{"id":32779,"date":"2026-03-10T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32779"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:04:47","slug":"premier-tims-governing-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32779","title":{"rendered":"Premier Tim&#8217;s Governing rule&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chainsaw Tim explains\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9H4a-YoPwUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Breaking News: March 10\/26 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announces reinstating $53.6 million in grants and funding to support people with disabilities, seniors and education initiatives for 2026-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-5b3dbe7dd3c8a18938774e18fa013075\" style=\"color:#a60c2d\">Notably, there\u2019s no restoration of art funding as Tim&#8217;s <em>hand on heart governing rule<\/em> was cold &amp; dead for the arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Nova Scotia government\u2019s \u201cMulti-Year Fiscal Stability Plan\u201d calls for further cuts to the provincial budget for each of the next four years, to nearly a billion dollars in the 2029\/30 budget year. That also reflects a cut of about 20% of the current provincial workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The government hopes to achieve these reductions by increasing productivity and efficiency, in part through the use of <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some $4.4 million is budgeted \u201cto develop and deploy <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong> enabled applications.\u201d The Examiner asked what that means exactly, and was told that the money would be used to build in-house expertise and train staff on how to use AI, mainly with Microsoft Office AI tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3fa985ebecf5d253fc689476b06d727b\" style=\"color:#04395d\"><em>News Content Source: The Halifax Examiner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Premier-Houston-Cuts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Premier-Houston-Cuts.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Premier-Houston-Cuts-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Premier-Houston-Cuts-768x691.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ca401819e743c0e331e0eca3b28dcfa1\" style=\"color:#c91209\">Premier Tim can&#8217;t find it in his heart to restore Nova Scotia arts &amp; culture funding cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Premier-Houston-heartCuts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Premier-Houston-heartCuts-1.jpg 931w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Premier-Houston-heartCuts-1-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Premier-Houston-heartCuts-1-768x825.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Court-Painter-Tims-rule.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Court-Painter-Tims-rule.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Court-Painter-Tims-rule-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Court-Painter-Tims-rule-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking News: March 10\/26 Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announces reinstating $53.6 million in grants and funding to support people with disabilities, seniors and education initiatives for 2026-27. Notably, there\u2019s no restoration of art funding as Tim&#8217;s hand on heart governing rule was cold &amp; dead for the arts. The Nova Scotia government\u2019s \u201cMulti-Year Fiscal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Premier Tim&#8217;s Governing rule&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32779"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32791,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32779\/revisions\/32791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}