Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/some...

Consoles became popular for three big reasons: 1. Cheaper than a gaming PC. 2. No constant tweaking to get games to run. 3. Didn’t require constant patches and updates. Microsoft and Sony are busy eliminating two of those reasons.

Our signalized intersections on Main Streets host disproportionate amounts of injury vulnerable road user crashes. Request for action to our Transportation Standing Committee, who have not met since April and won't until end of August docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Drivers who accept lowballs risk having their pay *permanently* eroded via "algorithmic wage discrimination," which is when the platforms infer that workers who accept very low wages are economically desperate and can be offered even lower wages in the future: pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/a... 28/

Remember when the Mounties tearfully promised better and clearer communication after their blunderous response to the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting?

Je vais répéter en français. Le gouvernemnt du Canada ou du Québec n'a rien à faire dans le fait que les Canadiens et Québécois boycottent les produits des USA. Une étiquette "from US" et les produits restent sur les tablettes. Les consommateurs n'en veulent pas, point à la ligne.

Is California going to reciprocate by buying Canadian steel, aluminium, lumber, autos, etc. that have been heavily & illegally (under CUSMA) tariffed by your federal government & cost tens of thousands of Canadian jobs? Yeah, I thought not. Until those tariffs go, the booze stays off the shelves.

Pretty good photo of this ass****. Hope he's identified and arrested SOON. MAGA hatred is alive and well in Canada but is MUCH less tolerated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Post-it Notes were invented one year before Ethernet.

We asked the Vancouver Police Department why it will cost $200,000 per week, on top of their $497 million budget, to police a car-free Granville strip for six additional weeks this summer. They refused to answer.

Hi Nova Scotia 👋 There's still time to leave a comment!

It’s surprisingly hard to convince otherwise reasonable people to take lightning danger seriously. When I was at Princeton, I had to argue MORE THAN ONCE with the rest of the astrophysics dept softball team that we shouldn’t be waving metal bats around in an open field when we could hear thunder 😑

He’s been foaming at the mouth and ranting and raving nonstop for 3 days since the decision.

It's weird to me how trump never lets go of a grudge, he still bitches about Obama, Biden, Hillary, and even Rosie O'Donnell for some reason. He never says a word about any of the people who supposedly tried to assassinate him. Nothing. Weird.

Any time Nova Scotia Power tells us they're prepared for the worst, I immediately think about the Titanic spokesperson assuring passengers there are definitely enough lifeboats.

If Nova Scotia Power attributes this failure to summer weather, I’m going to flip.

Elon Musk is a South African who came to the US under a fraudulently secured student visa to study at Stanford (he never enrolled). Through further fraud, he secured a green card and then was naturalized as a US citizen. His US citizenship can be revoked. He also holds a Canadian passport.

In case this is a useful analogy: mycologists used to think one particular mushroom was fatal to 1/4 of people, but not to everyone else. Then they discovered that it was actually two species of mushrooms that looked almost identical. One of them fatal to humans, one of them not.

Canada isn’t perfect, and Canada needs a lot of work, but as a trans person, there’s fewer and fewer places where I can be safe and successful and be myself, and it means more than I can ever say that one of those few remaining places that accept me for me is my home town, province and country

I especially love this diagram.

Love my #startrek memes.

Now @joegrand.bsky.social & @lennert.bsky.social about to show STM32 glitches that won't erase your device if you fail at RECON! #hardwarehacking

going online and writing "I don't care if they are gay or not, just keep that shit out of sports!" with all the quivering rage of a threatened opossum makes me think that you do, in fact, care if they are gay or not

Covid-cautious queers of Halifax: I'm hosting this Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Mask4Mask at the end of the month. No prior experience with Wikipedia editing is necessary – bring yourself and a laptop. See mask4mask_queers_hfx on Instagram for details (or DM me)!

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is now officially on YouTube. Current.org reports "up to 10 new full episodes added to the channel monthly, ideally based on a theme or holiday." There were 896 episodes filmed. Plus compilations. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...

