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The provinces are the problem.
The provinces are the gatekeepers.
The provinces are undermining federal efforts to fix the housing crisis.
This is about politics, not building more housing. It’s why federal conservatives won’t say a word against Smith or Ford.
#cdnpoli
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@RHNintendo
@CultureCrave
Nintendo’s market cap of $56.3B USD is less than the acquisition cost of Activision Blizzard ($68.7B USD). Meanwhile Microsoft is worth $2.44T USD…
So this could not be more false.
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I’ve never been so happy to see a downpour before. Finally the rain we needed tonight in Halifax. Hoping this continues overnight and throughout the weekend, and that Shelburne sees the same.
@HRMFireNews
#NSFires
#Halifax
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I’m disgusted and offended with the replies to this tweet, considering the horror many in NS and Canada are living though. Climate change is responsible for the driest spring conditions I’ve ever seen in NS, and has caused wild fires in Tantallon and Shelburne.
#NSFire
Climate Change is real.
Thousands of Canadians are affected by the fires across the country. We will keep working to fight climate change and protect Canadians.
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@the_transit_guy
Literally paying $214k for a SUV that retails for less than $100k… and his interest rate would have to be like 25% 😳
Not the flex he thinks it is 🫠
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The more educated you are, the less likely you are to vote conservative… that’s very telling
#cdnpoli
Education:
Highschool or less:
🔵UCP 65%
🟠NDP 22%
University:
🟠NDP 58%
🔵UCP 30%
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@katynotie
It’s a slap in the face to all of Nova Scotia that days before this meeting, she announces she’s looking to Ontario on our own efforts to privatize healthcare in NS. Let’s call this what it really was: The first meeting of the Interprovincial Task Force on Privatizing Healthcare.
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It’s
@hfxburgerbash
& 152 restaurants across Halifax are participating. 86 located are on the Halifax Peninsula & only 1 (Darrell’s) is in the below area representing 1/3 of the peninsula (!!!). That’s because businesses are prohibited from existing within our communities.
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@TimHoustonNS
This is an irredeemably weak take from a government that spends $500M a year on roads, and $0 on public transportation.
And then to invoke the Chignecto Ithmus upgrades, which are to protect against sea level rise and reinforce dykes.
Just another Houston PR stunt. 🙄
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@KristinRaworth
He is referring to her as Danielle, because she spoke in favour of the carbon tax when she was private citizen Danielle (seen in the video her played of her), but now that she’s premier she’s lying about it. The irony is truly lost on you.
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@poitrasCBC
In 2018, NB healthcare spending was $2.75B. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $3.16B for 771k people ($4100/person). In 2022, healthcare spending was budgeted at $3.2B for 812k people ($3940/person). Blaine Higgs has effectively cut healthcare spending by 4% in the last 5 years.
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@TimHoustonNS
The cost of you not indexing income tax brackets until next year will cost the average household more out of pocket than the carbon tax increase, which at least increases the rebate as well.
You must really be concerned about your declining approval rating to tweet this.
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Halifax, a city of 500k people (20% without transit service), saw a ridership of ~30 million boardings in 2023. That’s 60 trips per person in HRM.
This would put Halifax between Edmonton and Boston on this chart. Imagine where we’d be if we invested more in transit.
#nspoli
Ridership continued to tick up in 2023, but remains behind 2019 levels in all major urban areas, US & Canada.
Per-capita, large Canadian urban areas continue to outperform US equivalents.
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@SeanFraserMP
Now deny Halifax’s application until they follow through with all of your requirements, including the 4 storey minimum Halifax Council voted against today.
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@TimHoustonNS
Indexing taxes to inflation is not a tax cut. It’s stopping a tax increase that would have occurred next year by default & that has already occurred 3 times under your government. Every other province already does this, which is why we have the lowest personal exemption amount.
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@FriendsHalifax
Absolutely disgusting take from the worst people in the city. Your disdain for others and for our city knows no bounds.
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@David_Moscrop
David did you ever think that for a lot of people the problem is they’re not willing to change plans/providers to get a better price? I’m still shocked when I hear from people not willing to change providers to save money while getting much more data.
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@acoyne
Canada was excluded by the pollster, not by the people being polled.
One can assume this is because there’s no world where Canada wouldn’t be on the same side as the US in a global conflict. It would be like polling people on how many hours there are in a day…
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@MatthewHalliday
Fun fact: The Ontario Provincial government spends roughly the same amount per capital on public transit that the Nova Scotia government spends on highways.
ON gov spends ~2.5x more on public transit than it does on highways.
