Due to everyone's singing, the House has been adjourned until tomorrow afternoon, meaning the budget has not passed yet. #Halifax #HaliSky #NovaScotia

Makes one wonder if Carney is using the stick or the carrot or both to entice these floor crossings…

I feel so dumb and naive that I really thought Holt was better than this. I know she’s a liberal & liberals always disappoint, but even still this feels straight out of the Higgs playbook www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Maybe we could have both if we taxed the oligarchs instead of funding their losses at the expense of the public purse.

I literally don’t care about the deficit. Like at all.

Why do the short work weeks somehow always feel the longest 😭

You’ve heard of “trickle down” economics, but have you heard of “firehose” economics, where a company takes money from Canada and then just firehoses it as fast as possible out of the country ??

Anyone else gearing up to watch the NDP leadership debate tonight? I’m gathering my emotional support wine & pizza & hope to see some debate commentary on bsky tonight #NDPdebate gem.cbc.ca/live-event/5...

Yeah no spending 3.76 million per new job seems like a really good return on investment, couldn’t have designed a better economic system myself

I feel like I’m missing something here. Isn’t evisitNB just a webpage that redirects to Maple (not a NB company). What actual “services” does evisitNB currently provide ??

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on. We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

I just know all the Saint John’s industrial businesses are really doing their part today to #shavethepeak too! 🙏

"The cost to the city was estimated at $112 million over a quarter-century." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NB gov’t is seeking public feedback on the budget. Funny how taxing industry to pay its fair share isn’t one of the options for feedback we can provide, though 😒 www.gnb.ca/en/gov/engag...

I’d love to see Avi Lewis win the NDP leadership bid this spring. Here he is speaking with my personal hero Cory Doctorow about some very sensible but impactful policy ideas for fighting back against tariffs (7 mins) www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sg...

Yikes. Province not meeting many of its most important targets and Holt wants to discuss…. CUTS?!? Liberals always manage to disappoint.

ICE is 'on New Brunswick’s border’ in Calais, Maine, premier says "It makes all of us very uncomfortable and there’s nothing we recognize in our neighbours right now, the leadership they have,” Premier Susan Holt says nationalpost.com/new-brunswic...

This is actually the laziest most ineffective policy I can possibly think of The gov’t literally commissioned a report on this 2 years ago & you’ll never believe it but a wee one time cash payment & tiny tax credit increase ain’t in the recommendations publications.gc.ca/collections/...

Mark Carney’s off making big speeches to distract from how he’s gutting the public service and by extension the capacity of the federal government.

As far as I can tell no grocery store sells vegan meatballs anywhere in Saint John anymore 😪 the Gardein ones used to be widely available. If anyone has a source plz let me know 😩

Watching the NDP become more cringe & wrong on every issue year over year is so depressing

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

Holy shit for my 2024 predictions, not only was I so close to getting the Trudeau prediction right, I was months away from getting the Hudson’s Bay one too! Wise before my time!

Once again, a bad year for my annual new years predictions. However, Holt did come in with a surprise finish on that gas pricing issue, so I’ll give her that one. What should i include for my 2026 predictions?? 🧐

I could simply never go back to work ever again and I’d never be bored and never look back. Why did we set up society this way?? Why do we all have to work bullshit jobs for our little kopecks

Merry Christmas Koodo, I’ve just formally reported your CASL violations to the gov’t for continuing to spam me with promotional content even after I repeatedly unsubscribe!!!

My partner & I are watching the Die Hard series this holiday season and I am devastated to learn that they aren’t all Christmas movies. WTF

Canadian postal bank could be transformative—both to the post office, and to Canada’s monopolized financial sector. By @rromard.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

SJ Today newsletter coming out with the most unhinged photo find & seek this week 🤣 Sir… a drain cover ???

My family just left town from our “early Xmas” We’ve done all the food, drinks, hosting duties, merriment..! It’s OVER. Yes, even the presents!! I can’t recommend this approach enough. If you have family afar, consider it!! (Short thread)

Cancel Microsoft Office! Cancel Microsoft Office!! Cancel Microsoft Office!!!

Happy #HarbourBridge is wide open day to all (Saint John) who celebrate. Only 3 years and 5 weeks past its scheduled completion date. Good job good effort

Every day I wake up and I feel fine. Then I sit in my office chair for 20 minutes and my back is fucked for the rest of the day. Then I just repeat that every single day til I die. I love my desk job. 🙃

CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG. Yikes!!!!! Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Solid oped. Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country. If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.

N.B. Power 'not alarmed' by power needs of data centres, but wants flexibility? Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom. What’s more “free” than cars, you ask? Choices.

I’d love to see some keen tech person start a site to crowdsource pictures of groceries & household items so that we can precisely catalogue over time the extent of shrinkflation, skimpflation, & greedflation.

Applies to the local context too… “If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”

Quite frankly I think this is a metaphor for all consumers in 2025. The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.

Mark Carney’s Liberals were not elected on a mandate to gut Canada Post, but they’re doing it anyway. The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.

Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”

I watched a horror movie the other day where the power went out and then landline phone stopped working, mid-call no less. People!!! That’s not how that works!!!

I just finished reading The Deficit Myth and I highly do not recommend this book if you want to keep your mental sanity. You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.

I feel like my entire life I’ve been seeking a high quality dark chocolate advent calendar, and it still doesn’t exist 😤

Happy bonfire night to all who celebrate