i wish i could have been in the room when they were brainstorming how to solve the housing crisis and someone raised their hand and said "what about 50 year mortgages?"

Glad to see new recommendations from the Child Death Review Committee regarding swimming pools, but there’s nothing new in there that addresses the biggest cause of accidental deaths in the studied age group (1-24)

Pedestrian only streets and bike lanes should not be removed for winter. Vulnerable road user crashes account for 22% of all injury and fatal road crashes in HRM. That is justification alone for permanent, not seasonal, safe spaces.

*releases video on why Halifax's taxes are so high and services are so poor* *two weeks later, Halifax says it needs to increases taxes without a noticeable expansion in services*

“We can move a lot more people in a lane full of buses than in a lane full of cars. But that requires change, and that’s what’s difficult for a lot of people.” Can data help Halifax shift its #CarBrain mentality? #CarCulture www.dal.ca/news/2025/11...

“Of the contractual increases the municipality is facing, the largest is tied to the cost of policing under the RCMP contract” Can’t wait til we get to watch them propose cutting spending on libraries or food programs or affordable forms of transportation in order to pay for more cops. 🙃

It’s a broken fucking system when we can zone away convenience, zone away a kid being able to walk to go buy a Freezie on a summer’s day without parental supervision, zone away laundromats & ice cream shops, zone away those little everyday interactions with our neighbours.

We keep yelling about the male loneliness crisis and focusing on everything except the harms the system itself is causing. If teen boys don't get mirrors for masculinity, and other kids don't get windows and sliding glass doors, then we're doing kids of all gender identities a major disservice.

This is another consequence of the colonization of New Adult, esp of the romantasy variety, into YA. Publishers aren't just selling YA to adults, they're selling YA to adult women (usually cisallohet and white). That category doesn't want a book about 14yo boys playing basketball. My teen boys do.

A few more 80s transit ads

It’s publication day for @carterlavin.bsky.social, who was generous with his time when #BikeHfx was fighting our mayor over the summer. I’ve requested that the library acquire his book & you can learn more about it here:

WTF NB Power - why are you allowing a US company to do this? 🤬 A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of #SaintJohnNB would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar area. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

that one guy on tinder who says he's only single because "all his ex-girlfriends are crazy" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Demonstrating that the man has never done a day of manual labour in his life.

Last but not least, recs for Our Flag Meets Death, with books from Emily Tesh, C.L. Polk, Austin Chant, Travis Baldree, and more. reactormag.com/the-queer-jo...

"Housing is a human right" is incompatible with "incumbent residents can veto new housing they don't like" There is no way of squaring that circle and only one of the propositions carries any moral weight, IMO.

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

New paper is out today! On the front @denysullivan.bsky.social looks at the Housing Accelertor Fund and explains how council made the housing crisis worse. On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social updates on Community Council & Advisory Ctee meetings. Public hearings = scheduled, homlessness = bad.

As new vehicle prices continue to rise, and tariffs bring uncertainty, many Canadians are delaying or cancelling their plans to buy a personal vehicle. For some Canadians, the answer to their transportation struggles might be an ebike

get in bitch we're destroying the west

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

As we enter the season of holiday gatherings and events, consider illness mitigation strategies. Especially if you're part of an organization that's planning an event, how are you making sure you're not entrenching segregation based on socioeconomic status and disability? 1/4

Chicago Public Library's budget cuts would mean losing HALF of the materials budget. It would mean losing 90 staff members. Cop budget's fine, though.

Today in the globe and mail

That drivers are out here running stop signs and red lights while looking at the phones they’re holding in front of their faces and this isn’t treated like a crisis, but Halifax council spent the summer debating the cost of bike lanes as though that is… it’s fucking bananas.

Don’t miss I Light HFX. The weather is looking warm (by recent standards) but a little damp. But we won’t let that dampen our spirits, we’re Haligonians! 6pm tomorrow (Saturday, Nov 8) at the Dal Quad by the Dal/Kings Bike Centre. Sign waivers at: cyclehalifax.ca/i-light-hfx-... (once per year)

Did you know today, Nov. 6, is World Digital Preservation Day? This year's theme is 'Why preserve?'. In this video, Renée from the Halifax Municipal Archives team shares her thoughts on the importance of preserving digital information for the long term. Learn more at: halifax.ca/archives #WDPD2025

Meanwhile in Canada: Tory MP crosses the floor to the Liberals on budget week, citing poor Tory leadership; in response, Polievre talks too much in the House and somehow gets usurped by the Bloc in opposition:

If Tim Houston is so concerned about democracy, he’d sit in the legislature for more than eight days, wouldn’t override decisions of Halifax regional council, would talk with reporters, and wouldn’t consider giving part of a provincial park to a private developer for a golf course.

Tim Houston thinks being an outrage farmer is the same as being a leader.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down. Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed. #cutthroatontherideau #carneyneedsjust1

The median income of most Nova Scotians is $41,300. The average monthly cost of car ownership is $1,370 or $16,440 a year. The average monthly rent in Halifax is $2,095 or $26,340. If you are an average renting, driving Haligonian you make $41,300 and pay $42,780 for housing and transportation.

HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.

Has anyone on here participated in any of the municipality’s advisory boards/committees before? Would you recommend the experience as worthwhile and/or a good volunteer opportunity? #Halisky www.halifax.ca/city-hall/bo...

we're still shipping all over Canada for only $5 and we now have a tugboat to help us spread the word! how do we do it? that's really none of your business

Book banning isn't popular and isn't what parents nor taxpayers want. The average person is sick of hearing about the unhinged sexual fantasies made up by the genital obsessed party.

it’s funny seeing canadian media present zohran as a “democratic socialist” like it’s some shocking thing and not just the left flank of the ndp

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

I also think we all need to recognize: the battle against Mamdani, because of what he represents, won't end with the election. If he wins, the billionaire-aligned voices will stop at nothing to discredit his ideas, to show they fail. Every mistake will be amplified. He'll live gamergate every day.

The government just dropped its budget — which could see us plunged into another election this year, if it doesn’t earn the support of at least two opposition MPs. Right now, it doesn’t have that support. But that could change — especially after a Conservative MP just joined the Liberals:

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

a great article from the UK outlining the human cost of amazon orders