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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 13h

I waffle back and forth with her. She’s said some things that really just turned me off reading anything she posted and I stopped following her. I don’t know if that’s the solution either but it worked for me at the time.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 1d

Added bonus is that it’s really highlighted some great local/Canadian products that may have otherwise been overshadowed.

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 1d

Parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick experiencing once-in-50-year drought | CBC News

Parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are in the midst of exceptional drought — the most extreme category on the national scale.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 1d

He is a Class A Arsehole. Always has been. Hilarious!!!!

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 2d

I was relieved until I read he was only in office 4ish days or something before nominations were due so there is still next year. Just imagine 🤮
Messed up.

HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 2d

This seems very very bad. Like really bad.

Dominion Voting Systems, at centre of false 2020 election claims, sold to former Republican election official | CBC News

Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies,...

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 2d

The devices are not cheap and neither are supplies. They also come with a bit of a learning curve, but overall management with them is hands down a game changer.

Glad governments are recognizing they are an investment worth spending health care dollars on.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 2d

We really dropped the ball on this a while back. We just weren’t paying enough attention to the right things and now our kids/future generations will pay the price.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 2d

“A recent report from Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog found that house prices in Halifax are 74 per cent higher on average than what the typical household can afford.”

SEVENTY FOUR PERCENT.

Halifax house prices much higher on average than what households can afford: report | CBC News

A recent report found that house prices in Halifax are, on average, 74 per cent higher than what the typical household can afford.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

My thoughts exactly!

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible response! I’m so pleased but def not shocked. I’d love to be able to read each and every piece of feedback.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. But..

This is specifically about women’s health. I’m glad even if exaggerated by 50%!

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

Expecting 2000 responses and got
>27000. Not shocked at all!

Dismissed and depressed: Survey digs into women’s health in the Maritimes | CBC News

The results of a first-of-its-kind survey in the Maritimes paint a bleak picture of women censoring their health concerns amid a pattern of dismissal and bias within the health-care system.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

For real.

How could anyone even keep a straight face listening or reading this?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social · 3d

Halifax (and Nova Scotia), appointments for COVID and flu vaccines are now available to book!

novascotia.flow.canimmunize.ca/en/booking/c...

CANImmunize

CANImmunize Clinic Flow

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Jim Abraham @yhzweatherguy.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to our citizen science volunteers for sharing rainfall data. While the Thanksgiving weekend is dry, later next week shows signs of the start of a somewhat damp period.
Bring it on!

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

Sad for Cole Harbour but very happy for the areas like the Valley that got rain!

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

It’s tiresome isn’t it

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 3d

Some interesting connections here to one of the no voters.

Halifax decides to restrict infilling for Dartmouth Cove | CBC News

Halifax has decided to restrict infilling in Dartmouth Cove, following years of public and political debate and a lengthy public hearing with passionate calls from residents to preserve a “crown jewel...

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 4d

It’s all so excessive to me. I know it’s a personal choice but everything about them makes me cringe. The food waste, the pollution, all of it.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 4d

Ok I think I assumed they had power vs running. Silly me.

Floating Petri dishes AND a wasteful mega polluter even when docked.

Ships spew pollution into our port cities. Plugging them in could clear the air | CBC News

Many large ships keep burning fuel and spew an entire town's worth of pollution while docked in our port cities. One solution is to make them plug into the local grid through a connection known as sho...

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 6d

‘Wagner told dignitaries gathered in the courtroom that the country's legal community is united in a deep conviction that the rule of law and judicial independence are not abstract concepts.’

"They are the best defence against tyranny and autocracy," Wagner said.

Indeed.

Chief justice says rule of law, judicial independence protect Canada from autocracy | CBC News

While Canada is not a superpower in the traditional sense of the word, it's "certainly a democratic superpower," Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Monday at a ceremony to open the Supreme Court's judi...

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 6d

I hated this as a kid but I love it as an adult!!!

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 6d

How this traditional Maritime condiment is getting on grocery store shelves
#NovaScotia

A Nova Scotia company has gotten its version of green tomato chow into dozens of grocery stores across the Maritimes.

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How this traditional Maritime condiment is getting on grocery store shelves

A Nova Scotia company has gotten its version of green tomato chow into dozens of grocery stores across the Maritimes. The CBC's Andrew Lam visited the facility making the traditional Maritime condimen...

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 6d

One of my kids was diagnosed at 11 with type 1 diabetes. We had access to DAILY outpatient care 24/7 to stabilize insulin reqts and quarterly visits for check ups until aging out of IWK. Cost was 0.

Insulin and diabetic supply coverage might not be perfect but my guess is that is way less here in 🇨🇦

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 7d

That’s his thinking also!

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