N.S. Premier Houston’s killing of the Coastal Protection Act was a “failure of leadership,” and a “failure” to have “a backbone.” Or maybe a selectively soft backbone that bends, like his knees, before wealthy developers and powerful industrial interests?

Translation: I don’t know how to work with people I can’t order around, so I’d like to set your elected councillors aside. Talk directly to me, and then I’ll tell council how I alone speak for the peopley.

Six sevennnnn

I dare #BikeHfx bike shops to put signs like this up.

Same.

[P] Similarly, I feel like we need to assemble a volunteer brigade of Understanding Dads to go around to the guys in this administration to give them hugs and tell them we're proud of them. I'm not saying it'd fix everything, but I'm ready to try anything at this point.

Nice pattern on the brick terrace

Are we doing the thing where we’re surprised and outraged it’s snowing in mid-March #HaliSky

Mark Carney, February 2026: "Let's build a more cooperative, resilient world together. Canada is ready." Mark Carney, also February 2026: "Let's cut 15% of the department responsible for Canada’s environmental policies, including advisors to cooperation programs around the Arctic."

The award for best press release goes to.... #canpoli #chillax

Driver: 30km/hr is way too slow for our roads! Also driver: hey cyclist slow down you’re going 20km/hr - You could kill someone!

People with access to public transit, what’s that like?

When the concessions are so grudging that they can’t even follow through with the concessions they did make. Reminder: the province is still giving $1M to a sailboat race for rich people from away

Note that SailGP is also getting $1M from the province, a grant which has been cut by $0 in the latest austerity budget. This is an event for billionaires and their toys.

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.” Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

2026 Frank Sinatra: Stop spreading the news

We don't need the Forum. We don't need community spaces. We don't need art. Or culture. Or universities. If we want a happy, healthy society, we just need Americans to come buy our resources.

Take a look at the list of reinstated grants - it's not even the tip of the iceberg. The NS premier thinks we're all stupid.

as long as tacos and katsu burgers don't get stuck in the strait of hormuz, my bike will keep running fine

The Houston government seems to have no idea where people like Anne Murray, Sarah McLachlan, or Joel Plaskett come from. They all had publicly funded music educations in Nova Scotia. Artist development doesn’t happen on its own. #nspoli

If I don’t print this anywhere, I’ll scream, and this is the most safe space. I am a music teacher in NS public school, the last time I received ANY funding from the government was 2016. I fund raise every cent. I get grants (gone). My kid’s summer job (gone), my kids internship(gone).

"Houston told reporters the government must also turn to the "revenue side of the equation," working to improve the economy through opportunities in natural gas and oil, natural resources and defence." Ok, so arts, culture, heritage cuts are revenue generators now, not a decade down the road.

"The arts are not a luxury good. They are a fundamental asset to any city or community," writes Sébastien Labelle. "The arts should not be treated as just an expense, but rather as an investment that yields strong returns, and can actually help fight a budgetary deficit."

There's a difference between feeling unsafe and uncomfortable. MLAs are not unsafe in Province House. Closing down the second floor to the public is a cowardly move. They did it because some of the MLAs feel uncomfortable with the cuts, and won't admit it.

Yesterday, Tim Houston said he values arts and culture workers even though he has cut funding. I also value you Tim...won't vote for you but I just wanted you to know how I feel. #nspoli

Journos, the next time you question Tim Houston, please ask him this: when you dropped the HST by 1%, was cutting arts and culture funding part of the plan? Because I want to know if this was a premeditated attack, or just blind incompetence. #nspoli

Tim Houston announcing that he's rolling back cuts to just enough things that folks who don't care about a livable environment, history or arts will be enough to sustain his stupid fucking tax cut. Keep the pressure going, folks, it clearly works.We got some stuff back for some marginalized folks.

Who did you think was paying for it

A: You know, it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young. FORD: Why, what did she tell you? A: I don’t know, I didn’t listen.

Don’t visit the United States or buy their products until this bullshit ends.

This feels like classic psychological abuse I am going to take away what you need and then give it back so you feel indebted to me

At Province House

Don’t stop. Cuts to arts and heritage have not been reversed. This has brought welcome scrutiny that has shown which special interests this government really serves. They have deliberately mismanaged their way into this crisis.

My favorite part of Houston's announcement was when he said resource extraction companies are going to come here, set up shop & spend money (before they destroy our environment & hide in tax havens). While ignoring that people who already live, work & spend money here are losing their livelihood.

Sending love to everyone going to the protest at noon. #nspoli

it's not even the 'business case' of it all, it's the utterly patriarchal and predatory insistence that imperfect victims can be disregarded. you should be begging, not yelling, and you should show me some goddam respect while I pick your pocket and i can't deal with you when you're hysterical.

Not to mention that the people in the tourism, arts and culture sector don't destroy nature, won't offload their clean up costs onto the public and will always be here driving economic gains for people who are actually doing something worthwhile instead of polluting the earth.

Imagine blaming arts funding for the deficit not the removal of the bridge tolls.

And he does this during a time when everyone is cancelling US travel and seeking destinations elsewhere. He needs to go NOW. If he can’t acknowledge growth opportunities in tourism at this moment in history- it’s clear that he’s been bought out by petrocapitalists.

The premier of Nova Scotia’s ENTIRE plan is based on oil and gas extraction. He just said it on air. That is his only plan. Our biggest industry is tourism and he just cut $$ to tourism, arts & conservation (all reasons why people come here).

“Business cases” 🤬 A 👏 GOVERNMENT👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 BUSINESS 👏 We give taxes to governments so they can do what businesses can’t. Provide vital services to everyone, not just those who can pay. Teach kids our history and traditions. Give dignity to seniors. Make this a safe and decent place to live.

The less Nova Scotians know about their past & feel connected to place, the easier it is for a government to redefine conservation areas & penalize people for not aligning use of land with exploitation. History is dangerous, writers in schools are dangerous, artistic critique of power is dangerous.

The perennial, privileged fallacy that the people directly affected by the harmful and reckless actions of this failure of a government need to be perfect and measured and well-behaved in order to be taken seriously is such patriarchal bullshit.

Timmy Thinskin: 'To the arts community: you are valued. You're why people choose to live in the province, and it's the arts that make life worth living. No funding, though, go utterly fuck yourselves. This deficit I manufactured is a real doozy and you're gonna need to suck it up, you hippy freaks.'

Welp. Protest at noon today. Game on.

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