Since one of Trump-aligned/Netanyahu stan U.S. mega-billionaire Larry Ellison’s Oracle subsidiaries is already getting $365 million from Nova Scotia for its digital health records system, you’d think he could have let us have the sailboat race he co-founded as a freebie.
Halifax on June 18!
Screenshot of part of CBC article on point-of-sale donations that says: “The managing director of Charity Intelligence Canada is adamant that customers avoid donating at the till, unless they are fully informed about the charity.”
CBC did a story on this in 2022 (for folks who think the company gets a tax credit, they don’t).
TL;DR: one expert says cheap way to raise money, helps company look good (I’d argue it doesn’t). Another expert says give directly or at least fully research the charity first www.cbc.ca/radio/costof...
Gas prices going up again tonight at midnight in Nova Scotia, says the NSUARB. nserbt.ca/sites/defaul...
Thanks!
A community group I belong to has a website hosted on Wix but on renewal the price will go from US$276 to US$378. Can anyone recommend a cheaper option? Preferably Canadian.
It’s not paywalled. “A law that silences the family of a dead child is an unjustice law.”
This needs to not happen. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Even the shoppers at my local Giant Tiger are talking about Kristi Noem’s firing. This must be big!
Screen shot of results from an AI detector that declares there’s 100% chance the text of a Facebook post was AI generated.
I was reading a post from a N.S. politician that had that odd AI feel to it - overly general, prose like a dime-store paperback, clipped sentences - so I ran it through an AI detector, and bingo. Did a few more posts & seems he uses AI a lot. Not naming in case I’m wrong - but yuck and be wary.
Applications are open for the community garden I belong to in the Birdland/Clayton Park area if anyone is interested. $30 gets you a fenced (deer-proof!) 4x8 raised plot, water, manure, gardening tools, some free seeds if you want, and lots of helpful advice if you’re a beginner tinyurl.com/2dxmyrp9
Fine in informal venues such as social media, cringe where “good” writing still should matter (such as the body of a news story). I think spelling it out would have slightly better SEO value, if that matters.
praying they don't fix the headline
www.kctv5.com/video/2026/0...
NSUARB using interrupter clause at midnight to push Nova Scotia gas prices up 8.9 cents a litre; diesel going up 7.7 cents.
A really interesting 🧵. Well worth your time.
Preamble to Nova Scotia’s Windsor is the Birthplace of Hockey Bill, a thin gruel of evidence at best: WHEREAS Nova Scotian historians have claimed that Nova Scotia is the birthplace of modern Canadian ice hockey, based, in part, upon descriptions of the playing of "hurley on the ice" in Windsor, Nova Scotia, no later than 1810; AND WHEREAS early paintings show shinny, an early form of hockey, being played in Nova Scotia; AND WHEREAS an anonymous writer in the Windsor Mail of 1876 wrote of the playing of hurley on the Devil's Punch Bowl and on Long Pond during his school days from 1816 to 1818 in Windsor; AND WHEREAS during the mid-1850s hockey games were played by British soldiers stationed in Halifax; AND WHEREAS J. G. A. Creighton (1850-1930) of Halifax is credited with introducing hockey to Montreal, for the first time under organized rules, with Halifax rules in 1875; AND WHEREAS Howard Dill gathered a tremendous collection of hockey memorabilia and promoted Long Pond as the "Cradle of Hockey in Canada"; AND WHEREAS Dr Garth Vaughan, in his book The Puck Starts Here, chronicled the origins of hockey in Windsor;
The cited “evidence” for the Birthplace of Hockey claim includes an anonymous letter to the editor and the fact that Howard Dill had a big collection of hockey memorabilia. While there are many things to care about more, this bill still should die. Good G&M article: web.archive.org/web/20210220...
Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran are either false or unproven. Here's a fact-check. nyti.ms/46tj8P5
So Canada is standing with a cold-blooded genocider and an ancient, deranged, racist pedophile in attacks that just blew up a girls elementary school with students and teachers inside. I hoped for better from 🇨🇦.
CBC has a story now that includes info from a court hearing today re: his investment firm.
Halifax billionaire John Risley - in the news recently for financial woes - has put his south-end mega-mansion on the market for $14.9 million. www.royallepage.ca/en/property/...
Digital security training quick course for journalists online Thursday (Feb. 27) afternoon, sponsored by The News Guild and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. It doesn’t look like you need to be member to register us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Otto, a handsome and regal black cat who likes milk and tuna, sleeps in a circle inside a round corrugated cardboard cat scratcher. All hail the king of the suburban jungle!
If life throws you a curve, seek out the hidden opportunity.
Note that says: For almost 15 years, you’ve helped us grow the Canada Games Centre into a welcoming, active community space. We’re grateful for your continued support and commitment to building a healthier, happier community with us. We’re excited to share some big news with you… HRM has entered into a 10-year naming rights partnership with Manulife, effective April 1, 2026. Starting in April, our facility will be the Manulife Recreation Centre.
Apparently HRM is so excited that they forgot to tell us how much this deal is for. Like Halifax’s Metro Centre and the Halifax Oval, the Canada Games Centre - to me - will never be known by its shitty corporate name.
I now envy the many Canadians who started drinking during the pre-game.
It’s a replica jersey from the World Juniors.
Isn’t this from a Super G event in Italy three years ago?
Two paragraphs from the New York Times morning newsletter that read: “The Epstein files are a lot, and that’s before we get to Trump’s appearances in them. They present such a sprawling, sordid, sometimes inchoate scandal that it can be difficult to understand exactly what they tell us, except that the guy had a lot of powerful friends. He used them for various reasons, and they used him for their own. Some of it was illegal. Some of it was ick. Some of it was quotidian (my name appears a few times because Epstein subscribed to various Times newsletters). And this week it’s all people want to talk about.”
This actually appears in @nytimes.com morning newsletter: Heinous crimes against young girls referenced as “ick” and apparently the Epstein files are so large and sprawling that “it can be difficult to understand exactly what they tell us, except that (Epstein) had a lot of powerful friends.” 1/2
🚨BREAKING
😳 The Wall Street Journal is reporting there is a whistleblower complaint so sensitive against Tulsi Gabbard that it is locked in a safe and the Trump Administration does not know how to notify Congress about it.
This scoop deserves a lot more views.
“The flurry of awards for bravery, ethics & integrity, and outstanding service were quietly approved … last May, more than two years after an inquiry slammed the force for failing to stop the gunman during a 13-hour rampage.”
Over two dozen pickets - striking Chronicle Herald newsroom staff and a few supporters - pose for a photo on the sidewalk outside what was then the newspaper’s now-closed offices on Joseph Howe Drive in Halifax in spring 2017.
My former colleague Rachel Cartwright, kneeling at far left, posted this piece and photos on Facebook on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Chronicle Herald newsroom’s 19-month strike. I couldn’t write anything better than this 🙂, so here’s the link www.facebook.com/share/p/1HNp...
