Karen Cameron
@mamakc2024.bsky.social
Pre retirement Mom, wife, civil servant, Construction project manager, urban farmer, tv binge watcher couch potato.
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I cancelled my Spotify account too. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop streaming ICE recruitment ads NOW!
The Trump administration has funneled billions of dollars into these dystopian ICE recruitment ads. Meanwhile, cities are being terrorized by ICE agents who are running rampant with abuses of power, s...
sign.moveon.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I cancelled my Spotify account too. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Update: This work has been rescheduled due to weather conditions and will now take place from Monday, Dec. 8 to Friday, Dec. 12 (weather dependent).
A contractor will be conducting geotechnical survey work on Chocolate Lake from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Dec. 1 to 5, in support of the future replacement of the Chocolate Lake Dam. A floating platform with survey equipment will be on the lake during these dates. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/ch...
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Update: This work has been rescheduled due to weather conditions and will now take place from Monday, Dec. 8 to Friday, Dec. 12 (weather dependent).
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Road closure: Herring Cove Road, from Purcells Cove Road to Osborne Street, from Saturday, Dec 6 to Sunday, Dec. 7. This work is for sewer main rehabilitation. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/ro...
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Road closure: Herring Cove Road, from Purcells Cove Road to Osborne Street, from Saturday, Dec 6 to Sunday, Dec. 7. This work is for sewer main rehabilitation. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/ro...
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Canada should engage in no negotiations of any sort with a country that disrespects Franklin the Turtle.
a man says " the line must be drawn here "
ALT: a man says " the line must be drawn here "
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Canada should engage in no negotiations of any sort with a country that disrespects Franklin the Turtle.
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Good point.
Thought experiment: If YOU were the victim of a cyberattack, could you tell Nova Scotia Power you're just going to estimate your power bill for the next 8 months and settle accounts, interest-free, after?
Thought experiment: If YOU were the victim of a cyberattack, could you tell Nova Scotia Power you're just going to estimate your power bill for the next 8 months and settle accounts, interest-free, after?
This is an incompetent company. They have a huge responsibility that they’re just dumping on citizens. Not one of their ‘customers’ would be excused by a corporation if they experienced major life disruptions and expected financial leniency.
Time for public ownership.
Time for public ownership.
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Good point.
Thought experiment: If YOU were the victim of a cyberattack, could you tell Nova Scotia Power you're just going to estimate your power bill for the next 8 months and settle accounts, interest-free, after?
Thought experiment: If YOU were the victim of a cyberattack, could you tell Nova Scotia Power you're just going to estimate your power bill for the next 8 months and settle accounts, interest-free, after?
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The increasing exasperation Trump and his sock puppets are showing Canada suggest that they genuinely believed we'd meekly acquiesce to whatever they demanded and our resistance flummoxes them. So keep that boycott rolling. Be nasty.
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The increasing exasperation Trump and his sock puppets are showing Canada suggest that they genuinely believed we'd meekly acquiesce to whatever they demanded and our resistance flummoxes them. So keep that boycott rolling. Be nasty.
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New ferry boarding procedures are starting Monday, Nov. 3.
Please enter the passenger waiting area single file to keep the line moving safely and inform staff if you or someone in your group requires additional assistance during an emergency.
Learn more: halifax.ca/ferry
Please enter the passenger waiting area single file to keep the line moving safely and inform staff if you or someone in your group requires additional assistance during an emergency.
Learn more: halifax.ca/ferry
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New ferry boarding procedures are starting Monday, Nov. 3.
Please enter the passenger waiting area single file to keep the line moving safely and inform staff if you or someone in your group requires additional assistance during an emergency.
Learn more: halifax.ca/ferry
Please enter the passenger waiting area single file to keep the line moving safely and inform staff if you or someone in your group requires additional assistance during an emergency.
Learn more: halifax.ca/ferry
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Curbside Giveaway Weekend is coming up on Oct 18 & 19. It's a great opportunity to reduce the amount of items ending up in the landfill, while allowing others the chance to find a special treasure to enjoy. Learn more at halifax.ca/curbside.
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Curbside Giveaway Weekend is coming up on Oct 18 & 19. It's a great opportunity to reduce the amount of items ending up in the landfill, while allowing others the chance to find a special treasure to enjoy. Learn more at halifax.ca/curbside.
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I’m threading the needle I’m doing it
September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I’m threading the needle I’m doing it
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We should first come for the richest person in Congress.
Wake up America!
Donald Trump is pursuing a coordinated effort to destroy our democracy.
It is up to all of us to stop him.
And that includes corporate media like Disney/ABC and tech companies bending the knee.
