HRM's Budget growth has mostly been through assessment increases. I cant find the 1997 budget, but it looks like the Halifax urban rate was being set at 1.50 in halifax, and 1.47 for Dartmouth. the urban rate was 1.358 in 2000/1 this years is .79, however in 2023/4 it was .76 so basically half.

You can see the vehicle start to crumble just before the main explosion. First stage and fairing drop into the fireball before it all goes up. Erector gone, one lightning tower seemingly destroyed.

Hun.TIL. from Wikipedia: Not wearing a seatbelt, Horton was found 123 feet from the car. in 2005, Horton's autopsy was made public and revealed that Horton's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit, and that a half-filled vodka bottle was amongst the crash debris

PSA: Both Costco's are now carrying WASP Wildfire protection kits. These are a fast deploy sprinkler system that can protect your home from an advancing wildfire. www.waspwildfire.com/homeowners

SailGP is back in #Halifax in 2027. May 15/16

The current Tutors are being replaced by Pilatus PC21 aircraft. This year will be the last with the current fleet.

Toronto got Mies to build it a Bank HQ. Montreal got him to build Apartments and a Gas station.

Passing this along - fucking scammers leveling up, here's a new one to pay attention to.

Loading the barge?

Apr 22, 1976: the Canadian National Railway's Turbo Train sets a Canadian land speed record of 140.6 mph (226 km/h) travelling eastbound between mileposts 104 and 84 of the Kingston Subdivision—roughly between Prescott and Cornwall, Ontario. 1/2

@landofsticks.bsky.social A quick check suggests your Domains Spf record needs to be updated to add ghosts servers.

There is a very large line to get into the library there are more folks out of frame

@davidwtrueman.bsky.social Do you have an opinion on the Robie Street Bus lane widening? Friends of the Commons are using your public comments to council on the IMP as evidence its a bad idea.

Currently on VIA 14, and we are slightly ahead of schedule.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Gregory Applin, 38, a 19-year veteran of the navy who had recently returned from a deployment to the Indo-Pacific, died on Jan. 24, 2025. globalnews.ca/news/1180252...

The Ottawa Train Station is so good!

Stadler FLRT

Citadis Spirit

Lint

Just did 152km/h n one of the new venture trains

If fait beau dans l'métro!

MR-73

Currently metroing. It’s so good

Icy into Miramichi. Still 42min late.

currently live streaming out my window, Tune in at Youtube.com/hfxshippingnews

Almost train time..

@canadianerrant.bsky.social ICYMI jobs.toronto.ca/jobsatcity/j...

Apparently Halifax wasent the only city to Personify the last streetcar.

You can’t claim transparency and then not name the investigators or the service provider.

DFO has rejected Atlantic Roads infill application in Dartmouth Cove! @darrenfisherns.bsky.social

ICYMI on the weekend I posted an Anatomy of the NSP Cyber Attack. builthalifax.ca/2026/03/29/a...

Interesting, the feds bought the Valero refinery site in eastern passage for 82.5million. It will be used to support RCN operations, including movement of personnel, ships and supplies. That sounds like it’s where the supply ships will be based.

On this date in 1921, the Bluenose schooner launched from the Smith & Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg, N.S.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Early this morning a AC Express flight from montreal collied with a fire truck on the runway at NY LaGuardia airport. Both pilots were killed in the crash, and are so far the only fatalities.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

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8000teu in 2025 for Saint John is less then 1 week for Halifax. Which did 502,000teu in 2025

@samaustind5.bsky.social did Hrm make a change to the discretionary school funding?

Picked up From HPL today. Flipped through, initial impression? Starts with a map of rich people’s houses, ends with a list of expropriated properties. Of this going to nimbyism about something that happened 112 years ago?

Canadian Coast Guard captain fired for 'willfully' ignoring distress call: labour board One of the deckhands also testified that Callaghan either turned off the radio or turned down its volume so he would not have to listen to the calls. Wild story www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

anyone here with a frank subscription?

Pro tip, Don't suggest following the Money, if you have no idea where the money goes.