John George McCracken
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Labour Communicator, CUPE Comms Rep. for 26 years - 10 in ON, 16 in NS & NL. Worked in radio news for 10 years prior to that. #nspoli #cdnpoli #canlab #unions
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@alexboutilier
Canyon said changes under the Trudeau Liberals, including the federal carbon tax, have hurt “moms and dads” who are trying to pay for hockey and dance classes.
The federal carbon tax does not apply in Nova Scotia.
#nspoli
#cdnpoli
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Still trying to figure out why there’s ‘political gridlock’ in Canada on the
#ClimateEmergency
?
Let’s start with all four premiers in Atlantic Canada opposing
#CarbonPricing
.
#Troglodytes
@TimHoustonNS
@premierbhiggs
@FureyAndrew
@dennyking
The blazes consuming huge swaths of Canada's forests have made it impossible to ignore the impacts of climate change. Now, the challenge is breaking the political gridlock to do something about it
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Hey
@atlanticsuperstore
and
@LoblawsON
, at least have the guts to admit that this is about your expansion of
#SelfCheckouts
and the increased shoplifting that has resulted from that.
“Inventory accuracy”? Don’t insult our intelligence!
#Greedflation
#Loblaws
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If the tiny Kingswood Market (independent grocer) can sell chicken tenders for $3.99 lb and boneless/skinless chicken for $4.99 lb., what’s your excuse
@sobeys
@AtlSuperStore
?
#PriceGouging
#Greedflation
#Halifax
#GroceryOligopoly
#Sobeys
#Loblaws
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@acoyne
The
@FraserInstitute
, Andrew?
You can’t be serious.
“The Fraser Institute research is crap,”
@steelegr
, former
@NSFinance
minister and Rhodes Scholar.
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@mammolitiward7
Dude, this is not Alabama. It’s Canada. We have this thing called the separation of church and state. Have you been living under a rock your entire life?
#TOpoli
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PRO TIP FOR HOCKEY FANS: So-called
#ReverseRacism
is not actually a thing. Racism can only travel in one direction - from the dominant group to the group being oppressed.
Like all 'isms', it's about power!
#jessicaallen
@stephenlautens
@TheSocialCTV
@CTVNews
Unlike Don Cherry,
#jessicaallen
of
@TheSocialCTV
apologizes for a much milder comment, but hundreds of fragile 6-follower Twitter accounts still call for vengeance on behalf of oppressed white people everywhere.
#cdnpoli
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JOHN MILLER: Closer scrutiny of
@globalnews
’s reporting practices on the Han Dong case raises some serious ethical journalism questions.
#cdnmedia
#cdnpoli
#ElectionInterference
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Took some family visitors to Peggy’s Cove yesterday, and it has come to this.
Security guards with whistles now on hand to try and prevent idiots from going on the black rocks!
We heard the whistle several times while we were there.
#CantFixStupid
#NSTourism
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@fordnation
That’s weird. I live in Nova Scotia and our gas prices are almost identical, yet we’ve agreed to a
#CapAndTrade
system that’s a type of
#CarbonPricing
.
Me thinks you doth make too many false claims!
#onpoli
#DougFord
#GravyCamper
#BuckABeer
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@KatzOnEarth
@Jason_Chatfield
A company called
#BrunswickNews
owns every single newspaper in New Brunswick. That co. is owned by the Irvings, who basically own the whole province.
@TJProvincial
@DailyGleaner
are two of the larger papers. They are notorious for threatening reporters w. lawsuits.
#cdnmedia
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Nova Scotians are about to find out if we’re ‘carting before the horse’ again.
@deAdderCanada
#COVID19NS
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Absolutely ridiculous decision!
“The RCMP advised that the premier should not participate out of concern for his safety and that of other participants. We simply felt the risk was too great to justify participating,"
@TimHoustonNS
's office.
#nspoli
#nspc
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Grabbed this pic at
#Halifax
@thefilmfest
screening of
@ellenpage
film ‘There’s Something in the Water’. Sold out in 3 theatres!
Every Nova Scotian needs to see this film, starting w. premier
@StephenMcNeil
.
