“Short of EU membership, the EU and Canada want to get as close as legally possible, one of the people said.” Gosh, I hope this is serious.

EU and Canada Plan Far-Reaching Alliance to Strengthen Partnership

The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the g...

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i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state

One small trick to not look like an authoritarian, plutocratic loon, or worse: don’t advocate for taking votes away from people or distributing them unequally.

Just a quick reminder for when you’re thinking about who should vote in a democracy: the masses won us self-government and rights while billionaires gave us pervert glasses and personal-data harvesting.

YIMBYs: I live in a shoebox on an arterial road and cannot afford children. NIMBYs: Living near apartment buildings in my $3M home makes me inexplicably sad and also furious. Local government: How sad? How furious?

Once we resume Maximum Canada and shoot for 100 million, Halifax will grow to several million and Alto Phase 3 will connect it to the Quebec - Windsor corridor

Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸@maxp94.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Towards a future where Canada’s main cities are Edmonton and Halifax

"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution." -- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Opinion | One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis

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I’m sick and fucking tired of living in a city where our municipal government pretends that basic essential city services are a fucking luxury.

Matt Stickland@landofsticks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hendsbee: 15 minute service is a luxury

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

The Liberal Party of Canada produces bad mayors. PhD dissertation idea for whoever wants it.

Suzanne Rent@suzannerent.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Andy Fillmore wants bus-only lanes turned into high-occupancy vehicle lanes Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Tonight’s feature presentation! #thewaroncars

I desperately want to live in a city that is actively bettering itself – it's what drew me back to Halifax. However, we are quickly regressing under amateurish provincial leaders and their "vacuous and controllable" mayor. I don't think continued population growth is assured.

Jillian@bikehfxlobby.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It seems like we had a brief period in Halifax when the constant talk of outward migration of young people stopped, but it seems like we’ve returned to the baseline I remember from childhood.

Andy needs to stop reading Facebook. Someone needs to take his phone away. California has an extensive system of HoV/express lanes and you know what? They were still either mostly empty (next to bumper to bumper traffic) or … also full! 🙄 If the lane isn’t congested it’s going to look empty! Man!

Safe Kjipuktuk@safehrm.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Fillmore said it’s understandable that people feel frustrated when they’re sitting next to an empty bus lane in bumper-to-bumper traffic" Nothing compared to being on a bus stuck behind a load of single occupancy vehicles.

i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job." www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...

Feminism with YIMBY Characteristics

Much hay has been made about the effects of our housing crisis on economic inequality, racial segregation, and climate catastrophe. Today I want to approach the question of housing from a feminist per...

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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Happy Thanksgiving

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

I really hope this serves as an example of how we can improve #Halifax streets for pedestrians, people who ride bikes, and transit users.

Ben MacLeod 馬志斌@benmacleod.bsky.social · last yr.

Dutch Village Road is getting sidewalks (on both sides), bike lanes, and trees. Nobody tell the premier of Nova Scotia. #BikeHfx

Never have a I seen a sign I agree with more after reading local news the last few days lol

I don’t want a strong mayor, I want a competent one

The correct action here is for Fillmore to resign, since a Harvard educated planner and former Halifax senior staff member should know the basics of how the city/council operates.

Jen Taplin@jentaplin.bsky.social · last yr.

“I didn’t fully understand the barriers to fulfilling the mandate that I was elected to deliver until after I was in the chair,” Fillmore told reporters. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

"The barriers" are that he's just one guy on a council and the other Councillors (except Trish Purdy) don't agree with him on anything, and he's also spent zero time trying to persuade them while marinading his brain in goofy motorist Facebook groups.

Jen Taplin@jentaplin.bsky.social · last yr.

“I didn’t fully understand the barriers to fulfilling the mandate that I was elected to deliver until after I was in the chair,” Fillmore told reporters. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Can we get a pedestrian & cycling bridge like this over the Northwest Arm please? Colchester county has approved a $7.9-million, three-pier, wooden bridge with a curved design to connect the communities of Truro and Onslow, so that people will no longer have to walk, bike, or roll along the highway

Colchester selects design for pedestrian bridge at Fundy Discovery Site | CBC News

A historic route across the Salmon River in Colchester County is being restored with the addition of a multimillion-dollar pedestrian bridge at the Fundy Discovery Site, which is part of the Cliffs of...

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I found a map from 1979 of Via Rail routes across Canada with daily service, and compared it to a new map I made of cities that are currently served by daily (minimum 7 trains/week) passenger rail service. It's bleak.

Joe Martin@jamthefed.bsky.social · last yr.

I have an old map at work showing all the old Via Rail routes/stations stopped at across Canada. Wild what it used to be like vs now.

“Common sense” is something people generally invoke when they don’t have evidence to support their arguments, or they don’t want to be bothered having to do any deep thinking about the issue.

Suzanne Rent@suzannerent.bsky.social · last yr.

Purdy: we are sacrificing common sense on the altar of bike lanes and we don’t need to do that.

@samaustind5.bsky.social Thank you for your “pointed” response to the mayor’s motion, it was good to hear a direct response to the nonsense. 🙇‍♂️