Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
@robertmcmillan13.bsky.social
Husband & father. Joined 20 Oct 2024 “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito". I retweet interesting. Reposts do not mean I agree.
3. (contd) with skateboarder coming towards me. Driver 3 behind me decided to overtake me, forcing the skateboarder to jump out of the way, then blew through Harvard 4-way without stopping, while I was stopped there! Skateboarder chased after driver to no avail. All that in less than 10 minutes! 3/4
Driver 2 overtook me at intersection of Pepperell & Vernon as I came to a stop for a pedestrian to cross. I caught up with the driver at the Quinpool lights, after the pedestrian had safely crossed 🤷♀️ Driver 3 was the worst. Riding along Allen towards the diverter, passing 2 parked cars... 2/4
Yesterday's afternoon #BikeHFX commute was a doozy 🤯: Driver 1 tried to squeeze into the University Ave bike lane from Robie before realising I was about to enter it. I was so shocked I didn't capture it on camera. He was trying to bypass the fire trucks attending a call there. There's more 1/4
HRFE Incident Feed@hrfeincidents.bsky.social · yesterdayALARMS Location: UNIVERSITY AVE, HALIFAX Call Number: HF26000011496 Response: A03 E02 E03 STN02 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:26:43 -0300
As of Aug. 5, 2026, the minimum gas price in Halifax, Hants, and part of Colchester counties (Zone 1) is 180.2 cents/L, down 10.4 cents/L] from last week. The minimum diesel price in Zone 1 is 229.8 cents/L, down 9.4 cents/L from last week. See full price schedule here: nserbt.ca/sites/defaul...
Off highway vehicles have lessor insurance requirements than on highway vehicles in Nova Scotia. Yet @nsgov.bsky.social now permits them on many roads. At least two towns permit them on all town streets. Is it time to update the insurance requirements? novascotia.ca/natr/ohv/ohv...
Hopefully all the many working today had a moment to celebrate something
Claudia Chender@claudiachenderns.bsky.social · 2d agoToday is a chance to celebrate everything that makes our community unique, and the people who make it such a wonderful place to live.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
@bluejays.com Why does the Jays Care Foundation report less than $20 million per year for the 50:50 draw when their share approachs $1 million per game?
When WestJet ruins your vacation tomorrow I need you to remember that workers going on strike is why you have a vacation in the first place
By the end of the week every beach on the island’s south shore was closed to swimmers... A modern offshore blade is fiberglass over a foam core & bonded with adhesive - same as a boat hull When a turbine blade breaks it comes apart into fragments with sharp edges www.ecoportal.net/en/turbine-b...
One turbine blade broke off 15 miles from Nantucket and closed every south shore beach, and inspectors then found the same bonding flaw in 66 of the 72 blades already standing
Fifteen miles out to sea, a single blade had come off a turbine and fallen apart.
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Maybe they didn’t issue tickets, just a warning and a chat?
For many good reasons, Canadians are more inclined to look on today’s United States not with envy but with a mix of defiance and pity. Michael Harris writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
As Trump Slags Canadians, the American Dream Fades | The Tyee
Citizens here hold more faith in their nation. Global partners are lining up.
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@thetyee.ca please explain to CTV Vancouver that a health forest sector does not automatically lead to a healthy forest. Here in Nova Scotia it leads to softwood plantations, not a healthy mixed Acadian forest. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. mill closures hinder reforestation efforts, with long-term consequences
B.C.’s mills have been a key driver in forest health and reforestation efforts across the province, and as they close, external funding will be required to ensure decades of forestry work don’t go to ...
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Norm Collins - Summary Offence Tickets (SOTs) issued in HRM for not stopping at a stop sign - MVA 133(1) 1,459 - average of 2012 and 2013 236 - average of 2024 and 2025 HRP Traffic Unit issued 409 SOTs in 2012 yet only 5 in 2025 Road safety requires enforcement @hfxgov.bsky.social
What does Joey Coleman have to say about Hamilton City Manager Marnie Cluckie? I chatted w/ Halifax's Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social regarding Cluckie's record, my thoughts on her going to Halifax, and share why Halifax's Best Western Hotel is my favourite hotel in Canada. Listen 👇(1/2)
A scouting report on Halifax's new CAO with Joey Coleman - The Grand Parade
Halifax's old CAO Cathie O'Toole quit a while ago, and Halifax's long-suffering public servant Brad Anguish has been filling in until a suitable replacement could be found. Well, that replacement wa...
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This is a very good chat better @landofsticks.bsky.social and @joeycoleman.ca about Halifax's new CAO Marnie Cluckie. I learned a lot about Cluckie's work as former City Manager in Hamilton.
Joey Coleman@joeycoleman.ca · last wk.What does Joey Coleman have to say about Hamilton City Manager Marnie Cluckie? I chatted w/ Halifax's Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social regarding Cluckie's record, my thoughts on her going to Halifax, and share why Halifax's Best Western Hotel is my favourite hotel in Canada. Listen 👇(1/2)
@landofsticks.bsky.social at GrandParade.news has this excellent podcast in which he interviews Joey Coleman with The Public Record in Hamilton 👍 This episode focused on @hfxgov.bsky.social new CAO, Marnie Cluckie, who will be taking over the job on Sept. 23 pod.co/the-grand-pa...
A scouting report on Halifax's new CAO with Joey Coleman - The Grand Parade
Halifax's old CAO Cathie O'Toole quit a while ago, and Halifax's long-suffering public servant Brad Anguish has been filling in until a suitable replacement could be found. Well, that replacement wa...
pod.co
Pesticide spraying and spruce bud worm study. Was it worth it? does DDT still remain in the soil? /2 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...
In 1952, Canada began spraying forests from aeroplanes to control budworms; decades later, pesticide research changed how forests were managed
Forests are often seen as untouched by human decision-making. According to The Natural Resources Canada article, spruce budworm outbreaks have been one of the most significant challenges for forest ma...
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Lead exposure is dangerours. UK is drastically lowering lead limits. Car batteries and stained glass come to mind This will dramatically affect pre-menopausal women re protection of future fetuses. Lower limit than for men What about Surrette Battery in Springhill NS? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Stained glass rule change may impact women's jobs
Health and safety rules on lead exposure could be changed and put jobs at risk, glaziers say.
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Unfortunately @nsgov.bsky.social does not care. There will be no inquiry, no naming and shaming, no lessons learned.
Andy Chalk@andychalk.bsky.social · 6d agoAs far as I can see there was no evidence in this case - 100% mistaken identity with no other supports to the case. Yet three days of "evidence" presentation and a guilty verdict. How does that happen when one lawyer making just a little effort can so quickly and conclusively show it wasn't him?
30th Stan Rogers Festival gets started by Stephen Cooke www.pictouadvocate.com/arts_and_ent...
STEPHEN COOKE: Celebrating Stan Rogers
If he were still with us, Stan Rogers might cringe at the idea of having achieved "rock star status" among folk songwriters far and wide. There was certainly little that
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Klayme "took no responsibility" BECAUSE HE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE.