Halifax restaurant Mystic is # 1 on Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2025 list! 🎉🙌🏾 Who’s planning to go there?? #AirCanadaBestNewRestaurants #Halifax #NovaScotia #Foodies

He’s been waiting to do this for so so long.

"Explosion on Polish railway was ‘unprecedented act of sabotage,’ says PM. Donald Tusk says ‘worst fears confirmed’ over damage on route used to ferry aid deliveries to Ukraine" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The r/Halifax thread on “need a poor quality yet expensive restaurant to recommend to an enemy” is excellent. Chives is so so missed.

I gave in and turned on my SAD lamp this morning.

So it begins… I miss the halitwitter cookie swaps. Great times.

@dartmouthderek.bsky.social pertinent to our recent discussion.

The details of Kash Patel’s trip to the UK deep in this article are hilarious. Absolute muppetry. F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

The “On with Kara Swisher” podcast has a super interesting interview this week with Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI. Everyone should listen to it (on wherever you access podcasts).

I have been waiting all day and now I’m going to watch Come See me in the Good Light. Andrea Gibson ❤️❤️ Megan Falley ❤️❤️ Love and poetry and art ❤️❤️

My.Own.Personal.Jesus. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

Good to see liberation theology finally making an appearance in the home base of Friedman’s neoliberal economics.

Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.

Bloody ticks.

Rebecca Thomas is an award winning Mi’kmaw author from Halifax, Nova Scotia who just released a new children’s book titled Sem’s Map. The book highlights the importance of traditional Indigenous place names in today’s world.

I would love to do a class on Bruce Springsteen’s America (the article author teaches one at Princeton). His songs helped rear me in 1980s midlands Ireland too. Another fine motherlode of toxic, repressed masculinity.

There’s so much stuff in this apartment….. you could spend a day looking at each photo. A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...

If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

If you haven’t already, you should listen to Chrissie Hynde’s new album, which is a series of duets with some very great singers. It’s sublime.

The Florentine Diamond Resurfaces After 100 Years in Hiding; it’s been in Quebec since the fifties. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

Tucked away in the Canada 2025 budget is a teeny tiny commitment to explore entering the #Eurovision song contest. Of course we already won it once with the Queen of Quebec chanseur. #SpèirGhorm

Tune In to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming. The court is hearing arguments on tariffs today. Great article on how a bunch of legal chickens are in the air and flying homewards. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

The environment and climate change section of the Canada 25 budget is a catastrophe for my grandchild.

APTN’s Creeson Agecoutay talks with Jordin Tootoo on his new documentary; Tootoo. The Inuk hockey player talks overcoming struggles on and off the ice, and how he advocates for younger generations in hopes of breaking their own cycles of trauma.

Dick Cheney was an avid practitioner of American exceptionalism and neoliberal colonialism. His advice and decisions caused untold damage to a locus of ancient human history, his actions killed and harmed millions. He contributed greatly to our impending climate disaster. He was not a good ancestor.

GenX is the old geezer in the John Lewis ad this year and naturally we’re all losing it.

Starting a monthly Sushi Club on Nov 15 @ Let's Ko in Bedford with some friends/entrepreneurs. Anyone welcome. Just an excuse to try every sushi restaurant in town. Let me know if you want to join! #HaliSky

Astonishing that a paper of record on the island that consistently punches above its weight in all of the literary arts should publish good sports writing about a game that is internationally popular.

I have done significant research in the last few days - seeing as we had very few kids - and the amount of packaging for these teeny tiny pieces of chocolate is ridiculous. Definitely won’t be buying Hallowe’en branded stuff again www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

These days, I often think about a story I heard about Suzanne Collins - that she came up with the idea for the Hunger Games when she was flicking between reality shows and the news on tv.

The album is great. What a shit. 😡

A Russian IL-76 transport aircraft linked to the former Wagner group has just landed in Caracas. #Venezuela

New Lily Allen album + new FATM album + house to myself + my new Hoto spin scrubber = a cathartic, sparkling clean house.

It is six pm; I have had no children yet so I have started eating the mini Mars bars out of the candy bucket. Those are the rules.

Here’s a gofundme for Jamaican families who are deeply connected to Nova Scotia’s farming community. These are the people who grow our food. And they need help for their families back home. gofund.me/0f1afe3a9

The Morning Show is such a great show about patriarchy.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

The hell mouth opens when it opens.

Can you give me a lift/ ride? The words that strike fear into the heart of every rural, muddy dog-owning driver.

Tressie’s column is excellent this morning: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Glennon Doyle’s podcast is focused on the shock she had when Peru-menopause struck. Really good for that because she is so expressive of the female existence. But holy shit… she describes visiting her ob-gyn where they advertise weight loss drugs & plastic surgery in the waiting room… and wtaf?

Finally, a worthy successor to the Sharknado franchise ...

There’s a new series of the excellent FT Untold podcast out - focused on the presence lead mine residue in the British countryside and it’s very very shocking. But not surprising. The Industrial Revolution casts a long shadow podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

We have a special Halloween edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter today! Check your inbox as we visit three macabre monuments that have a supernatural story! 👻 #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology #IrishHistory

Is that what I think it is?

Russia is reportedly sending weapons and mercenaries to Venezuela as tensions rise with the US. A sanctioned Il-76 cargo plane arrived in Caracas after stops in Yerevan, Algiers, Rabat, Dakar, and Nouakchott. The aircraft is linked to arms transport for Wagner operations in Africa and Venezuela.

Ukrainian drones now hitting Moscow. #explodey

This thread is fascinating. The demographics of ICE recruitment through FB ads. As someone down thread pointed out, Meta is making bank on this.

I went to a mask workshop today and made my first decorated mask using decoupage. I had been feeling that might be a way for me to be expressive and I really loved it. Definitely doing more of #ThisKindOfThing

Crazy as a bag of a hammers.