Modifications on a classic for a video.

The details are up for the next #KidicalMassHfx ride on Sun Oct 19. It's the last ride of 2025, but it's our 1st ever ride in Bedford. It's also our annual Halloween ride! Wear a costume or decorate your bike and join us for a leisurely ride along (car-light) Shore Drive. hfx.bike/kidical-mass...

We’re cleaning out part of our basement and found some poster board, which we gave to the kids to do whatever they wanted. Here’s what Pebble came up with: “Stop macing bad choysize pes mer” (“Stop making bad choices please mayor”).

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

It's crazy to me that the Spring Garden Road Business folks were like, no, we don't want dedicated transit for ~75,000 daily potential customers. We want people to have easy access to ~2000 parking spots in the area. 78% of us agree that the ~2000 parking spots are better than ~75k customers.

Save the date! THURSDAY October 30 🎃 will be the next Critical Mass AND Bike Party! 🚲🎉

Article breaks down the extraordinary costs of car ownership. Even more urgently required: Rural car share schemes, rural transit. Because sales tax or not, car ownership is unaffordable for many, perhaps most www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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oh this is fucked

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

On Thursday, I met with Elora Wilkinson, a planner and manager with the Cogswell District Project. We went on a tour and I learned more about the new district and got lots of photos. Here’s the story: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Whole highway connectors get planned and built in the time it takes the city to make like four blocks into a transit corridor (and then give up when its hard). That... we should probably talk about that.

This is really disappointing news: Halifax transportation standing committee scraps Spring Garden transit-priority pilot Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind”: a grim but rousing post about the current situation in the US from Paula Maggio at ‘Blogging Woolf’

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... This is straight out of Harper's playbook in 2013. He announced end door-to-door delivery (making Canada the only G7 country without door to door delivery) after strikes/lockouts/disputes with the union during negos from June 2011 to Dec 2012. short 🧵

The first Deputy Mayor’s bike ride is probably the weirdest bike ride I’ve done. Didn’t expect to utter phrases like “I can just pop the mayor in my trike” and “Dan, his head is coming off, can you put it in your pannier?” This art installation brought a lot of joy to folks today! #BikeGoodMayorBad

Two mayors at Halifax's first annual deputy mayor's bike ride

I wrote about one man's quest to not have to ride in pitch black darkness through South Minneapolis. Modern day Don Quixote here, except the windmills are lampposts stripped of copper. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

On bad ankle pain days, like the ones I’m having lately, I’m reminded that my ebike makes the difference for me between getting out of the house, greeting folks on the trail, patronizing a local business and just not doing anything of those things. Ebikes are mobility aids!

apologies for the rare selfie but today’s my birthday and i have a new shirt from Books Beyond Bars so it’s a perfect day for me to ask you to support the wonderful folks at Books Beyond Bars!

As I said in Senate yesterday: saying course outcomes won’t be affected is a pipe dream. Of course they will. But unlike lengthier disruptions in the past to 90%+ of courses (pandemics, massive storms), this one was a choice, made by Kim Brooks and the Board. Refund the students. #KeepDalStrong

I’m back in council chambers. Staff are making a presentation on the schedule for the 2026-2027 budget schedule. Here’s the motion: pub-halifax.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

Houston government introduces “Protecting Nova Scotians Act” to crack down on forest protestors reported by me

Today: It's a Regional Council day. Major item on the agenda for District 5, infill bylaw for Dartmouth Cove. Council rejected staff's advice this AM and gave first reading to bylaw amendments. Public hearing will follow in October. Rest of agenda here pub-halifax.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

The vote for a bylaw to prevent infilling in Dartmouth Cove:

This and the new budget schedule in the same day!? Christmas came early!!!!

Some good writing here.

Wrote a little newsletter about the time i told someone i was trans in an Arby’s drive-thru www.anxietyshark.ca/damn-it-john...

will never understand how Canadians became known for saying “eh” when we should be known for our ability to make the phase “okay buddy” mean everything from “of course I will give my life for yours” to “I am the drunkest man alive and I am going to fight you in this parking lot”

126 km/h along Vernon Street. One of five pedestrian fatalities this year, terminating the life of a giving and promising young woman, and we cannot get beyond "shared responsibility/make eye contact" safety messaging. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

"Tylenol is dangerous for women and children," say men who have spent the last eight years making life more dangerous for women and children

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

I walk this intersection every day on my way to classes. So do many school-aged children. This should never have happened

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

'I'm a problem solver': Meet the mayor whose plan to attract family doctors is turning heads across Canada Clinic in small city outside Victoria is making family physicians municipal employees #BritishColumbia www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

“In addition to the sheer fun of the e-bike, the best surprise has been the way the bike builds community. Everyone we pass stops to smile. The children love calling out compliments as they ride past neighbors: “I like your dog!” “Cute baby!” “Your garden is pretty!”” (These kids are me)

good information in here www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

rebranding the 15 min city.

This news story is endlessly quotable: "Why try and fix something that's not broke?" “local government requires functional foundations that execute the will of the whole council, and not just one individual” “I believe strongly that strong mayor powers will eventually lead to chaos”

After four years of demolition and construction, Halifax's Cogswell Interchange redevelopment officially opened today. 🎉 I dug out the camera that I used to photograph the highway nearly 10 years ago and took an "after" pic from the same spot. It's satisfying to flip between the two photos.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Last week for completing this transit survey engagehalifax.ca/core-service...

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

Cross with caution: Solutions offered for confusing Halifax intersection

Watched a movie last night where someone walking was struck by a driver & died, my spouse quietly whispered to me "I dread this happening to you every time you ride your bike". Getting from A to B through a healthy & efficient mode of transport should not be something that kills us #SafeStreetsNS

well sure, when you say it like 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 it sounds bad

I’ve mentioned it before but it’s happened again: a very large percentage of our child-related travel is medium-distance trips that don’t line up well with transit (so it’s barely faster than walking) but biking is literally as fast as driving. Bike-friendly cities are family-friendly cities!

I feel like #HaliSky is the right audience for this. Did y'all know that members of the public are welcome to be university/college library patrons? You only have to be 18+ and a resident of Nova Scotia or NB.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.