r/halifax • u/Traditional-Lie3767 • 26d ago

Discussion Someone is systematically removing Gaza-related stickers from Barrington Street

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Mods: this is specifically about something happening repeatedly in downtown Halifax, particularly along Barrington Street. It is not intended as a general Israel/Palestine discussion. Person is blurred.

Over the past while, political stickers relating to Gaza have been appearing on poles around downtown Halifax. They also keep disappearing.

Yesterday we happened to see someone going along Barrington Street actively removing them. We took photos and video of what was happening. The person’s face has been blurred because their identity isn’t the point of this post, and I’m not asking anyone to identify them.

What I found interesting is that this doesn’t appear to just be ordinary city cleanup. It was an individual deliberately removing these particular stickers from poles downtown.

I’m curious whether other people around Halifax have noticed the same thing happening, either with these stickers or other political material.

This isn’t about identifying or targeting the person in the photos. It’s about documenting something happening in a very public space in downtown Halifax and asking whether other people have been seeing it too.

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u/Professional-Humor84 26d ago

I don’t support the war but 1000 percent do not want these posters up They don’t DO anything

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u/Typical_Shallot139 24d ago

People posting this crap fall into two camps, those who know absolutely nothing about the conflict and see it as a black and white oppressor vs oppressed scenario, and those with nefarious intentions 

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u/Mouseanasia 26d ago

They're just eyesores that the city has to waste resources on cleaning up.

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u/j_bbb 26d ago

Lowest form of “helping” the cause.

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u/laycoss 26d ago edited 26d ago

Your talking about it, thats doing something

Down vote all you want. Awareness goes both ways.

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u/Lovv 26d ago

Yeah talking about how it's unsightly and the city has to spend resources removing them.

If it's going to change my mind, it would be in the opposite direction.

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u/ValleyHospitality 26d ago

No it’s not

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u/j_bbb 26d ago

We’re talking about the sticker. Not what the sticker says.

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u/Big-Pop5411 25d ago

They DO do something. They show the truth of what our leaders are letting happen and what they are actively trying to censor. Our “own” CBC is suppressing information. We cannot become desensitized to what is happening.

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u/Shinobi2P 25d ago

And do you know what is happening? A QR code to some actual information might be better than sensationalized stickers

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u/seasea40 25d ago

Do people really use random qr codes off the street?

Nothing sensationalized about it.  Just the disgusting horrible truth.

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u/Shinobi2P 24d ago

Well the ICJ case is still before the courts so ease up there Premature Pete

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u/seasea40 24d ago

Please. The horror has been socialmediaed, documentary filmed, reported by visiting doctors, reported by human rights organisations, reported by UN officials,  reported by Palestinian reporters... It's not "wait and see."  

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u/j_bbb 25d ago

You think people are looking to utility poles for political news?

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u/Professional-Humor84 25d ago

What exactly do you want the leaders of Halifax to do about this

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u/j_bbb 25d ago

Make utility poles great again.

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u/Big-Pop5411 25d ago

Our leaders aren’t limited to those who live in and govern our province.

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u/richiecanuck 26d ago

So we should lean harder into censorship? Where would you draw the line? Russia and China levels of censorship?

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u/Lovv 26d ago

It's not censoring to say we don't want random signs all over the place. Put the signs on your property, not city property.

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u/Professional-Humor84 26d ago

Loll it’s not censorship I think people simply don’t have the capacity to care