Saw the incredible Sarah McLachlan cover last night. Was also impressed by the lead guitar, rhythm guitar and backup vocals. Turns out they were provided by none other than Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland!

Love it! People are so funny. @gigawattconduit.bsky.social must've had this queued up for years...

Dick Cheney played with our world like it was his little toy. Now he’s finally in the cold ground. To paraphrase Blue Rodeo, for all the men he condemned i hope there’s some kind of heaven and there’s got to be some kind of hell for that motherfucker.

Thank you @conormccreery.bsky.social !

This is great work from @brucemackinnon.bsky.social

Today! And this evening! At Open Book Coffee.

i avoid taking halifax transit because it’s so unreliable. The best route is #1 But the last two times I’ve taken it, it has made me embarrassingly late for meetings. No wonder people with the means prefer other forms of transportation. #shouldhavebiked

Our new Minister of Equity and Anti-Racism

Subsidized driving is expensive chaos

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

Not just water.

Where I’ve landed on hipsters: fashionistas > fascists

Sean's a great writer so get yourself what promises to be your next great read.

What Elder Bernie Francis (Mi'kmaw linguist and historian) is fundamental to understanding our history and should be mandatory education for all elected officials (and law enforcement too): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

In this week's article, we take a look at the resurgence of sodium-ion batteries - the unsung sibling of lithium batteries - and how they may just be the answer to some of our current and upcoming battery and mineral woes. @dalhousieu.bsky.social www.climatestoriesatlantic.ca/stories/lith...

Explaining why they had continued airstrikes and launched a ground offensive in the Palestinian enclave, Israeli officials warned Monday that Gaza was still harboring hundreds of doctors. theonion.com/israel-warns...

I love small towns, little halls, hardware stores, and free parking! This Friday’s show checks all those boxes. I think there are still a few tickets left Oct 17 Clarksburg ON Marsh Street Centre Doors: 7:00 / Show: 8:00 sharp.

"if for some reason you feel you really must drive downtown and you’re irritated at sitting in your car alone going nowhere, blame Tim Houston. He’s the one who ordered all those government workers back to the office. He’s the one who took the tolls off the bridge, increasing traffic by 10%....

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing Through the graves, the wind is blowing Freedom soon will come Then we'll come from the shadows —L.Cohen

Can’t wait to read this!

I love this so much. Stand tall. we will win.

The great derangement syndrome. As the world blows past the 1.5 degree red line Trump and Carney talk about reviving Keystone XL. It won't lower tariffs on wood, furniture, steel, auto. But it will be a massive carbon bomb to a struggling planet. My latest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help “liberate” Venezuela with bombs under the banner of “freedom”" www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

Banish all dismay Extinguish every sorrow If I'm lost or I'm forgiven The birds will still be singing —E Costello

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

“They have much better areas that can be developed — close to transit, health care, and grocery stores.” - Dr. Laurette Geldenhuys Health professionals across Canada marked the first National Day of Action on Planetary Health. Protecting nature is protecting our health. 🌿

Jeremy Gilmer, David Huebert, Karen Pinchin. Should be a thought provoking and poetic-type evening!

surprised not surprised

"...the lack of funding plans for the transit and transportation infrastructure that is necessary to make high density housing workable (and traffic congestion manageable); and what appears to be the prioritization of developers’ goals over balanced community planning."

It is insulting of the provincial government to equate the removal of a bridge toll in Halifax-Dartmouth (which benefits people who can afford car ownership) and a tiny reduction in a consumer tax to an essential support for low-to-median-income households. It is a reverse Robin Hood maneuvre.

Calling this year's U.N. climate treaty negotiations a "defining business opportunity" is like calling a burning house the perfect fire to roast marshmallows over. It's time to end #BigPolluters' stranglehold over the U.N. climate talks. We demand a polluter-free #COP30!

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Great crowd and event and a wonderful book. Well done @katieyingram.bsky.social !

See you tomorrow! @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @benjaminwrites.bsky.social #halifax #halifaxevents #novascotia #novascotiahistory #halifaxhistory

Buncha fuggin frat boys running this joint

New bike lane on Brunswick Street – soon to form part of a continuous, 1-km protected bikeway from the Halifax Common to the Central Library 🚴‍♂️ #BikeHfx

New book by Poulette sisters about their mother's experience at the Shubenacadie residential school so that "this'll never happen to us again." www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Climate change is coming for our food. Blueberry yields are down in Nova Scotia by over 50%. Wild blueberries are Nova Scotia’s most valuable export crop,….until they’re not. I eat local blueberries every morning so this hurts. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/pro...

20 books by Indigenous authors in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: www.cbc.ca/books/20-boo...

Canada used to ban any gathering of more than three Indigenous people. New pile, same shit.

“Forgiveness” is a Powerful song by Richard Poulette, a residential school survivor from Eskasoni m.youtube.com/watch?v=tru5...

Can’t wait—I mean look at the size of that book!

WRITING RUMBLE! Coming soon! writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

"Polling ... shows most people in Canada want to see these projects built, with 77 per cent saying they support upgrading Canada’s grid by connecting provinces and territories with new transmission lines, and 72 per cent supporting federal funding for new transmission lines."

"cynically using legislation to shut down dissent" by @timbousquet.bsky.social www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Carney has so far canceled the consumer carbon tax, electric vehicle mandate, and the greener homes interest-free loan program. They were all good and affordable measures to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. A shortsighted, dangerous response to tariffs and other bs. Fires keep raging.

A radio documentary about the decades-old leases allowing forestry companies to clear-cut on Crown land in Nova Scotia. chris-benjamin.ca/forest-trees/ photo by Jamie Simpson

❌Canada's climate progress stalled. ❌On track to miss (already inadequate) 2030 targets ❌Still, the federal government muses about cutting more climate policy and giving more money and leeway to fossil billionaires. We need to #DrawTheLine 440megatonnes.ca/insight/cana...

RIP. He left significant legacy. I'm reading now about Halifax Encounter, a bizarre and significant series of public meetings held in 1970 that often dealt with race. Oliver is mentioned many times. Kind of a progressive moderate. Died on 42nd anniversary of the Black Cultural Centre he co-founded.