This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

It is important not to forget about the other respiratory viruses currently circulating. #flu #H3N2 #vaccine

engagehalifax.ca/urban-greenway New route option added:

One interview question to the provincial RCMP commander, on the record, inquiring if they are seeing fentanyl from these dispensaries should be enough to quash this. Sure they could lie, but that’s gambling their career for Tim, and they have higher masters to answer to

#BikeHFX !!!

CTV News: “Patient anxiety grows as B.C. health minister plans changes to virtual group treatment” ‘The B.C. Centre for Long Covid, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia has a hybrid model with one-on-one appointments and virtual group courses for patients..’ www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

“It allows companies to use the value of Crown resources as security against a future liability to the Crown. That’s completely backwards,” Prof. Leach said. #ableg #cdnpoli

Politicians that pit drivers against cyclists make the roads less safe for everyone. “seeking to divide road users into categories [is] pointless given most people use different transport methods at different times.”

I’m finding everything very difficult at the moment. I’m sure loads of us are. I don’t think we’re designed to take so much stress and existential anxiety piled upon us every day.

Dusting of snow = data visualisation #hfxws #BikeHfx: rode Brunswick between Cogswell and Carmichael for the first time. Lovely, except inexplicably blocked at Duke. We’re also doing boneheaded bike signals (didn’t come on at Duke, lasts about 3 secs at Sackville even as ped signal stays on).

I think the 3 things that Houston did that made traffic worse on the peninsula were; remove bridge tolls, free hospital parking on the peninsula, and force all the provincial office workers back to the office.

Also 0️⃣ incentive to bring back protections for Covid-even in🇨🇦hospitals Families ARE abandoning Long Covid sufferers bc Drs like Kieran Moore have society believing that malingering is due to mental health issues not biological ones No diagnosis/treatment/cure or hope-just falling by the wayside😔

ANDYVENT MILESTONE! 7,500 meals for Nova Scotians in need in 2026 🥳 My thanks to all those who’ve donated so far, anyone who has shared 🎄AndyVent.Ca🎄with others & so many amazing local businesses! 🎅🏻 Local Supporting Local #FeedTheNeed LESS THAN 12 DAYS REMAINING

FLU cases are SURGING EARLY this year ...hitting KIDS especially hard in ON, QC, AL & BC & increasing WAIT TIMES in ERs This MAY be a novel strain of H3N2 which is 😷More contagious 🏥Risks hospitalization 🚨 HOSPITALS SHOULD REINSTATE MASKING www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

#hfxws Mostly good with caution 👀. Spots of black ice. Especially near curb cuts. 7am.

Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.

Remember, y'all-- You are not responsible for the version of you that somebody else created in their head.

Here's my "appearance" on CBC radio last night youtu.be/t9_Xqtxi2GQ

“For half a century, a litany of federal policies has favored large SUVs & trucks, pushing automakers & buyers toward larger models. Instead of counteracting #CarBloat thru regulation, policymakers have subtly encouraged it. That has been a boon for car companies but a disaster for everyone else.”

You spread flu before you know you've got it. Like COVID. The idea that common sense applies here and it's as simple as not coughing at people is flat out wrong. You can't think your way around this, it is inevitable (6)

Playing around generating a cumulative net cost graphby district in Halifax. Still working out a few calculation issues, but this should be pretty close. Check out Bedford (D16) as Bedford South and Bedford West get developed. Fiscal glow-up! This is just residential revenue.

The tl/dr is housing good, preserving clean water in urban watercourses also good, environmental racism bad.

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

IMO one small thing we could do to re-align how we think about money as a city is to move road maintenance from capital to operations. Roads are an asset with a mostly predictable depreciation cycle.

Heads up! There's a collision in the Windsor Street Exchange We're starting to see delays in the area #HFXTraffic

1) The ME Association in the UK announced that it will invest £1.1m into the Rosetta Stone study. The study will compare the immune profile of ME/CFS and Long Covid patients, with 250 patients in each group.

Our CO2 monitor, the JaspAir penguin, will be deployed at numerous sites in early 2026 to measure air renewal quality in schools - we hope. We are currently preparing its flight case, while finalizing the design details because the devil is in the details!

If he hadn't just spent the last year restarting glyphosate spraying and trying to to reopen the uranium mining business we might take his concerns more seriously

Shell is now facing a legal case over the damage caused by Typhoon Rai. New climate attribution research finds that human-induced climate change has made an extreme weather event like Typhoon Rai 2x more likely. It’s time to make polluters pay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧪

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 30 data - Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NL, NS, QC, SK wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

The port has existed in its current form since the 1970's. The Peninsula had its peak population in 1956. If congestion and movement of people and goods are being impacted today, the only cause is the number of cars on the road. the only solution is to reduce the count.

“The report paints a pretty clear picture that Halifax is pursuing a very debt-intensive and cost-intensive series of initiatives like the Integrated Mobility Plan and HaliFACT,” Fillmore said. What he means is the last priority in the IMP (cars) using up 90% of the transportation budget.

Been walking downtown for 15 minutes, no ear buds, phone in my backpack and head on a swivel. I have almost been killed twice by drivers not stopping for either the stop sign or me in the crosswalk. But sure, my safety is a shared responsibility. Fuck this city man.

Plant communication is not a fantasy; it's a biological response to specific cues. www.zmescience.com/science/news...

One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

The province is designating a bunch of peninsula streets as “core streets”. Are they about to get Doug Forded?

Now for some good news. Big congrats to @mayoroliviachow.ca and Toronto City Council for moving forward on landmark rules to protect Torontonians from extreme heat. @cape-acme.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...

I'm repeating myself but an aspect of this u16s online ban is that politicians are looking at it from a "They can go outside" mentality without acknowledging there's nowhere FOR children to go anymore. Either through fearmongering open hostility to youth or it's not profitable

Nova Scotia Health welcomes new MRI magnet Soon to be the heart of a new imaging machine, it was lowered into the South Shore Regional Hospital in Bridgewater on Tuesday morning. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Yes we are getting higher taxes. This was explicitly the tradeoff council made for low taxes in past years. They chose to rob our present selves just so we could also rob our future selves to save the average(/mean) property tax payer about ~$100 a year. For more info check out issue 2 of GP

It was 3.9% during morning rush hour, Halifax-bound traffic only (I'm still counting Dartmouth-bound).

Scientists at Yale say long COVID is part of a “long-established family of post-acute infection syndromes.” The biggest challenge is understanding its “underlying pathobiology.” They were “surprised” how often children are affected, noting kids are also vulnerable to “long-term effects.”

Why is the sale of peat still a thing? It's pretty much the stupidest thing you can do in a climate crisis, second only to the sale of fossil fuels.

Just because our lifespan/experience doesn’t include personal knowledge of disease outbreaks, doesn’t mean the you either ‘get better’ or ‘die’. There’s a whole grey area of suffering. #chronicillness #longcovid #PAIS

This is top tier. Good on ya, Chief! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Interesting in the context of common public health advice to stay home if you feel sick.

Scottish government trial of four-day week improves productivity and staff wellbeing

“Greenfield development is the most expensive form of development for all of us. Sprawl costs us all.”

The Premier says natural resources are our biggest economic opportunity but ignores our greatest resource: Our people. Childcare isn’t just social policy—it’s economic strategy. Every $1 invested returns $2. Families thrive, we all win. #NSPoli #Childcare #EconomicGrowth www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...