#NoPipe
#StopAltonGas
@TownShelburneNS
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Two Canadian provinces with approximately the same population are at opposite ends of the spectrum, for average daily
#Covid19
cases per million.
Saskatchewan is highest with 135, while Nova Scotia is second lowest at 1.2.
#ScienceMatters
#covid19SK
#covid19NS
#covid19Canada
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@VarunSriskanda
Are you sure you’re “not encouraging it”?
Because it sure sounds like you are.
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@CullitonHugh
@jdeq
@gmarie55
Early in the pandemic, someone said, “A pandemic is like taking an X-Ray of a society’s class structure.”
#EssentialWorkers
#LivingWage
#housingcrisis
#SheCession
#thankagroceryworker
#canlab
#BuildBackBetter
#JustTransition
#cdnpoli
#LTCjustice
#childpoverty
@deAdder
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“At best what we see here is gross incompetence; at worst it’s corruption and colluding with developers,”
@maritstiles
.
#SteveClark
#Greenbelt
#onpoli
#DougFord
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Guaranteed you’ve never seen
#Halifax
municipal councillor
@LindellSmithHFX
, District 8 - Peninsula North quite like this!
@hfxgov
Fantastic job at tonight’s fundraiser for Mental Health Nova Scotia.
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@BoydMath
DST is the biggest farce going. Our apparent inability to ditch this archaic practice doesn’t bode well for our chances of addressing more critical issues like, say, saving the planet from climate catastrophe.
#DaylightSavingsTime
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@peterbakernyt
By nobody he means himself. If HE hasn't pointed a finger, then the Saudis can't be to blame. This is what
#MalignantNarcissism
looks like. There are no other perspectives that matter to
#POTUS45
.
@washingtonpost
@CH_Cartoon
#Kashoggi
#SaudiArabia
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As a Nova Scotian, I am embarrassed by Peter MacKay.
The guy is too thick (ambitious?) too realize that his own Tweet is completely “politicizing” the Nova Scotia tragedy.
#cpc
#cdnpoli
I don’t usually comment on partisan issues, but how could he put this out after what N.S. has just endured.
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@THR
Immigration, workers’ rights, equality. Bourdain was not only acutely aware of his white, male privilege, he used it to change people’s (particularly North Americans) perspective on the world.
That is 61 damn good years on this earth.
@PartsUnknownCNN
@CNN
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Two cash registers open the day after a holiday at
@AtlSuperStore
in
#Tantallon
.
Hey
#Loblaws
, want a can’t miss staff retention idea? Pay them a GD
#LivingWage
!
@sophiaharrisCBC
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@ChantalHbert
receives her Honourary Doctorate from
#Dalhousie
U. in
#Halifax
.
@TorontoStar
#cdnpoli
@GlendonCollege
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Just so we're clear about what
@TimHoustonNS
is doing here - he's aligning himself with the F*CK TRUDEAU crowd.
The guy who assured Nova Scotians he was not like those Tories in Ottawa.
#CarbonPricing
#nspoli
#nspc
#CPC
#Poilievre
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Picketing at DND on Windsor Rd. in
#Halifax
with
@NSNDP
MLA
@GaryBurrill
, Ivy Shaw
@cupw
, Bill Kroeger
@psac_afpc
, Dave Shaw
#PSAC
, and Audrey McCracken,
#CUPE
L. 2190.
#psacstrike
#canlab
#cupe
#Solidarity
#nslab
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Nova Scotians have good reason to believe this is a dubious claim from
@nspowerinc
.
#nspower
#nsstorm
#hurricanelee
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What is it about our culture that instantly bestows intelligence on celebrities and athletes, even though there’s no evidence of same?
Story
@alex_n_boyd
.
#JamieSale
#FigureSkating
#AntiVaxxer
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NS Premier stops just short of referencing 1950's TV show,
#FatherKnowsBest
.
“Just like the old days,” said Tim Houston. “It worked then and it will work now.”
@dartjenhen
Houston didn’t know how many teachers the province is short.
#nsed
#NSTU
#nspc
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Every now and then, people restore your faith in humanity.
NDP wins Manitoba election as Wab Kinew set to become first First Nations provincial premier in Canada
#SearchTheLandfill
#cdnpoli
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Lisa Beddow owns six for-profit childcare centres. Six.
