Reporters found out that the speech Fillmore gave today was written by the mayor and his office team. Not external consultants were paid to help put. According to Fillmore, they spent the weekend working on the speech.

... I would love if I could convince Amazon to consistently tell me when new books come out in this series.

Halifax Chamber of Commerce has adopted Tax Me Daddy thought. Urbanists are in control.

*quietly* The province is mostly right on this point IMO. The problem is that we went from banning mixed used to mandating it. The correct approach is to allow is broadly and let the market sort out how much is needed. "It won't be perfect!" Nothing ever is and I doubt council can do better.

Hashtag DMPC is Lit

"Your cherished neighbourhoods are built wrong and you will suffer until you understand this and welcome change. Your ignorance is our curse!" Wow. I can't believe he went there. #StateOfTheMunicipality

"Build systems to fit our people" is 100% "we're a driving city" type statement until proven otherwise. Prove me wrong, Andy!

do it andy. the people want adorable walk-ups throughout cole harbour. don't listen to trish.

It sure would be nice if the Curse of Politics had at least one person on their panel who understood oil and gas and energy, and was able to discern fact from fiction on it. Especially when it's literally being sponsored by the @climateinstitute.bsky.social.

Yeah fuck off with this. I have had severe “no shit I will die” food allergies since I was a toddler. These ooo scary industrial food products mean I have a substantially broader culinary range available to me. I’m not going to claim my QoL was bad before they existed, but they’re amazing.

Oh my god he’s still harping on about how he wants to load Halifax water up with more debt. I’m also astonished at Andy’s ability to pull $/m figures up at an instant’s notice but ask him about $/m for a new auto lane or his bus HOV boondoggle and he’s suddenly Brendan Maguire. PS: go Suzanne! 💪

Low 30's in a number of inland spots this aftn in S NB & Mainland NS; 20's elsewhere. Showers risk thunder most likely north & east. A much cooler brand of air (teens at best) Thursday with lots of sun and gradually warming thru the weekend. Higher rain chances early next week then warm & sunny.

Build Canada Homes (… is almost certainly not present in this data since it’s focused on filling in the extreme low end with subsidized housing)

4pm: scattered showers, heaviest in the northeast. Inland SW NS the warmest with most amount of sunshine. Keji the warmest spot in Canada at 32C. Even warmer Wednesday...

Here's the full spread and layout, front and back, that I did for the first issue of Terra Nova Scotia. "The cover, called “Bluenose V”, bridges our seafaring past to our spacefaring future, because Nova Scotians will always be sailors."

Lol so good on Deny I hadn’t noticed the “four stories” rendering was by the aggrieved owner - the actual application is *three* stories.

Update: it was 2.8%

Where is Pierre? Silence is no longer acceptable.

I probably don't pursue journalism if I don't fall in love with Spots Illustrated as a kid. (Put another way: Hate my journalism? Blame SI.)

Preston St is in the core of the city, a handful of blocks from a bustling commercial street, a university, and several parks and hospitals. If staff didn’t envision quite this many units here, staff are either unqualified for their jobs or lying.

"Although Macintosh said she’s not against development" she did do an interview with the Herald in order to try and get this development killed. Ergo, she is, in fact, against development.

applications for the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival aka DCAF 2026 with @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social are now available: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bad news @seebo429.bsky.social we’ve got to keep saying it

Foreign policy by trolling; between this and other recent comments the US clearly is smarting over the (accurate) perception that they can’t be trusted to abide by deals despite obviously being unwilling to abide by deals.

Idk if it’s fair to index to Montreal, aren’t their rates artificially low because of the QC hydro leasing atrocity with NFL @terriclarke.bsky.social ? PG&E is evil tho and should be purged from the earth.

Pride is a promise — that every Canadian can live safely, openly, and proudly as themselves. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we recommit ourselves to fight for the dignity, security, and equal rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Canada and around the world.

Today is a moment to reflect, to honour those who paved the way, and to continue building a community where everyone can be themselves without fear. Discrimination still exists, but so does our collective responsibility to stand up against it. 🏳️‍🌈

I've got a new brief in Policy Magazine that explores "Mark Carney’s Strategy for the Age of Electricity." It makes the case for doubling not only electricity supply, but also electrification and energy productivity. It also flags a sleeper opportunity. www.policymagazine.ca/mark-carneys...

Do you feel the streets are less safe today than a year or more ago? Yeah, me too! It is really important that we get lots of people responding to the annual HRM road safety survey. www.halifax.ca/home/news/re... Please share widely! #bikehfx #hfxsky

Fantastic initiative. As a family doc who provides gender-affirming care to many adults, it is crucial to support trans refugees to Canada.🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“Acknowledge!!!” 😭😭😭

Yay! 15 minute service returns.

Electrification: It’s Just Better (TM) (not actually TM)

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts for April rose 17 per cent compared with March. #Canada #CMHC www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

I kind of Canadian Premiers would have this conversation with their cities, tbh.

You know, we could mandate a migration to electrified locomotives for freight rail 🤔 No real drawbacks since locomotives are already diesel-electric, just means imposing a height limit on payloads.

Canada: so hot right now.

Behold, the @nationalobserver.com's latest YouTube show, featuring my friend and favourite oil analyst @roryjohnston.bsky.social. We talk about what's happening in/with Iran, what it means for Canada, and whether another pipeline will get built. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDsW...

Let them know how (un)safe you think the roads are. There are some text boxes you can add your thoughts to as well.

Innumerate bullshit here - consider, for example, that despite there being a world market gas price, oil companies are able to operate extraction in conditions with wildly different capital replacement schedules and deal with the resulting differences in project finance.

Electric heat pumps mentioned, refrigeration cycle understanders are in control.

I think the alternative argument Morgan makes is that we should just use the funding to build shittons of greens energy (based on previous posts) and honestly im convinced

You can store energy from wind and solar by pumping water uphill 🧐 This is reliant on having sufficient water, which is a separate problem, but you can do compressed air too.

Fancy that 🤔 well I think we know who to credit for this @techconnectify.bsky.social ofc 🤣

Does anyone know of the study where they tested whether or not drivers saw bike (motorcycle?) riders and drivers reliably saw and avoided bike with kids on the bike or riders that looked like cops? My key words are failing me.

Antidemocratic: respecting the constitution Not antidemocratic: gerrymandering

Mr Carney, the people demand more solar panels. You must construct additional wind turbines.

I can speak from personal experience the 100MB thing is a real hindrance to politicians posting videos here. With bluesky's user base already kind of marginal, having to transcode a bespoke smaller or shorter version of every video to fit the limits oftentimes just means it's not worth posting here