Global National: Oct. 27, 2024 | Nova Scotia premier calls snap election

[@Do-not-be-sheep]

Access to health care is NOT an issue of money. Canadas healthcare is the second most expensive in the world right behind the USA and yet the performance of our health care system ranks 20th in the world. Canadas health care needs to be restructured. We need to benchmark our system against the best performing systems in the world. One problem is the amount of money Canada spends on hospital and medical administrators with executives who have salaries north of $500k to more than $ 1 million and pensions to match!

[@jillipepper5353]

Average wait time in Emerg departments in Halifax is often 18 hours and it’s nearly impossible to get a family doctor if you need to find one. Some doctors vet new clients by checking their past medical history, if a person has a medical condition that might need a lot of time to treat they deny them as a patient. What will each of them plan to do to fix these very real problems?

[@autumnlover760]

Health care is a huge problem all across Canada. I'm not sure if it is just one particular party to blame. Where did this stem from? Covid? People not happy with their chosen medical profession, burnout? This shrink inflation is infuriating and frustrating to the consumer and affects everyone's pocket book. Interesting, there is always a shortage of an item, at a particular time of the year.

[@momtur4875]

It started with Harper the conservative want to privatized healthcare and the best way is to break it down but I don't think people realize that they will be paying out of their pocket for it

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

The massive wealth transfer in the form of inflation directly corelates to the forever wars that all parties support. But at least in one case, this government can claim responsibility for a tax that's added to every point in the supply chain that claims to benefit the environment and doesn't do anything close.

[@johnmacleod2487]

a long time ago, canadians decided to borrow from the future to pay their bills. The future is now. We are paying yesterday's and today's bills borrowing from another future, all the time paying more and more to the creditors and more and more tax

[@Syncronoise]

⁠@@johnmacleod2487Debt has little to do with the medical shortages. You’re just reading off of your script of about 3 topics you blame all the world’s problems on. Conservatives have been aiming to destroy the healthcare sector for decades now, Alberta is seeking to abolish universal healthcare and Saskatchewan hardly staffs doctors in population centres and puts them in north towns of 300 people over big cities.

[@Themiddleman416]

How’s he supposed to fix healthcare when the feds have barely clogged the leak at our boarders. Also why is it so hard for people to add the 2 together?

[@Grant_S_M]

Healthcare is being clogged up by Con Premiers.

[@momtur4875]

Omg what can one say to a conservative other than get some schooling

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

@@momtur4875 What can one say to the incredibly propagandized except stop listening to liars?

[@zachweyrauch2988]

@@commonsensecraziness7595 Speculation on hypothetical relationships isnt super helpful without some hard stats.

[@rickvervoort9536]

@@momtur4875 More people that haven't paid into our "free" healthcare system is guaranteed failure.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to make Nova Scotia Power customers pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant, one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, while residential power failures are more common than ever before.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, it's been 3 years, but we're still waiting on your promise of an independent commissioner to hold government accountable. Or has that "priority shifted" as well?

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to nullify HRM's housing bylaws to give absolute authority over the urban housing crisis to your housing minister (a farmer from Kings North, population 19,000).

[@tomadiamantstein9668]

MAKE IT HAPPEN NOVA SCOTIA ensure that Trudeau will not win the upcoming federal election.

[@sunnyways4947]

Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.

[@LLandS18]

I think somebody needs to go back to civics class. You understand that the provincial election doesn't have anything to do with the federal election right? That if the Liberals win in Nova Scotia doesn't mean the Liberals federally are going to take Nova Scotia. You understand that right? It is scary the amount of Canadians who don't understand how elections work in this country. And they always seem to be the ones that want to talk about election fraud. Maybe if you understood the process better, you'd understand that Canadians are pretty well run.

[@bixpy99]

Provincial and Federal two different elections.Has nothing to do with Trudeau staying in power.

[@zachweyrauch2988]

This is a provincial election in a province with a small population. My local PC MPP hasnt been great along with the rest of the government. Aside from the healthcare issue we have an evolving homeless crisis that is about migrate to Halifax for the winter for the fourth year in a row. The government also didnt ratify the coastal protection act which was a finished law but turned around and asked the federal government for money to bolster coastal protection in the chignecto isthmus.

[@LLandS18]

@@tomadiamantstein9668 provincial and federal are two different things. Good Lord, and maybe it's time for you to go back to elementary school and learn some civics.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to violate patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to call Cape Breton's state of emergency "a publicity stunt" when buildings were collapsing under a meter of snow and exploding from gas leaks.

