In a surprising turn of events, Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston has announced a snap election, adding to the political turmoil that has been unfolding in Canada this fall. The decision comes as a shock to many, as Houston had previously indicated that he intended to wait until the scheduled election in 2025. However, citing the need for a fresh mandate to navigate the province through challenging times, Houston made the call for an early election.
The move has sparked debate and speculation among political pundits and citizens alike, with some questioning the timing and motive behind the decision. With key issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, and the economy at the forefront of voters’ minds, the upcoming election is sure to be closely watched and fiercely contested.
As campaigning gets underway, candidates from all major parties are gearing up for what promises to be a closely fought race. With the province facing a number of pressing challenges, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and economic uncertainty, the stakes are high for Nova Scotians as they head to the polls.
With just weeks to go until election day, Nova Scotia residents will have the opportunity to make their voices heard and shape the future of their province. As candidates make their pitches and present their visions for the future, voters will be faced with a crucial decision that will impact the trajectory of Nova Scotia for years to come. Stay tuned for more updates as the election campaign unfolds.
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Kamala Harris, the only way to turn the page on hatred and division is to get rid of Kamala Harris, the Democrat party/liberals are the ones that are full of the hatred
How’s he supposed to fix healthcare when the feds have barely clogged the leak at our boarders. Also why is it so hard for people to add the 2 together?
Ontario’s grown by 80 million the debt because of the federal liberals sinking illegal immigration into Ontario, causing us most of that $80 billion over the last six years
Need help my scotia bank account …
The healthcare has gotten worse in Nova Scotia and people are dying younger from health problems that can be fixed, but they’re dying from waiting my daughter who’s 20 lost her boyfriend’s father at 59 heart attack! He had heart problems and he couldn’t get it fix! All my family didn’t get to see retirement age because they died from lack of healthcare in Nova Scotia
This channel needs to be labeled as Canadian federal government propaganda program
Propping Michelle Obama up on a stage to inanely flap her gums isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for your cause…
Health care is a huge problem all across Canada. I'm not sure if it is just one particular party to blame. Where did this stem from? Covid? People not happy with their chosen medical profession, burnout?
This shrink inflation is infuriating and frustrating to the consumer and affects everyone's pocket book. Interesting, there is always a shortage of an item, at a particular time of the year.
How is any one premier or provincial government supposed to magically fix our healthcare system when the growth of the population, thanks to the feds, has grown far faster than their abilities to build hospitals, train and retain doctors and nurses, and stack the budget properly enough to make sure it all works well? It can't be done immediately! So lay off Chender, Beck! It's not the PC's/SaskParty's fault!
Osama >>> Obama >>> Kamala
The NDP maintained control in BC, and the Liberals gained power, in New Brunswick. Doesn't look like, necessarily gambling on Polly's insurrection is going to pay off necessarily.
4 more years please, the province is going in the right direction we need to let him continue the plan
Cheating happening in real time in bc😅 remember when humans counted votes and that was it? No mysterious well long mail in votes? Votes that were just for one party 😂
Tim Houston just broke his own law! Oh well as dr robert strang SAYS LOCK IT DOWN AND PUT YOUR FACE DIAPERS ON AND THEN YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME BECAUSE I AM NOVASCOTIA TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0PPPPPPPPPPP DOCTOR
MAKE IT HAPPEN NOVA SCOTIA ensure that Trudeau will not win the upcoming federal election.
NDP is enemy within Canada, NDP hate Canadian and developed criminal activity and inflation, be honest vote smart
Trump 2024!
Go Donny Go …GIVER hell
Needle's, Drug's, Poverty
Average wait time in Emerg departments in Halifax is often 18 hours and it’s nearly impossible to get a family doctor if you need to find one. Some doctors vet new clients by checking their past medical history, if a person has a medical condition that might need a lot of time to treat they deny them as a patient. What will each of them plan to do to fix these very real problems?
Government choice: to renew or crash to the ground!…
Need Nova Scotia to become an NDP provvince
The law and order party my eye
Yaa ,,,, no chocolate … those skeletons are going to be skinny .. hahaha BOO
I won't be shocked when the Liberals win by a large margin even though the Premier is already Conservative. Big uptick in negative Conservative reporting is coming this next month from all Government Funded Media outlets. Next on the chopping block is PEI.
Make no sense, they have the majority and still needs to fix health care, no need to call for a snap election go and fixed health care first then call snap election.
doggy makes gas cheaper and life more expensive for all
They can’t even remember a simple speech without reading, truly sad..
Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives:
– Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way.
– took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable.
– appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants.
– replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development
– despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years.
– nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability.
– scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline.
– fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes.
– after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program.
– provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere.
– paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up.
– cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry.
– scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed.
– withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave.
– violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records.
– underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months.
– supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal.
