""The Longest Ballot Committee advocates that you MPs recuse yourself from writing the rules of your own elections," Szuchewycz told the committee, arguing that an independent and non-partisan body should be established to oversee election rules" #cdnpoli #electoralreform #proportionalrepresentation

New episode of Sandy and Nora! We talk about the fascist takeover of CBS news and how Canada could be playing a role of information and truth defender in North America but instead, it can't, as our media has already longago been captured. sandyandnora.com/episode-344/

"Renewables accounted for 34.3 per cent of electricity generation globally in the first half of 2025, while coal accounted for 33.1 per cent. It's the first time renewables have overtaken coal, according to the report." #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #ClimateCrisis

"considering its entire life cycle, it’s far from clean, and it’s rife with problems — from uranium mining and transport to building and eventually decommissioning nuclear power plants" #cdnpoli #climateaction #nuclear rabble.ca/environment/...

“The people will stay here like the stars are stuck in the sky; they are not going to move as they shouldn’t, because our treaties say so. We should be unhindered, we should be unmolested and free to roam in our territories and our homelands” - Michelle Paul #Mikmaki #Unimaki #NSpoli #LandBack

“I’m upset for my children,” said Kukuwes Wowkis, Mi’kmaw land protector. “I’m upset for this bill that they are passing. I guess it doesn’t even matter if they are passing this bill we’re not going anywhere. They can try to cross our cedar line, we’re not going anywhere." #Mikmaki #Unimaki #NSpoli

I guess the "free market" will handle the rest: "the government pushed to end the fall sitting of the legislature potentially by the end of the week — just eight days after it started." #Mikmaki #NovaScotia #NSpoli #TimHouston

"How much money does the military lose in a day?" Sandy Hudson brings up a great question in response to news that Canada Post is not profitable, making the point that some services are not meant to make money. #CDNpoli #CanadaPost

"It wasn’t lost on anyone that the legislation comes just as a group of Mi’kmaw people are blockading roads near Tqamuoweye’katik (Hunter’s Mountain) in Cape Breton to prevent clearcutting." #Mikmaki #NSpoli #NovaScotia

"[more] supports for public plant breeding, policies related to the financialization of farmland and the need for public disclosure of corporate investments in agricultural lands, fair labour practices for migrant workers, use of on-farm data, artificial intelligence, and much more." #CDNpoli #CDNag

The Long Lake wildfire is now under control. It's a key milestone in any wildfire. Under control means the fire is responding well to suppression efforts. It is not expected to grow, but it is still not extinguished. Having reached this milestone, this is our last regular update.

Provincewide Burn Ban Lifted Except in Annapolis County news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/09/2...

"the US economy is mediocre at best, although the weaknesses have been disguised by the fact that the better-off have been doing just fine. The top 10% of earners account for almost half of consumer spending – the highest level since the late 1980s." #Trump #AI #FinancialCrisis #PoliticalEconomy

"Aside from this recent flurry of anti-capitalist rhetoric, it’s remarkable how little discussion in NDP circles there has been of our wealth-concentrating, ecologically destructive economic system. But challenging capitalism is more important than ever." #CDNpoli #NDP @yvesengler.bsky.social

“'I just kind of got tired of being reliant on and having big bills, as far as input bills,' he says, referring to the various inputs farmers rely on: fertilizers, pesticides, livestock feed, seed, energy and fuels and more." #CDNag #RegenerativeAgriculture #Organic #Agroecology

«Depuis son ouverture en 2023, le projet du village Treehouse à Bridgewater, en Nouvelle-Écosse, a réussi à attirer des personnes de toutes les générations. La communauté écologique offre aux résidents la possibilité de vivre collectivement avec leurs voisins.» #Acadie #NouvelleÉcosse #RiveSud

"On 31 July 2025, the Israeli army, using bulldozers and heavy machinery, laid waste to Palestinian heritage seeds and key infrastructure belonging to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UWAC)" #GazaGenocide #SeedSovereignty #CDNag #NFU

"A First Nation in central Nova Scotia that took the federal government to court over the contentious lobster fishery the band conducts outside the commercial season says it abandoned its lawsuit earlier this year in part due to litigation costs that had mounted to $572,073." #Mikmaki #TreatyRights

"Their demands include calls to 'put people over corporate profit,' 'refuse ongoing colonialism,' 'demand full immigration status for all,' 'end the war machine' and 'end the era of fossil fuels'." #CDNpoli #Canada #CommonFront #Carney #DrawTheLine #ClimateCrisis

"Despite threats from the RCMP to detain land protectors, the Mi’kmaw stand strong in solidarity to display their urgency to protect the mountain from further harm. They say the mountain means more to them then fear of detainment." #Mikmaki #Unamaki #NSpoli #NovaScotia #LandBack

Canadian Food Studies has started a new podcast called Digesting Food Studies "Episodes range from food justice to sustainability to intercultural identity, from the technologies of agriculture to the relationships embedded in Indigenous foodways." #CDNag #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #FoodJustice

This would be a fantastic Atlantic centrepiece for a revived and expanded Canada Wheat Board. Canada could once again assume a public marketing role to afford farmers stable commodity prices, creating food sovereignty for all Canadians. #cdnpoli #nspoli #CDNag #CanadaWheatBoard

"I would suggest that if people want to find a source for the recent ugly slur, they look first towards crazed right-wingers. It occurs to me that in the time it took me to write this, probably dozens more people, perhaps even hundreds or thousands, have been murdered in Gaza." #nspoli #novascotia

www.nfu.ca/parliamentar... What is more fundamental to our lives than seed? The Canadian government is set to remove the right to save seed for farmers on new varieties of fruit, veg, ornamental and hybrids. Sign the Parliamentary e-petition against this attack on food sovereignty. #food #canpoli

"A monthly update of the Canadian Drought Monitor shows many parts of the Atlantic region in the red, representing "extreme drought,"" #novascotia #CDNag

A disappointingly feckless response: "CBC spokesperson Kerry Kelly said in an email that CBC Sports will stream the tournament" #cdnpoli #nspoli #DavisCup

"Stelia Aerospace North America has confirmed that airplane parts produced at the company’s Lunenburg facility were part of the fighter jets used by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in the ongoing genocide of civilians in Gaza." #CDNpoli #NSpoli #Lunenburg #Gaza

N.B. academic says his name was included on Gaza genocide denial letter without his consent By @mmughees.bsky.social

Canada ought to have a National Labour Bank capitalized to lend to workers to buy their workplaces and turn them into worker coops. It would stop the companies from pulling this kind of empty capital flight threat nonsense anytime you try to regulate or tax them. #CDNpoli #NSpoli #CANlab

Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis and sycophantic newspapers will cheer on the bourgeoisie as they set the world on fire. #cdnpoli #climatecrisis

Today, over 600 food, nutrition, and agricultural scholars, students, workers, practitioners and organizations signed a letter demanding immediate escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people foodstudies.info/wp-content/u...

"In 2024, corporate Canada and the ultra-rich had $682 billion in assets stashed in 15 tax haven jurisdictions worldwide. That marks a 165 per cent increase from just ten years ago ... the combined value of every crane, tractor, transport truck, forklift, and MRI machine in Canada." #CDNpoli #NSpoli

"When people have household expenses, there's some things you can get away with not paying, and there's some things you really can't, ... So people often don't renew their prescriptions or they're unable to shop for groceries [to pay power bills]." #NSpoli #TakeBackNSPower #NSPower

Even the far-right, anti-tax hacks are against NS Power's corporate price gouging. #NSpoli #TakeBackNSPower

"Glyphosate is used by some woodlot owners to kill off species such as alders, aspen and pin cherry, reducing competition for more profitable softwood species and allowing them to grow faster. Previously, the provincial government provided PID numbers for where aerial sprays were approved." #NSpoli

This is about profits for shareholders. You don't raise capital from rate-payers to finance infrastructure, you get a loan or issue bonds for that. Emera and its business-class lackeys are utterly incompetent, and NS Power needs to be owned by the public again. #NSpoli #TakeBackNSPower

Indeed, for a federation of private coops. But the article omits the option of a crown corporation and coop-public partnerships. "Building nationwide chain of non-corporate grocers would be 'difficult and painful process'" #PublicGrocery #CDNpoli #FoodSovereignty #FoodCoop

"The best hope we have of tackling the climate crisis is for government, acting in the public interest, to create publicly-owned enterprises focused on developing clean energy alternatives." #CDNpoli #NSpoli #TakeBackNSPower

«le rapport de Migrant Right Network suggère des recommandations, comme un permis de travail ouvert, un accès universel aux soins de santé et au transport, une résidence permanente dès l’arrivée, des normes de logements contraignantes et zéro déduction pour le logement.» #CDNag #migrants #acadie

"We have downloaded much of our essential services onto non-profits and volunteers. Whether it is for firefighting, working to save the environment and wildlife, or supporting people who are unhoused, charity, it seems, is the way to go." #NSpoli #Neoliberalism #RuralFireService

"At the midpoint of 2025, Nova Scotia Power was using coal and petroleum coke for 35 per cent of its needs, while renewables made up 48 per cent of the energy mix. The remaining 17 per cent consisted of oil, natural gas and unspecified imports" #NSpoli #TakeBackNSPower #EnergyTransition

"A new report from the Migrant Rights Network warns that proposed reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program could force migrant farm workers to pay more for their substandard living conditions. " #cdnpoli #cdnag #migrantworkers #migrantrights #farmworkers

I say the longest ballot movement should aim for a two meter candidate list in the next by-election. And it should only get longer and longer until we have a citizen's assembly delegated to make a choice on electoral reform. No more FPTP elections! #cdnpoli #electoralreform

"More than 100 protesters gathered outside Halifax City Hall Tuesday to call for the cancellation of the upcoming Davis Cup tie between Canada and Israel, citing the latter country’s ongoing actions in Gaza as the primary reason." #NSpoli #NovaScotia #DavisCup #Gaza

"This is a big win for flight attendants that's going to force the federal government to re-evaluate how it intervenes in labour disputes going forward" Hopefully it also pressures companies to actually bargain, rather than stall and wait for government-forced arbitration. #cdnpoli #canlab

"the project will allow the province to recruit health staff who wouldn't have otherwise come to the area because of the difficulty in finding homes." #nspoli #southshore #housing

Wishing courage and solidarity to @dalfaculty.bsky.social and all its members. #keepdalstrong

The oh-so-August edition of Wild Talk. Five questions with Beach Pea. Illustrated by the incomparable @vanessa_mckiel. www.thebarnacle.ca/five-questio... @lunenburgbarnacle #localmedia #beachpea #nativeplants #novascotia #naturewriting

Heads-up folks in the 644 (upper Lunenburg, Kings, & Annapolis) "Springfield Fire - Report of a Brush Fire on Cherryfield Road in the Community of Cherryfield - 14:16 New Ross, Aylesford, New Germany & Northfield Fire to scene UPDATE: Lunenburg county assistance cancelled" #NovaScotia #Lunenburg

The province is utterly parched and on fire from the climate emergency, and livid about the prospect of uranium mining. But what do the bourgeois of Nova Scotia want to talk about? Fracking for gas! There is no limit to corporate greed. #NSpoli #NovaScotia #Fracking