Lisa Roberts
@lisarobehfx.bsky.social
Promoter of non market housing, collaborator for a more just & joyful world. Former MLA for Halifax Needham (2016-2021), two time federal candidate, former journalist, current nonprofit executive director.
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Being in the US without status is civil infraction, not a crime. People are subject to the penalty of deportation, but not to criminal punishment.
Look at that car.
Look at that car.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Being in the US without status is civil infraction, not a crime. People are subject to the penalty of deportation, but not to criminal punishment.
Look at that car.
Look at that car.
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Today I'm appearing before the Senate committee on finance about the upper income tax cut that the middle class happens to see a small benefit from. Here is my full analysis www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @policyalternatives.ca
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Today I'm appearing before the Senate committee on finance about the upper income tax cut that the middle class happens to see a small benefit from. Here is my full analysis www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @policyalternatives.ca
Video of BRT working as intended on Barrington this morning. Not pictured: the mom next to me saying “There was a school shooting yesterday” and us discussing the heartbreak and the coincidence that our kiddos did lockdown drills this week.
February 11, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Video of BRT working as intended on Barrington this morning. Not pictured: the mom next to me saying “There was a school shooting yesterday” and us discussing the heartbreak and the coincidence that our kiddos did lockdown drills this week.
“I had many conversations with people who arrived in Victoria, saw the mountains and the ocean and the sunshine and then concluded that the city’s best feature was the comparative ease of finding a parking space.” 🤣
YIMBYs and urbanists often make the point that you should let people live where they want: near jobs, schools and amenities. I'd like to make a special case for Canada: we should let people live where the weather is good!
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Canada has exactly one city with good weather and it’s too tiny
Or how to cure thousands of Canadians of Seasonal Affective Disorder
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February 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
“I had many conversations with people who arrived in Victoria, saw the mountains and the ocean and the sunshine and then concluded that the city’s best feature was the comparative ease of finding a parking space.” 🤣
I am daily grateful for my commute, though I look forward to switching from bus/ ferry to bike/ ferry when winter ends. Two stops I can make if I have 5 minutes to spare: O’Bees in Alderney Landing (also Port City for $2 dark roast) and Carrefour Atlantic in the Historic Properties.
February 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I am daily grateful for my commute, though I look forward to switching from bus/ ferry to bike/ ferry when winter ends. Two stops I can make if I have 5 minutes to spare: O’Bees in Alderney Landing (also Port City for $2 dark roast) and Carrefour Atlantic in the Historic Properties.
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JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.”
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February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.”
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I am peddling good coffee at the Windsor Forum market today - a volunteer gig connected to time I spent in Guatemala 30 years ago.
There is an abundance of great sourdough bread, quality produce, eggs, and lots of room to sit and enjoy the coffee. Come make a vendor’s day.
There is an abundance of great sourdough bread, quality produce, eggs, and lots of room to sit and enjoy the coffee. Come make a vendor’s day.
January 31, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I am peddling good coffee at the Windsor Forum market today - a volunteer gig connected to time I spent in Guatemala 30 years ago.
There is an abundance of great sourdough bread, quality produce, eggs, and lots of room to sit and enjoy the coffee. Come make a vendor’s day.
There is an abundance of great sourdough bread, quality produce, eggs, and lots of room to sit and enjoy the coffee. Come make a vendor’s day.
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I’ll start with the question that sparked my idea to do this:
Q: What is happening outside of the frame of the videos of ICE and ICE Watch? Is it protests? Or is there no one else there?
Q: What is happening outside of the frame of the videos of ICE and ICE Watch? Is it protests? Or is there no one else there?
January 27, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I’ll start with the question that sparked my idea to do this:
Q: What is happening outside of the frame of the videos of ICE and ICE Watch? Is it protests? Or is there no one else there?
Q: What is happening outside of the frame of the videos of ICE and ICE Watch? Is it protests? Or is there no one else there?
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Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.
Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.
Reporter: Will Stephen Miller be apologizing to the family of Alex Pretti for calling him an assassin?
Leavitt: This incident remains under investigation.
Leavitt: This incident remains under investigation.
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.
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Father at toddler swim class with his lawyer’s phone number conspicuously written in dark sharpie on his arm
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Father at toddler swim class with his lawyer’s phone number conspicuously written in dark sharpie on his arm
I sat in @busstoptheatrecoop.bsky.social last night for the first time in ages and watched Lee-Anne Poole’s How to Knit and might go back today and catch the other two Halifax “Refringe” shows on offer. Live theatre is an option. That is all.
January 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I sat in @busstoptheatrecoop.bsky.social last night for the first time in ages and watched Lee-Anne Poole’s How to Knit and might go back today and catch the other two Halifax “Refringe” shows on offer. Live theatre is an option. That is all.
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Dropped off my five pieces for Pre-Shrunk at @argylefineart.bsky.social this afternoon - a little rainbow of Haligonian street scenes. Here's a little sneak peek 🐱
The show opens for its 22nd year(!) next Friday at 7pm with >300 4x5" pieces, $175 each. It's always a wonderful show
#preshrunk2026
The show opens for its 22nd year(!) next Friday at 7pm with >300 4x5" pieces, $175 each. It's always a wonderful show
#preshrunk2026
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Dropped off my five pieces for Pre-Shrunk at @argylefineart.bsky.social this afternoon - a little rainbow of Haligonian street scenes. Here's a little sneak peek 🐱
The show opens for its 22nd year(!) next Friday at 7pm with >300 4x5" pieces, $175 each. It's always a wonderful show
#preshrunk2026
The show opens for its 22nd year(!) next Friday at 7pm with >300 4x5" pieces, $175 each. It's always a wonderful show
#preshrunk2026
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Many people still think of poverty as something that happens when people don’t work. But the reality is different: majority of people who live in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. @gillianpetit.bsky.social and my 2026 chart to watch www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
January 4, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Many people still think of poverty as something that happens when people don’t work. But the reality is different: majority of people who live in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. @gillianpetit.bsky.social and my 2026 chart to watch www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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We deserve this too. We’re so used to being told to pull up our bootstraps by people who never bought their own boots for anything that we’ve come to accept that these ideas are too much to want.