– created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before.
– support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million.
– made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it.
– campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him.
– called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election.
– called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks.
– joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies.
– have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions.
– won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership.
– plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds.
– coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
May Love Peace Prevail In The World…..
Beware of all religions. “Always treat others as you would like them to treat you.” And “Love your neighbour as yourself.” That is the Law and the Prophets of God our true Father in heaven and on earth.
So never worship and pray in the way of the many false prophets who lead all religions.
“But when you pray, go into a room by yourself, and shut the door. Pray to your Father who is there in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you openly.
In your prayers do not go babbling on like the heathen, who imagine that the more they say the more likely they are to be heard. Do not imitate them. Your Father knows what your needs are before you ask him.
This is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come; your will be done, on earth as in heaven,
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us the wrong we have done, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
And do not bring us to the test, but save us from the evil one.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
For if you forgive others the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, then the wrongs you have done will not be forgiven by your Father.” – (The Prophet and Messiah Jesus of Nazareth at Matthew 6: 6-15) –
“Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.” – (at Matthew 7: 1-2) –
“In truth I tell you, if anyone obeys my teaching he shall never know what it is to die.” – (at John 8: 51) –
“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the Prophets.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.” – (Matthew 7: 12-14) –
“I am the gate; anyone who comes into the fold through me shall be safe. He shall go in and out and shall find pasturage.
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.” – (John 10: 9-10) –
“Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” – (Matthew 7: 15-16) –
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” – (Matthew 7: 21) –
“I am the resurrection and I am life. If a man has faith in me, even though he dies, he shall come to life; and any one who is alive and has faith shall never die.” – (John 11: 25-26) –
“I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world” – (John 12: 47) –
“Whoever then will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven; and whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” – (Matthew 10: 32-34) –
“I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” – (John 14: 6-7) –
“An expert in the law, [a leading religious Pharisee] tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That is the greatest commandment. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. Everything in the Law and the Prophets hangs on these two commandments.’” – (Matthew 22: 35-40) –
“There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” – (John 15: 13) –
“Do not call any man on earth ‘father’ ; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’ ; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.’” – (Matthew 23: 9-10) –
“Take care that no one misleads you: For many will come claiming my name…” – (Matthew 24: 4) –
“Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many; and as lawlessness spreads, men’s love for one another will grow cold. But the man who holds out to the end will be saved. ” – (Matthew 24: 11-13) –
“Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And be assured, I am with you always, to the end of time.” – (Matthew 28: 20) –
Yours, in true Spirit and in our one given prayer, 2gointruth, on Monday the 28th of September 2024: – (Please read Matthew 5: 14-16) – Where every minute (of both day and night) can be a new beginning for any one of us. Let it always be you. Pray to God often, as prescribed above, before it is too late.
Trudeau doas not care. He is out to destroy canada and Canadians and become a communist country wakeup canada. Call election election election asap
Access to health care is NOT an issue of money. Canadas healthcare is the second most expensive in the world right behind the USA and yet the performance of our health care system ranks 20th in the world. Canadas health care needs to be restructured. We need to benchmark our system against the best performing systems in the world. One problem is the amount of money Canada spends on hospital and medical administrators with executives who have salaries north of $500k to more than $ 1 million and pensions to match!
So Indigenous leaders have turned away a $47B deal from the feds for child welfare? Maybe it's time for the feds to walk away. You've had your chance and you've blown it. Blackstock will come to regret this decision.
The Houston Government is right, they need more time to keep making these improvements and to see the results. They inherited a mess, as did all provincial premiers across Canada after covid. The big difference here in Nova Scotia is that the previous power did nothing to improve the lives of Nova Scotians.
In almost a decade the triumphs of the McNeil Liberals (who Zach Churchill now runs. I also grew up with him in Yarmouth) did absolutely nothing at a time when they could have positioned the province for huge success. They made multiple successive promises ("A doctor for every Nova Scotian" for instance) and then sat back waiting for the problem to fix itself (like Trudeau whose budget was supposed to balance itself). And here we are today, watching Tim Houston trying to glue it all back together.
And personally I think they're doing a good job, all they need is a bit more time to keep these positive changes moving forward. Changes that should have been made under the Liberal government here in Nova Scotia yet here we see a Conservative government creating social programs to improve our lives as well as lowering taxes.
Hopefully PP will endorse him and the conservatives will lose.
India support israyel why not canada support khalistan….
81 million votes
1:03… NS calls provincial election for Nov 26… Fatal error for Premier Houston. With healthcare still not fixed as he promised, he should have waited till after the federal election. If the federal Tories win, he would have been well-positioned to then call a provincial election and hound the feds for more healthcare dollars. Having screwed up, he could end up with a minority govt as the electorate seeks revenge.
Canada is not a bottomless money pit. Stand up on your own two feet.