The minimum wage went up in all 4 Atlantic provinces today- Nova Scotia had the smallest increase (20 cents) & we now have the lowest minimum wage in Atlantic Canada- why don’t the carbon tax protesters start protesting that? Poverty wages are criminal!
Imagine waking up in the morning, making yourself a up of Joe, kissing your partner goodbye & telling each other to have a good day, and then getting in your car knowing you’re on your way to tear down tents, fine homeless people, & destroy what little personal items they have
Yeah sex is cool, but have you ever had a late night full of data analysis that makes you genuinely excited to write the rest of your thesis ???
#AcademicTwitter
#gradschool
WE WON! STOP ALTON GAS HAS WON!!!!! This is HUGE and we owe it all to the grassroots grandmothers & water protectors❤️😭
Wela'lioq - WATER IS LIFE!
#StopAltonGas
#WaterIsLife
These are some screen grabs of my favourite moments from
@LilNasX
“that’s what I want” - this song & video are fun, catchy, beautiful, sad, and more.
Yes to queer representation. Yes to gay representation. Yes to Black queer representation. Yes yes yes !
THAT’S WHAT I WANT
There is a SUPER yacht in the Halifax waterfront & some news outlet reported on it (eye-roll) & I commented & well… it’s sad to see how indoctrinated people are 😭
If we all work hard someday we can all have super yachts??
When folks were defending shelters and tents for the houseless (while all wearing masks!) they were pepper sprayed, beaten, arrested, and some were even sexually assaulted- all at the hands of police.
But when thousands of white college kids want to get drunk 🤷🏼♀️
Trudeau- “you, with the cool glasses!”
Me- “oh me? Well you stated that we have universal healthcare but I disagree - we don’t have universal healthcare. When I didn’t have benefits I didn’t go to the dentist, I didn’t go to therapy or the eye doctor, so I’m wondering..
Last week I tweeted about how children should not have to rely on schools for food. Saltwire reached out & asked me to write a piece about this- & I’m so glad they did.
Time to tackle poverty- time for paid sick days for all, a liveable wage, & housing for all!
You all know that just because you’re a small business doesn’t mean you’re a good person or a good business right? Like small businesses are not exempt from being awful to their employees
"please stop, please" "you're hurting us"
I am ashamed. I am disgusted. This is Canada. This is Neo-Colonialism. This is Genocide continued.
#ShutDowncanada
#wetsuwetenstrong
If we are going to keep schools open during the worse surge of the pandemic then we need to vaccinate teachers and school workers and we need to do it yesterday
I know I got too passionate & showed my anger today while speaking at the Halifax council budget meeting - but I am passionate. I am angry. I watched friends be assaulted, arrested, harassed, & some even had to go to the hospital. The last thing police need is more funding
At what point are we going to address the issue that when some kids aren’t in school they go hungry?
What about these kids on holiday breaks? What about summer months? What about during lockdowns? When are we going to address this very serious issue ?
STOP
🛑 ignoring the increasing amount of demand for paid sick days
🛑 placing all blame on community members & none on lack of government support
🛑 dodging accountability
HE DID NOT JUST TWEET THIS WHILE HIS GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWING RCMP TO TRY TO FORCIBLY REMOVE INDIGENOUS LAND PROTECTORS WHO ARE TRYING TO STOP ANOTHER PIPELINE. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING???
#Unistoten
#Wetsuwetenstrong
#NoPipelines
✅Putting a price on pollution
✅Investing in clean technology
✅Doubling the amount of nature we protect
✅Phasing out coal-fired power plants
✅Reducing plastic waste
➕ and so much more
We’ve got a plan to build a cleaner & healthier Canada for our kids.
Also it’s like saying “we can’t have seatbelts forever” “we can’t have health food inspectors forever” - like yes we can??? We have learned more & developed more as a society. Implement mask mandates ! Implement paid sick days for all!
Palestinians defending themselves = terrorism according to
@theJagmeetSingh
&
@WabKinew
Come on guys what the actual fuck.
When we call for decolonization we mean EVERYWHERE. From Turtle Island to Palestine.
#FreePalaestine
Phd student ❌
Phd candidate ✅
Tears were shed, my face is still red & hot, but I did it. I’m a PhD candidate- I am one step closer to become a doctor!!! This was years in the making & I am so proud of myself😭❤️
To whoever sent my abusive father a screenshot of my tweets (the one below) congratulations on stirring up past trauma for me, making him angry, & ultimately making it so that I was removed from his health insurance- bravo!
You know that freedom trucker convoy? And the freedom rallies in support? Yeah check out the type of people who were there 🤡 this is in New Brunswick.
Kkkanada
Thank you. Wela'lioq. To the grassroots grandmothers, land & water defenders, & supporters who truly stopped Alton gas. We should all be so thankful.
#StopAltonGas
#Mikmaki
1/2
I can’t believe that so many of my amazing comrades are running for the NDP this election season!
I feel confident voting for a party that has such amazing candidates who care about what I care about!
@GaryBurrill
is the only party leader out here fighting for us. Fighting for the people.
Gary cares. It isn’t an act, it isn’t just at election time, he stands with us, while cops point pepper spray in his face. This could have been our provincial leader.
#nspoli
The community came together to create something the government refused to- temporary housing. We donated, built, organized, & created a temporary shelter for houseless community members. All for them to destroy it. I am enraged.
