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Nova Scotia reverses some budget cuts after public backlash Premier Tim Houston apologized as he reversed a portion of $130-million in cuts to government grants

Nova Scotia reverses some budget cuts after public backlash /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Oh yeah huge problem with Wal-Mart here.

But still, a state having more stores than people makes no sense

How do those Wal-Marts make money?

The most divorced men in history The resentment of women that undergirds so much recklessness.

Taking a break today from posting about concentration-camp matters for the newsletter, I wrote instead about a sociological study that might shed light on the Trump administration's reckless violence and the loyalty of his most diehard supporters.

Back to this again.

The Canadian politicians and right wing media types who flirt with this bullshit have to be the biggest fucking marks in the history of fucking marks.

Canadian police should be combing the bottom of the Great Lakes to try to find evidence of the babies Donald Trump killed and tossed in there (it’s mentioned in the Epstein files, he got a girl pregnant, and when she gave birth, he killed the baby and threw the body in Lake Superior)

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Right? They actually donate more to campaigns than they would be taxed if they had been taxed fairly.

Mamdani pointed that out in New York, calling them out about how they spent more money to stop them than he planned to tax them.

None of us are gonna escape this YouTube video by The Strombo Show / House of Strombo

This is true. Right-wing provincial governments across Canada are purposely breaking public health care in order to manufacture consent for US-style for profit health care.

And so many Nova Scotians are falling for it.

youtu.be/RL4OF1AdU_g?...

Trump: "I said, Why don't we just capture the ship? He said, It's more fun to sink them." #cdnpoli
These are war crimes and they laugh like it's a computer game.

What is there. On the left is the prison, on the right is the quarantine section. In the middle is a look-off (there are still cannons there, as well as modern air defense structures that were installed during WWII and still in use.

Yeah that structure isn’t there anymore. Most of the structures from before 1850 or so are gone now.

Here’s a drawing of the fort from 1759 I found interesting

Those prisoners spread smallpox in the places they were sent to. Pennsylvania got it the worst.

Benjamin Franklin was actually involved in procuring funds for the care of those prisoners. I wonder if that’s how the Founding Fathers became so pro-vaccine

Smallpox spread in the prisons during that period… bad

Not gonna lie, I thought of that when I heard of measles going around in ICE facilities.

Not good

Yes George’s Island was used as quarantine many times throughout history.

Though the smallpox epidemic was kinda caused by imprisoning Acadians there from 1755-1764 cos they were crammed in barracks. It spread to the guards who spread it to the city.

DNA has allowed us to identify some of the bodies however. That’s where it gets really interesting.

(Some bodies of Acadians held at Fort Charlotte were found under the office of the dentist who went on a killing spree in 2020, when it was torn down. DNA was able to identify them)

Yeah they’re very interesting and nobody knows why they were built. It’s just conjecture.

There have also been bodies found down there. Mostly from the smallpox epidemic in the mid 1700s when people were dying faster than they could be buried so they were just put in the tunnels and sealed off.

Tunnels under Fort Charlotte (George’s Island)

Land & Sea: The mystery of Halifax's secret tunnels YouTube video by CBC News Nova Scotia

I’ve been in these tunnels and was involved in archaeological digs in the city

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I’ve been crazy busy lately

An out of state billionaire is funding an anti-trans ballot question in Maine — so that we’ll spend our time fighting about trans people instead of raising his taxes.

If the church tells people how to vote they should be taxed.

Lee

One of the first actions taken by the Greens' most recent MP is to stand in solidarity with trans people and she was attacked for it.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

This untraveled, uninformed, ugly American doesn’t understand how repulsive Trump is to the rest of the world. The US looks even more unhinged this time than the last.

If there are any workers who deserve to be replaced by AI it’s the people in charge of the spreadsheets

Those people annoy the fuck out of me

Drawing of Tim Houston premiere of Nova Scotia grinning, holding a banner of flags on fire, his PC party tie is on fire as well. From left to right is the NovaScotia Gaelic flag, the Acadian flag, the Nova Scotia flag, the Mi’kmaq flag and Afro Nova-Scotian flag. Underneath the caption reads "Tim Houston shows off his "art" project" in english and "Tim Houston presente son projet ""artistique"" in french.

A little piece inspired by our premiere. Gutting funding to the arts is a direct attack on the vitality of Nova Scotia's cultures and the province as a whole. The fact that he thinks the outrage against his cuts are just some NDP backed ploy is maddening and insulting frankly.

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Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Richie Bree @richiebree Torpedos must be the only pedos the U.S government are willing to fire. Photo of a ship being hit by a torpedo

Oof.

Discussion at RootsTech this year: Finding Canadian ancestors.

A lot of folks taking up that Bill C-3 thing huh?