@sflkirk.bsky.social
Health Promotion Prof @dalhousie.bsky.social. Posting mainly about pop health, climate anxiety & advocacy for safe streets. UK export now physically located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Volunteer board member of @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. She/her.
Appreciate being included in the first Starter Pack from @urbantruth.bsky.social
It is a collection of voices working to communicate the truth about cities and challenge the misinformation that too often dominates the conversation.
Take a moment to explore the list and amplify!
#UrbanTruth
“If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.” Via @theconversation.com #ClimateCrisis #HealthyCities
Happy to be included in this great and important Starter Pack, along with a lot of Canadian urbanists and communicators! The @urbantruth.bsky.social keeps knocking it out of the park.
“We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as ‘normal’— and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just ‘necessary’.”
The “Framing Game” via @katjadiehl.bsky.social.
Took a very scenic bike ride home from work. Stopped in at MEC for a quick tune-up on the way. God, it feels great to bike again. #HfxBike #Halifax #HaliSky
Tonight's stats:
Distance: 14.3 km.
Average speed: 16.52 kmph.
Calories burned: 832.
Total fuel costs: $0.
It's also the same with people in cities who complain about tall buildings and bike lanes. Cities have both and while Halifax is a smaller city, we can and SHOULD have those things in a way that work for us.
I don't understand people who don't want to live in cities and hate cities, yet expect to have all the amenities cities offer, including water, sewer, transit.
Meanwhile, at the @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social facility…
Drivers see road space as being taken away from them even in projects where it clearly was not, so we might as well just actually do the thing they’re going to accuse us of anyways
Yup we built the surplus road space for bus lanes already, we just don't want anyone to accuse us of a "war on cars"
Meanwhile in Halifax, it takes U.S. decades to designate a few hundred metres of road space to bus lanes.
It blows my mind that with all we know about the geometry, economics and psychology involved, free street parking exists in New York City, the densest and most space-confined city in the United States.
This would be a smart and evidence-based move by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov.
Dirty business.
ughhhh, I was driving and a pedestrian was looking at their phone while crossing, so I had to lightly tap on the pedal directly below my foot and do what’s 100% expected of me by not hitting them.... and they didn’t even thank or acknowledge me. Talk about entitled.
Introducing a new cartoon project: Creativity Diagrams. Been a cartoonist for 20 years, trying (and quite often failing) to be creative. A series of cartoons on the topic in my newsletter every week.
More about it: davewalker.com/creativity/
Newsletter: diagramclub.substack.com/p/072-introd...
The result of Trump’s fundamental weakness - a fear of appointing anyone smarter than himself which is a very, very low bar.
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
It’s not wrong. #UrbanTruth
The Framing Game: Why We Call Affordable Mobility “Too Costly” While Subsidizing Cars.
medium.com/@Katja_Diehl...
"Public transit is not just a transportation service – it is an equity intervention". Excellent presentation by my colleague, friend and #DalHPRO grad Kate Macleod from March 3, 2026 @hfxgov.bsky.social public participation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMa... #EquityMatters #HealthyCommunities
Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
Budget bill gets pushback from woodlot owners
reported by Jennifer Henderson @dartjenhen.bsky.social
Floods, fires, and Fiona: the increasing cost of climate change risks will break the insurance industry
reported by Joan Baxter, @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Floods, fires, and Fiona: the increasing cost of climate change risks will break the insurance industry
reported by Joan Baxter, @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Here's the latest interview in my series on mayors of #NovaScotia. I interviewed Amery Boyer, the mayor of Annapolis Royal, the smallest municipality in the province.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/m...
Amery Boyer: Mayor of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia’s smallest municipality
The next in @suzannerent.bsky.social's series about Nova Scotia mayors
Why not?
Looks like a collision smack-dab in the middle of the MacKay, causing back-ups in both directions #HFXTraffic
Yes, it’s jealousy.
NEW: Watch our own @brenttoderian.bsky.social talk passionately about the creation of our @urbantruth.bsky.social Collective, & how @tomflood.bsky.social, @grantennis.bsky.social & Brent first teamed up but are designed to grow. “Better cities have been held back by the lies — no more.” #UrbanTruth
