colourful poster that reads: Nova Scotia Communities United. New Budget Now Rally. Tuesday March 10 at noon Province House, Halifax 1726 Hollis Street. Urgent! Advocate to your ML: Tools at NSARTS.ca.
The proposed cuts are a disaster. Govt could have made different choices. Tuesday. Noon. Province House. See you there.
'Lord Paul Boateng said the findings exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard...continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'
via @nimbuspub.bsky.social - BC has now made its support for book publishers permanent, just as NS defunds its program entirely, the *only* province in the country to eliminate publishing support for its stories and storytellers.
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A friend's partner took it. Probably the best photo I've seen in terms of capturing just how many people there were. I know several people who went and only ran into 1 because it was so busy!
a cardboard sign that reads: We are our stories
a cardboard sign worn by a person wearing winter boots and black pants. It reads: Small Towns in Nova Scotia depend on arts, museums, and cultural institutions.
two cardboard posters. The one on the left is in black ink and it reads "Arts Workers are Storytellers, Healers, and Community builders" The one on the right, in blue, reads, "You are Cutting Everything I moved here for"
aerial view of a giant crowd of people packed into single city block in front of Province House in Halifax. Province House is on the left of the photo.
Passion, commitment, grief, rage, and love: all in one place today. There were hundreds and hundreds of us in Halifax, and hundreds and hundreds more across the province, all rallying to support arts, culture, and heritage.
Arts, culture, heritage = the heart of us.
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Letters tied to a high cast iron fence. They read "TIM OUSTHIM", a play on the name of the NS premier, Tim Houston.
A blue sign with yellow and gold lettering that reads: More like DEFUNDING Nova Scotia. There are people standing around the sign.
An archway outside a stone building. There is a red sign that reads "Land Back" in front of it. There are crowds of people facing the building.
people holding signs. One person is signing a poster that reads: "Should the cuts pass we the undersigned hereby pledge to boo Tim Houston and his complicit stooges loudly at every opportunity."
A great day for a rally. It's too bad we need to protest, but here we are. Shoulder to shoulder. Same time. Same place. Tomorrow in support for arts and culture.
Scotians — Houston’s ‘drill baby drill! / mine baby mine!” obsession is GUTTING wildlife protection and conservation. Please don’t let him do this to future generations- our kids deserve better. Call your MLAs. Houston has to go.
#NSpoli
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
A screen capture of posters for ten different rallies to protest the NS budget. Details for each rally can be found at the link in this post.
Angry about the NS budget? There are rallies across the province this week. Find your rally here: www.nsarts.ca/join-a-rally...
Rally for Arts Wed March 4th 12:00 pm / Noon @ N.S. Legislature!
Screencap of an email from me to claudiachender@nsmla.ca and claudiachendermla@gmail.com (she replied from the second email), cc'ed to FinanceMinister@novascotia.ca, MIN_CCTH@novascotia.ca, PREMIER@novascotia.ca, advocacy@nsarts.ca. Dear Claudia Chender, MLA, I am writing to add my voice to the many folks bewildered and angry about the Conservative austerity budget just announced. I know you likely agree with me already, but hope that you can sway your Conservative colleagues. Significant cuts to funding for Arts, Culture & Heritage are included. I think it's important to note that there is no fiscally conservative argument for these cuts. Every time anybody studies arts, culture, and heritage funding, they find that it more than pays for itself: for example, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 report Artworks: The Economic and Social Dividends from Canada’s Arts and Culture Sector found that every $1 invested in the arts generates $29 of economic activity. Arts, Culture & Heritage contributed $2.6 billion in GDP and supported 22,000 jobs in this province in 2023 alone. I urge the government to abandon any cuts to Arts, Culture & Heritage. We can't afford to cut this funding and lose that economic activity. The ripple effect in tourism, hospitality, industry, in the grocery stores and gas stations and restaurants and shops frequented by visitors to Nova Scotia, will be devastating. Cuts to youth-focused arts programming and education will negatively impact our literacy. Especially after the disruptions of Covid, our students don't need to have enrichment opportunities taken away. (Text is too long for alt-text. Will put in replies with the links.)
Shoulder to Shoulder: We Are All Treaty People Nova Scotia Legislature - Kjipuktuk Rally: Tuesday, March 3 - 12:00 pm Meet on Granville Street behind the N.S. Legislature building. Bring your community banners, signs, flags and regalia. Bring your drums, songs and prayers. Together, let's tell Tim Houston to stop selling our futures, and demand that he respect the Treaties, our democratic rights and our community voices!
