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I love working on a university campus (that is, essentially gay Hallowe'en), because what do you mean I just parked my car next to a tiny hatchback that somehow contained a 7ft Samhain wooden staff covered in flowers and vines?

As a lifetime Freddie Mercury fan and a fair-weather Jays fan, I’m really enjoying all the Queen anthems on the Canadian broadcasts.

Whatever works for you! I cannot dream of cooking every night during the week after work so having some meals on hand is really helpful for me.

I had a pasta like that this week! Perfect time of year for it.

What are we meal prepping this week? I’m doing lasagna arriba (think tortilla and filling layered), and white bean chicken chili!

A propos of nothing, I just want people here in the Good Place to know and understand (and maybe consider?) that we have 11 universities in NS and all the Presidents there make less than 5% of the President of our power corporation.

Humans are bad at scale of numbers so I think this is important. 💕

I still love the Pit song, I’m only human.

Yummm! That sounds great!

What are we meal prepping this week? I’m doing chicken soup and sweet and sour turkey meatballs.

What in the world?! Well… good?

It really is! That’s some real incompetence in management. Whatever we need to pay folks to sail the ferries just needs to happen. I understand there is a big issue in retention.

And the bridge is closed. Absolutely unreal.

Oooof! That sounds bad. I’m sorry!

I mean, come on! It’s so cool!

I joke all the time about my beloved station-wagon that we bought the last year it was made but MY GOD do I want a friggin’ station-wagon to be designed before I buy a new car so I won’t hit anybody or have any sight line issues while driving in a city!

DM'ed you

My SIL said there was something going on in Millbrook and Facebook is saying the same. Some houses evacuated. Hopefully no one is hurt. We were trying to figure it out, too!

We are en route to Halifax inbound on the 102 and have seen twelve (twelve!) police trucks flying down the highway outbound near Stewiacke. Hope everything is okay.

Tax revenue per address by district in Halifax:

D2: $1,881
D13: $3,124
D1: $3,141
D4: $3,200
D14: $3,623
D15: $3,635
D11: $3,718
D3: $5,722
D10: $6,911
D5: $7,892
D9: $9,604
D16: $10,192
D12: $10,243
D6: $13,156
D8: $14,422
D7: $37,975

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If you give me 1 hour of your time, I'll give you 5 concrete ways you can safely intervene as a bystander if you witness hate or harassment in public spaces.

It's open to anyone, anywhere aged 12+ and cameras/mics muted, so you're never on the spot!

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fyi Nova-Scotiasky,

The IWK is conducting a survey on women's health services, including g*nder affirmation, in the Maritimes.

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We need more non-profit housing and effective rent control. As Christine Saulnier discussed with Radio Canada, new data from Statistics Canada and CMHC shows that average asking rents for Halifax increased from 43%-68% between 2019-2025, with studios increasing the second most in the country. (Picture showing row of townhouses overlaid with red arrow moving upwards)

We need more non-profit housing and effective rent control.
New data shows that average asking rents for Halifax increased from 43%-68% between 2019-2025, with studios increasing the second most in the country. Review the data: www.novascotia.ca/finance/stat...

#NSpoli #affordablehousing

For all the #Halisky twaffletwats who say oh we never see anyone using the #bikelane… last night in Halifax, my youngest was using the bike lane following the rules of the road (lots of witnesses) when a twit made a right hand turn through a bike lane & hit my kid! They are just leaving emerg…

Yeah, our latest bill makes very little sense. I need to figure out how to grieve it.

Oh, good! That’s not a bad wait, but still.

Noooo! Bad all around (no wheel puns intended).

A good way to keep protesting the Halifax mayor’s bad-faith actions (and many other things):

Ride your bike.

www.halifax.ca/home/news/ha...

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Where do you work? Where do you spend time? Pick those councilors and write to them, too.