She has been making bank courtesy of
@nsgov
subsidized spaces.
All the while, she has been paying her ECE’s poverty wages.
#cdnchildcare
#nsed
#nspoli
@larochecbc
@cupenovascotia
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@anitavandenbeld
@cathmckenna
@LoblawsON
@MonaFortier
What would be really great is if billionaire
#GalenWeston
paid his employees a living wage!
#Loblaws
#canlab
@LoblawsON
@LivingWageCDA
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@LisaBarrettID
@neluunaa
Went to a performance at Rebecca Cohn last weekend and masks were mandatory for all in attendance!
@DalhousieU
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You can forget about all of the "We've got your back, Nova Scotia" rhetoric coming from Tim Houston.
He works for the landlords.
@ipoans
@zwoodford
@nsgov
is refusing to close a huge loophole in the rent cap.
#FixedTermLeases
#nspoli
#RentControl
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Pumped to see the
@EllenPage
documentary “There’s something in the water” tonight in
#Halifax
. Based on
@iwaldron2165
book of same name from
@fernpub
.
@HfxExaminer
story by
@joan_baxter
.
#EnvironmentalRacism
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"Our firefighters are going to be here for days and days. When this fire is knocked down, there is still a lot of work to be done to dig out any hidden fire in the ground. This will be a prolonged operation and folks should be prepared for that."
#Halifax
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This pandemic has exposed the dirty little secret about the billionaire families who own Canada's grocery chains.
They've amassed their fortunes on the backs of workers who they've exploited for decades. No union, shit wages, no pensions, PT jobs.
#Sobeys
#Loblaws
#canlab
#UFCW
"The worst thing is knowing that others are safe at home, collecting their $2,000, while we get up, go to work, risk our lives and don't make nearly that much ... Do you have any idea how discouraged and disappointed we feel?" says one grocery clerk.
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@deAdder
For more on the ruthless empire that runs an entire province, see:
@don_bowser
@livesey416
@poitrasCBC
#NBPoli
#Irvings
@markcritch
@deAdder
So let's start speaking about the central asianesque oligarchy that runs
#newbrunswickistan
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@JamesRHutt
"Do your job,” was message of a resident holding a sign in front of a police cruiser.
Clearly frustrated Ottawans took matters into their own hands Sun. morning, blocking about 25 vehicles, mostly pick-up trucks bedecked w. Cdn. & US flags, for hours.
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Spectacular sunset over St. Margaret’s Bay tonight.
It feels like Mother Earth is mourning a great loss.
#NovaScotia
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@mini_bubbly
The exact same thing is happening w. federal funding that was supposed to help provinces transition away from for-profit
#cdnchildcare
.
Provinces like NS have been extending the funding to private childcare centres.
@BeckyDruhan
has buckled to biz pressure.
@ChildCareNowNS
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RT to give a MASSIVE shout out to all of the local media workers who’ve been keeping Canadians informed and engaged during these unprecedented times!
Especially in Nova Scotia, where an entire province is mourning ‘in isolation’.
#LocalNewsMatters
#cdnmedia
#Halifax
#canlab
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Imposing contracts on workers has proved costly in the past, with the previous Liberal govt. doing so in 2012.
Since then, courts have ruled in favour of teacher unions, paying out more than $210M to the unions, including CUPE.
#onpoli
#cupestrike
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El Jones: If we don’t talk about how Bell makes money off mental illness and incarceration, we also aren’t talking too much about mental illness and prisons.
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It is long past time to unionize this sector.
A banner year in pandemic retailing meant millions of $$ in bonus pay for execs at two major co.'s – and at least hundreds of millions more for the families who control them.
#canlab
#CanadianTire
#Loblaws
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I was just at
@AtlSuperStore
in
#Tantallon
and there is a similar setup there in the parking lot.
Many volunteers who appear to be staffing a ‘pet centre’ for lost and found animals. They had pet food & other supplies there too.
We should be inspired by these humans.
#nsfire
We are setting up as a hub for lost pets on the Bedford side of the fire.
#HammondsPlains
#nsfires
Pampered Paws Inn is organizing a walk around the perimeter.
