Nova Scotia Today | June 2, 2026

I read a story that came across the CBC, and it's something that we've talked about a little bit here with regards to some of the hijinks Some of the bad behavior that happens in the world now because we are living in a social media environment.

There are some councils in Nova Scotia, some town councils that are considering stopping either streaming their council meetings or posting video of their council meetings after they're over on their websites.

And one of the reasons that they are looking at this is because of some of the online, they say, hate.

I'll say hate and abuse that you take when you put yourself out there.

And some are concerned about the rise of AI.

And having images out there and with all of the technology that's available now with the deep fakes and those kind of things, it's really a dangerous world to be living in, right? You can put your audio out there, you can put your video out there, and it can get manipulated very easily into it coming out saying something that you just absolutely did not say.

And those images can be modified very easily with pretty good high definition into, let's just say, compromising positions.

I think it's the 2026 argument when it comes to accessing our municipal politicians.

Or it could also be just that they don't want to deal with it.

They just don't want to deal with backlash from the public on decisions that they make.

But I think I can see the argument, and it particularly impacts women who run in public office who tend to be targets of this kind of garbage.

And I can see their point.

It's a difficult, difficult line to kind of dance on if you want to keep meetings accessible to the public.

yet try and protect those that could be the target of stuff that's out of bounds.

I mean, you should be challenging council decisions.

You should be challenging your elected leaders.

You should be holding them to account.

But there's a line, and if that line gets crossed— then it's a whole different ballgame.

Anyway, interesting conversation happening within some of the town councils here.

I've often raised questions about HRM Council, and this isn't a slight at them at all, but I've often raised questions about HRM Council and the way that they keep meetings.

We start meetings at 10 o'clock in the morning, and they go sometimes until midnight.

And I understand that there's a lot of things that need to get tackled during these meetings.

And having that online stream that I know that I watch, I know some of you out there watch as well, keeps us sort of in the loop, right? And if that goes away, then how accessible is a meeting that's a 12 or a 13 or a 14-hour meeting on a Tuesday? Okay.

For the working folk out there, right? If you have to work, you're not going to take a day off to watch a council meeting in person.

So it's an interesting dynamic.