Sam Hall

NOTICE TO OUR COMMUNITY Update on Provincial Program Funding Kwe' to our community in Kjipuktuk and across Mi'kma'ki. Over the past day there have been announcements that the Province of Nova Scotia has restored funding to a number of community programs. We want to clarify that the Mikmaw Native Friendship Centre programs previously identified as facing reductions remain affected at this time. The following programs have not had their funding restored: • Family Resource Program • Youth Outreach Program • A Place to Belong Program • Funding previously received through L'nu Affairs We are grateful to see support reinstated for organizations and services that are important to many L'nu & Nova Scotians generally. However, our program funding has not been reinstated. Critical preventative supports for Indigenous youth and families - including justice system navigation, family support services, and work that helps address and prevent domestic violence - still remain in question and at risk. As previously shared, the loss of this funding means we continue to face staff layoffs and reduced service capacity, which places additional strain on the remaining programs and services delivered by the Centre. We remain committed to advocating for the restoration of these critical supports and will continue to keep our community informed. Wela'lioq for your continued trust. In Peace and Friendship Mikmaw Native Friendship Centre

MNFC update

Credit to Claudia Chender leader of the Nova Scotia NDP #NovaScotia

#HoustonCuts #Protests #Halifax

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POV: You're a Nova Scotian and you can't make it out to rallies, can't make phone calls, etc. But you still want to stick it to Tim Houston because he's a trash person with trash policies.

Find your MLA + send emails.

These budget cuts are not the way forward.

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Rally up! He really is trying to break our communities so he can frack, mine, deforest the f out of this place. He’s working fast , so must we!

Nova Scotia United: New Budget Now! Rally with us Tuesday March 10 at Noon, Province House, Halifax Culture is Critical

We're not even remotely done holding this government to account. Back at it on Tuesday! #nspoli #halisky

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News In Photo:

Large board reading "should the cuts pass, we the undersigned hereby pledge to BOO TIM HOUSTON and his complicit stooges, loudly and at every opportunity' and is covered in hundreds of signatures. The sign is in front of Province House in Halifax, NS

Back view of the same board, titled "'Boo Tim Houston' Pledge Cont'd", densely covered with many many more signatures

In response to a devastating PC austerity budget, hundreds of people in Halifax have sworn to boo premier Tim Houston and his bootlicking ministers on sight @nsgov.bsky.social

a cartoon of Tim Houston holding a bloody anatomical heart that he has torn out of a hole ripped in the middle of Nova Scotia. he's got cash behind his back. the sign says TEARING OUT OUR ARTS!

felt pretty good about my sign for the arts and culture protest yesterday! don't mess with the 'eart of Nova Scotia!

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get the puppets we’re going back

Call your MLAs and tell them to tell him to eat shit and that they should do their goddamn jobs if they plan to have any future in politics or even just walking around their communities in peace.

Protest signs wedged in the fence outside the NS Legislature read 'Farewell to Nova Scotia, the arts are toast' 'Put the tolls back MORON' 'Tiny Tim is in his scrooge era' 'save our stories' 'Houston Pennywise, pound foolish' (with drawing of Pennywise the clown), 'Dave Ritcey, why do you betray your home?' 'If the dancers aren't funded the dancers will leave', 'I've heard of "cancel culture" but this is ridiculous' and an empty frame reading 'poster no longer available due to cuts'

Tiny sample of signs from the protest in Halifax today #NSPoli

Large board reading "should the cuts pass, we the undersigned hereby pledge to BOO TIM HOUSTON and his complicit stooges, loudly and at every opportunity' and is covered in hundreds of signatures. The sign is in front of Province House in Halifax, NS

Back view of the same board, titled "'Boo Tim Houston' Pledge Cont'd", densely covered with many many more signatures

In response to a devastating PC austerity budget, hundreds of people in Halifax have sworn to boo premier Tim Houston and his bootlicking ministers on sight @nsgov.bsky.social

Large board reading "should the cuts pass, we the undersigned hereby pledge to BOO TIM HOUSTON and his complicit stooges, loudly and at every opportunity' and is covered in hundreds of signatures. The sign is in front of Province House in Halifax, NS

Here's the other side of that board!

It was so heartening to join the protest at Province House and see how big and diverse the crowd was. I hate that we have to do it, but I loved to see how many people care about our province.

Wasn't me this time (I was doing the booing pledge haha!) It looked amazing though, huge congrats to the artist/s– the NSCAD students had some great paper mache rats, maybe this was them as well?

Large handpainted cardboard sign reading 'PUT THE TOLLS BACK, MORON' in reference to Tim Houston's dumbass removal of bridge tolls that no one asked for

We did a bunch to hand out on Tues/Wed! Open to suggestions if you have any :P #NSpoli #Halisky

large blue handpainted banner reading "More like DEFUNDING Nova Scotia", in reference to the title of Tim Houston's disastrous austerity budget

great minds

At tonight's African Nova Scotian Heritage Month Gala at the Halifax Convention Centre Tim Houston was LOUDLY and justly BOOOOED.

🎥: @seblabelle.bsky.social

#Halifax #HaliSky #NovaScotia

Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.

All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?

$300 million.

Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?

N.S. culture minister faces questions about cuts to tourism, arts On Wednesday, Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage Minister Dave Ritcey deferred to staff when asked if stakeholders would be given a reason why certain programs were chosen for funding cuts.

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Gouache painting of the Nova Scotia coat of arms: a blue X on a white field under a gold shield with a red rampant lion in a double border decorated with fleurs de lis. The lion is thin with visible ribs. It weeps because NS premier Tim Houston plans to starve the province into abject austerity, and neither he nor culture minister minister Dave Ritcey absolutely could not give less of a shit about any of us, our province, or the arts

so clearly Dave Ritcey (the minister overseeing the obliteration of our arts and culture) is not much of a "numbers guy". Perhaps we can still reach his heart through the power of images? Please express yourself to cch@novascotia.ca in the medium of your choosing #NSPoli @nsgov.bsky.social #Halisky

Nova Scotia Cut Arts Funding by 32%. Speak Up. $14M slashed. 72 programs gutted. 14,000 culture jobs at risk. Send your MLA a message in 60 seconds.

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Rally for the Arts: Wed March 4th, 12:00 / Noon @ NS Legislature!

📣 Shoulder to Shoulder Rally - Tuesday March 3, 12 p.m. at the N.S. Legislature! 📣

In Nov, hundreds of people from communities across Mi'kma'ki/NS came out for the Shoulder to Shoulder rally to call on the Houston government to respect Treaty Rights and democratic processes.

I'm sorry Tim, that's awful. Hope you're all doing okay.

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Was that Andy at the #HFXBike event? Couldn’t be

Two mayors at Halifax's first annual deputy mayor's bike ride