Halifax Examiner
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Oct 27, 2026
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Fun with slop: A quick tour of some manufactured nostalgia
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It’s 4:49 right now, so they apparently haven’t come yet?
Lucas writes: Americans over 60 now spend more than half their leisure hours in front of screens… For a generation that often struggled to contextualize much of what it saw online, AI created a hyperpersonalized fantasyland.
We got a handy reminder to not fall in love with whatever tech you adopt yesterday, when 404 Media broke the story that Proton is planning to re-interview employees about AI, presumably to keep only those incorporating as much of it as possible into their work.
The company bid $210,130,000 to lease two parcels of land offshore Nova Scotia, and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (CNSOER) made the award on April 28, 2026… The news is disappointing for [Nova Scotia Premier Tim] Houston.
Nova Scotia Power’s $1 billion mortgage under scrutiny as CEO steps down Coal beside Nova Scotia Power’s Point Tupper generating station on Oct.
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Fun with slop: A quick tour of some manufactured nostalgia
Also: Slopifying Halloween fear-mongering; Don’t fall in love with your tech services; Municipality of Richmond County Warden Lois Landry on EverWind’s AI data centre; Nova Scotia offshore drilling dream dashed for now; Nova Scotia Power’s $1 billion mortgage under scrutiny as CEO steps down
BY PHILIP MOSCOVITCH
OCTOBER 27, 2026
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