2256 Larry Uteck Blvd
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Did you catch that,
@BeckyDruhan
? NOT-FOR-PROFIT.
@JustinTrudeau
said the money will be rolled out over four years to help providers renovate, retrofit and build new not-for-profit and public child-care facilities.
#cdnchildcare
#ECE
#canlab
#CUPE
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The Emperor is not going to be pleased with this one.
Thank you
@CH_Cartoon
for not pulling any punches on
@StephenMcNeil
choosing his EIGHTH trip to China, over observing Remembrance Day here in Nova Scotia.
#nspoli
#NSLiberal
#LestHeForget
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PRO TIP for
@united
CEO
#OscarMunoz
: if it takes 3 apologies to get it right...you don't actually know what right is.
#UnitedAirlinesAssault
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The entire length of Spring Garden Rd. was filled with protestors this evening, in this
#TakeAKnee
rally.
I’ve organized countless rallies and this looked like more than 3,000 people taking to the streets of
#Halifax
.
#blacklivesmattercanada
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RICK HOWE: All of this seems not to matter to
@StrangRobert
. The man who led this province through two years of restrictions has seemingly given in to political and business pressure.
As I see it, Strang has thrown in the towel.
#covid19NS
#TimHouston
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@biancabharti
@Sportsnet
@ShreeParadkar
@RonMacLeanHTH
@Rogers
@timandsid
@MaryPCampbell
@CBSpectator
MC: Those defenders asking me to believe that when
#DonCherry
said “you people” he was referring to “all Canadians”, are asking me to ignore that the actual reference, however garbled, was to you people “that come here” by which he clearly meant immigrants.
#BobbyOrr
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Hey
@TimHoustonNS
, you claim you're a
#Solutionist
: here's a $200 solution right under your nose!
For the past two weeks Matt Grant and Steve Wilsack have rounded up 14 storm-proof, 36 square foot shelters.
#Halifax
#GrandParade
#nspoli
#homelessness
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"The Mill: 50 Years of Pulp and Protest" documents
#NorthernPulp
's environmental record and
@nsgov
decisions that led to pollution of lagoon near Mi'kmaq First Nation over past 5 decades.
@EllenPage
refers to
@joan_baxter
's work as a "must read".
#NoPipe
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@globeandmail
As a Nova Scotian, I am urging you to take this story down. This is not about the shooter. This headline is an insult to the family and friends of the victims who are dealing with unimaginable grief.
Please do not show his picture or use his name.
#cdnmedia
#globeandmail
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The editors who write the headlines
@SaltWireNews
may as well have tied a pretty bow around this one for
@TimHoustonNS
:
'Premier acknowledges carbon tax will punish Nova Scotians at the pumps, places full blame on Ottawa'
#CarbonPricing
#ClimateEmergency
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The part
#TimHouston
isn't saying.
@BruceFriskoCTV
A single person in Nova Scotia will get a cheque for $124 four times a year, while a family of 4 w. children under 18 will collect $248, just shy of a thousand-dollars total.
#CarbonPricing
#nspoli
#nspc
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"I was really disgusted. I thought it was really adding insult to injury after all the price gouging," said John McCracken, referring to claims Loblaws has inflated grocery prices — which the retailer denies.
Story by
@sophiaharrisCBC
.
@AtlSuperStore
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If one goes to the federal govt. job board, they will find that these valued educational workers in our great province of Nova Scotia are by far the lowest paid of any prov. in our country. What does that say about us? We should feel such shame.
#cupe5047
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Having been in Europe for the last 10 days, I can honestly say Canada is in the Dark Ages on this.
#BigOil
& the auto industry are mostly to blame.
@UdaySRana
Can high-frequency rail help growing transport woes in ON & Quebec?
#cdnpoli
#ViaRail
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Tireless fighter for the rights of indigenous children in Canada,
@cblackst
receives her honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University at today’s
@SchulichLaw
convocation.
#FirstNations
#Reconciliation
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@premierbhiggs
It’s a novel, Mr. Premier. The bible is fiction.
Also, you don’t get to ‘infuse’ your public messages with your personal, religious beliefs. In Canada, we have separation of church and state.
At least for the time being.