[@ultraco.6798]

They can’t even remember a simple speech without reading, truly sad..

[@toothpick3874]

Ontario’s grown by 80 million the debt because of the federal liberals sinking illegal immigration into Ontario, causing us most of that $80 billion over the last six years

[@MK-fy4ij]

It’s Doug Ford who was asking for immigration & international students till few months back.

[@toothpick3874]

@@MK-fy4ij“legal immigrants“

[@talktothehandreviews]

Didn't you hear that Tim Houston said he plans to INCREASE Nova Scotia's population from one million to TWO MILLION?

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

@@toothpick3874 "cheap labour" Ford is no hero.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to strip all power from our all province's independent agencies (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency) and give it to your unqualified ministers, donors and business friends.

[@BruceB-z6d]

Hopefully PP will endorse him and the conservatives will lose.

[@THE_45th_PARALLEL]

The Houston Government is right, they need more time to keep making these improvements and to see the results. They inherited a mess, as did all provincial premiers across Canada after covid. The big difference here in Nova Scotia is that the previous power did nothing to improve the lives of Nova Scotians. In almost a decade the triumphs of the McNeil Liberals (who Zach Churchill now runs. I also grew up with him in Yarmouth) did absolutely nothing at a time when they could have positioned the province for huge success. They made multiple successive promises ("A doctor for every Nova Scotian" for instance) and then sat back waiting for the problem to fix itself (like Trudeau whose budget was supposed to balance itself). And here we are today, watching Tim Houston trying to glue it all back together. And personally I think they're doing a good job, all they need is a bit more time to keep these positive changes moving forward. Changes that should have been made under the Liberal government here in Nova Scotia yet here we see a Conservative government creating social programs to improve our lives as well as lowering taxes.

[@zachweyrauch2988]

What sort of moves has the Houston government made that you endorse?

[@THE_45th_PARALLEL]

@@zachweyrauch2988 - He's cut red tape in healthcare freeing up more time for doctors - Gave healthcare workers raises and bonuses and continues to monitor the situation - Cut red tape to be employed here as a nurse - Opened a school to train doctors that agree to stay and work in rural areas - Made the LPN and CCA programs free - Is creating housing in problem areas for medical professionals to live in - Unlocked pharmacists so they can use their full scope of practice - Implemented strategies like apps, clinics, etc to help while new medical professionals are trained. - Cut red tape for housing so that housing can be built more quickly - Built shelters and a tiny home community - Lowered taxes - He is inclusive, uses common sense, is willing to take direction from healthcare workers, etc. - Is willing to work with other governments, is inclusive with minority communities, stands up to the feds when it comes to bringing in more people than we can handle. I borrowed some of this from a social media post that made great points.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, we're still waiting on your promise of a 50% tax cut for companies that use the savings to increase worker pay. Or has that "priority shifted" as well?

[@rockyjohnson9243]

Needle's, Drug's, Poverty

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to give government subsidies to your friends that run commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients, instead of supporting NS wineries and farmers.

[@cl7485]

This channel needs to be labeled as Canadian federal government propaganda program

[@Grant_S_M]

Why? Reality is that healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction. The Con Premiers are failing in their duty.

[@joeschlepp]

that would be the CBC

[@sunnyways4947]

@@joeschlepp Well actually Right Wing Post media receives MILLIONS of your tax dollars. How do you feel about that?

[@sunnyways4947]

Hey, feel free to share this easily verifiable list with all your friends and family: Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to subsidize private windmill farms for private corporations, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to scrap the Covid dashboard that empowers citizens to make informed decisions, because someone might find it stressful.

[@CAT4U2C]

The healthcare has gotten worse in Nova Scotia and people are dying younger from health problems that can be fixed, but they’re dying from waiting my daughter who’s 20 lost her boyfriend’s father at 59 heart attack! He had heart problems and he couldn’t get it fix! All my family didn’t get to see retirement age because they died from lack of healthcare in Nova Scotia

[@flmacphee1158]

@@CAT4U2C The main reason why Nova Scotians are dying younger is because we don’t take care of ourselves, we smoke too much, we drink too much and we eat WAYYYYYY to much and are not active. Hard to blame the heath care system when we will not do the basics

[@zachweyrauch2988]

@@flmacphee1158 Youre not wrong but neither is OP. Healthcare is in trouble. Politically speaking the current government has overseen an expansion in NSHA use of private contractors who cost way more than local hires. (and also spend some of their wages outside NS)

[@THE_45th_PARALLEL]

The Healthcare crisis was created and maintained its downward spiral under the previous government. You can't blame the Houston government for it's horrendous, it takes a bit of time to make it better and it certainly IS getting better. Free education for nurses? Creating living spaces for medical professionals across the province? Cutting red tape to make these changes occur faster? All are a big yes, and more. Or do you forget the early McNeil election promise of "A doctor for every Nova Scotian" and then it laid flat because absolutely nothing was done? No recruitment, no training, no educational kickbacks for students...absolutely nothing.

