A ten percent increase in profit for loblaws. Are we still blaming the carbon tax, though?
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NSP will have no motivation to actually improve the grid if they can make a guaranteed profit and pass off any expenses back to ratepayers.

Actually being responsible for damages might affect their bottom line enough to motivate them to do something.

NSP is seeking a one time payment from ratepayers for $22-m to cover the cost of severe storm restorations in 2023. If approved would result in a 1.3% rate hike for 2025. This is separate from its application for $25-m for left over Fiona costs from 2022. cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

Why these Nova Scotians say they won't shop at Superstore this month ift.tt/yl9C3iI

Boycotts work. Don’t listen to the naysayers. A corp that makes billions will freak out even if they lose 5 - 10% of their customers. They are all about unlimited growth. We have way more power than most realize. #Solidarity 👊

i still can’t get over governments building highways & spending billions on roads when people have nowhere to live, building roads during a housing crisis is insanity Nova Scotia Gov. Tim Houston Kendra Coombes

Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada) just released the most recent poverty and food insecurity data for 2022—and Nova Scotia’s rates are alarming. #NSpoli #cdnpoli

« There's a lot we can do that's not panicking. We can demand ultra-pasteurization. We can pull back from dairy and beef. We can finally start cleaning the air. We can wear masks. We should've already been doing these things » okdoomer.io/were-watching-…

Halifax Examiner In Nova Scotia, the poverty rate increased by 52% between 2021 and 2022 (from 8.6% to 13.1%).

That’s the highest rate in the country and surpasses the province’s pre-pandemic levels.

#nspoli #nspc #PovertyReduction #ChildPoverty halifaxexaminer.ca/equity/poverty…

While parliamentarians are name calling and interrupting the business of democracy, what’s really outrageous is that 1000s of Canadians have no safe place to stay tonight, no security of home; many more are struggling to feed their families, access health care, realize justice.

⁦Jacques Poitras⁩ New Brunswick's three francophone school districts have defied a letter from the province's education minister repealing their gender identity policies and ordering them removed from district websites. #nbpoli #policy713 #transphobia cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Our job is becoming more dangerous every day. It's feeding the staffing shortages because our families want us to come home at night. We aren't paid enough to be threatened, spit on, assaulted, subjected to racism, hate speech, punched. Transit is doing the bare minimum so they…

say it with me: we want haptic feedback. we want tactile switches and dials. we dont want stupid touch screens that glitch, provide zero feedback, and force you to look at them. technology is stupid. modern engineers are stupid. can someone help silicon valley

Not following this new ban on cell phones in class “law”.

So teachers are supposed to act like phone cops now on top of their other duties?

This smells like another Conservative gimmick: flashy media burst about new law that is meaningless in practice.

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Corporations say they were forced to raise prices.

But their profits have skyrocketed since 2020.

They hit a record high in Q4 2023.

News flash: They used inflation as cover to get rich.

I just finished standing in line for a checkout at the Superstore because you can NO LONGER ring in more than 25 items at the self-checkout. Yet, they only have 2 checkouts open to wait on people. I’m done! The barriers are one thing, but this! I’m pissed off!!!! #loblaws