Pam Sword 🇨🇦

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Former newspaper editor/writer/web specialist, cat, word and plant enthusiast. Cause some good. Free 🇵🇸. Slava 🇺🇦.

A Facebook event post to publicize a rally at 10 am outside Kings North MLA Jojn Lohr’s office in Kentville aimed at preventing the closure of library branches in the Annapolis Valley.
A Facebook post from Gillian Yorke says: Join me this afternoon beginning at 1:00pm for a read-in at John Lohr’s office (347 Main Street, Kentville). Demonstrations against government actions don’t have to be loud to be effective, but they do require people. Bring a book, bring your chair and bring your outrage at the attack on culture in Nova Scotia.
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A screengrab of a Facebook post that says a few spots have opened up for the season at the Birdland Community Garden, which is in D.J. Butler Park on Flamingo Drive. It’s $30 for a fenced raised bed (no deer!) and includes water, compost and use of lots of garden tools. We also have a seed library
A Facebook post from the Nova Scotia PC party wishes Premier Tim Houston a happy birthday.
A Facebook post from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith reads: Premier Tim Houston and I are working closely together to build a stronger, more self-reliant Canada. Alberta and Nova Scotia see eye to eye on the need to develop our natural resources, grow our economy, and reduce reliance on foreign energy. Today’s roundtable centered on ensuring we match oil and gas expertise here in Alberta with new opportunities in Nova Scotia’s onshore natural gas sector. Special thanks to Minister Brian Jean for putting today together.
Facebook post from Jason’s aunt, Kathy MacDonald: This is my nephew Jason , if anyone has seen him please go to the RCMP and report where and when. He has been missing since Thursday morning early (6am)and we the family have just found out, he is a very vulnerable adult with a brain injury since he was 19 yrs old. Jason is 5ft 11 and about 144 lbs, He hasn’t had his medication since Monday so not sure if he will be even more confused. He just recently moved to Truro from Berwick and lives near Patio Lantern. He has always lived in assisted living up until about a month ago and with cut backs the home he was living in in Berwick is being shut down. They moved J and another man to Truro and placed them into an apt with someone only there from 9-5 most days and no one all evening or overnight. We know he was at the apt on Wednesday afternoon but not sure when he left. His room mate believes it was early Thursday morning when he said he was going for a walk. He was wearing a plaid flannel fleece lined jacket and jeans and a Chevy ball cap. Anyone living nearby please check your sheds or out buildings in case he was cold and wanted to get in. He would go with anyone in a car because he thinks everyone is a friend. Please help get his picture out and help us bring him home.u
Screenshot of part of CBC article on point-of-sale donations that says: “The managing director of Charity Intelligence Canada is adamant that customers avoid donating at the till, unless they are fully informed about the charity.”
Screen shot of results from an AI detector that declares there’s 100% chance the text of a Facebook post was AI generated.
Preamble to Nova Scotia’s Windsor is the Birthplace of Hockey Bill, a thin gruel of evidence at best: WHEREAS Nova Scotian historians have claimed that Nova Scotia is the birthplace of modern Canadian ice hockey, based, in part, upon descriptions of the playing of "hurley on the ice" in Windsor, Nova Scotia, no later than 1810; AND WHEREAS early paintings show shinny, an early form of hockey, being played in Nova Scotia; AND WHEREAS an anonymous writer in the Windsor Mail of 1876 wrote of the playing of hurley on the Devil's Punch Bowl and on Long Pond during his school days from 1816 to 1818 in Windsor; AND WHEREAS during the mid-1850s hockey games were played by British soldiers stationed in Halifax; AND WHEREAS J. G. A. Creighton (1850-1930) of Halifax is credited with introducing hockey to Montreal, for the first time under organized rules, with Halifax rules in 1875; AND WHEREAS Howard Dill gathered a tremendous collection of hockey memorabilia and promoted Long Pond as the "Cradle of Hockey in Canada"; AND WHEREAS Dr Garth Vaughan, in his book The Puck Starts Here, chronicled the origins of hockey in Windsor;
Otto, a handsome and regal black cat who likes milk and tuna, sleeps in a circle inside a round corrugated cardboard cat scratcher. All hail the king of the suburban jungle!
Note that says: For almost 15 years, you’ve helped us grow the Canada Games Centre into a welcoming, active community space. We’re grateful for your continued support and commitment to building a healthier, happier community with us. We’re excited to share some big news with you… HRM has entered into a 10-year naming rights partnership with Manulife, effective April 1, 2026. Starting in April, our facility will be the Manulife Recreation Centre.