NS gov spends virtually nothing on public transit.
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Amid the driest spring I’ve ever seen, with wildfires raging in my home of Nova Scotia, and across the country, this MP is trying to deny human caused climate change, and the role it’s playing in these wildfires. Disgusting. Reprehensible.
#NSFire
#nspoli
#cdnpoli
Conservative MP
@earl_dreeshen
on climate:
"It's been 60 years of catastrophic snake oil salesmen predicting different things that are going to happen.
How in ten years' time we're going to have cities flooded."
"Things change, climate changes, that's how we got our rivers."
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@Anthony__Koch
@AHousefather
@PierrePoilievre
My high school theatre is larger than this and it only holds 780 people… There were not 1400 people here. Just like the inflated numbers for the Halifax rally. Why does the CPC always need to lie about crowd sizes at their events? Insecure much?
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Breaking: Halifax council voted no to “Band-aid” solutions to homelessness, instead opts to do nothing.
In other news:
@nsgov
realizes $116M surplus, $622M better than forecasted. Still refuses to build public housing, invest in homelessness supports.
#halifax
#nspoli
#BREAKING
: Halifax council has voted no to putting tent encampments on two baseball diamonds in the heart of the city.
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@RoyceKoop
Here’s the clip (at double speed for times sake).
After describing several conservative MPs as either an ideologue or an insider, he says the Durham candidate is both.
“Pierre Poilievre’s new candidate in Durham is a twofer; he’s both an ideologue, and an insider.”
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@TimHoustonNS
“can be” is soft language, instead “will be” (along with guarantee of enforcement/application of fines) sends a stronger message and provides more deterrent.
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@vancolour
@MadAboutPaper
@jamiljivani
Imagine disingenuously defending someone else who’s also being patently disingenuous. You know that this was deceptively edited to exclude the full statement “(PP’s) new candidate in Durham is a twofer; he’s both an ideologue and an insider”.
@RoyceKoop
Here’s the clip (at double speed for times sake).
After describing several conservative MPs as either an ideologue or an insider, he says the Durham candidate is both.
“Pierre Poilievre’s new candidate in Durham is a twofer; he’s both an ideologue, and an insider.”
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@prairiecentrist
My favourite thing is that in order for this to move forward, a digital ID of some sort would have to be created… wasn’t it conservatives who opposed digital ID’s as a form of complete government control over their lives?
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@daleethompson
Dale I don’t like what the polls are say either, but that doesn’t make them fake.
Denying them is like denying climate change. You’re only screwing yourself over in the future.
The Liberals and NDP need to get serious and face reality. Otherwise they’re handing PP a majority.
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@harbourdisc
Just gonna leave this right here… while I unrelatedly point out that there are hundreds of millions in federal transit spending to be unlocked by NS through provincial funding commitments to transit projects…
@MatthewHalliday
Fun fact: The Ontario Provincial government spends roughly the same amount per capital on public transit that the Nova Scotia government spends on highways.
ON gov spends ~2.5x more on public transit than it does on highways.
NS gov spends virtually nothing on public transit.
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@JohnnyWarda
@CanadianPolling
Polling Canada has been supporting electoral reform for just as long.
Dear 2020's
Be a decade that gives us electoral reform
Lots of Love
Me
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@Tim_Bousquet
The seniors discount for shoppers is 55+, just something to keep in mind. For many, that 10% is a huge help.
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@867Gerry
I mean we learned during the last few years with the pandemic that for a surprising amount of people, their selfishness has no end.
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@maxfawcett
He doesn’t care who he pisses off, and I can’t say I blame him. His party already nominated someone else over him his riding’s candidate in the next election.
That said obviously a speaker should be willing to do this regardless of party and without political consequence.
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@starrydays17
@AngieMorriski
Not full, but they don’t need to be. The income from a $1800 apartment w/ long term tenants is $60/night. The same apartments are renting for $120-160/night plus fees on Airbnb. you only have to be booked half the time or less to make the same amount of money.
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@EricDLombardi
The claim is even more ridiculous than that. They’re claiming the $12.9B in new water infrastructure was needed to support 1/3 of the 35,000 units. That’s $1.1 million per housing unit.
I don’t believe this for a second.
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@echipiuk
Every heritage minister under Harper attended the Junos, and at least one presented an award. Harper even hosted and played piano for some nominees. I’m sure you criticized all of them for having more pressing matters to attend to, right?
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My partner moved to a rural NS community (family med resident doctor). She called
@Bell_Aliant
& got a June 27 internet install date. Bell didn’t come, said system didn’t process request & won’t do evening/weekend install. She starts work next week & can’t do 8-4 weekday install.
