Our own @davidwtrueman.bsky.social was on This Is Nova Scotia talking about the various political kerfuffles around cycling.

ICYMI: Last week I showed off the Chain Lake Drive Painted Bike Lanes.

Could Halifax get a parking benefits district? @parkingreform.org

I am pretty surprised by this ngl

"No matter what the report says, its bad for me/my constituents. Better to just not have a report!"

Swing and a miss from Kent on which way money is funnelled.

Sam Austin points out that if the parking benefit districts gets the downtown business associations on board to do parking reform - this is their chance to finally get some passed

Funnelled into the core. Into the core. Anyone in Kent's district want to send her some of @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social 's funding analyses?

Then the Americans, with their trademark deft touch, sent privateers to terrorize peaceful coastal communities, turning potential allies into bitter enemies.

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I made my first Short for HFX By Bike! youtube.com/shorts/hC3p9...

It's such a funny Canadian thing, the relationship between some of its most important cities & the provincial overlords, often just a couple blocks away. Halifax you could throw a stone. Toronto a couple blocks. Funny, that is, thinking about power + geography.

Wonderful to have obstruction gone on the McDonald bridge bike lane! They were still cleaning when I went to Dartmouth and it was all cleaned up by the time I rode back to Halifax. #bikehfx

Council realizing low taxes is a game of hot potato, but they are playing by themselves and the music is ending before the next election.

Some kind of reverse Casandra thing where I'm working on a video about a meteor hitting the city with absurd detail and someone in the city government is like "a meteor could never hit the city; it's impossible" I... *looks at camera* am I somehow making them say these things?

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Legalizing speed cameras

Man it is so refreshing to watch a political body debate where I disagree with people's arguments but their arguments are rational and fact based.

The full text nslegislature.ca/legc/bills/6...

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For those of you who haven't see it before, i encourage you to take a look at Builthalifax.ca - the Built History of Halifax. Its slowly expanding, and full of archival stuff.

If I'm reading this right close to 40% of the NS deficit is *just* the accounting change on long-term care beds? For a province that's dealing with a demographic hump, that's ... Not unreasonable, especially since it's following an AG recommendation.

Heads-up #HaliSky peninsula types: we got a notification from the city regarding the "Halifax Urban Greenway Extension and Active Transportation Connections to Point Pleasant Park". It looks like it's a corridor that would extend from Beaufort Avenue to the park. There are five options for it. /1

People debating infill vs status quo are missing the real opportunity: The Dartmouth Peninsula!

HRM's initial tax reform committee went so much harder than anything I'm pitching. legacycontent.halifax.ca/taxreform/Gl...

Beat the rush.

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

As @four4thefire.bsky.social like to say, you can have babies or you can have immigrants. Having neither dooms a society.

the owner of Purdy's Wharf is rebuilding their extremely rickety fire exit to create a new (stairs-only) footbridge entrance

The first official #coffeeoutside of fall will be at the Point Pleasant Park Gazebo! Thursday, September 25, 7:00am.

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

I've shared the full study previously but here's a more user-friendly summary of research from Montreal, busting the myth that bike lanes remove space for cars. One for our more #CarBrain infected councillors in #HaliSky via @ca.theconversation.com theconversation.com/montreals-bi...

A woman drove up and got herself stuck on a curb at Kaye and Isleville for 3-4 minutes, tying up traffic.

*US ADVISES PREGNANT WOMEN TO AVOID TYLENOL OVER FEARS OF AUTISM *TRUMP: SHOULDN'T GIVE TYLENOL TO A CHILD *TRUMP: PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULD TALK TO DOCTORS ABOUT TYLENOL *TRUMP: TAKING TYLENOL IS NOT GOOD lol *KENVUE SHARES RISE 5% POSTMARKET [Kenvue makes Tylenol]

Early morning writing session.

Video on redesigning the Armdale Roundabout? 🤔

Northern Lights through the plane window, just south of James Bay, Ont.

Mornin'

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

this is not hyperbole, this has happened (Alpha 6, etc). one way to move towards improving police professionalization is not to try and explain anything high-minded like restorative justice but to make taxpayers more aware that cops are often morons who spend public money on literal dowsing rods.

Remarkable.

The single largest climate action Halifax could take would be aggressively upzoning everything within 1-2km of Downtown/the hospital/university district.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

"For decades, Canadian road trips to the United States were less about luxury vacations and more about short, but repeat visits," reports Forbes. "The dependable flow of Canadian visitors did not arrive these past months. Instead, Canadians spent their travel dollars either at home or overseas."