I asked the HRM comms people about this, and this was their response. I had to reenter my email and password (and of course I had no idea what my password was so I had to renew that) AND my credit card info. Did this happen to anyone else?

This week's @99pi.org podcast is teaching Americans about CanCon. They talk about Sloan and Halifax, how CanCon doesn't work great in a streaming world, and end with the real solution for maintaining homegrown Canadian art: public funding. Which the Houston government is cutting.

Annapolis Valley Regional Library reaches the breaking point: 5 of 11 branches to close Morning File by Philip Moscovitch

Impossible burgers: Is it ethical to market restaurants with AI images? reported by Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Citizen group decries Premier Tim Houston’s silence on concerns about planned Pictou County gas plants reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Happy Pride this month and every month. Xo

I'm serious about this. The app was working fine. There was no obvious need to change anything. Change for change's sake is BAD, especially when it requires users to do a bunch of shit THEY ALREADY DID.

For some reason they updated the HFXGO app, and it took me 10 minutes to reenter all my info and now I can't find the pass I just bought. I blame AI.

HRM asks for court order to take back the Khyber from Turret Arts Society Morning File by me

The problem with the "look how terrible the AI machine answered this question I posed to it" posts is that you're basically burning down a rain forest to demonstrate something we all already know: AI is terrible.

Visitors to Nova Scotia who fly in to the Halifax Airport are now greeted by a big question mark where the tourism booth and tourism greeters in tartan once welcomed them. Now, they get this great big question mark. Welcome to Tim Houston’s Nova Scotia?

Art is what makes us human Morning file by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

CBC confirms the rumours that Clinton Ellison has died by suicide. He is, by my count (there may be more I'm unaware of), the 26th victim of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass murders.

I haven’t read this yet, but I think this is the story of my life

‘Small but mighty’: Fighting food insecurity on the Eastern Shore and in Cole Harbour By Jaya Condran

‘We have every reason to suspect they will flourish’: Halifax, volunteers start treating hemlocks in Hemlock Ravine Park reported by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

Art is what makes us human Morning file by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

I don’t know if anyone cares or even reads them, but I have another long philosophical thing in the works for my morning post tomorrow.

In which reporter Yvette d'Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social social interviews playwright Yvette d'Entremont. ‘It’s hard to separate language arts from our identity’: Acadian playwright Yvette d’Entremont on the importance of arts and culture funding

Life on the page: Patrick Allaby’s graphic novels walk the line between fiction and memoir Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

I'm so flabbergasted by this I've been speechless for 10 minutes. First, no self-respecting journalism association should be shilling sponsored content of any form. But second, holy fuck, the Fraser Institute? What hellhole has Canadian journalism fallen into?

All the weather forecasts disagree with each other.

I have a plan to build a football stadium at Peggy's Cove. Now write a bunch of newspaper articles about it and have it blow up on social media.

The AI industry, subject to little regulation, has made billions by promising a forever-coming mythical “superintelligence”; its products crucially involve overhauling & locking us into a global infrastructure, perfecting the model of marketing the idea of individual freedom while shutting it down.

Nature has long been an inspiration for artists, so let’s protect the environment for artistic inspiration yet to come Morning File by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

"How I used AI so I didn't have to think" is a weird flex. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

This is reason #25, #26 (and all the reasons i might have forgotten to include) one would need to subscribe. They are super transparent about their funding, financing and exoenses.

Here’s the Halifax Examiner’s tax return Morning File by me

Annapolis Royal councillor Adele MacDonald says livestreaming meetings is part of democracy by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

The business of art: ‘Eradicating the broke artist stigma’ Morning File by Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

In which Andy Fillmore compares himself to a prisoner of war ‘He didn’t give specifics’: Councillors weigh in on Mayor Andy Fillmore’s state of the municipality address about ‘brutal facts’ of growth reported by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

Avi Lewis speaks to Halifax audience reported by Jennifer Henderson @dartjenhen.bsky.social

Live next door. Search and Rescue was just at our place. Asking if we saw or heard something suspicious between 5am and 5pm. This is awful. Checked our back patio in the storage box and and under the furniture covers.

omg

Many thanks & much credit to Suzanne Davis for speaking to me, to @timbousquet.bsky.social and the @halifaxexaminer.ca for publishing the original 2020 stories that led retired RCMP officer Cathy Mansley to file her 2021 complaint that led to this CRCC report. (And CBC was silent thru all this.)

Municipality of Cumberland Mayor Rod Gilroy on the Chignecto Isthmus and the land of eagles, tides, and legends by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

Lost passwords and voice yoga: An afternoon with bill bissett and Honey Novick Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

I linked to the wrong Bluesky account in this thread. Joan Baxter is @joanbaxter.bsky.social

🧵 Once again, the CBC is refusing — both on the radio report this morning and the web version linked to here — to acknowledge the Halifax Examiner, this time from Joan Baxter's @joannalh.bsky.social ground-breaking work on a story 1/

‘Elbows Up’ means Canada — including Halifax — must boycott the FIFA World Cup by Daniel Sailofsky, Carolyn Prouse, Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva, and El Jones

Nova Scotian author Bryn Pottie was longlisted for a literary prize in humour; his publisher says cuts to arts are no laughing matter by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

"In 2024/2025, operating expenditures for policing totalled $22 billion, up 12% from 2022/2023." I can't think of any other government program that has seen anything close to a 12% budget increase over two years, and yet this happens with hardly any comment.

I'm serious about this. The upward curve of tech problems across the internet started to really increase after ChatGPT was introduced, and has gone exponential since Claude coding started. It's so obviously connected.

Suddenly, the blockquotes across our entire site aren't working. I checked, and all the html is correct, so there's some larger problem we'll get the tech people on. I blame AI.

Laura Kenney’s rug found in the wild Morning File by me

Nova Scotia stop motion animator Tim Tracey on bringing inanimate objects to life Morning File by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

100% agree with Tim on this. The damages linked to AI and the resources it sucks up need to be part of informed discussion about whether news organizations should use AI. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

The hunt is on for underground natural ‘white’ hydrogen in Nova Scotia, but big questions remain (Part 2) reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Journalists pushing AI into newsrooms are practicing terrible journalism Morning File by me