Zelenskyy has appointed Canada's Chrystia Freeland as Ukraine's Special Advisor on Economic Development. This places one of the most experienced Western economic & geopolitical operators directly into Ukraine’s reconstruction and long term development strategy. #cdnpoli 🧵

My morning started with reading a bit about non profit housing, then #AaronBeswick's story on lobster, then talking to Hubs to verify what took place in Venezuela this morning. To quote Tik Tok'er #GregJohnston, I'll be in the hibernation station!

It's like when I asked the computer why it kept beating me in chess and it just shrugged

Time to de-Christmas'fy the house and back into regular clutter.

11:30am. Snow squall through Cape Split crossing the Minas Basin and over the Cobequid pass. Blizzard like through that narrow but nasty band

In 2025, Women and Gender Equality Canada faced an 80% funding drop, but women fought back. The Carney gov't announced sustainable funding for gender equality orgs across Canada. The next fight? For funding to end gender-based violence. @kjscott.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

Fine today & Sunday. The chilly NW winds trigger onshore snow, heaviest in Inverness County that gradually eases off. Messy Monday as snow & freezing rain develop over the west in the am spreading eastward during the day. The wintry mix changes to rain Monday night. Turning colder/flurries Tuesday.

*Content Warning* Dammit kids get off YouTube and go outside and play! When I was your age we were outside the whole day! Outside:

Reminder that if you don’t want people to post a million clips of your racism after you die, you have to not be racist while you are alive.

To sell someone short, creating a false hurdle, makes a handicap. #HaikuFeels #sell #Haiku #Senryu #MicroPoetry #MentalHealth #PTSD #ADHD #Spectrum

CBC World Report on BB's death: a TWO MINUTE segment, with her racism, antisemitism and homophobia waved away under 10 seconds with the sentence beginning with "passionate defender of animal welfare, a controversial figure in more ways than one". Western media loves its racist blonde women!

And I'll add to this, Baby Bird now works for HRP 911. It'll be their first NYE & NYD evening working for this. I'd prefer they have a peaceful night.

The light is coming back. 12/21/2025 had 8:48:35 of light. Today has 8:50:02 of light. We gained 0:01:27 of light. That’s almost a minute and a half in just six days. Spring arrives in 83 days.

Created with AI: I declare today National Be Lazy PJ Day! Stay comfy, do nothing.

Hubs to a buddy of his who was complaining about something silly: You're not on a plane. Open the door and leave!

This is also why we are able to watch #NFL games today without needing a subscription to #Amazon or #Netflix. It’s on basic cable rn.

There is only one acceptable Christmas song, and it's Newfoundland's Mummer's Song. Which has the important holiday lesson of: Gender is fluid.

Just think, if you win the AndyVent.ca Calendar ($8000+ in value) you can share* all those great prizes from local businesses with your family! CUT OFF IS 11:59pm TONIGHT *sharing optional 🎅🏻

A cold NW flow triggering onshore snow; heaviest snow threat eastern NS & E PEI. These snow squalls ease off later Tuesday. A band of light snow just clips western areas on Christmas eve. Light snow spreads south & east from NB on Christmas Day. Onshore snow persists Boxing Day then fine weekend.

Things to do on a Sunday night when Hubs is still working & I’m bored: Watch live action Lilo & Stitch 😂

Today is the Winter Solstice. Did you know that after today, the Mi’kmaq do not fish in the rivers? We do this to allow fish to spawn. This lasts until about March or early April when the ice opens up. This is traditional Mi’kmaw ecological knowledge at work within Mi’kma’ki.

Oh my gawd! They should have played that way the entire game, not during the final mins & into OT. They shouldn’t be here. They shouldn’t have won! And yet here we are! As someone just recovering fr a concussion, I hope J. Love heals! #DaBears

Where were these Bears over the last 55 mins! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

There were 5,000 signatures last night and now over 9,000! ✍️

Life long Bears fan and at this point they deserve to lose! Even if they pull their heads out of their asses, this won’t be the win I hoped for! #BearsDown

1. found data that suggests nothing as bad last winter (see below). 2. the historical outage data should be easily found. 3. rather than 'yellow", the warning should have been "orange" (likely significant damage) 4. maybe ECCC & NSPI could jointly use historical data to better predict impacts (AI)

Hitler didn't need monsters. He only needed people who followed his orders.