It may be someone else today.
But it will be you tomorrow.
Donald Trump is pursuing a coordinated effort to destroy our democracy.
It is up to all of us to stop him.
And that includes corporate media like Disney/ABC and tech companies bending the knee.
It may be someone else today.
But it will be you tomorrow.
September 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We should first come for the richest person in Congress.
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Last year at some Dota event someone asked me “how do you know everyone in Dota? Like all the talent and everyone?” And I was just like “we were all nobodies at the same time”
don't worry about networking up the ladder, esp if you're young. don't try to reach for people you already see as having 'made it'.
I mean, if you end up working with them, cool! but put your energy focusing collaborating with those next to you. you're surrounded by endless 'I knew them when--'
I mean, if you end up working with them, cool! but put your energy focusing collaborating with those next to you. you're surrounded by endless 'I knew them when--'
August 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Last year at some Dota event someone asked me “how do you know everyone in Dota? Like all the talent and everyone?” And I was just like “we were all nobodies at the same time”
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Nova Scotia Power promised regular updates on its recent data breach and failure to protect ratepayers' personal information. The last update was 3.5 weeks ago, on July 8, and contained no new information. Also, still no word on why the business was unnecessarily hoarding social insurance numbers.
Cyber
www.nspower.ca
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Nova Scotia Power promised regular updates on its recent data breach and failure to protect ratepayers' personal information. The last update was 3.5 weeks ago, on July 8, and contained no new information. Also, still no word on why the business was unnecessarily hoarding social insurance numbers.
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Wanted another excuse to practice painting.
July 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Wanted another excuse to practice painting.
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Perfect time for Nova Scotia to open up methane ("natural gas") exploration, just as the world is getting off the fuel.
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Perfect time for Nova Scotia to open up methane ("natural gas") exploration, just as the world is getting off the fuel.
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"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
organizingmythoughts.org
July 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
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Join the Halifax Regional Municipality as a Traffic Engineering Technologist on the Traffic Management team within Public Works. This is a temporary full-time position (up to 10 months). Apply by 11:59 pm on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Details: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
June 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Join the Halifax Regional Municipality as a Traffic Engineering Technologist on the Traffic Management team within Public Works. This is a temporary full-time position (up to 10 months). Apply by 11:59 pm on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Details: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Expect delays on Purcells Cove Road tomorrow until end of day Thursday. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/tr...
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Expect delays on Purcells Cove Road tomorrow until end of day Thursday. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/tr...
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Once more for the folks in the back: Interviewing requires conversation, and if you're not willing to talk with strangers, journalism probably isn't the field for you.
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Once more for the folks in the back: Interviewing requires conversation, and if you're not willing to talk with strangers, journalism probably isn't the field for you.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont criticized President Donald Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops in Los Angeles, arguing that Trump "wants all of the power" and is rapidly moving the US "into authoritarianism." cnn.it/43AJ7TJ
June 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont criticized President Donald Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops in Los Angeles, arguing that Trump "wants all of the power" and is rapidly moving the US "into authoritarianism." cnn.it/43AJ7TJ
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Cees van den Hoek has turned Great Village, N.S., into an antiquing paradise. He tells me about it in this recent Saltscapes story. (No paywall)
How to go antiquing ... like a Saltscaper - Saltscapes Magazine
How to go antiquing ... like a Saltscaper
www.saltscapes.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Cees van den Hoek has turned Great Village, N.S., into an antiquing paradise. He tells me about it in this recent Saltscapes story. (No paywall)
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I once had an editor who told me that "people don't understand semicolons," and so banned them; he was an idiot.
Semicolons under threat; help out by using whenever.
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
May 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I once had an editor who told me that "people don't understand semicolons," and so banned them; he was an idiot.
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There's no direct bus from the Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth to the QE2 Infirmary. This increases the hassle of the transit commute; at most times of day you have to take two perhaps not connecting buses and walk a bit still at the end.
May 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
There's no direct bus from the Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth to the QE2 Infirmary. This increases the hassle of the transit commute; at most times of day you have to take two perhaps not connecting buses and walk a bit still at the end.
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forgive me I misspelled yield
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
forgive me I misspelled yield
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Halifax council votes in favour of report to research history of Dartmouth Black community, The Avenue
By @suzannerent.bsky.social
By @suzannerent.bsky.social
Halifax council votes in favour of report to research history of Dartmouth Black community, The Avenue - Halifax Examiner
"There could be some pretty important history here," Coun. Sam Austin said
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
May 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Halifax council votes in favour of report to research history of Dartmouth Black community, The Avenue
By @suzannerent.bsky.social
By @suzannerent.bsky.social