The article is behind the Halifax Examiner's paywall for now, but they have a section about it in today's free Morning File (it's not in the headline there).

But before debate even started on Morse’s motion [to send the letter], Coun. Trish Purdy asked for a point of order, saying issues around guaranteed basic income aren’t under municipal jurisdiction.

Mayor Andy Fillmore supported Purdy’s point of order, saying any decisions about a guaranteed basic income are up to the federal government with assistance from the provinces.

Fillmore pointed to section 70 of Administrative Order (AO) One that says “a motion in respect of a matter which is not within the jurisdiction of the Council shall not be in order.”

Municipal solicitor John Traves said while Fillmore is correct about the point of order, if two-thirds of councillors want to disregard the rule, they could do so.

Objecting because of the rules. OK, sure. But:

Purdy doubled-down, saying she wants council to always focus only on issues under municipal jurisdiction.

“What are we now? The giver of all magic money to all people?” Purdy said.

Still, she said while she doesn’t support a basic income, she thinks it will become a reality because of artificial intelligence (AI) in the labour force.

“I’m going to resist it until the very end,” Purdy said. “I have so many red flags about this.”

Purdy said if her children needed money, she’d tell them to go get another job.

“You get three jobs, you get five jobs. You don’t sleep; you make money, you save it, and you figure it out,” Purdy said. “That’s where I come from with these things.”

Fillmore said he does support universal basic income (UBI), adding he has attended and spoken at the BIG-NS conference in the past when he served as the MP for Halifax.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64534961

Chris came back from his winter break feeling energized. Ubisoft’s Halifax studio, where he worked, had recently unionized with 74 percent support, joining CWA Canada. On January 5, employees returned from vacation eager to prove that unionization would make them stronger workers. But two days later, it all came crashing down.

Jean-Michel Detoc, chief mobile officer from the company’s France office, walked through the front door, unannounced. Dread descended upon the staff. By 10 a.m., all seventy-one employees were laid off. Some started crying. Others were furious. “You lose your job like that—it sounds dramatic, but it’s a traumatic experience,” says Chris (whose name has been changed to avoid professional repercussions).

The Halifax office closure was widely seen as union busting. Employees said there was no correspondence with them or the union before the layoffs. (“All impacted employees in Halifax were informed of the closure at the same time on January 7, 2026. Ubisoft immediately contacted the union on Jan. 7 to begin discussions, including negotiations regarding additional severance,” the Ubisoft spokesperson said in the response.)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55395587

Eddie Carvery, the activist who crusaded for reparations for the former residents of Africville, N.S., has died of cancer.

Carvery was born in 1946 in Africville, a Black community that stood on the shores of the Bedford Basin.

The town was bulldozed in the 1960s after decades of mistreatment and neglect from the City of Halifax to make way for industrial developments, including the MacKay Bridge.

Carvery, 79, lived in a trailer on the grounds of Africville Park for more than 50 years in protest of the destruction of the community.

Residents who had deeds to their property were compensated according to the market value of their homes, but those who didn't, which was much of the town's population, were given $500.

Despite multiple eviction orders, most recently in July of 2025, and the destruction of his trailers in 2019, Carvery maintained his protest. He did reduce his time at the Africville site in recent years due to health concerns, living part-time in an apartment.

An RCMP manager in Nova Scotia says he takes issue with officers being called white supremacists and Nazis during a recent police raid of a Mi'kmaw-run cannabis dispensary, calling such statements "racist commentary."

In response, a Mi'kmaw lawyer accused police of painting themselves as victims and heightening tensions for Mi'kmaw communities that have been rocked by unproven allegations from provincial politicians about unlicensed cannabis dispensaries and human trafficking. On Thursday, Supt. Jason Popik with the Southwest Nova District RCMP said officers were met with "verbal assault" during a Jan. 30 police search and cannabis seizure near the Annapolis Valley.

"We get into the site and we're faced with swearing, racist language," he said in an interview. "When I say racist language — when people start identifying the colour of your skin, the race you come from and use derogatory terms like 'white supremacist,' I take that to be a racist language."

🙄

ok go off, as if the NS dept of the RCMP didn't have the biggest blunder of any in recent memory

"When people are calling the police officers Nazis, that's a derogatory term to reflect their feelings towards the people that are there doing their job," he said.

oh boohoo

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/33927278

Just after unionisation

In response to a question from CBC News, Leduc-Labelle said the restructuring exercise began "well before the start of the unionization process within the studio in June 2025."

Yeah and my ass is chicken

Is there any active halifax or Nova Scotia communities on Lemmy? The ones on .ca were made by an account that seems to have ghosted.

Ideally it would be a community that is already moderated, but I'm willing to help moderate if necessary.

• Invidious
• Youtube

Council recently received the completed report, which recommended discontinuing all eight active X accounts by July 15 and transitioning to Bluesky, a social media platform that started as a research project at Twitter in 2019, but became independent in 2021.

See you guys again in a few years. It's still progress and I get why it's easier to propose than hosting your own Mastadon instance.

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