Yes, government services cost money. You fucking child. I honestly don't know how conservatives can stand to be such whiny goddamn toddlers when it comes to basic government spending. Doesn't it ever get old? Don't they ever wanna grow up and just be adults about anything?

Happy Tipp’s Eve

I truly believe that motor vehicles have to be classified as deadly weapons. No more 'accidents'. List attention and drive without endangering anyone. Doing that would completely change the culture around the driving. We also need robust expansive public transit and alternatives to cars.

Non-motorized and pedestrian friendly spaces don’t happen by accident. They come to life by making difficult decisions along the way. This used to be a parking lot. Now it’s a space where you can put ice scaring rink.

Kids these days.

Yes. In addition to long-term street redesigns, we need to enforce traffic laws. We currently have a culture that doesn’t consider road rules (like speed limits) to be legitimate or real. Some jurisdictions — Ontario, Alberta — have banned/restricted automated speed enforcement. That’s bonkers.

Across the entire nation travellers in both the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts are preparing for annual holiday visits with a level of affluence, purchasing power, and overall comfort that they will never know in their adult lifetimes. thebeaverton.com/2023/12/thou...

2nd time in a week our so called Premier using false info N.S. premier using false information as reason against updating privacy legislation #NovaScotia The cracks are forming!! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

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Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.

What is it with Canadian governments & secrecy? Canadians are a docile people. Americans would never.

Nova Scotia continues to be the “most secretive province in the country” and they don’t plan to fix that. Tim Houston has a pattern of making decisions based on a single anecdote of questionable accuracy and then doubling down on it.

PS: "Smith said the utility has a 30-year plan that will invest in better infrastructure for harsher climate conditions." This is the plan everyone - Andy, the NSPCs, the NSNDP, everyone - is trying to get Halifax Water to abandon. Affordability framing is bad! Don't do it!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - great reporting from Ruth Davenport about why HRM water restrictions were targeted as they were.

@hfxgov.bsky.social How really great cities handle congestion with success...

“Get on your bikes and ride” 🚲🚲🚲

This is a map showing every single population centre as defined Provincially, from Nain to Margaree. The bars are proportional to each-other, with a cap of the 111750 being attributed to St. John's. The bottoms of each bar are the 'centre point' of the population cluster. #nlpoli #sjpoli

This. Cities need to take action and not study things to death. How long does #OttCity study something, consult, write “as we heard it” reports (not “what was said reports”) and dither around the edges before embarking on the most milquetoast of options? 1/

Halifax Alehouse owner looking at options to spare historic downtown building from demolition www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

See all the registered rental properties in HRM: data-hrm.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/671...

N.S. partnering with Dalhousie University to kickstart drilling for onshore natural gas By @dartjenhen.bsky.social

every traffic fatality is a human sacrifice that we willingly lay on the altar of individualism

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Scroll to the bottom for today’s updated information on the Alehouse status. To date, this has been a good news story. laurawhite.ca/alehouse-sta...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

I always liked North Hill in Calgary -- it's two retirement homes attached to a small mall with a food court, which means the elderly walk around and hang out and get food. there's a Safeway, a dollar store, etc, all without having to go outside in the winter or drive or anything

In the new issue of Azure Magazine I wrote about how Canadian malls are urbanizing. Filling in parking lots with housing & more is just part of it. The experience of being in public is part of the draw, but can the mall transformations actually be urban? What about grit? What about mall walkers?

@landofsticks.bsky.social @unitedwayhalifax.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social @suzanneleb.bsky.social In this BLOG post I provide an update on the fight for Basic income in Nova Scotia. worthmatters.blogspot.com/2025/12/nova...

Bousquet writes: "Here at the Halifax Examiner, we experience this nearly every day — a reporter will ask for information or comment from a government department, and we are often ignored completely. Increasingly, we’re not even getting acknowledgement that the question was asked."

A toy drive in Corner Brook is helping out 230 kids this Christmas #Newfoundland #Labrador It's part of a collaborative effort among firefighters and volunteer groups to make sure kids in need get gifts for Christmas. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

“Around 1.2 million people die from road injuries every year. That includes the deaths of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. That’s around 2.3% of deaths”

To every person who complains about speeding laws just remind them: 1. Roughly 1/100 people die in a car accident 2. Risk of death goes up rapidly with higher speeds

Three children have died in Ontario from the flu & the last time we heard from Kieran Moore was early last week with a canned statement that got limited media coverage. The CMOH has done ZERO interviews encouraging vaccination -- even after it was announced that three children under 10 have died.

All Cogswell bikeways are now open! I updated the Halifax bikeway map on Wikipedia, marking Amalamek Way, Brunswick Street, and Dutch Village Road as complete. #BikeHfx

Only 20 per cent of people eligible in Newfoundland and Labrador have gotten the flu vaccine so far. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Now ask the police chief if we can reallocate funding from the police budget to whoever should be doing mental health calls instead.

I’m late to this, but I just saw a random post that referred to gen-AI fans as “botlickers” and that was enough to make this day a little better.

Good reminder of the length of time and the labour that it took to make bars smoke-free. Much love to the bar staff who made it happen after the legislators said "make it so"

Relatedly, the HRMs police forces have been saying this for over a year cause we also have provincial legislation that makes cops sit in hospitals with folks until a doctor sees 'em.

I’m sure the fact that they keep building bike infrastructure that consists of a line of paint on a 45mph highway doesn’t help either.

Who is throwing middle of the night #Bikehfx 3am rave parties on South Park Street and not inviting me?

Canadian tv show Heated Rivalry is getting a 2nd season on Crave Crave says the adaptation was its most-watched original series debut within the first seven days www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

I can’t find the most recent stats, but in 2022 70,000 were sold in Canada. Germany is kicking our butts on e-bike sales.

A good read:

Shout out to the families that went out carolling in my neighborhood earlier this evening. One arsehole just had to be a Scrooge and go rev his engine for 5 straight minutes & drown them out. Now he appears to be drunk and crying to “Love Hurts”, so he may be going through something.

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I just saw a CBC report on TikTok about Second Sons neo-Nazi group who have built a pipeline from martial arts and boxing to their group and it’s only gonna get worse with different groups. They are promoting ethnic cleansing in Canada.

Nora Bernard has reopened and connects to the roundabout