#acab
#ftp
#nspoli
I’m already starting to see posts of people looking for a place to rent / stay. And with the report that over 200 homes have been destroyed or damaged by the fire I can’t help but wonder - where the hell will these people go? My heart breaks for them
Extremely condescending. She made no effort to call me herself (thanks to the first two councillors who did). She wants ME to reach out so that I can “learn” not so I can have my voice heard. Wow.
To me, this is not a refusal. If their needs are so clearly being denied then this is not a refusal of shelter.
I made this known in my conversation with Councillor Morse
So I've just seen some live streams on FB showing what happened tonight.
Settler fishermen raided the Mi'gmaw fishing compound.
They cut the power;
ransacked the buildings;
poured chemicals on living lobsters;
lit a van on fire;
stole lobster traps;
threw rocks;
made threats.
CW: residential schools
In Germany (plus 15 other countries) it is illegal to deny the Holocaust. In Canada I see people deny our own genocide even while hundreds of bodies have been found. I see genocidal leaders statues still stand. I watch our own government do nothing
On top of that she has the audacity to quote Paulo Freire - one of my all time favourite scholars, who wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In this instance…. How dare you.
I think I read there were MAYBE 9 arrested??
Partying during covid versus literally protecting peoples shelter & trying to protect the community.
Wow. HRP has its priorities straight.
Bridge impassable because white men protesting the closing of a fucked up pulp mill???? Silence.
Bridge impassable because people protesting for a safer & greener future?? Everyone loses their fucking mind.
#PulpMill
#Halifax
#NSPoli
Do you need a place to over-summer your plants? We can take them for you (space permitting...). Here's a pothos from a student in Harper Hall, getting accustomed to its new digs. 🌿🌵🌻
I want to also mention that most of the people arrested at the houseless protests were BIPOC folks.
I’m not saying I want to see people beaten or arrested- I don’t want that at all! But I want my comrades to be safe and protected the way these college kids mostly were.
It is clear to me that some councillors care, while others really just don’t. Being condescending towards concerned citizens does nothing to help your cause. Nor does spreading false information like saying folks “refused” shelter. Come on people.
It is important to remember that these people do have the right to protest. The same way Indigenous folks have the right to protest against colonial policies & practices. The same way folks have the right to protest for the environment.
I’m tired of hearing Halifax city council basically call everyone else a liar but themselves and their staff. Clearly this is a huge communication error- an error that has huge consequences. 20+ folks sleeping in
@PADScommunity
- it’s going to get very cold soon. We need action
@WayeMason
@PeterPlanetta
@RemoZaccagna
@HailieTattrie
So either he's
1) Throwing his staff under the bus, and taking action against them would lead to challenges that might show he was informed, and is lying or just not taking this seriously, or
2) Some very incompetent and lying staffers whom he doesn't have the will to address.
Why isn’t the rest of the country speaking out about what the HRP did yesterday?? When stuff like this happens in Toronto it’s covered in every corner of the country
Iain: straight up. This is serious. Some people don’t have homes to stay in. Some people can’t stay home because they don’t have paid sick days. Stop this virus- house the homeless & implement paid sick days.
#nspoli
@IainTRankin
.
@IainTRankin
begins QP by asking
@TimHoustonNS
what yesterday's COVID case count was. Premier says COVID is all around us and no one should think otherwise. "People have the tools to protect themselves," he says.
#NSpoli
I for one have no interest in going to a conference that calls grown women "girls in politics" and that exclusively only includes representation from one political party. A political party might I add that in the last election slut shamed one of their candidates!
We are honored to have four Nova Scotia MLAs; Rafah, Kelly, Lorelei, and Patricia coming to share insights and lessons in navigating provincial politics.
We simply cannot wait for this panel!!!
Don't forget to get your tickets ASAP
#girlsinpolitics
The more I reflect on the stories I heard today from parents who’s kids rely on school support workers the angrier I get. These kids, their parents, & their families all suffer because the government won’t give support workers a fair deal- no one wins here
My grandparents couldn't conceive so they adopted my mom and uncle. It was never a secret, they always knew, the grandkids always knew. & yet I once asked my grandmother if since she couldn’t have kids does that mean I won’t be able to? Is it hereditary?? & then I realized
Listen to the experts. Listen to the countless reports. Listen to the victims of police violence. Approving an increase to the police budget shows that you stand with these oppressive & violent means of policing your own citizens.
As per usual
@NSNDP
are the only politicians I see with boots on the ground supporting the people - today it’s
@ChenderClaudia
& colleagues joining the picket line & speaking in solidarity with
@CUPE3912
& I am not going to be embarrassed about it either. I’ve always been very vague about my past with my father. Not today.
That’s all I have to say. That’s my truth, and in my mind it deserves to be said out loud. I’m not ashamed.
66 new cases announced this morning. 323 active cases.
Where is our lockdown? Where are our paid sick days? Where is the housing for the homeless?
@IainTRankin
is failing us.
#nspoli
Around 150 people came out tonight to the event - from Unist’ot’en to Mi’kma’ki, Indigenous Resistance & Sovereignty Across Turtle Island - we had to start pulling out more & more chairs because folks just kept coming!!
@UnistotenCamp
@StopAltonGas
At what point should I start packing a bag? I live by quinpool lol
Like are we fine? This is such a scary situation I feel so bad for those who are evacuating 😭
Also- what are parents supposed to do right now ? Take off work to help with online learning? Leave the kids home alone?
Where are paid sick days? Where is the lockdown??? Make it make sense
This has been a behind the scenes project for months - it has been a labour of love. We are so excited to finally share our next chapter with you all.
#justice4workers
@J4W_NS
AND I can certainly point out how white protestors are handled by the police versus groups who are not white. The white privilege here is very very real.