Brynn Budden, a spokesperson with HRM, sent me this email today: "At this time, there is no new information to communicate on the status of the Student Transit Pass Program." So, we'll wait and see. I will contact the Minister of Education, though.

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

MLA Tim Outhit says Nova Scotia, Halifax have reached a new deal on student bus pass program Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Is there a reliable, reputable ride share app? Looking for a spot in a car to Montreal for a good adult human. Add this to the list of things I knew how to do in the ‘90s…

Lacking details, but good news in @halifaxexaminer.ca MLA Tim Outhit says Nova Scotia, Halifax have reached a new deal on student bus pass program www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

MLA Tim Outhit says Nova Scotia, Halifax have reached a new deal on student bus pass program - Halifax Examiner

Outhit made the announcement at a town hall in Lower Sackville on Wednesday night.

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16yo, realizing that 18yo sibling will have a bus pass through university while his is about to expire. “Why didn’t they just pay for it with the bridge tolls?”

This is totally @lecwhite.bsky.social's parkette. She saved the project at Council.

Listening to a CBC interview about the changes in immigration rules and I wholeheartedly agree. In speaking with colleagues concerned about work permits not being renewed, it’s changed so drastically it actually punishes people who followed the old rules and advice.

Saw Rent at Neptune and it was so good. Recommend! #Halifax

Spent some time at the bottom of Citadel Hill this evening, just as family picnics were wrapping up - so many babies! - and dozens of kites were still flying. So peaceful and joyous.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 4w ago

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Burin fly colourful handmade kites in an annual festival held under the shadow of Israeli settlements and rising settler violence.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

For a long time, scientists thought water simply rose up through the trunk. But researchers have discovered something astonishing: trees contract and expand, pumping water like a slow-beating heart—except that this pulse beats roughly every two hours.

FYI, there appears to be a Halifax to Keji bus! $45 round trip. www.parkbus.ca/destinations...

AI that makes sense: a reputable child psychologist trained an AI agent only on her own body of work (columns, books, podcasts) so that people who care about teens/ young adults can ask questions and get answers based on that body of work. drlisadamour.com/ask-rosalie/

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

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We know enough to start doing something.

If we wait for enough knowledge to make action easy, we will be waiting forever.

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Icymi: Very positive findings about solar on peatland. Co-benefits of renewables just keep piling up.

Solar panels on rewetted peatland could be a climate and nature win–win

Researchers in Germany have found that solar panels on rewetted peatland provide a unique habitat for bird species along with generating green energy and potentially locking up carbon. Installing sola...

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Indulging in Saturday morning retail therapy - treats from the farmers market, including flowers - lupins - for the kiddo who has a Grade 12 prom today; and purchasing music via Bandcamp, today Nemahsis. Grateful for the privilege.

Are we doubling electricity production in Canada to keep up with demand from data centres?

Finished my census questionnaire. Learned something new about my common-law spouse and I feel a sense of accomplishment.

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Desperately seeking #Halifax. Also TGIF.

It’s hard to connect with truth through the news. So, this week, I was grateful for a daily and delicious experience of truth - in the form of dates, product of a people, a culture, a place, the state of Palestine.

Raising a glass to everyone who put their heads down and worked today, then raised their heads to WTF

The smallest of the “ponds” - at curb cuts/ intersections - that I leapt over this morning. Why don’t we make crosswalks at intersections water-shedding speed bumps?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Just thinking about how we’re all treaty people and resolving to show up on Treaty Day is a more consistent way now that our Provincial government has signalled that it is not honouring that relationship. Also about how artists - like Louise Pitre at the Craig Gallery - process these things.

About that $1,400 average tax cut. There is no actual average Nova Scotian. The avg includes the higher income and the lower income; one benefits 10 times more (fr HST & PIT cut). Income of $290,000 or more, taxes reduced by $2,600, income of $25K and less by $256. (Using SPSD/M stats can modelling)

I understand this may be offered but means-tested. So kids and families identify as low income to schools and bus drivers. Terrible stigmatizing policy change, if true.

I'm furious at so many of the cuts in NS's provincial budget. They'll impact all Nova Scotians, in ways we don't fully comprehend yet. We didn't vote for eliminating bridge tolls, and now the gov't has to find that revenue loss elsewhere -- like in cuts to arts and culture. As a writer, this hurts.

Make this land use illegal in your community. In every community.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...