of anything like it in the 40 years I reported. (Including 30 covering NS politics). No Nova Scotia should be ok with this.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Public Health is finally communicating the heart & stroke risks long associated with Covid infection "Evidence shows these immunizations may also help reduce the risk of serious heart- and stroke-related complications that can occur after respiratory infections." news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/10/0...

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Vaccines Available as Respiratory Illness Season Approaches

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Halifax Regional Municipality @hfxgov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Voluntary Vulnerable Persons Registry (VVPR) helps emergency responders identify and assist residents with mobility challenges, medical conditions or disabilities during a crisis. Be prepared this hurricane season – if you or a loved one would benefit from the VVPR, learn more at halifax.ca/VVPR

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sam can weigh pros & cons, & come to that conclusion from his position of wealth, privilege, & safety. The rest of us can also weigh pros & cons, & come to our own conclusions. I, for instance, like to consider the consequences for the most vulnerable among us & the motives of those who push AI.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And because the adult population was generally immune, the risk to others was much lower then. Certainly it's very different now. I mostly see the pre-vaccine moms who did this as just trying to be good moms. I'd be interested to know what advice they had from their GPs.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I was little, I was invited next door to try to infect the neighbour's daughter. Her mom was specifically concerned about her ability to have babies. It was weird for me. But I kind of get it. Pre-vaccine moms couldn't control infection so they tried to control the timing to mitigate risks.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

today's essential read for all Canadians. "the government’s huge subsidization of this project – up to 90 % of a $40B pipeline with ownership split evenly between Ottawa and Edmonton – lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: FFs aren’t just losing to clean energy. They’ve lost."

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Is it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?

Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost

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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're gonna need to get really cool with queer stuff really fast.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Important. I'm not sure what will change without asking why the system has tolerated >30% of students not meeting its own outcomes year after year, decade after decade. It can turn into generations. There's a strong expectation that bureaucratic wheels turn. I'd like to see more transparency.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

REcommendation: AB’s health + OHS must adopt the precautionary principle when responding to new respiratory illnesses. It should require employers to provide the strongest possible safeguards for employee health until there is greater certainty about the transmission of a new respiratory virus.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Holding Hands — Wall in Persepolis, ancient Persia

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fair outcomes for students and communities is a choice schools have to make every day. It’s not how they are designed or why they exist

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m listening to a program about AI in schools and thinking about how hard my kid’s school and school board have fought the most basic concerns about programming, equity, safety, and ethics. It’s a whole other reason to fear their rush to integrate AI:

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Holy shit. David Suzuki on CBC radio right now. He tried so hard for so long to tell us.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about my grade sevens 25 years ago and how we tried together over the following few weeks to make some sense of something so huge and awful. Being a teacher is such a privilege and responsibility.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Someday I'm going to write a story about an IT guy named Bit Bucket

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

All of this! Oil is a finite resource that can be controlled & fought over by the worst of humanity. We don’t need to keep investing in oil & gas.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lake Ontario's name comes from the Wyandot word Ontarí'io, which is typically translated as "beautiful lake". The Kanienʼkéha called it Katarokwi. Samuel de Champlain called it Lac de St. Louis. The name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I didn't know I could feel nostalgic about middle school but what a week for toques and cool kids behind the portables

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yes. In Nova Scotia, Public Health is very quiet on Covid prevention - including Health Canada's recommendation to improve ventilation. It seems worth noting as children prepare for yet another school year with no plan in place to monitor their indoor air quality and make improvements as necessary

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/08/2026

US is reportedly asking Canada for first-refusal rights on critical minerals, completion of its F-35 purchase, more US defense procurement tied to Golden Dome + guarantees on future oil & gas supplies. Another example of security, trade and resources being folded into one transactional relationship

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Matt Simmons @writermjs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"They taught me that grief is not a destination, it’s like a creek — you don’t stop it. You discipline yourself to sit beside it, make kin with it, let it flow, and let it carry away what it needs to carry." A beautiful read from kelsie kilawna. indiginews.com/first-person...

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A graduation, a birthday — and an evacuation

As a wildfire burns in OKIB, I’m holding lessons close about grief, love and community — and remembering puti kʷu‿aláʔ (We are still here)

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Henry Giroux @girouxh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In this new article, co-authored with Will Paul, we argue that the struggle against autocracy is not simply a political challenge but an educational and cultural one. This requires a renewed commitment to democratic values and collective resistance. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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Drawing the line against autocracy

At stake is more than educational policy. What is being contested is whether education will nurture critically engaged citizens capable of resistance, or produce subjects trained for adaptation, silen...

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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What about this does Carney not understand? “impact assessments are not red tape. Their entire purpose is to prevent irreversible harm. Circumventing the process, or allowing shovels in the ground before the risks are understood, is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.”

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

HRCE tells us - students, staff, families - they will "listen to lead." Top ask seems to be smaller class sizes for lots of reasonable-sounding reasons. This is the last day to look at comments.

The image is a screenshot of the key word results from HRCE's 2026 Listen to Lead survey. The two most frequently used words are "sizes" and "smaller."

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willwrite4coffee.bsky.social @willwrite4coffee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In the face of the change to LPC direction on climate policy, this is disappointing. The gov't needs voices spotlighting the climate crisis. Help the Climate Caucus be heard, sit as an independent, cross to a party willing to stand for the environment. Canada can't afford to bleed progressive MPs.

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Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault to resign: sources | CBC News

The Montreal MP and former environment minister is expected to break the news to his colleagues at the Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday, sources told CBC News and Radio-Canada.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Imo the best coaching model we had was significant release time for strong math and language teachers in each school. They were supported by consultants, developed school-level goals, knew the students, worked directly with colleagues. But to make what works best work at all, we need more teachers.

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Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In case anyone is wondering how seriously the Carney government takes consultation with First Nations, they sent an invite after hours Friday for an engagement session today on their proposals to gut major project regulation.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I must confess, I've really slacked on buying non-American after Carney decided to drop a billion and a half on HIMARS. Canadians spend a full year literally damaging the fascist American economy then he goes and spends our money on their single most important industry for no reason. I hate this.

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Jan Brown @writenrun.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This isn’t okay. The lack of professionalism - not to mention compassion. - is utterly unacceptable.

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My vulnerable sector person has a right to advocacy (and decent programming) I think she also has a right to confidentiality And I think HRCE needs to disclose to families they do secret thin-skinned stuff like this 4/4

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

But I wasn't told until last week when I asked why emails didn't seem to be getting through 3/4

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In an email on April 2, I said I was giving up after four years of inaction by school/system leaders on basic programming requests I am told my email was disrespectful and detrimental to staff wellbeing 2/4

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Susan formerly ganndart @sggann.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My intellectually disabled daughter wants me to email her teacher to help with a problem she's having at school How do I explain that HRCE is diverting all my emails to a 'special email depository' and the teacher who would definitely want to help her probably won't receive it 1/4

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