Oh byes I am pissed. Here's what I wrote to my MLA, the blameless Claudia Chender, and here's where I will be next Tuesday and Wednesday instead of working on my next novel.
Rally images stolen from @ecologyaction.bsky.social and Page 1 Theatre on IG. @timhouston.bsky.social #NSpoli #JesusMurphy
Earlier this week, Nova Scotia drastically cut funding to all the cultural amenities that studies show drive revenue to communities year over year. (like ALL funding to book publishers). Beyond irresponsible and apparently accountability is not on the table.
why does the minister of communities, culture, tourism, and heritage have a gmail account for his constituency office? and why can't he explain why he cut so many things from his budget? Repeating "I'll get back to you", over and over, is not an answer.
Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
But AI is useful in some cases, they said.
Can we just fucking stop and test things properly before shoving the "confidence of a cis white man" machine out the door?
#fuckai
Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster Why then did you take down the “Einstein” chatbot? 1:22 AM · Feb 26, 2026 · 67 Views Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 16h Cease and desist Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster · 15h Really? Presumably from Canvas/Instructure, right? Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 7h Due to the name Einstein
In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website.
He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.
red text inside a red border. The text reads: "Arts, culture, and heritage are the lifeblood of a place. Through them, we know who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be in the future. They are the stories of us."
A poster with a blue border. Along the bottom there are orange and red abstract images of placards. The text reads: "Did you Know? Arts and Culture addes $989 million to Nova Scotia's GDP and accounts for more than 14,000 jobs, employing more people than farming, fishing and forestry combined. Culture cuts = Bad economics. Source: Culture Satellite Account (2020). RALLY FOR ARTS & CULTURE. WED MARCH 4, NOON, PROVINCE HOUSE, (1726 HOLLIS STREET, HALIFAX)
Today was supposed to be an intensive research/ writing day.
Instead, I spent the first part of it writing a letter to my premier and MLA to protest the govt's short-sighted and poorly-informed cuts to arts, culture, and heritage.
Rally next Wed, March 4 at noon at Province House. See you there.
Look at the premier and mining company officials, all cloaking themselves in the NS tartan, the original of which is in a provincial museum facing significant budget cuts. Arts, culture, and heritage are low on this govt's priority list, unless it's for a photo op.
NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
The museum that exhibits the Wool Mural in which my grandmother, Bessie Murray, created her first sample of Nova Scotia Tartan, faces intense budget cuts & closures. What will happen to the community, artifacts, & the people who keep history alive? #NovaScotia #Museums #Barrington #CapeSable #Tartan
already 12 degrees above normal and a forecasted 20 degrees in Paris on tomorrow. Yikes.
Poster features large green text in the middle that reads: SEEDS. Below it is an imge of a book, with a seedling sprouting out of the centre. The rest of the text reads: Draft Readign Series and Inkspire present: Via Zoom Saturday, Feb 21 2026 11 am to 5:30 pm. In person St. Mattehw Clubhouse 450 Broadview Toronto Sunday, Feb. 22 2026 11:00 am to 7 pm. SEEDS FESTIVAL. Whether travelling, germination, or lying dormant, seeds embody possibility. On the weekend of February 21-22, 2026, the Draft Reading Series will invite writers to meditate on the metaphorical and physical seeds that animate their lives.
Coming up tomorrow and Sunday: the SEEDS Festival organized by the Draft Reading Series!
The University of Prince Edward Island is hiring a historian in Atlantic Canadian history! Details below…
www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...
Austerity Andy is looking to increase his own office’s budget to hire additional staff.
#AfricanHeritageMonth Reading
"Critical Cycling: Race and Memory On an Old Stagecoach Route" by Jacqueline Scott
niche-canada.org/2021/11/17/c...
#blackhistorymonth #cdnhist #cdnhist #blackhistory #ontario #cycing
Looking forward to reading as part of the SEEDS festival put on by Draft Reading Series - Saturday is all online and Sunday is in person for folks who are in Toronto!
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
why free public transit is a good thing. Take note @hfxgov.bsky.social - you could do it, too, if you wanted.
Vulnerable communities are being targeted by right-wing, bad faith personalities in the wake of a national tragedy.
Media can ensure they’re following best practices & avoid stoking an increasingly emboldened hate movement.
@transjournalists.org guide + more resources for covering Tumbler Ridge:
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”
