good news everyone

May 2026 be all about people power.

NS Firefighters 50/50 is over 1 million! The draw right before Christmas tends to be huge. www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/nsfd/

Happy Chanukah from our interfaith home. Praying for a world where everyone is free to celebrate their traditions in peace and harmony.

Nova Scotia Firefighter’s jackpot is huge this week! www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/nsfd/...

Email marketing has gone too far

When people say how friendly Nova Scotians are, they must be talking about Lunenburg County. Ever since we moved here I can’t get over how much I actually ENJOY random interactions with strangers. I am the type of person who usually isn’t a big fan of chit chat… but

Feeling inspired to start square dancing after seeing this bookmark at the library— 10/10 marketing

NEW ARTICLE! While NS's rent subsidy provides vital financial support to low-income renters, it fails to adequately support those most vulnerable to living in unaffordable, unsafe housing & becoming homeless. Read our latest article to learn more: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #NSpoli

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

Been thinking about this book a lot today

These types of situations are unfortunately all too common. With fixed-term leases, tenants lack protection. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In 2025, I have been to more funerals than weddings. I think that’s a first? I suppose there’s a certain age at which the scales tip, but I would hope it’s not so soon

Halifax/Nova Scotia folks: Are coffee shops making eggnog lattes yet? I’ve got a big craving when the air gets crisp like this

If you’re video calling me during my workday, it better be for a good reason!

My first aurora! I have driven to the beach at midnight just to try to catch a glimpse— what a gift to view it from our veranda at 10pm. And what a gift to live in this beautiful universe, on this improbable planet.

Oh baby, great political speeches are back! Power to the people www.youtube.com/live/y7ysB8K...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

This was empty last night

Sleeping in after staying up late to watch the Jays win. Stacking wood, doing laundry, planting garlic, savouring a Chicory Blue lunch, reading a new Wendell Berry book… the ideal country Saturday.

Go Blue Jays!

So, we just came out with a report here in Nova Scotia that reveals how devastating fixed-term leases can be for tenants. Now Doug Ford wants to introduce them in Ontario… www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing...

I’m in a Facebook group about leaving academia, and saw this horrifying post about someone leaving because… their university is replacing teaching staff with AI. Apparently an R1 in the US, too!!

Tonight at Dalhousie: We’re launching our tenants’ rights research report. www.eventbrite.ca/e/tenants-ri...

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

Rural living things: going into town and back for errands today, we passed no less than three roadside stands selling deer carrots.

Maurice finding the sunny spots in the new house, a series of photos: #cats

A week ago, we closed on an off-grid house in rural Nova Scotia. We’re still settling in, and Dartmouth will always have a huge chunk of my heart, but it’s paradise here.

wait, do we need "affordable housing" or do we need public housing? They convinced yall to excise public housing from your brain (the power of anti-Blackness in the American politic) even though public housing exists and is successful, often beautiful, ALL OVER THE WORLD.

I often struggle with imposter syndrome, but I am quite sure I’ve never bungled anything at work as badly as the Dalhousie administration have bungled this bargaining process

Some people from CBC Information Morning for Mainland NS are on vacation so they’ve been playing the Cape Breton version, and I gotta say it’s throwing off my morning routine. You mean there’s a call in show about birds before seven AM???

James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...

Reminder that Dal has a billion dollar endowment. Instead of investing in Suncor (1.6 mil), Pembina Pipeline Corporation (1 mil), or Enbridge (2.6 mil), why not invest in workers who run labs making big discoveries, bring in research funding, attract top grad students, raise Dal’s global profile….

Workers I support (non-exhaustive list) -Air Canada flight attendants! -Dalhousie Faculty Union members -The firefighters who working overtime to make sure our province doesn’t burn down -The farmers who are growing us food and who are struggling in this drought

Today is a great day. Pips is back for good!!! @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/games/pips

Chance the Rapper’s Letters— my kind of Christian music 🔥

This is a good week to support the Firefighters 50/50! Only 45 minutes left till this week’s draw www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/nsfd?...

Oh hey scam messagers, I WISH we had radar speed cameras in Nova Scotia!

Thank god the lakes aren’t closed

Why haven’t we had a yard sale before?? -getting rid of stuff we don’t need -sitting outside all day -friends and family stopping by -getting a little bit of spending money 10/10 would recommend

I’m cleaning out bookshelves in preparation for a yard sale this Sunday and I found an edition of Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom that I must have picked up used at some point and never read. If you buy this at my yard sale I need you to know that I DID NOT HIGHLIGHT THIS

yikes, Nova Scotia.

I asked a question in a local Facebook group about learning about ancestors and got the most Maritime answer 😅 I have follow-up questions because I do not know the community and I do not know what the hollow is or where Vera Allen’s home is. Reminds me of a @jamesmullinger.bsky.social sketch

Advocate Harbour and Joggins. I grew up near the Bay of Fundy, and it never ceases to impress.

Re: Sean Feucht’s Halifax visit. He wants controversy. He wants it to be cancelled so he can claim persecution. His whole MO is to put himself in divisive situations because then he can be like “see? These people are against THE LORD.” The outrage is the point.

Did anyone else on #halisky catch Andy Fillmore’s CBC interview on Main Street today? He kept on insisting he had a strong mandate. To be clear, he received 52,618 votes. 1/10 of HRM pop.Way more people DIDN’T vote for him than did. To compare, in 2020, Mike Savage got 102,735 votes to become mayor.

Last night at Kejimkujik Lake

Closely following the drama in Mahone Bay, which is that an elderly woman apparently got injured while trying to navigate one of those restaurant patios that extends into the sidewalk. As a Sidewalk Patio Hater, I am interested to see how this will play out!

I've been talking about this for years but the fossil fuel industry has five key narratives, they haven't changed much in decades, and they just shift between them/combine them depending on what is happening in the world. Made a quick and dirty flow chart to illustrate it:

In about 2008 or 2009 my family stopped at Summerville Beach for an afternoon. Ever since then, it’s been my dream to stay at the Quarterdeck. I finally got to go this past weekend and it was everything I dreamed of.