Premier Tim Houston calls yesterday's protest by Nova Scotia's arts community a "Raise your taxes" rally "organized by the NDP". From the man who says he listens. Doesn't seem to have heard much yesterday.

Not many graphs or charts in which you'll find as incredibly vast a discrepancy between Canada and the U.S. as this one.

If you are in search of a DVD copy of the 2014 Kevin Hart romantic comedy “About Last Night” — the Dartmouth Value Village has you covered.

RETURN OF THE MAX 😤

Tim Houston with some salient advice from the Doug Ford playbook: when in doubt, pour one out.

So proud of my friend Billy for speaking at the NS Public Bills Committee today about his concerns with amendments to the Community Colleges Act and their potential impacts on NSCC. www.youtube.com/live/4MQgLo5...

every statement from schumer is like the villager in zelda who’s 300 feet away from an evil towering castle going “ganon? never heard of him. boy I wish someone would round up 10 chickens to put back in my coop”

The singular explanation for so much of what the Houston government does comes down to, “We have the votes, so why go through the machinations?” They are trying to execute supermajority government with maximum efficiency, minimal oversight, and an authoritarian sense of inevitability.

It's hilarious that they've convinced themselves that there's a massive, under-served audience segment just yearning for more right-wing content if only someone would give it them. It doesn't exist! The people they're talking about already only watch TV and entertain themselves by bitching about it

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Paramount right now.

About as succinct a summary of this mess as you can put into a sentence.

One of the worst things about modern politics is how real choices aren't presented as decisions are made. I wonder how people would really have felt about the 1% HST cut if they knew it would mean all of this being cut. But we, the body politic, didn't get to consider those two things together!

The irony in this (true) observation is that being this sort of "cheerleader for civic services" would actually be an even BETTER use of time for most Canadian mayors (many of whom work in "weak-mayoral" municipal governments) than it is for Mamdani (who has more direct powers).

Time to tighten our belts #nsleg #HaliSky

IMO this is much worse than the piece of shit FBI director partying with the team.

Your reminder that the Jim Abraham Snow Shovelling Suggestion remains one of the best local public services available here on the social internets.

Happy 40th to the greatest video game series of all time.

We* are so back. *baseball sickos who love Meaningless Baseball

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

From the time he first ran federally, my sense of Andy Fillmore was that he was deeply invested in the power of visibility in political life — and seemingly uncurious about the realities of governing. Eleven years on, I’ve yet to see much, if anything, to contradict those first impressions.

Now that SCOTUS has sided against Trump on tariffs, say it with me:

The Supreme Court:

BREAKING: ‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Obviously going to be tough losses in a constricting industry but… this one really hurts.

Like a lot of late-era U2, the band’s surprise new EP would be perfectly fine and forgettable except for the BONO! of it all, which pushes it decidedly into embarrassing territory. “American Obituary” is… something.

I say it all the time, but it's still my hottest Halifax take: eliminating the bridge tolls was stupid in part because we should actually be tolling cars at EVERY entrance to the peninsula — at least during daytime hours.

It's no secret that Nova Scotians are basically paying for this stupid boat, but I wonder how Nova Scotians would feel about it if more of them knew their tax dollars were directly funding U.S. Customs and Border Protection in this current moment.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson. Wrote my undergraduate thesis on his 1984 insurgent campaign. An orator and organizer in rare company. And an imperfect vessel for some of the most important questions of what it would really take for America to become “a more perfect union.”

The great thing about taxes? Small monthly payment gets you cool, useful stuff. It's like, dunno, a subscription for some of the nice features of living in a city? Gotta say I'd rather have the premium subscription than the free version

I mean, in an existential sense, everything is temporary I guess. Plus this totally worked once before: remember how America elected Biden in 2020 and Trumpism was defeated once and for all?

Not saying I fully believe this, but if the PC government were actively trying to make Halifax traffic worse to achieve some kind of larger structural policy objective... it would make a hell of a lot more sense than whatever explanation we have right now on how these moves fit together logically.

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Sue their ass, Gregg Alexander

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

What’s happening here is parallel to what’s happening in America: as conservatism moves rightward, its adherents start to realize how many of their policy goals are actually unpopular and increasingly unlikely to win at the ballot box — and so they start exploring ways to opt out.

This ad uses dogs to justify technology surveillance expansion that’s immediately terrifying the moment you think about any single application beyond dogs. Dogs deserve better.

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The Patriots shall not be vanquished till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane!

A definitive Blue Jay through and through. There was a time I grew weary of him on play by play, but the voice always brought me back, and I felt he found his footing again on colour - especially with Dan. Get that spot on the Level of Excellence ready ASAP.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

The one-off (for now) Muppet Show special on Disney+, spearheaded by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg, is great fun. I hope they get to do more of them. Not sure it solves "the future of the Muppets" but having them do more things that work and less things that don't is a good place to start.

Not for nothing, but it was a Washington Post article about romance fiction that pushed Jacob Tierney to contact Rachel Reid about making #HeatedRivalry.

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

I’m not sure I’ve ever loved anything as much as the Grammys love awarding Billie Eilish for B-grade Billie Eilish material.

Notable to me that the only two speakers on the Grammys thus far who’ve been willing to say anything remotely political have been British and Puerto Rican, respectively

The majority of the Grammy performances thus far have been admirably live, which makes the ones clearly not live REALLY stand out.