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Last week, Nova Scotia passed Bill 127, criminalizing Mi'kmaw protestors on Hunters Mountain who want to defend the land from clearcutting. And have a right to. Truth and Reconciliation means nothing to these people. www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/...
Look at this, another one. And here I never even heard of it until now, on my own island. Trying to open up a 100 year old copper mine and displacing homes. Cape Breton is just for sale to anyone. www.keepcoxheathclean.org
I think we are going to need help here. From fellow Nova Scotians. From people who want to protect a natural environment provincial park from development. I welcome your help and your voice. This an update to the thread. We are only a small community. These are international billionaires.
It's clear that @nsgov.bsky.social Tory Rushton, Tim Huston - they're not just going to "have conversations" about this golf course, but that they have already had them. Maybe figuring out how to say that actually, this is in our best interest. Whatever it is, it's being done without accountability.
Ben Cowan-Dewar, the CEO of Cabot - he likes to position himself as the economic hero of western Cape Breton. He is also unscrupulous and predatory. He only needs to win once to ruin that land forever, but the community has win every time, and this is the third, and we are not the billionaires.
I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper. Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...
I’m not DMing this because if any mutuals of ours know better that you’re a good egg, that is ok by me. I didn't mean this to be so long, but there you go. I hope you're really well.
you talked to me about the attack rhetoric being used, and the ways that well-meaning but outside people like me could blunder, when I asked. You didn’t have to give me your time but you did, and I always remember your kindness, and I still feel inspired by it.
and I was completely unfamiliar with the discourse, and I felt like I could hurt people by fucking it up somehow. By my own ignorance. I was extremely nervous, this felt so public, even if it was just twitter. And someone told me to message you, and I did, and you were very generous with me,
I remember that this was before the dam broke, and many peers were not saying anything because it was so uncomfortable to watch, and I think many were just hoping he’d stop. He was someone I met and so admired. When I did say something, I was hit with a mass of his followers, -
@caseyexplosion.bsky.social Hello! Long time no see, I’m not on socials much. I just wanted to say hi and hope you are well. It’s a pretty dismal time, and G.L. in the headlines again, I think of you and I remember your kindness to me years ago, when I tried to approach him and his views on twitter.
Canada still allows military goods to be sold to Israel, has yet to even recognize the genocide in Gaza, though it “strongly condemns” what is going on over there (wow, chilling). But it’s definite hardline action barring an Irish musical group from the country because we don’t tolerate terrorists.
