Vancouver’s West End is the densest neighbourhood in Canada. Its mix of housing includes lots of apartment towers. I highly recommend anyone who thinks tall buildings ruin neighbourhoods to visit. It really is a nice experience.

Any store that forces me to walk through a giant cloud of perfume just to shop is a store that doesn’t get my business. Unfortunately Shoppers is the only pharmacy in town that currently stocks the prescription medications this man needs to treat his autoimmune disease that causes lung inflammation.

I hate that anyone in NL has to resort to a go fund me to pay for basic needs that should be met by social services, but I do love that the example NTV used is for someone’s gender affirming surgery!

book is absolutely lovely so far, but this little section stood out to me. "Drivers and pedestrians said they typically broke laws to save time. Cyclists, however, said they typically broke laws to stay safe." ridiculously true. at no point on my bike do i think about The Law. i think about safety

More local #Christmas decor #Newfoundland #photography #Fujifilm Lots of people make these types of decorations from wood, then hand-paint them. This one has an extra touch with an actual 'Charlie Brown' Christmas tree included.

Bit of a strange one to share on Christmas Eve but there was a fleury of Dartmouth Cove correspondence this week. Province to HRM and HRM back to Province. Plus a threat of action by a landowner on Jan 5 cdn.halifax.ca/sites/defaul...

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I hope that everyone has a Merry Bicycle Christmas.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

“With the new sidewalk and proper bike lanes, I feel like more people will feel comfortable using Dutch Village Road,” “We’re hopeful and we’re excited to see more people using Dutch Village Road and the effects on the businesses.” This business owner gets it halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/22/l...

There is only one acceptable Christmas song, and it's Newfoundland's Mummer's Song. Which has the important holiday lesson of: Gender is fluid.

An update on that horrible incident on School Street in Dartmouth earlier this year

Excellent review of the crisis in Canada's healthcare system

ICYMI. Read this before it's taken down by the Entity's media monitor. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In today's Morning File, @dartjenhen.bsky.social has an update on a report from Nova Scotia Power. I wrote about monetizing the dysfunction and how we create systems so the wealthy can skip queues. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Why is HRM’s development office spending Halifax’s limited budget fighting the exact kind of housing accelerator fund development that we need (in this case two 8-storey buildings behind this existing apartment building in Cowie Hill, infill development allowed as of right in the BRT corridor)??

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Some Americans really do not understand this whole “Canadians aren’t here for your pleasure” thing

It was December 2024 when Fillmore said he believed the worst of the housing crisis was over. So, I guess if you ignore a crisis, then it's not happening.

Mayor Andy Fillmore is not only ignoring my requests for and interview, but also requests to sit down with organizations that work with women and children.

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