N.S. launching 5-person team to incorporate AI into government operations | CBC News The province invested $4.4 million to establish artificial intelligence capabilities this year.

NS Tories: we can’t afford to publish books but we can spend $4.4M dollars to steal from them. #nspoli

Sad to see all these opinion pieces this week from authors arguing in favour of using AI to write books, all of them falling into the "it's inevitable" and "everyone is doing it" trap but simply revealing that they are lazy and lack integrity.
If you don't want to write a book, you don't have to.

Culture is Critical: In Conversation with Wayne MacKay, episode 10 YouTube video by Stephanie Domet

Are you paying attention to our provincial government’s latest shenanigans? @stephaniedomet.bsky.social in conversation with Wayne MacKay.

I regret filling your feed with my face, but there ya go.

Stephanie Domet Culture is Critical: In Conversation A series of long form conversations with Nova Scotians about Tim Houston’s 2026 provincial budget and its implications, hosted by Stephanie Domet.

There are nine episodes of Culture is Critical: In Conversation available now for your listening pleasure. Still to come: conversations about publishing, programs for folks living with disabilities, Artists in the schools, and democracy.

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My entire feed is awash with people complaining that Avi Lewis isn’t perfect, that protests don’t do anything, that general strikes and economic strikes aren’t possible. I’m sorry to tell you but if we want to defeat fascism and build a better world, we may have to experience minor inconvenience!

Hey. Remember when one of the NS PC staffers retweeted Nazi slogans after the bi-election in 2023? 👎🏻 #nspoli

Looks good on you!

You might as well subscribe to my inadvertent podcast. Seems I’m not going to stop. youtube.com/@stephaniedo...

Oh, thanks for this! I’ll connect with Andy if I can!

A black poster with white and yellow text. The text reads: All hands on deck. We won't stop singing. Friday, March 27 - Noon. Province House. 1726 Hollis St, Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Raising our voices together. We are all treaty people. There is a graphic of the province of Nova scotia in the middle.

FRIDAY. NOON. PROVINCE HOUSE.
ALL HANDS ON DECK: WE WON'T STOP SINGING!

We've been thousands strong before. Can we grow even more, and surround the whole building with song?

A news-style graphic showing Claudia Chender at a lecturn, with a headline calling on Tim Houston to pause the budget process, sourced from the Halifax Examiner.

Nova Scotians' trust has been broken.

Last week, the Houston government made it clear that they didn't do the serious analysis needed to understand the impact of their cruel cuts on Nova Scotia’s post-secondary, arts, culture, or tourism sectors.

You know things are dire when I finally break down and make a podcast.
More episodes coming in the next few days as I speak with Nova Scotians about what’s at stake in this ruinous proposed provincial budget. #cultureiscritical

A sailing event makes sense for #NovaScotia. We are surrounded by the ocean, after all!

There are sailing events all across the province, including for children, women, and people with disabilities. Yet, those events don't get the funding. Why is that?

Bernie Sanders @berniesanders One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.

The Ellison Family - Aka the owners of SailGP that Tim Houston is giving a million of our provincial tax money to and Andy Fillmore is giving a million of our municipal tax money to, so billionaires can sail around our harbour for just 2 days.

Shameful

#Halifax #HailSky #NovaScotia

They’re weakening. They won’t pass this budget before March Break, which means you’ve got an extra week to ask your MLA to make these cuts make sense. If you need help with facts and figures, let me know and I will help you. Let’s go, Nova Scotia.

Don’t go breaking our arts or, Why a capitalist argument doesn’t work for the ecosystem of arts and culture in Nova Scotia What a time to be alive, huh? For the last two weeks, artists and cultural workers in Nova Scotia have been resisting proposed cuts to Communities, Culture, Tourism, and Heritage outlined in the 20…

If you’re wondering why artists and arts organizations can’t just sell more tickets, sell more paintings, sell more records and be self-sufficient, this one’s for you.
Photo by the magical @stoo.ca

Rally up! He really is trying to break our communities so he can frack, mine, deforest the f out of this place. He’s working fast , so must we!

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Ooh, dang.

Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society

Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.

You get what you pay for, I guess? Or in our case, you pay for what you get.

Aggrieved, as ever, to be living in Andy Fillmore’s Halifax. Especially when Waye Mason’s Halifax was *right* *there*.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

This is outrageous. Nova Scotia, we need to do better. What’s the plan, Premier Houston?