Two paragraphs from the New York Times morning newsletter that read: “The Epstein files are a lot, and that’s before we get to Trump’s appearances in them. They present such a sprawling, sordid, sometimes inchoate scandal that it can be difficult to understand exactly what they tell us, except that the guy had a lot of powerful friends. He used them for various reasons, and they used him for their own. Some of it was illegal. Some of it was ick. Some of it was quotidian (my name appears a few times because Epstein subscribed to various Times newsletters). And this week it’s all people want to talk about.”
Over two dozen pickets - striking Chronicle Herald newsroom staff and a few supporters - pose for a photo on the sidewalk outside what was then the newspaper’s now-closed offices on Joseph Howe Drive in Halifax in spring 2017.
A No Monkeys Allowed sign featuring the image of a monkey with a circle and red line through it.
A screenshot of the “most halifamous” category in the The Coast’s annual “best of” contest
A screengrab from FlightRadar24 shows the path of a Cessna that drew an image of the Toronto Blue Jays logo
A view of some graves at the Old Burying Ground in Halifax. The tallish one in the background is the tomb of Major-Gen. Robert Ross, who led the historic burning of the White House.
Jane Goodall looks at a computer screen as her travelling companion Mr. H, a stuffed monkey, watches.
Two lines of Halifax police officers stand between pro-immigration protesters (pictured) and anti-immigration assholes (not pictured)
Protesters, including one holding a large Palestinian flag, gather at the Halifax Oval.
A hand holds a red plum that has light brown scabbing in the shape of a small, long-eared dog like a beagle or dachshund
A small pond with a low water level, the dry sides visible, as well as a plastic basket that usually is on the pond bottom.
From the Nova Scotia Fire and Emergency Facebook: 17:00: Emergency water assets are currently responding to a reported aircraft incident near the Long Lake Wildfires in Annapolis County. No further information available. 17:25: We have received additional information suggesting a helicopter has crashed into Fivefinger Lake. Multiple agencies in addition to EHS LifeFlight are responding.
Wall-E, an extremely photogenic long-haired calico cat, stands on a deck getting at least a little bit wet from rai, which darkens the deck. But so far, not enough rain to bother a cat.
Post from NS Fire and Emergency info says: 18:44: Air support is clear of Bayers Lake and returning to their respective provinces. At this time, the fire is believed to be manageable by Nova Scotian resources — but remains an out-of-control fire. Ground crews are now re-entering the woods. Due to safety, crews pull out of the woods after dark.
Screengrab of post reads: If anyone in the Bayers Lake or surrounding area is evacuated and needs access to a campground, the Hants County Exhibition Fairgrounds in Windsor will welcome you. Additionally, if stabling is needed for livestock, we can help! Call 902-471-4260 or 902-229-4062. 🧡💜
Photo of a firefighting plane out of New Brunswick as seen on glightradar24.com, showing it being tracked over 3,000 times
Wildfire alert for the Susie Lake Cres. area of Halifax. Outpatient centre being evacuated
July 23, 1991 newspaper clipping talks about the effect on Nova Scotia parks of a woodland travel ban, brought about by a weeks-long drought.
A once-happy and -thriving tomato plant, now just a short stalk and a few leaves after an overnight deer raid
Screen grab of Facebook post saying there was a vehicle-pedestrian “accident” at 10:48 a.m. and that cops and fire dept. we’re going to the scene
Headline saying that the share of Americans viewing Canadians as their top ally has doubled
Poster that says: It doesn’t matter who wins the election, it’s all about the strangers we fought with in the comments sections along the way.
ChatGPT graphic showing the progression of ownership of Canadian daily newspapers from about 2010 to now, when most are owned by U.s. hedge fund Postmedia
Conservative ad on front page of the Vancouver Province features a photo of Poilievre with the headline Vote for Change
Front page ad for NDP in Victoria Times Colonist that says: here on the Island, we vote NDP to stop Conservatives
Front page of Saturday’s National Post shows a silhouette of Trudeau with headlines from stories about how he ruined the Conservatives chances of winning the election. And the country.
Donald Trump’s head preserved in a bell jar from an episodic of the Futurama TV show
Photo of Facebook event happening April 6 at 2 pm at Alderney Landing - an Elbows Up rally in support of Canada