What on earth is going on with Halifax police? Who trains officers to think hitting someone on a bicycle with a car is an acceptable response to an alleged theft? Potentially lethal force to defend corporate property?? really?? www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Worried about Canada's economic fate, given our reliance on trade and who our major trading partner is? You cannot do better than read this @justinling.ca piece. Brilliant summary... and negotiating advice www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

It’s exhausting work trying to keep the #Epstein coverup going.

"Washington has been pushing Canada to do more to keep out products of forced labor from countries such as China." Well ok then:

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

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Batman speaking the truth. #IsraelIsATerroristState

One thing I don’t understand about people who are anti bike lanes is why they always say bike lanes take away space or create more traffic, but they never say anything about constantly losing a lane to parked cars

Meanwhile, at @hfxgov.bsky.social, the proposed pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Northwest Arm, estimated at $19 million back in 2019, was never seriously considered. It would have been a game changer, connecting Spryfield with the Halifax peninsula...

Canada’s retirement system is leaving women behind. Despite decades of reform, older women still earn far less than men and face higher poverty rates. Journalist Moira Welsh on what it will it take to close the gender pay gap: https://thewalrus.ca/canada-pension-gap/

Make it make sense.

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

I’m really sorry this happened to her. It’s a good opportunity to discuss front license plates, automated enforcement (cameras), and stronger penalties for repeat offenders. The same fines could help fund a better system for prevention and behaviour correction/education.

This incident could have been avoided by swapping out a car lane with a bus and/or bike lane on Pleasant St. People get less aggressive when they have no options (ie another lane) to pass.

I’m reading On Tyranny this morning. The connection is clear. Aristotle and Plato weren’t predicting the future. They were describing what they’d already watched happen. Ancient philosophy came out of real situations people had to navigate. We’re witnessing it today. #Stoicism #StoicSisterhood

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310

The relationship is also visible in reverse. “Districts with the most women who bike to work have nearly six times as much protected bike lane access as those with the fewest.” momentummag.com/the-bike-lan...

You don't have to become the Netherlands in order to enable more people to leave the car at home. Multi-use paths with some basic separation from roadways is enough to get people rolling. It's something that most cities and suburbs can do now with minimal investment and space.

When Halifax says affordable housing mandates are “not workable” and Nova Scotia hands out tax cuts that skew upward, that’s not economics speaking. That’s power. Even New York is moving to tax ultra-rich owners of luxury second homes. These are political choices.

Today, the Liberals rejected our NDP motion to ban surveillance pricing - a dystopian practice that will drive up costs for Canadians if we allow it to take root. The NDP is the only party fighting to protect you from getting ripped off at the checkout.

Not surprised. Profit over people. Halifax says it “can’t afford” to require affordable housing because “the economics don’t work.” But that’s a choice about who carries the cost, not a law of nature. Inclusionary zoning works in many cities.... @hfxgov.bsky.social

Grocery giants just can’t help themselves. Underweight meat. Overweight profits. Canadians are sick and tired of being ripped off. A public option for groceries is overdue. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

Read the full piece from the Chronicle Herald: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/... Find a list of the care homes and picket lines striking in bio: ltcc-ns.cupe.ca/striking-loc...

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

@hfxgov.bsky.social @andyfillmorehfx.bsky.social 🤔🫣🤨🧐👀

The failure of urban planning in the middle of an affordable housing crisis: dedicating vast amounts of prime downtown space to parking instead of people @hfxgov.bsky.social #Halifax

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Hey remember this post? Wtf happened...

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

We can do do things differently, we just have to want to.

4/ US-Israeli impunity has shredded the international order: Canada should lead in rebuilding it.

3/ Canada must bring sanctions against Israel, cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, implement a real two-way arms embargo, and use every diplomatic and economic tool at our disposal to rein in Israel.

2/ Hundreds dead, entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Reports of ethnic cleansing and open discussion of permanent military occupation. Prime Minister Carney has rightly condemned the invasion as illegal, but words are not enough.

1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date. Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Brutal.

1/5 Two problems in Halifax (@hfxgov.bsky.social) that seem unrelated: A ferry out of service for months in Halifax Harbour A ~$180 million road project at Windsor Street But they actually reflect the same vision of the city 👇

I feel like now is a good time to share this again

I have a dream that one day all the people will realize they are free. Hemp can save the world. Renewable energy is cheaper than oil. The super battery is real and being sold in a single motor vehicle. Room temperature super conductor is possible. Scarcity is by design, rarity raises prices.

“Paris has made space for cyclists in a way that I simply have not seen in any other city” (The great @awalkerinla.bsky.social on how Paris has transformed itself, doubling its cycling modal share in 5 years. Visiting, one can feel the change for pedestrians too. So good) www.torched.la/bike-share/

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

“What’s missing in the rest of the world is courage. Mayors could say: ‘This is my opportunity [to leave a] legacy,’ but most will not dare.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Cartoon by Nick Anderson @andertoon.bsky.social

Still shocking 😳🤯🤣