Stable rent. Affordable necessities. Free childcare. Free busses. This is the bare minimum that people deserve and people really act like he has outlandish ideas.
January 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
We deserve this too. We’re so used to being told to pull up our bootstraps by people who never bought their own boots for anything that we’ve come to accept that these ideas are too much to want.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
From a clear, educational, compelling opinion piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social in the Globe and Mail:
“According to a report by a panel of United Nations experts leaked last year, the RSF has been able to prevail, despite having only 100,000 fighters compared to the army’s 200,000, because …
“According to a report by a panel of United Nations experts leaked last year, the RSF has been able to prevail, despite having only 100,000 fighters compared to the army’s 200,000, because …
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
From a clear, educational, compelling opinion piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social in the Globe and Mail:
“According to a report by a panel of United Nations experts leaked last year, the RSF has been able to prevail, despite having only 100,000 fighters compared to the army’s 200,000, because …
“According to a report by a panel of United Nations experts leaked last year, the RSF has been able to prevail, despite having only 100,000 fighters compared to the army’s 200,000, because …
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28 / Thus, it would be a huge mistake for SCOTUS to endorse as “constitutional” the ham-handed, ill-informed, one-sided “liberation day” tariffs on the pretext that they are “natural” means of regulating trade. Katyal is right.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
28 / Thus, it would be a huge mistake for SCOTUS to endorse as “constitutional” the ham-handed, ill-informed, one-sided “liberation day” tariffs on the pretext that they are “natural” means of regulating trade. Katyal is right.
I’m not attempting to keep up on social media or otherwise, but volunteering selling coffee (in solidarity with Guatemala, where I once lived, through Breaking the Silence Network) and three different people said they were going to “the rally.” www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/...
'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
Cape Breton Mi’kmaw and their allies claim to be “fed up” with provincial government's assault on treaty rights. Organize Halifax rally.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’m not attempting to keep up on social media or otherwise, but volunteering selling coffee (in solidarity with Guatemala, where I once lived, through Breaking the Silence Network) and three different people said they were going to “the rally.” www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/...
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Microsoft and Google say data centers will create thousands of jobs in Chile. But our analysis of permit filings shows a much smaller number of potential positions — mostly in security and cleaning, not skilled IT jobs.
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Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
Big figures floated by Chile, and tech giants promise economy-wide impact, as permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Microsoft and Google say data centers will create thousands of jobs in Chile. But our analysis of permit filings shows a much smaller number of potential positions — mostly in security and cleaning, not skilled IT jobs.
New: restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
New: restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
This song and singer @desireedawsonmusic.bsky.social are a new favourite. Also I’m looking for a chopping block of good dimensions for turning split wood into kindling. DM with a #Halifax address if you could leave such a thing on the curb after the rain eases up. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Desiree Dawson | Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival 2025 | Relix
YouTube video by Relix
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October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This song and singer @desireedawsonmusic.bsky.social are a new favourite. Also I’m looking for a chopping block of good dimensions for turning split wood into kindling. DM with a #Halifax address if you could leave such a thing on the curb after the rain eases up. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
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While Trump and Carney debate who's better at resurrecting Ronald Reagan, trade expert Beth Baltzan explains why free trade today looks more like Reganomics than the internationalization of FDR's New Deal.
Watch: youtu.be/_nOlyx8zNa0?...
Watch: youtu.be/_nOlyx8zNa0?...
While Trump touts his "big, beautiful bill," @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social senior fellow Beth Baltzan reminds us of a different vision — one where trade served working people, not corporate profits.
Full clip: perspectivesjournal.ca/new-deal-progressive-trade/
Full clip: perspectivesjournal.ca/new-deal-progressive-trade/
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
While Trump and Carney debate who's better at resurrecting Ronald Reagan, trade expert Beth Baltzan explains why free trade today looks more like Reganomics than the internationalization of FDR's New Deal.
Watch: youtu.be/_nOlyx8zNa0?...
Watch: youtu.be/_nOlyx8zNa0?...
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"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"
Indigenous grandmothers co-created this video resource linked in Growing Together, Alice House’s online course about supporting children impacted by IPV. “Strong Women’s Circle: A Systems Change Approach to Addressing Family Violencs within Communities.” A good 20min #TRC learning.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Indigenous grandmothers co-created this video resource linked in Growing Together, Alice House’s online course about supporting children impacted by IPV. “Strong Women’s Circle: A Systems Change Approach to Addressing Family Violencs within Communities.” A good 20min #TRC learning.
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"Margaux Blanchard" may go down as a kind of minor Stephen Glass of the AI moment. Whoever, or whatever, they are, they seem to have used AI to fabricate multiple articles with fictitious sources published in Wired, Business Insider, and other publications
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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
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August 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Margaux Blanchard" may go down as a kind of minor Stephen Glass of the AI moment. Whoever, or whatever, they are, they seem to have used AI to fabricate multiple articles with fictitious sources published in Wired, Business Insider, and other publications
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...