#4MyCanada
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@joemancinelli
@Sflecce
Didn’t your union endorse Doug Ford in the recent provincial election?
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@stphnmaher
All three of my children went there, and I couldn’t be happier about this decision.
#AboriginalLivesMatter
#Halifax
#nsed
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This is what happens when a municipality contracts out a big part of its snow and ice removal.
Hey
@hfxgov
, you get what you pay for.
#HRM
#Halifax
#nsstorm
@CUPELocal108
@902MarkC
@cupenovascotia
@HalifaxLabour
@hkryan17
@Suzanne_Rent
@TVeinotteShow
@thesmacleodshow
I have my two shovels in the closet jext to the door in case I feel like I have to fix the curb cuts/corners, area around the crosswalk buttons over the next couple days.
I am- as usual- the dipshit with a shovel.
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GLENN ELLS: When I was appointed minister of
@ns_environment
in 1978, it was quite a shock to learn that over half my budget was going to the Pictou County pulp mill to operate the facilities that supplied water and accepted untreated effluent.
#NSPoli
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What does it say about the state of Nova Scotia politics, that every one considered a potential new premier is a White male?
No women. No diversity. In other words, status quo.
#nspoli
#canfem
#cdnpoli
@EqualVoiceNS
@toddveinotte
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Chief Paul, “Northern Pulp you are
#fakenews
. You continue to play these games. You continue to find ways to create division and ill-feelings.
#31January2020
Honour the Boat Harbour ACT.”
#NSpoli
#Pictou
#NoPipe
#NoExtension
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@Tim_Bousquet
Just as the Doug Ford government’s changes benefitted just a handful of developers, so too did the Tim Houston govt.’s changes benefit a handful of developers.
#EisnerWetland
#JohnLohr
#RichardButts
#Halifax
@eisnerwetland
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Aside from being one of
#Halifax
’s most legendary establishments, The Ardmore Tea Room (est. in 1958) also boasts the cheapest Eggs Benny in the city!
#BuyLocal
#ClassicRestos
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"Obviously, my future govt. will do exactly the opposite of Trudeau on almost every issue. But that does not mean that businesses will get their way. In fact, they will get nothing from me unless they convince the people first," Pierre Poilievre, May 3, 2024.
@deAdderCanada
#CPC
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.
@Tim_Bousquet
on the new pool at the Halifax Common, which opened yesterday:
This is what city govts. should be doing: building and maintaining nice facilities for the people who live here, not throwing millions into a money pit for visiting conventioneers.
#HRM
@MikeSavageHFX
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How about we don't blame the
#InternationalStudents
...and blame the predatory universities and colleges that have been aggressively recruiting them w. false promises.
#CBU
#CBRM
#postsecondary
#HousingCrisis
#StudentHousing
@cbuniversity
@cfsns
@selinarobinson
, B.C.’s minister of post-secondary education, said
@bcndp
govt. will introduce a new “framework” this year enforcing tougher standards on schools that teach foreign students.
The framework would also ban “surprise” tuition hikes for international students.
#CBU
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Three months into a pandemic and
@StephenMcNeil
has come to the stunning realization that ‘pinky swearing’ may not have been the best enforcement model for Americans coming to Nova Scotia.
#covid19ns
#nspoli
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@IainTRankin
Nova Scotians are counting on you to hold up your end of the bargain, Mr. Premier.
Time for
#PaidSickDays
for workers who can't even afford to take time off to get tested!
#covid19NS
#nslab
#nspoli
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Two years ago, the
@PEIgreens
had the support of 9% of Islanders. By last year, they’d risen to 18%, before bounding to 38% this fall, topping all other parties, including the governing Libs.
#peipoli
#nspoli
#nbpoli
#ClimateAction
#cdnpoli
@PEINDP
@NSNDP
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“One of the recommendations from the 2018 report crafted by the Commission on Inclusive Education is to better train teacher assistants, to better pay teacher assistants and to give them the respect and recognition they deserve,”
@AllyGarbs
.
#cupestrike
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@AliceVincit
@IamPDJT000001
@Brimshack
@realDonaldTrump
The 2008 collapse occurred precisely because of an unregulated banking industry. That’s how subprime loans were allowed to happen. Have people forgotten this already?
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