Do you know anyone applying for a Canadian post-graduate work permit? PSA! Don’t be fooled by the fact that there’s no section to submit your English test score. Submit your English test score in the “optional documents” section or else live out a mini version of Kafka’s The Trial.

Culture wars are expensive.

Who says legal documents aren’t interesting?

New paper is out tomorrow at Alantic News and @kingsbookstore.bsky.social! On the front @katynotie.bsky.social has a history of @hfxgov.bsky.social's first try at ending the violence of autoists in 1931. On the back: how council cooked their books & slowed busses both by @landofsticks.bsky.social

Me to the municipal and provincial government

Can’t work for the foreseeable future and it really sunk in when I just scampered with excitement into the kitchen to listen to the 7pm news

from Halifax city council: maybe you will be able to pay for the bus by tapping your bank card by the summer. check out this article by Elena Neufeld from 2025 about why Halifax had to replace their bus payment modums like, right after getting them. signalhfx.ca/halifax-tran...

This could be written for today’s continuing debate on transit etc.

Ope. Forgot this important graf: The responses from the "public about our coverage make it clear that people want and appreciate journalists who hold power to account instead of cozying up to it. Access to community better serves our mission than access to power." niemanreports.org/minneapolis-...

"I'm worried that if I'm the only one that goes, my kids will still be in this country and if I go, how am I supposed to live? That's what I think about," said Vang, through an interpreter. (Notable that local TV stations link to a Go Fund Me in stories. They're covering this like a disaster).

Would be so lit if the province could toss the city a couple of those hansard transcribers

Super fun budget time. I was 30 minutes late despite my bike’s brakes giving out on the way over. ⚡️ 🚲 ❄️

Shared bylines are IN in 2026 btw

Anyone at Halifax Budget meeting today?

I wish I could do this. Peep this city budget. Chat, is the IMP cooked because of automotive rizz?

Shawn Cleary and Patty Cuttell are on info morning 👂🏻

I am at budget committee and will be live posting about it, but during public consultation I will be a member of the public, so live posts will start around 9:35

hobbyist democracy enjoyers! I'm at Halifax city council for budget public participation. There are 26 people signed up! I am a notoriously slow typer so I will be Doing My Best

Comparing old city budget books to the new one and the PDF opens to where I last opened it. Where I presumably last opened it a year ago. What is my life?

I'm at the hearing in St. Paul where Minnesota is asking a federal judge to preserve evidence in Saturday's killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The judge issued a temporary restraining order, but feds are arguing it should be denied because they already plan on preserving the evidence. (1)

Did you see a line at the bottom of pg 2 about Eisner Cove? Let me tell you more: Because of a power outage at the courthouse the date for Protect Eisner Cove Wetland society’s court appearance to decide if they will be allowed a private prosecution was moved from Jan. 19 to April 14. 1/3

I hate going on walks until I do and then I love going on walks

Here is the next interview in my series on mayors in #NovaScotia. Last week I met with West Hants Mayor Abraham Zebian. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

New paper is out tomorrow. On the front @abezetario.bsky.social with a story about the Housing Accelrator Fund's impact in Halifax and @samaustind5.bsky.social's missing middle motion. On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social has a story about how to get a discount on parking fees for your truck.

My last two shots before my world went dark.

The media email will “get back to me very quickly” apparently. But will it be quick enough?

Rent did not neglect important questions about fiscal sustainability! Really enjoyed this and so excited for the series.

Oh hey, how was your break? Ours was great. New paper is out tomorrow at Atlantic News or @kingsbookstore.bsky.social. On the front, a garbage story by @abezetario.bsky.social On the back, water rates and landuse planning by @landofsticks.bsky.social

Seriously considering packing up to eke out a life in the woods because I couldn’t verify a stat I want to put in an article. Woodland reclusion is preferable to misinformation. “When in doubt, leave it out.”

I should have started working at 9, I didn’t and the fault is mine, Now I watch ‘24 council meeting, Outside it is rain and sleeting.

Get in losers we're advocating for fiscally sustainable land use.

All quiet at Dartmouth Cove today

Skade parg

Being a relatively unknown reporter is nice because not only do you get to say the name of your paper three times in a row like a spell before people get it, you ALSO get to send emails into the void. (Wouldn’t trade it for anything.)

I got an NS archives card to write this piece. It’s so easy and the archives are so cool. Also, the Examiner agreed to publish my words. Lucky me :)

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

If you go out in Halifax tonight… wear your helmets and your skates. Or just army crawl it

I wrote some of these words!

More than anything else, I'm quite annoyed that the province is making the city do a public hearing, to get public input on a plan that the province has zero plan of listening to. It's just disrespectful and contemptuous of Haligonians' time and of our municipal democracy. /fin

Skade parg

Will you ever own a home without crippling debt? Read this article to find out… (spoiler alert if you didn’t buy one in 2007 the answer is no & that’s on u)

By me… I have some more relevant photos I want to try and share

One full page of my notebook is gone, if anyone finds it fluttering around, lmk

Only learned today that advance publications (of condé nast) owns like a lottt of Reddit shares? Incidentally learned through that that condé nast isn’t just its own thing. Everything is always like 5 other things, dang.

BREAKING NEWS: #NovaScotia has approved HRM's bylaw on #DartmouthCove news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/11/2...

Also 10% cut to program grants, reducing services and increasing rates. To keep the tax rate flat. I feel like I’m gonna have to wear my coat in council chambers bc at this point the heat may also need to be shut off to keep the tax rate flat.

Good morning budget morning