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@Spikels
@the_transit_guy
Even at twice the price the US can afford it. The fact that disproportionately little transit and rail is build in the US is the largest contributing factor to price inflation.
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@hannahmain
I understand where you’re coming from, but I’ve made s’mores twice in the last week in the oven 🤷🏻♂️ s’mores can also be cooked on CSA approved appliances, which aren’t included in the fire ban (not that I would do that currently). This isn’t the same as selling fireworks.
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@newsbag
@ReprtrPatHealey
@HRMFireNews
Councillor, are you confirming that it was not used at all, even during the 24 hours that this emergency was under HRM’s control, while 16,400 residents of HRM were being evacuated from their homes?
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@TimHoustonNS
After a woman tragically died at a public housing complex due to a compromised propane connection that was the result of excessive snow on the roof, was it still a PR stunt for the CBRM mayor to declare a local state of emergency?
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@TheoMoudakis
@TorontoStar
New F35 fighter jets: $19 Billion, *once*.
Federal government Canadian Health Transfers to provinces: $49.4 Billion, *annually*.
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Protecting the single family home areas (yellow) from even small multi unit building, causes sprawl and destroys wilderness areas such as the Purcell’s Coves Backlands. Supporting wilderness protection means also *actively* supporting dense developments.
#hrm
#halifax
Members of the Backlands Coalition spoke to CBC Mainstreet about why the Purcell's Cove Backlands is so important to protect from current and future development pressures. Read and/or listen here:
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@KristinRaworth
Important to note: fuel tax increase is both a higher % increase (44% vs 23%), and a higher $ value increase ($0.04 vs $0.03) than the carbon tax.
I’m sure people will express their outrage proportionally to the relevant level of government… right?
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@David_Moscrop
At 40k seats per game, and 6 games (240k total seats), it costs ~$1580 per seat to host these games.
Meanwhile 6 Taylor Swift concerts will only cost the city some increased police and public transportation costs.
The World Cup is a horrible deal for Toronto.
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@DonMillsHFX
@TimHoustonNS
A politician who caves to wealthy out of province property owners, that’s who you respect
@DonMillsHFX
? The revenue was committed to affordable housing. Exemptions for small, low value camps/cottages and military. This is simply caving to the wealthy. Spineless.
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@TimHoustonNS
You had a year to come up with a plan that would fall within federal guidelines for a new cap and trade system. You chose to sit on you hands and now we’ll have a carbon tax. Don’t blame the federal government for your incompetence, this is on you.
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@WilsonKM2
Careful Kevin, you might upset the delicate sensibilities of the people who chose to live near 2 major universities, and 5 minutes from downtown, and think their neighbourhood should emulate a small town…
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@atBenSmith
Pointing out a candidate was helicoptered in by CPC HQ to run in a riding he hasn’t lived in for more than a few months is not divisive or un-Canadian.
But homophobic mailers attacking a Candidate for past support of the LGBTQ community is divisive.
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@MZAF25
Density without adequate supply will always be expensive - that’s exactly what you see in cities like NYC, TO, London. I’d think a CPA would have a basic understanding of supply and demand.
Here’s the low density delusion: all of your services are subsidized by density.
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@KristinRaworth
While I don’t disagree with wishing to see more of this in politics today, describing O’Toole as “Classy as always” might be a stretch…
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@AgentTex1973
@cpsutherland
@brody_sv
Fun fact: the number of people without a doctor started to decrease prior to the pandemic.
The same people excusing Tim right now are the same who won’t acknowledge the positive actions the previous gov took, and that Covid both caused & exacerbated healthcare system problems.
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@sack_vegas
Build a time machine and go back to 1988 to stop the PC government from being elected, so that premier Donald Cameron couldn’t privatize Nova Scotia Power in 1992…
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@NorthEndMaureen
@Seebo429
They might be too polite to say it plainly, but that’s the opposite of what they were recognizing. Your wanton disregard for the vulnerable & the affects of climate change is repugnant.
Glad you don’t represent our riding anymore. Embarrassing.
On paper you'd think she'd be concerned about these sorts of things
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@BenRabidoux
Looking at it in the context of the massive decreases in population growth due to Covid (2020-2022), total population growth for the last 4 years at Q2 y/y values is 2.4 million, or 600k per year. That’s not much higher than it was at pre-Covid. Context matters.
