$500M in public money went to Algoma Steel and now 1,000+ jobs are gone. The Liberals say they support workers, but this is what happens when their bailouts reward corporations instead of families. We need federal projects using Canadian steel and stronger EI for workers who get left behind.

Meanwhile, in Canada we're digging & digging for minerals & bitumen. While we seek to enhance our standing as a petrostate, China has moved on to be an "electrostate". From Solar to EVs: Clean Energy Is China’s New Geopolitical Weapon. @markhamhislop.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE91...

I grew up in Dauphin during the UBI period. As a little kid in a poor family, I noticed that money was less tight, there was less financial stress, less concern about grocery costs, etc. I felt this as a CHILD - imagine how much less stress my parents felt. UBI made that part of my childhood better.

I've been at the same university for 30 years, first as a student then as a staff member, and at the uni library for 25 years; so here are my thoughts bout the current higher ed overlapping crises, that should be a blog post but I don't know if people read those anymore. 0/

“Removing most or all the wood every time there’s a wind-throw or fire event is not ecologically sustainable, and the rush to salvage this wood…” contradicting industrial forestry PR that would have us believe dead and fallen trees and woody debris should be removed to reduce fire risks.

Honestly, @lukaszukab.bsky.social is a Canadian hero. One in seven!

Maud Lewis lived in poverty, selling her paintings for just a few dollars each. Now rich people are buying up her work. Pay artists well while they're still alive. live.jonesauctions.ca/lots/view/5-...

Reports of a dog on the loose in the Windmill/Wright Ave area of Burnside. Be careful driving in the area #HFXTraffic

If you haven’t met Smol Paul, here is a great introduction. 😻

Sadie says you better be nice 😽

If I ever do get to toss people out of the Baseball Hall of Fame (per the subtitle of my 2017 book), Judge Landis and Cap Anson (he of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement”) are two of the first to have their plaques melted down for their outsized roles in segregating the game

Why I ditched all of them, and I suspect I am not alone. Note to governments, banks, and businesses: Maybe don't bet the future on conmen spinning myths about AGI.

Post your favourite Star Trek character - wrong answers only.

In 1944, a German U-boat torpedoed the Peleus, a Greek civilian steamer, in the South Pacific. That itself wasn't a war crime because it was a legitimate, economic target. But it was a crime when the U-boat captain decided to kill the handful of survivors floating on the wreckage.

Post your favourite LOTR characters, wrong answers only.

"She said they were told that 'every story should have an enemy, and to make sure that you knew who the enemy was when you were making your plans for communicating about the story.'” us vs them. The "enemy" is always going to be in opposition to the government & it sets up the public as aggressor.

Halifax MP Andy Fillmore said the project will allow more Haligonians to choose bikes as their primary mode of transportation in a city that was “built in a way that prioritizes cars over bicycles and other modes of transportation.” www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

CBC recorded the March 1982 concert at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax. It was released in 1993 as “Home in Halifax”. Have a listen to The Bluenose: youtu.be/yZjzHYRha8s

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

We need to print a wallet sized version of this with HRM-related notes and give one to every member of Halifax Regional Council!!

The Government of Canada has released its first iteration of a database of 400+ AI projects undertaken by its various agencies. Everything from chat bots to transcribing insect specimen labels, to cross-referencing information to identify “high risk” travellers. open.canada.ca/data/en/data...

Attention #KidicalMassHfx families. Anyone have an e-cargo bike they are looking to sell?!

From the Insight Monitor archives, here's a look at why you should care about money laundering. It's making you poorer and less safe, but there's a simple solution. Find out more here (paywall removed): newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/the-real-h...

Before Cargo-bikes: "“He didn’t care that he had a long piece of wood on his bike. He had a ladder on his bike. He just went from point A to point B on that bike. So everybody noticed him”

Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Education is hinting at the government’s own culpability for more than a dozen AI-generated errors @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social found in the province’s Education Accord. #nlpoli #AI #NLeducation Read the full story 👇 theindependent.ca/news/lji/pcs...

And we're soon into "Nobody knows how to drive in the snow!" season. Here's expert advice from Eric Brookins, general manager of Safe Drivers PEI, and rally-car veteran John Paynter to help you survive the fray. www.saltscapes.com/travel/3739-...

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Deer (this is the backyard variety) Moose (roads and ditches grrr) Caribou (a whole herd in Nunavut) Black bear (central NL exploration camp - so they became a bad bear) Canada Goose (any wild patch of grass - watch where you step) 🫎🐻

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

RFK Jr may be the most dangerous part of the MAGA agenda. His attack on medical science will be counted in lives. And Canada is not immune. From measles to cervical cancer the danger signs are clear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=csbl...

Uranium in Nova Scotia. Powerpoint presentation Uranium presentationDownload

Here’s Gizmo sliding into your Friday so the weekend is on the way. 😸😸😹🦁 #CatsOfBlueSky

My armchair psychologist's degree is diagnosing this as 'Projection' given #MarkCarney 's Energy & Natural Resources Minister #TimHodgson is championing the energy systems of the last 100 years instead of the next 100. Nostalgia indeed🙄 #LosingTheEnergyTransition #cdnpoli #MarkCarney

Bike lanes are 1.5m wide, minimum width for a bus lane is ~3.3m. 2x1.5 = 3, 3m < 3.3m "Small electric buses with no schedule" I love to not know when the next bus ir train is coming. Its like gambling but for getting to work. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Victoria is a very comparable city to Halifax in a lot of ways. But when you look at Victoria’s investment in cycling over the last 10 years, there’s really no comparison at all. This video might make you sad for what could have been #BikeHfx.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: The Who Dave Matthews Band Elton John Bruce Cockburn Hey Rosetta

Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.

I didn't think we'd be having an exciting massive transaction pod less than a month from the end of the World Series... but it's time to talk Dylan Cease.

Go Team Black !

Can’t decide what to get for the baseball fan on your Christmas list? I have a couple of suggestions…./1 On Account of Darkness: The Summer Ontario Baseball Broke the Colour Barrier a.co/d/jgXToqd

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

SEMIFINAL OLYMPIC TRIALS MATCHUPS Black vs Einarson at 1pm AT/12pm ET McEwen vs Dunstone at 7pm AT/6pm ET Winners advance to the best-of-three finals. Homan and Jacobs awaiting the winners. It’s going to be some sorta finish here in Halifax.

N.S. announces it will sell off all remaining U.S. alcohol, won’t order any more #NovaScotia #FeedNovaScotia The province says about $4 million in net profits will go to Feed Nova Scotia and other community food organizations. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

A review of air quality sensors like AirGradient and AirLab by @jeffgeerling.com . One is more “consumer” grade and the other has a look and build only an engineer would love. 😀 youtu.be/r21lvaw40nY?...

A judge found Halifax Alehouse bouncer Alexander Levy guilty of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death after he killed patron Ryan Sawyer with a chokehold on Christmas Eve 2022.

55 years ago today, right-hander Carl Morton became the first Montreal Expos player to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award. His 1970 stats: - 43 games (37 starts) - 284 2/3 innings - 18-11 record - 3.60 ERA - 4 shutouts

49 years ago today, the Toronto Blue Jays signed Bob Bailor, their first pick in the MLB expansion draft. Bailor became the third player the Blue Jays had under contract. Catcher Phil Roof and pitcher Bill Singer were already under contract for the 1977 season.

How is it that we already know so much about the guy who shot 2 national guardsmen this afternoon but we know pretty much nothing about the two guys who tried to assassinate the president months ago?

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Look at shiny happy Fishtopher. Look at him! 👀😻#CatsOfBlueSky