John Dale
@johndalerural.bsky.social
PhD Student, Rural Studies
MSc, Rural Planning & Development
Maritimer in exile and darling child of @longestballot.bsky.social.
Proportional Representation Advocate and former Independent Candidate for a whole lot of places.
MSc, Rural Planning & Development
Maritimer in exile and darling child of @longestballot.bsky.social.
Proportional Representation Advocate and former Independent Candidate for a whole lot of places.
Dalhousie Legal Aid says tenants' right to housing under threat in N.S. @hannahmain.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Legal Aid says tenants' right to housing under threat in N.S.
A survey of 1,278 renters found that more than half of the respondents who began their leases in 2025 are on a fixed-term lease. Watch Tom Murphy's interview with Hannah Main, a community legal worker...
www.cbc.ca
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Dalhousie Legal Aid says tenants' right to housing under threat in N.S. @hannahmain.bsky.social
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🚗Want to help update Guelph's traffic calming policy? Apply to join our traffic calming policy civic circle—a working group that'll review our current traffic calming priorities and recommend improvements. Apply by October 28.
Details: guelph.ca/2025/10/join-the-traffic-calming-policy-civic-circle/
Details: guelph.ca/2025/10/join-the-traffic-calming-policy-civic-circle/
October 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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The results of the public consultation by BC’s Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee are in, and the feedback the committee received was overwhelmingly for proportional representation. Time for action!
www.fairvote.ca/07/10/2025/9...
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93% of submissions to the BC Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee committee called for proportional representation
www.fairvote.ca
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The results of the public consultation by BC’s Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee are in, and the feedback the committee received was overwhelmingly for proportional representation. Time for action!
www.fairvote.ca/07/10/2025/9...
www.fairvote.ca/07/10/2025/9...
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Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.
September 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.
I can't really bring myself to use LinkedIn beyond the bare minimum. I can wear a professional hat with my colleagues without hesitation, but the platform feels like a whole different corporate arena.
Everything from meetings to symposia and workshops in my network feels comparatively human.
Everything from meetings to symposia and workshops in my network feels comparatively human.
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I can't really bring myself to use LinkedIn beyond the bare minimum. I can wear a professional hat with my colleagues without hesitation, but the platform feels like a whole different corporate arena.
Everything from meetings to symposia and workshops in my network feels comparatively human.
Everything from meetings to symposia and workshops in my network feels comparatively human.
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Perfect to measure your children's height year after year ! "You can have a cellphone when you reach John Dale, and not a candidate before!"
September 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Perfect to measure your children's height year after year ! "You can have a cellphone when you reach John Dale, and not a candidate before!"
Decision-makers being asleep at the wheel and letting the situation we now find ourselves in happen has so many implications, too. There are a lot of intelligent professionals out there that don't understand how LLMs are trained... 🧵
September 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Decision-makers being asleep at the wheel and letting the situation we now find ourselves in happen has so many implications, too. There are a lot of intelligent professionals out there that don't understand how LLMs are trained... 🧵
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Today:
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN Commission. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN Commission. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
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September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Today:
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN Commission. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN Commission. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
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“The mayor is a co-ordinator, a coach, a quarterback, a teammate, and responsible for being the liaison between the council and senior staff.”
He clearly hasn’t met the mayor of Halifax…
very glad to see other municipalities against strong mayor powers!
He clearly hasn’t met the mayor of Halifax…
very glad to see other municipalities against strong mayor powers!
Some N.S. municipalities oppose strong mayor powers | CBC News
Municipalities in northern Nova Scotia are taking a stance against strong mayor powers. The idea has been floated by Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore, and there is fear legislation could be coming this fal...
www.cbc.ca
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“The mayor is a co-ordinator, a coach, a quarterback, a teammate, and responsible for being the liaison between the council and senior staff.”
He clearly hasn’t met the mayor of Halifax…
very glad to see other municipalities against strong mayor powers!
He clearly hasn’t met the mayor of Halifax…
very glad to see other municipalities against strong mayor powers!
Possibly the most impressive housing development project I've seen in my lifetime. Bravo! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Land trust in N.S. secures $61.2M to build housing for Black Canadians | CBC News
The federal government announced $61.2 million for the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust on Saturday. The funding will be used to build 136 co-op housing units in the historic African Nova Sc...
