James Boxall

Gotta love Canadians - this guy was greeting folks on the Halifax, Nova Scotia waterfront who were visiting from the US on cruise ships.

Trent adds that East Coast kindness.

ANALYSIS | Solving homelessness takes more than just roofs over heads | CBC News Conflict and frustration around shelters and supportive housing sites are part of the complex problem of helping people go from homeless to housed.

I don't need to read the article (but I did) to know what that image says about the state of our efforts. thanks @taryngrant.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

And worry not, I can people watch from any angle :-)

bus shelter UK

This is what I'm used to. But I guess we have a longer and larger bus history than Europe. :-)

It felt uncomfortable sitting and trying to see if bus arrived. One across street is opposite set-up. Does everyone else this?

This is why one needs to get to a doctor's office 45 min early because you cannot be sure.

Good to note. But not all are like this one. I had to sit sideways to see if the bus was coming. There's gotta be a better way, and if there is, it will be ignored as per Halifax standing orders.

And how can I be on the #4 when the #4 is in front of me?

Is this bus taking me to the twilight zone?

Tell me I'm out of touch, but shouldn't the bench and opening face the road where the stop and bus meet?

Rising costs in HRM leave many Nova Scotians choosing between heat or food, expert warns Many Nova Scotians are struggling to afford basic needs as rising taxes and utility costs push households closer to financial crisis, an insolvency expert warns.

Rising costs in HRM leave many Nova Scotians choosing between heat or food, expert warns halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/15/r...
New data shows 50 per cent of Atlantic Canadians are within $200 of not being able to pay their bills. #Occupy #NovaScotia #OccupyNS

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⚽ Match Discussion: Final match of the year for Halifax Tides as they host Ottawa Rapid FC at the Wanderers Grounds.

https://www.sixseconds.ca/nsl/matches/ho-20251015

#NSL #SixSeconds

Nope. Silly folk went for 1-800-463-4734
doesn't have the same ring to it (yeah, i dumped a pun in there)
Odd too, having lived on the Island, I know how serious they are about their tourism. Guess it all changed with the dang bridge! :-)

Ok Halifax. What say ye? I would suggest a certain cohort would know the PEI tourism number by heart due to Stompin Tom. I also recall Nan and Gran's "Bookham 5308" and then there is my first number 463-4..... So yes Virginia, we did remember numbers because we had to.

The cafe is the best place to watch people wander along the street, whether they are from here or strangers coming through the port. It's a great test to see if your human connection and intuition are still alive and not deadened by some cold screen in your hand, or some Ai telling you all is well.

He didn't know it yet but they just broke up. He thought she was following him after her public humiliation. He turned around, she was gone and hadn't been behind him for the last block.

His face tells us he will never understand.

Sometimes what seems sad is actually a moment of strength & pride.

I was writing a story and needed an image for "insanity"
and this what the search provided.

Trump says Ukraine may get Tomahawk missiles to use against Russia Ukraine wants long-range missiles to hit back at Russia - and Donald Trump says he may send Tomahawks.

One day Trump feels he is the great peacemaker, deserving of a prize, and the next...... I don't think he gets what the words "Peace Prize" really mean.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

More important is Indigenous People's Day which supplants Columbus.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Ok, would be all Canadians.
(Enjoy Columbus Day American cousins. )

Like a plane's wing, if it moves you are ok, if not....
Oh how I remember the parties pharmacy students threw.
Things were passed between floors from the balconies.
Thankfully, my long passed parents never knew how bad their good boy could be. But that was eons before Juan, 20 years before Juan! :-)

Phone # :-) cheers

There's also the length of time it has been part of the normal aspects of life. Meaning, it is a cultural feature everyone "gets."
We are new to the game. A young continent that is large and open, so that space is great for cars! Europe - mature and aged.
North American - childlike.

But I hear hip replacements are top notch in Spain..so... :-)

So true. In the end, the hip was the factor "Pre-existing" :-)

We are so much better off because of health (and newly dental) care. Not perfect, but no comparison with southern cousins.

Now...tuition? Oh how we wish for that low cost/free model. We've hit an inflection point. (It's not the first I've been through).

How Oulu became the winter cycling capital of the world Through a series of simple changes, the city of Oulu encourages its residents to cycle through the snowy winter. What can other cities learn from the pioneer of winter cycling?

"In one of Oulu's biggest schools Metsokangas, more than 90% of the children get to school by bike or on foot, according to the school's headteacher, even during the coldest winter months."

Oulu and Joensuu invested in cycling infrastructure and all-season maintenance.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I hope the ceasefire grows. My worry is the longer there is a vacuum in Gaza, with few or no international peace keepers present, then groups/gangs will fill that vacuum. No matter how bad things are, someone will take advantage of it, even if it's their own people. Time to organize was yesterday

:-) love it. I was thinking of spinning it to Schrödinger's cat but by the time I thought of it, it was dead.

To avoid numb-brain while editing, some distractions and randomness enter my mind. I write one page starting like:

Sitting on the café stool, time passed by without notice as he was staring at the wasp in the corner of the window, slowly dying, and he wondered if it knew the end had arrived.