[@edwardsmith7396]

The 13 million spent on an election should have been put toward hiring more doctors in NS.

[@THE_45th_PARALLEL]

@@edwardsmith7396 where do you get $13 million from?

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to reward the Sobeys family for their $12,000 donation to your campaign by paying them $1 Million to promote local products, even though local farmers markets, growers, crafters, wineries, micro-breweries, cheese makers, etc. are all excluded.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to spend over $100 Million in taxpayer money for an unfinished hotel so a private nursing home operator can have it.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to fast-track "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow your developer friends to build $800k luxury homes.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to scrap the Coastal Protection Act that was unanimously agreed upon by all parties, so that your developer friends could continue building wherever they please. (All registered members of Atlantic Home Warranty benefit from base warranty coverage including $70,000 per home. Almost enough to cover the downpayment!)

[@alyx1715]

Canada is not a bottomless money pit. Stand up on your own two feet.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, we're still waiting on your promise to restore local school boards, instead of your Dept. of Ed. making all the decisions for us. Or has that "priority shifted" as well?

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, it's been 3 years, but we're still waiting on your promise of a $500 tax credit for dog adoption. Or has that "priority shifted" as well?

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to cry real tears during your campaign promise to provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, then suggest scrapping the registry 3 years later when the registry has doubled to 160,000, and brag about it in a full colour 20 page booklet you mailed out to half a million homes.

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to pay Google $42 Million for 5-year contract so Nova Scotians without a doctor can ask the "AI" to Google their symptoms for them and get directions to the nearest pharmacy.

[@AnwerHashimSamnani]

May Love Peace Prevail In The World.....

[@Pierres-Glasses]

Hey Tim, way to withhold spring Covid vaccines until the fall despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave.

[@rockyjohnson9243]

Trump 2024!

[@Anne-xs2jf]

Troll

[@rockyjohnson9243]

@@Anne-xs2jf Horse Fly.

[@ElaineMiller-ck7ff]

@@Anne-xs2jf 😅🤣😂

[@momtur4875]

Wrong country

[@flmacphee1158]

4 more years please, the province is going in the right direction we need to let him continue the plan

[@darrellspurr6030]

worst healthcare in our lifetime.

[@flmacphee1158]

@@darrellspurr6030 Please tell me where in Canada that the heath care system is working? There is more than enough money it’s just not being spent correctly, too many paper pushers and not enough doctors and nurses

[@sunnyways4947]

- cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry.

[@sunnyways4947]

Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.

[@TheAircool1]

​@@flmacphee1158Its doing alright in BC

[@waldmarwolchuk9483]

Go Donny Go ...GIVER hell

[@infolover_68]

Government choice: to renew or crash to the ground!...

[@Rhdlm-yo1tv]

The law and order party my eye

[@sunnyways4947]

Yep, here's a list you can feel free to share around: Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.

[@phloxdiffusa]

Need Nova Scotia to become an NDP provvince

[@phloxdiffusa]

Or Liberal and Green

[@JohnAlmon-w3n]

You people are nuts

[@chrispybacon2373]

@@JohnAlmon-w3n account made 13 days ago...hmm...

[@patrickburton3533]

Have you seen what the NDP has done in bc and alberta 😮

[@TheAircool1]

​@@patrickburton3533BC under the NDP is far, far, far better than the previous corrupt government of the right wing BC liberals

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

doggy makes gas cheaper and life more expensive for all

[@calvinabbott6920]

81 million votes

[@Ruiniesz]

Yaa ,,,, no chocolate ... those skeletons are going to be skinny .. hahaha BOO

[@larrybelo-vf4yc]

Need help my scotia bank account …

[@VeveIndian]

come on, man

[@controlledbrain6821]

India support israyel why not canada support khalistan....

[@johnjylanne7100]

Osama >>> Obama >>> Kamala