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August 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Possibly the most impressive housing development project I've seen in my lifetime. Bravo! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Flashbacks to Mount Allison in 2020. Things are gonna be alright if this trend continues.
Signs of support around campus today. #KeepDalStrong
August 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Flashbacks to Mount Allison in 2020. Things are gonna be alright if this trend continues.
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A very loud huzzah to my forlorn LBC sibling @johndalerural.bsky.social. You've humbled us all. The East coast did prevail, kinda ! #longestballot #cdnpoli
August 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A very loud huzzah to my forlorn LBC sibling @johndalerural.bsky.social. You've humbled us all. The East coast did prevail, kinda ! #longestballot #cdnpoli
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Op-ed from an Albertan running as part of the @longestballot.bsky.social campaign in the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election (Globe and Mail)
August 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Op-ed from an Albertan running as part of the @longestballot.bsky.social campaign in the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election (Globe and Mail)
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CUPE flight attendants defied a Section 107 back-to-work order, forced #AirCanada back to the bargaining table, and successfully bargained a tentative agreement.
A new page of Canadian labour history has been written today.
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#cndpoli #canlab
A new page of Canadian labour history has been written today.
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#cndpoli #canlab
Air Canada strike over, with tentative deal reached, airline and union say
A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants, both the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees say.
cbc.ca
August 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
CUPE flight attendants defied a Section 107 back-to-work order, forced #AirCanada back to the bargaining table, and successfully bargained a tentative agreement.
A new page of Canadian labour history has been written today.
cbc.ca/player/play/...
#cndpoli #canlab
A new page of Canadian labour history has been written today.
cbc.ca/player/play/...
#cndpoli #canlab
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Tentative agreement reached. The union said in a statement provided to CBC News that "unpaid work is over." The agreement now goes to a vote. Operations have resumed. Congratulations to these workers for standing up. The right to strike has been trampled for too long. Great solidarity #canlab
Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strike | CBC News
A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants, both the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said early Tuesday.
www.cbc.ca
August 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Tentative agreement reached. The union said in a statement provided to CBC News that "unpaid work is over." The agreement now goes to a vote. Operations have resumed. Congratulations to these workers for standing up. The right to strike has been trampled for too long. Great solidarity #canlab
A big thank you to the three folks who decided to write my very generic name in on the write-in ballot last night. I would have represented you to the best of my ability. Rest assured, the fight for a citizen's assembly on proportional representation continues.
August 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A big thank you to the three folks who decided to write my very generic name in on the write-in ballot last night. I would have represented you to the best of my ability. Rest assured, the fight for a citizen's assembly on proportional representation continues.
More municipalities provide drinking water, free showers for residents with dry wells: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More municipalities provide drinking water, free showers for residents with dry wells | CBC News
More municipalities across Nova Scotia are offering free drinking water and showers for residents affected by the drought.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
More municipalities provide drinking water, free showers for residents with dry wells: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"If your candidate is a John, there are three others". This is just like those Glace Bay-Dominion provincial election candidates back in2021 but more underwhelming because its in a pool of over 200 names: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
August 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"If your candidate is a John, there are three others". This is just like those Glace Bay-Dominion provincial election candidates back in2021 but more underwhelming because its in a pool of over 200 names: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Is expropriation not on the table? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
August 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Is expropriation not on the table? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Irony alert: "In a scrum with reporters, Fillmore said he was pleased council rescinded its decision, saying that the needs of one group of roadway users shouldn’t come before those of other people on the roads." Unless it's the needs of road users in cars I guess? #CarBrain #ZeroVisionHFX
August 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Irony alert: "In a scrum with reporters, Fillmore said he was pleased council rescinded its decision, saying that the needs of one group of roadway users shouldn’t come before those of other people on the roads." Unless it's the needs of road users in cars I guess? #CarBrain #ZeroVisionHFX
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"The party in power, it's never in their interest of course to change the FPTP, because that's how they got into power, is there not an issue around that? How do we have change when it's not in the party in power's interest" - CBC's Amanda Pfeffer at 16:40
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August 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"The party in power, it's never in their interest of course to change the FPTP, because that's how they got into power, is there not an issue around that? How do we have change when it's not in the party in power's interest" - CBC's Amanda Pfeffer at 16:40
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