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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canada's white nationalists are parroting racist, anti-Indigenous talking points that right-wing politicians and media have been normalizing. Second Sons Canada, the fascist fight club, demonstrated on Tk̓emlúps lands over the weekend with a banner that read “got bones?” Here’s how we got here:

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Councillor Virginia Hinch says “Friday came out of left field,” and calls the last-minute communications baffling. Paul Card, chair of the Halifax Forum Community Association, calls Fillmore’s fixation on ice times disingenuous, since 55% of visitors are there for non-ice events.

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Councillor, community association in 'disbelief' after Halifax Forum demolition paused 'out of left field'

A late announcement last week pausing the Halifax Forum’s demolition application has left stakeholders shocked.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why is it that everything Fillmore touches ends up feeling like someone’s dirty used kleenex? The District Councillor and the Forum Community Association didn’t know about Fillmore’s announcement to pause the Forum development: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

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Councillor, community association in 'disbelief' after Halifax Forum demolition paused 'out of left field'

A late announcement last week pausing the Halifax Forum’s demolition application has left stakeholders shocked.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday I had to get up at 5:30 in the morning and socialize for 6 hours and now my brain refuses to accept that it’s only Monday.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So exhausted these days, every time I make my bed all I can think is "soon, we shall be reunited".

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw this last night and can’t stop thinking about it. Bold and wild and vulnerable. Don’t think I’ve ever wanted to write to a director before and say “thank you”.

Poster for the film “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crazy idea but have we considered just not building it? Like, we don’t have to do this. We can stop any time we want.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve got these two old neighbours who look and act *exactly* like Bert and Ernie. They’re exes, and neither can afford to move out.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the reason Houston has done a sudden 180 on AI data centres in NS:

“Houston repeatedly dined with EverWind CEO and founder Trent Vichie — who donated to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign — at Vichie’s residence in New York.”

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The more I’m hearing about Everwind and its plans to build an AI data centre here (and the connections between the founders, Donald Trump, and Tim Houston), the uglier it looks. Hopefully the Examiner lays it all out for us.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love when a Quebec band wins the Polaris. Hearing Tom Power trying to say "Angine de Poitrine" five times in a row is peak.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And this is why gov’ts are always pretending that the Chinese, or trans folks, or Muslims are coming to get us. A threat unifies us. Makes us want to support the people who “protect” us.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Big Idea, by celebrated author John Scalzi, has an interview with Halifax author Joanne Merriam, who published her loving steampunk update to Pride and Prejudice, called Aether and Ego, this week: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/16/t...

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The Big Idea: Joanne Merriam

What if the “happily ever after” ending the author gave you doesn’t really seem all that happy? If you’re author Joanne Merriam, you take matters into your own hands and ret…

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need more working-class people in politics at all levels. And working class no longer means white guys who work trades and drive pick-up trucks. The working class is women, immigrants, and young people working the gig economy. We also need more working-class journalists, by the way.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026

Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The difference between "its" and "it's" is dying in real time. This is from Newsweek yesterday:

Screenshot from a Newsweek article saying "It's first piece" instead of "Its first piece"

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just hours later, and the Belarus potash deal has already been cancelled. I wonder if the Food Professor still thinks Canada is being arrogant for standing up for itself.

Screenshot of a tweet by The Food Professor

“As I've said time and again, the world's largest economy has options.
President Trump's message below about potash makes that abundantly clear. Our arrogance as a country remains our greatest weakness.”

(Trump’s message was his Truth Social post about making a deal with Belarus for potash.)

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the actual "launchpad", photo within, is hilarious

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Setting aside the fact that Belarus wouldn’t come close to having enough potash available for export to replace Canadian imports, imagine thinking relying on **Belarus** to grow your country’s food supply was a viable option! 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Spencer Creelman @spencercreelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Electronic Arts Gallery of Nova Scotia, or the EAGNS

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Spencer Creelman @spencercreelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pier Forever 21

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Spencer Creelman @spencercreelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

IKEA Nova Scotia House of Assembly

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Spencer Creelman @spencercreelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We can have the MacDonald Bridge and the McDonald's bridge! CFAS will be able to distinguish between the two by saying, "Green or golden arches?"

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tim Houston just suggested selling the naming rights to the MacKay Bridge. What other Halifax landmarks we can sell off?

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We met at the Tim Horton’s Gardens (formerly Public Gardens).

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You might think you’re pessimistic but one of my neighbours just got out their snow shovels.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Discovering that not only is there a British version of SNL but that there’s a version of SNL that’s funny.

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Cory and King @kingonesock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Daily reminder there is enough for everybody we just need the right leadership to distribute it

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just came across r/Canadian on reddit. It’s almost all right wing reactionary crap from NatPo, JunoNews, and the Western Standard. Anti-indigenous, anti-immigrant posts. Half the comments on them read like bots. Feels like another US op to divide Canadians.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The year is 2036. You’re having sex with your robot. It pauses to read you some ads.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ed Sheeran found an Irish band that will open for him.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our mayor acts like he’s the villain in a movie where the hero is a big lovable dog

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Facebook Marketplace is WILD. Folks will be like "Mid-century modern" and also "purchased from Wayfair two years ago" in the same sentence like no Mackenzie it cannot be both.

Screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing: "Mid-Century Modern Dining Table and 4 Chairs

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Mid-century modern dining set includes a rectangular wooden table with tapered legs and four molded plastic chairs. The table has a dark brown wood finish (walnut) and was purchased from Wayfair 2 years ago for 850$."

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The 20-something boys next door are listening to Belle and Sebastian and I guess that’s like me as a kid listening to the Beatles?

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The way Poilievre is trying to tie this to immigration. The convoy truckers and anti-vaxxers are going to be yelling in the streets.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump thinks the federal interest rate is a reflection of a country’s credit rating, like when you apply for a credit card at the bank hahahahahah

TruthSocial post

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word
"Deficit" is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are "carrying" almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST!
President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do we know which developer wants to buy the Forum property? Has he ever said?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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IbanezForever @ibanezforever.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If anyone wishes to fill out Andy's pandering budget survey, you can rock those comment boxes here! (Scroll waaaay down)

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Mayor Fillmore’s 2027/28 Budget Engagement

Help shape the choices ahead by sharing your priorities for 2027/28 municipal budget.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fillmore really laying his cards on the table now. Fighting council so he can sell our community space to developers.

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Canada needs a new favourite rock band. One that reflects us, inspires us, and unites us. Not saying we’re getting old, But we need a Hip replacement.

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Marsha (Sunshine)🔐 @marsha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There’s a bunch of TikTok’s where men are going in to Halifax businesses and loudly preaching gospel, I hope they never do this when I am around because I will be speaking in tongues and breathing fire as I fly at them

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