*giggle* So frustrating... the majority of the 💲into our 🏠comes fr Hubs' wages as a mechanic w/ NSP, but so much frustration w/ everything about them. We're affected 3 different ways by the data breech, we feel the increases & I get annoyed w/ all the corporate 💩! They deserve a pile of coal!

1st 🌎problems: Got up this AM & knew I'd have to get gen going; no issue. Wait for heat system to kick in, give it a little push, all good. 🚰... hmph! Pump kicked out so needed to prime it. Get that done then💡! Power comes back 🤦‍♀️ FINE! On/off outages all day. Reset clocks, water, TV. Go BEARS!

You ban gender affirming care, people will just get it from an online source. It's the same policy result as the failed war on drugs.

16 yr old me wants to be an asshole rn!! Sitting in clinic for physio and there is a guy with an NS PC jacket on. Do I make a comment?? Do I risk getting kicked out missing my physio for the day?? Ooooh the urge is strong! 😂 don’t recognize him but maybe he was a candidate. Staffer… that’s it!! 😂

#GVerse At a time when silence was easier, Rob Reiner chose clarity. His words stood for democracy, truth, and accountability, without apology. Rest in Peace.

The Emera Oval is now open for the 2025/26 winter season. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/em...

Here’s some of the StatsCan data from 2023. So many of these numbers are heartbreaking. 29.3% of kids being raised by a single mother in Canada are living below the poverty line (probably higher in NS based on our higher than average child poverty rates). We really have to do better by people.

Today marks 10 years since the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an invaluable record of the crimes and injustices committed through the residential school system.

Snagged this another post where the idea didn't quite fit what I want to say. If I didn't have Hubs, when I retire I'll be in the minority (I'd be there now too if not for 2 jobs if I was alone). My mom is in the minority, as are a lot of my senior customers at job #2. I have to wonder about this!

🎗️ A new awareness campaign in Nova Scotia helps youth recognize early warning signs of gender-based violence in relationships, including non-physical forms such as control and manipulation. news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/12/1... Resources: www.stopgbv.ca #GBV #Youth #NovaScotia #Education

Why is the stupid world so heavy on a Sunday? I read this, which was actually ✍️ in Jan. Then I 👀 about shooting in Australia against Jewish people about to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, but also that a Muslim man was able to stop one of the attackers. open.substack.com/pub/thewalru... ...

"No salting, bad plowing, horrible sidewalk clearing, traffic nightmares, Mother Nature sucks. God damn you NSP!!, Why are there still this many people at Costco?!." Oh sorry, just preloading some posts for Monday.

The United States has normalized school shootings to the point that there are multiple people alive who are survivors of more than 1 of them. This is not normal. You don’t have to accept this.

Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!

Thinking it's time to pick up my camera again and start back with some photography. This was from Feb 2022 of the Cow Bay River taken at what we call River Bridge. #photography #hobbyphotography #NovaScotia

Are you a scientist planning to leave the U.S. for Canada? CTV wants to hear from you https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/are-you-an-international-academic-being-tapped-to-come-work-in-canada-we-want-to-hear-from-you/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Tim Houston is accusing native run cannabis shops of selling fentanyl laced weed. That's a HUGE accusation! But why is he only mentioning this now? Was he sitting on this info & not warning Nova Scotians? Or is this mofo lying? Offer up some evidence or shut the fuck up Timmy.

2:30pm update: the nasty snow sqall has slid south between Windsor and Stewiacke. A few snow bands have now formed over HRM.

Sanctuary Arts Centre may close due to high cost of meeting fire code regulations Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

Danish intelligence has declared the United States, alongside Russia and China, as a threat to national security for Denmark and Europe. It warns that the US may use military force against its own partners and allies.

UPDATE: (Wed, Dec. 10, 2025, 9:40 p.m.): Effective tomorrow morning, Dec 11, the Woodside Ferry will return to regular service. We thank our passengers for their patience.