“Nobody wants to work anymore” is capitalism speak for “it's getting harder to exploit the poor.”

HALIFAX: @ajburke created a mobile app connecting modern-day Halifax to 1903 Dublin through the lens of James Joyce's novel Ulysses for a 4-day scavenger hunt (starts this Saturday). Full chat with @jeffmacarthur here. More on Bloomsday Halifax: bloomsdayhalifax.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_p...

I have a new story out today at Technology Review, and they gave me a gift link to share! www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/12/1... It's about thoughtcriminal archivists, word-fame, and how to get through a dark age without losing your soul. Much.

Someone should remind Dan he isn’t calling these games for ESPN and can give it a rest with the effervescent Yankees praise

“The City of Vancouver paid out severance to what might be a record number of non-union employees last year, but the municipality is refusing to say how much those payouts cost taxpayers, despite the fact it has released this information in past years.” There’s no credible reason to withhold this.

As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion therapy needs to confront the fact that the NHS has been doing it for decades.

eliminating a watchdog to hold canadian companies to account for human rights violations is exactly the kind of thing i’d expect bay street carney to do

If you have friends or creatit’s you follow still using old-twitter; encourage them to leave. They being there provides no positive benefit and only helps give those 2026 accounts eyeballs. Take that audience here or the broader fediverse.

LOL, what a hellscape

Some folks are losing their minds over the free parking lot across from the market being closed for 6 weeks. Some of us are very happy to share that we biked to the market, just like every week.

COVID wastewater charts for the Halifax area as of 2026-05-24 Halifax: Low

My local public-serving Service Canada building (built in the 2010s), has no sidewalk leading into, has no bike rack or other secure bike parking, but *does* have parking on all four sides!

New: Canada restricts U.S. livestock imports from areas affected by screwworm “Animals that originate from or were present in the State of Texas within 21 days prior to border crossing will not be accepted into Canada,” CFIA statement said. By Kayla Thompson via CTV News

Good news just in time for Pride! Hawai'i Governor Josh Green has signed the trans shield law in the state. Hawai'i was one of the last blue states left without a shield law protecting trans people's healthcare. The latest from staff writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Let’s remember that we also need to say NO to the nine noxious referendum questions. Proud to add my name to this open letter. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #saynotothenine

Anyway, it's kind of funny to hear people uncritically claiming AI is some sort of innovative disruption. Folks, it's the same old colonialism: exploit the environment & exploit people, extract all the things.

This is all on Tim Houston. All of it. And before anyone rushes in to say that volunteer could run libraries (some folks have already said it), you might want to think about why a library should run for free, when industry is never asked to run on volunteer labour www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Most Canadian politicians being total simps for techbros and Wab Kinew is out here being like "Fuck that." I recommend watching the video of the press conference because it's full of incredible mic drops. What a legend.

And yet, with all of our wind resource here in Nova Scotia we need to build new gas plants for peaking. I guess we just don't have the engineering or system operations to do something as innovative as this. I guess we just aren't "world class".

Crowds poured out to demonstrate outside Minister John Lohr's constituency office to protest the five library closures in the Annapolis Valley - two of which are in King's-North. The province upholds they're not responsible for the closures, having not cut funding. globalnews.ca/news/1188690...

Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

I wasn't going to post this, but it's been a couple months & it's gemini season, so whatever. But also, the NS gov. keeps bein' hella autocratic by decreasing the quality of education in NS. There is no austerity. As others have explained, "austerity" is just a word for theft. This is autocracy.

You can't cut him but you sure can only let him pitch in the 6th

Schitt's Creek gave us an entire episode about this and I still field too many "Why not just write it off?" questions from friends as a self-employed educator.

United Nations on Friday added Israel and Russia to a UN blacklist of countries suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, a move that prompted Israel's foreign ministry to say it would sever all ties with UN. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.