Bitingly fun!

Eelgrass provides habitat for a range of species, including lobster. It also protects shorelines against erosions, keeps the water clear, and captures carbon. Community groups want to restore it. Nova Scotia makes them fight red tape instead. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #NSPoli

Please do not use poisons, including herbocides too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If anyone out there wrote a letter to their councillor and/or Mayor Andy Fillmore about #bikelanes in #Halifax and they want to send that letter to me, I would love to read them. You can send me a message here or to suzanne at halifaxexaminer dot ca Thanks!

The report on addressing congestion in HRM was written by transportation professionals and draws upon substantial public input. If the Province think HRM are doing so badly, they should release the report and refer to its recommendations www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Je viens d’entendre un prof d’université dire que «Rome avait conquise le bassin méditerranéen». Je retourne ma veste: je milite désormais pour qu’on garde les règles d’accord du participe, même si elles ont été inventées par un grammairien enrhumé tombé dans une bouche d’égout au XVIe siècle.

Canada introduces new nutrition warning labels, but plain milk, yogurt, and cheese are exempt. Thanks to the dairy lobby for keeping our bones and their profit margins strong! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Spain feels like a furnace these days—and we have just entered Summer. What is truly baffling is our collective resignation. How are we not outraged? How are we not demanding accountability from the actors driving climate change? The heat is real, but so is our apathy—and that’s part of the problem

Some of the people that added their notes to this map of the proposed AT network for Spryfield left incredibly thorough and thoughtful notes. This is the last week to add notes about walking, wheeling, cycling, and transit infrastructure this side of the rotary. Public engagement ends Friday.

Le journalisme part en vrille. Est-ce la faute de Radio-Canada?

Albro Lake Rd x Wyse Rd in Dartmouth. Looking good!

Net-Agreement With: Require Candidates To Attend One Public Debate: +50% Implementing Proportional Representation: +41% Mandatory Federal Voting: +32% Declare Election Day A Public Holiday: +30% Research Co / Apr 29, 2025 / n=1201 / Online

I bet drivers on Limardo Dr. wonder why cyclists ride in the middle of the road. The The height difference is about half an inch.

I had a nice chat with a bumblebee yesterday. #CityNatureChallenge #iNaturalist

My better half this morning on his way to the polling station

Sand pond x Fresh River

Best of luck to cyclists on the 308 #NovaScotia

Keji, not far from Mill Falls

This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺 nywolf.org

Thank you @thelakernews.com ! thelaker.ca/awareness-wa...

It just hit me that if/when we leave Canada to go back to Belgium 15 years from now, the climate I remember from my young adult years there will be gone, and I’ll be in for a shock.

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

Le choc des cultures entre Gwénaëlle Chaillou, océanographe et professeure à l'ISMER-UQAR, et Douglas Wallace, chercheur à l'Université Dalhousie, à propos d'un projet de réoxygénation artificielle du Saint-Laurent.

Becky Parker, @naturens.bsky.social Executive Director: "I have yet to meet a Nova Scotian who didn’t care at all about the continued health of the black bear population." naturens.ca/what-do-we-k... #NS

If you’re in the U.S. and considering emigration, you should probably take this as your sign that it’s time to jump out of the gradually heating water

Hi dear #urbanism team ! I'm working on an article which will deal with characteristics of the "Urbanisme à la française". My goal is to find 3 non European urbanists who could speak about their vision of french and, in a more extended way, European urbanism. Would you have some names to suggest ?

Getting ready for war

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Growing up in a region that parts of which were (and still are!) heavily polluted makes it really hard to understand the anger against environmental review. I assume the people calling for it to be removed or defanged know they will never have to suffer the consequences

Just a reminder for @TimHoustonNS and Leah Martin that every single member of the Assembly of Mi‘kmaw Chiefs is opposed to fracking. Every. Single. One. #nspoli

I made a meme 🚴🏼‍♂️ #tesla #cybertruck #bikesky

Methinks that if we were housing the homeless, we might have fewer abandoned packages in downtown Halifax

Probably a white pine #thicktrunktuesday

FYI tick season has started in Nova Scotia. Ask me how I know…

Porcupine says I need to come back in May if I want a photoshoot

Happy Earth Hour, Halifax

Sheinbaum just keeps putting up dubs. Mexico has its shit together when it comes to leadership

I was today years old when I learned that ProZ.com is pronounced as ‘pros’ rather than ‘prozee’

CALLOUT: Have you seen any girdled trees around Halifax lately? I'd like to know for a @thecoast.ca story in the works.

Bayer Lake. Still a lot of ice

Just this once, go read the comments

It’s Helsinki! They were probably already doing this before. And you should probably take them up on their offer

They did a study about this. More than 50% of drivers do not look at all.

Do I know any medicolegal transcriptionists? A contact is looking for someone to transcribe psychiatry reports.

When I read all the other theories and explanations about what Trump is doing, I still don’t understand. When I read this explanation, I do understand.

Summary: Rather than house the homeless, we would rather spend money to fix a bridge impacted by a 400 degrees fire

That's an interesting question

This is a good summary of Halifax's budget regular season and a preview of the budget playoffs (budget adjustment list debate) from councillor Sam Austin.