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@meanderingemu
Canada Post Facility: 14.3 acres
Kempt Rd Car Dealships: 48 acres
Honda/Mazda/GM Dealerships: ~5.3 acres
Old Percy’s/Rona Vacant lot: 5 acres
Almon/Young St Vacant lot: 2.5 acres
Yes it should eventually be redeveloped, but I’d prefer vacant lots and dealships take priority.
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@tylermeredith
An economist who doesn’t adjust for population growth and uses self-serving frames of reference… it’s a shame economists don’t have professional organizations and ethical standards to govern their conduct…
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@harbourdisc
If it weren’t for a small few opposing it, they could also build more housing on their main campus, where most students study & where they own under-utilized properties…
University’s deserve blame for underbuilding housing, but their neighbours also deserve blame for NIMBYism.
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@maxfawcett
The biggest snowflake isn’t on your newly redesigned passport folks, the biggest snowflake is partisan hack John Ivison.
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@TimHoustonNS
“The municipality is self-funding the $6.5-million construction cost of the expansion”
The province may be paying for operating expenses but you’re not building anything here. Credit goes to the municipality & it’s inappropriate to put your name on this.
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Fair criticism of Halifax Council, however it’s ironic to condemn finger pointing while finger pointing himself for 3 minutes straight at a press conference, while doing nothing to help ease the housing shortage and increase housing construction.
#nspoli
The housing crisis facing Nova Scotia and the rest of the country is everyone's problem and not a time for pointing fingers, Premier Tim Houston told reporters Thursday before criticizing Halifax Regional Municipal council for almost three minutes and ac…
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@KristinRaworth
Where is this level of outrage when Poilievre refers to PM Justin Trudeau simply as “Justin” in the demeaning, childish tirades that he records and posts online?
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Having been at the meeting, ardent NIMBYs is Councillor Cleary putting it nicely. Other words to describe these people would be selfish and entitled.
#halifaxpoli
#halifax
Halifax councillor blames 'ardent NIMBYs' for abrupt end to meeting on 5,500-unit development
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The Halifax Regional Centre for Education’s enrolment grew by 2k last year and 8k in the last 5 years. Our schools are bursting at the seems and we need new schools to be opening every single year. The provincial government is failing at planning for growth.
#nspoli
#halifaxpoli
Province staying mum on details about 4 new schools planned for HRM
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@acoyne
They like their elites to speak down to their supporters, in simple, Anglo-Saxon words that make them think every complex problem can be solved with a three word slogan.
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@prairiecentrist
People deserve dignity in life, and dignity in death. How we govern and what we prioritize in our society determines the former, but MAiD ensures everyone has a right to the latter.
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@David_Moscrop
“The top 20 per cent of earners in Canada held 67.8 per cent of the country’s net worth in the first quarter, compared with the bottom 40 per cent holding 2.7 per cent.”
Funny how NatPost wouldn’t have this data in their article… 🤔
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What a tone deaf, elitist thing to say. We need to vote councilors like this off of council and vote in people who want to increase density and fix our housing crisis.
#halifax
Halifax councillor Pam Lovelace says affordable housing ‘not a good fit’ in a neighbourhood with $500,000 houses by
@Suzanne_Rent
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@Patrici33944223
@TimHoustonNS
Exactly. Saying you won’t *need* to pay, doesn’t mean there won’t be an option to pay for more timely private care. If he wants to stop people from having legitimate fears about this, he needs to promise to never charge for care currently covered under MSI, and follow through.
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Here's to hoping our Councillors do the right thing
Tune into the stream here:
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Canada currently has the strongest budget balance of any G20 country. You’d never know this by how the Federal government deficit is talked about by the opposition.
The IMF’s half-yearly update, released on Wednesday night, found Australia’s overall budget balance came in at -0.9% of gross domestic product in 2023, with only Canada’s budget position (-0.6%) faring better.
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@alexbozikovic
Even more embarrassing is their budget has kept up with both inflation and population growth (25%) over the last 25 years, but that’s only resulted in 0.6% more cops. The number of cops per capita has continuously gone down.
@joshuahind
In other words, the city’s population and real value of police budget have both grown by 25%, but that‘s only resulted in 0.6% more police officers..
All budget increases have essentially gone to equipment and raises above and beyond inflation…
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Sydney is going to get rapid transit before Halifax.. aren’t they? 🤦🏻♂️
#nspoli
An innovative proposal to bring Atlantic Canada’s first light-rail line to Cape Breton will receive funding from the Province to explore its potential
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@DeniseFriars
@tara_taylor
The (not so) funny thing is that come Monday, these “out of control” parties will look tame compared to 10000+ person Mooseheads games, full capacity maskless bars, and maskless retail stores. I might not agree with it, but this is what returning to “normal” looks like.
