Here's a close-up of the back of the #PylonWars raccone. picture stolen from Halifax Cycle Chat on Facebook.

Rhubarb forcing in progress. If last year’s timeline is any indicator, I’ll be harvesting in less than 4 weeks. 🤞

The new enforcement officer at the Harvard–Allan diagonal diverter seems to be effective 🦝 #BikeHfx

The cutest escalation ever! #PylonWars

Cities should be for kids, not cars.

Early this week, someone removed the traffic cones at the Harvard/Allan diverter to let cars through. Thanks to Halifax's dedicated #BikeHfx community, they have been replaced with an absurd number of varied traffic control devices. There's room for more.

I went through twice this morning to redeploy some cones. The barrels currently at the diverter are in ROUGH shape. I think (at least some) drivers are just driving right thru and pushing the cones that way, based on the scatter & drag pattern I saw today. #PylonWars

Our mayor would never... But if he did, #BikeHfx would absolutely have him reinstalling the median flexposts at the Donham Diverter, or installing all the summer municipal bike racks.

People who are more law-smart than me: can the public put forward a judicial review of the NS PC government‘s handling of this budgetary process and the conflicts of interest related to government spending over the last couple of years?

Nice collection #PylonWar #BikeHFX

Y’all stand up pretty strait for not having any backbone… #nspoli #halisky

Arts, culture, and heritage funding cuts are ‘devastating’ to rural communities reported by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

More of this, please

Heroes!

Thin layer of snow on the sidewalks today in peninsula Kjipuktuk/Halifax #hfxws . Watch your footing if you're walking. Road surfaces mostly clear - take the lane #BikeHFX. Bollards have completely vanished from the Donham Diverter but no evidence of crushing - pick one up if you spot any en route

If you want the expense and inconvenience of living in a big city, with the politics and amenities of a much smaller town, Halifax might be the place for you. www.grandparade.news/p/allan-st-d...

a reminder that today, the first day back of the legislature sitting in Nova Scotia after March Break, that Tim Houston is in Texas

This is the kind of joy that #KidicalMassHfx wants you to know is possible.

Another day, another perfectly reasonable thread in the local Facebook group about the Harvard–Allan diagonal diverter. Despondent motorists, forced to use the next street over, are fleeing the city to their second homes in search of more convenient shopping.

We often underestimate how powerful everyday public space is for children. Hanging out on a safe street corner. Lingering outside a local shop. Talking at a bus stop bench. If we invested in safe, well designed streets, we wouldn’t rely as heavily on formal spaces for children to gather.

Back on CBC this morning. This time I spoke with the Ottawa host about the loss of children’s play spaces.When asked what we can do, I emphasized investing not only in safe streets—but in pedestrian culture: street trees, art, spacious sidewalks, and bringing back a culture of hanging out.

🇨🇦 Attention Canadian COVID-aware community: Canada Surplus has several large boxes (N = 440) of 3M N95s available currently (bidding starts at $15 for the whole box + shipping). No catch. gcsurplus.ca/mn-eng.cfm?s...

Attention #BikeHfx, there are big chunks of missing road surface (both concrete & asphalt) in the northbound Windsor St bikelane, in the block between Windsor Terrace and Almon, (mostly right outside the Brooklyn Warehouse). Reporting to 311 now.

While reading this, I keep on wondering, every stance Andy took was Anti-everyday person and pro-private for profit corporations, you would almost think, it was private for profit corporations that voted him in as Mayor and not everyday people. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Someone is going to need to check on the #BikeHfx Donham Diverter after this storm.

Yup they've been trying to filter out voices bsky.app/profile/gamm...

Thanks to Phil and the team for including a piece about the upcoming #KidicalMassHfx season!

The #KidicalMassHfx team is getting ready for Spring. We've done a lot of planning this week, and put together our first real newsletter. Read about our plans for the 2026 season here. Hit the 'subscribe' button (top right) to hear from us again. kidical-mass-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/kidical-ma...

I like riding my bike, but there are too dang many cars out there.

Having bike lane girth envy

He keeps telling on himself by doing ridiculous things like referring to residents as “shareholders” and dismissing “two sheets of ice” and a community space as things that don’t have value.

I haven't given up masking indoors in 2026 just because others have. It's not a virtue or thing I'm super jazzed about daily, it's basic survival. I can't afford to risk post-viral complications & really dislike being sick

“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!” The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

“Because cycling enabled me to connect to the disability community, my understanding of transportation needs is broader, and I use this knowledge to be a better advocate for transportation infrastructure that better meets everyone’s needs.” Via @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social

The premier of Nova Scotia’s ENTIRE plan is based on oil and gas extraction. He just said it on air. That is his only plan. Our biggest industry is tourism and he just cut $$ to tourism, arts & conservation (all reasons why people come here).

My favorite part of Houston's announcement was when he said resource extraction companies are going to come here, set up shop & spend money (before they destroy our environment & hide in tax havens). While ignoring that people who already live, work & spend money here are losing their livelihood.

Tim Houston announcing that he's rolling back cuts to just enough things that folks who don't care about a livable environment, history or arts will be enough to sustain his stupid fucking tax cut. Keep the pressure going, folks, it clearly works.We got some stuff back for some marginalized folks.

The less Nova Scotians know about their past & feel connected to place, the easier it is for a government to redefine conservation areas & penalize people for not aligning use of land with exploitation. History is dangerous, writers in schools are dangerous, artistic critique of power is dangerous.

There’s less than a week until the oval closes, and I’m trying to enjoy every last minute. So, I’m passing through the #BikeHfx Donham Diverter more than I usually do, & am gonna count how many times I have to move the barrels to the middle. Today (Monday): 0/2 No barrel moves required!

"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...

There has been a lot going on that's just awful but dang it we've got a great community here. So if you need some good news - just look at the people around you remember that good people are doing good things. We've got each other's backs.

I made a short video explainer of the Allen-Oak diverter debacle. A case study of #CarBrain & driver entitlement. Of political pussyfooting. If infrastructure only works when drivers choose to follow the rules, it’s not safe infrastructure #ZeroVisionHFX #SafeStreets urbanists.video/w/jSp8sSpyiX...

I didn’t become a #SafeStreets advocate through ideology, but through experience. Drivers like this one parking on footpaths forcing me to push my kids in a stroller onto the road. Women are constantly told to think about safety in public spaces. Unsafe streets are a policy choice #VisionZero #IWD

The kid had a lesson with the school guidance counsellor this week, on the topic of gratitude. During which, he & two friends made this “thank you” poster for the staff of our local public library. We will deliver it tomorrow, and hope that it brightens everyone’s day a little bit.

Rally up! He really is trying to break our communities so he can frack, mine, deforest the f out of this place. He’s working fast , so must we!

The best thing about Halifax is its people. This thread of folks speaking at budget committee this week is a beautiful demonstration of people who care for each other and this city.

1/ I recently told someone that I'm pretty sure how I'm going to die: from riding my bike. Either because I'll be killed in an accident. Or because I'll slowly be destroyed by exhaust fumes and microplastics. Noise.

It would have been funny, if I weren’t mad. “We are supporting health (but not Autism, or mental health, or seniors health), students (but not their jobs, bus passes, or extra curricular) and the economy ( just not tourism). I made these decisions, and I stand by them (runs away).

This hole has increased in size since Thursday. It’s now 3 or 4 broken boards, and visible from at least a few metres away. 311 has assigned the ticket to “building standards” for follow-up.

Working in a pandemic world is just listening to colleagues say “there must be something going around” on a weekly basis for years and trying to decide if you wanna remind them it’s covid or silently scream into the void again.