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@Tim_Bousquet
@Suzanne_Rent
The person standing next to the SUV could definitely be the NHS CEO Karen Oldfield.
(From the comments of this Hfxtraffic post)
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@WesternCanuck73
@prairiecentrist
A two income household living in Calgary, both making $75k, will pay $28.3k in fed & prov income taxes, $4.3k property taxes on average home (worth $662.3k) & $5.9k max on GST. That’s a maximum of 25.7% in taxes.
One income @ $150k would be 33.1% in taxes.
Stop lying.
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Creatively disguised shrinkflation…
News you can use.
Starting June 23, the limited edition 10-packs of buns from Wonder can be found at select grocery stores. Heinz ketchup and Wonder have partnered to broker a deal in which buns finally come in packs of 10.
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@hfxburgerbash
The good news is Halifax is currently looking at changing zoning laws to allow for missing middle housing across HRM, with even more allowed for most of urban Halifax and Dartmouth.
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@Captaincoby00
I love when people make haphazard comparisons between one time infrastructure investments, and ongoing, annual spending, like the Canadian Health Transfers (that Theo fails to mention) which currently sit at $50 billion, every single year.
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Some great advocacy & discussion on Housing Policy in
#Halifax
. I hope HRM Council will reassess 4 storey zoning & work w/
@AndyFillmoreHFX
& Federal Gov on other noted suggestions to increase density. Combined w/ building code changes & water/sewer upgrade funding from the Feds.
As Halifax MP I've been working with Housing Minister
@SeanFraserMP
to engage
@hfxgov
on the city's Housing Accelerator Fund application.
Council has made good progress in the last week but I believe we can go further to create more housing options.
My letter to the Minister ⬇️
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@Seebo429
Current outages: 378,322 out of 525000 Nova Scotia Power customers. That’s 72% of customers without power as of 4:22am.
#nsstorm
#HurricaneFiona
#novascotia
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@MarcLevesqueEco
The minister is pointing out that Canada as a country is doing better on inflation than any other G7 country, and it’s plan, which largely relies on the BoC adjusting its target rate as it sees fit, while providing affordability supports to those who need them most, is working.
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Nova Scotia reported 5 new Covid-19 deaths today, for a total of 16 over the past 7 days. The only deadlier 7 day periods during the pandemic was during the first wave in 2020 (with the Northwood outbreak), where 17 died each week of April 22-28 and May 2-8.
#nspoli
#COVID19NS
For the second day in a row, Nova Scotia is reporting 5 new COVID deaths today (Tuesday, Jan. 25) /thread
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This is
@hfxgov
council moving food and convenience even further from neighbourhoods and the people who use/need them most, when they should be doing the opposite.
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This is a promising proposal by Halifax Council. Transit corridor density, pre approved multi-unit plans & increased unit construction are good policy. I’d love to see up-zoning on all city lots to increase the impact of this.
#Halifax
#halifaxpoli
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I’m very happy to see this move forward; Gateway is a lifeline for so many people.
This needing a public hearing is ridiculous. There should be a “Public Interest” exemption for projects like this. If the local councillor supports it, a majority council vote should suffice.
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@liz_hallett
It looks like Karla stepped down right before turning 55. Any MLA that retires before 55 receives a transition allowance of one month’s salary for every year worked, plus $7500 for career counselling… She’s looking at +/- $100k in severance.
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@hfxburgerbash
What they don’t realize, is that without these protections given to their neighbourhoods, they already would organically densified, in a more gentle way. This is what we call missing middle housing.
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@BenMacLeod
@pottie_riley
@terrykhoyt1
@HRMFireNews
Thank you Ben. Far too people would just walk by and ignore it, even given the current circumstances.
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@Bell_Aliant
I have not yet been authorized on this account as it was just set up and I not yet moved to the community yet. She has contacted you multiple times & after long calls, explaining circumstance & internal escalation, no one was would approve an install that’s as not 8-4 Mon-Fri.
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@findlaysays
@TimHoustonNS
I’m not surprised he’s weaponizing the carbon tax against the feds, that way he’s got someone to blame when his plan inevitably doesn’t work. When the federal backstop is implemented, I predict him somehow finding a way to take credit for the rebate he’s currently ignoring.
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@BeerCanada
@cafreeland
“The April adjustment would be equivalent to approximately $0.0078 per 355 ml can of beer”
Calling an increase of less than a penny a “back breaker” is a bit of a stretch…
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