10,000 extra per day, flowing though the peninsula. This really was a boondoggle mistake.
11.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@stephaniedomet.bsky.social
Writer, recovering journalist, co-founder of AfterWords Literary Festival. In Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki. I sew my wardrobe and will meet you at the farmers’ market if you’re lucky.
10,000 extra per day, flowing though the peninsula. This really was a boondoggle mistake.
11.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"The fact that more folks are using the bridges now that they are “free” should not come as a surprise. In fact, it is consistent with research I conducted on exactly this topic, about what happens when tolls are implemented (and eliminated)"
11.10.2025 12:56 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"
11.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
10.10.2025 01:23 — 👍 10988 🔁 3194 💬 96 📌 232Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Pro-genocide, anti-Irish nonsense from the Carney government.
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Also, maybe regional council should have taken residents concerns more seriously before throwing $50,000 at this event, which will have negligible benefits for tourism, and helps sportswash a genocide.
09.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Screaming into the void, but here goes: Growing inequality of wealth is destroying living standards and changing the job landscape for young people. Not immigrants, not temporary foreign workers.
07.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 188 🔁 43 💬 7 📌 2Don’t let them get away with scapegoating newcomers
06.09.2025 21:29 — 👍 155 🔁 72 💬 2 📌 7I think all companies should be worker-owned and run.
The employees should vote every year or two for a new CEO, and candidates should include anyone who's worked at the company for at least three years.
The CEO should be the person with a plan to keep the company profitable, ethical and humane.
Here's the story on what happened at the town hall in Cole Harbour last night when #Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore ended the meeting early and left out a side door.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people
26.08.2025 09:57 — 👍 2230 🔁 690 💬 17 📌 7A one-page statement with the header 'CJJP, Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine' followed by 'Our Statement on the Targeted Killing of Journalists in Gaza by Israel, Monday August 25, 2025'
🚨 Israel has just killed five more journalists in Gaza. 🚨
We call on Canada, a founding member of the Media Freedom Coalition, to fulfill its obligations under international law. The only way is a full two way arms embargo and sanctions against Israel now
#cdnmedia #cdnpoli
The mayor of Halifax when faced with…..the people of Halifax:
25.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 59 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 2Forever aggrieved to be living in Andy Fillmore’s Halifax.
25.08.2025 23:53 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Since the AI discourse is evergreen:
You are losing far more than you gain with AI writing. You are losing your ability to create, to imagine. You are losing valuable skill experience that could improve your work down the line. You are losing community. You are losing marketing opportunities.
I'd rather have a water bomber than a police tank.
13.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 228 🔁 61 💬 8 📌 8The concept of weekend hours for a public transportation service shows that it was designed by old white guys (who probably lived just outside the city).
Halifax continues to fail its population 🤦♀️
End weekend and holiday hours @Halifax
the myth of "we can't afford to reduce crashes"
We cannot afford not to.
Bike lanes are just an excuse. Our local democracy is under attack. With Fillmore's track record, he hasn't earned our trust to be given more power.
Local Democracy works!
Write the mayor, the premier, your councillor and MLA.
My PC MLA says that 70% of the emails the NSPC have received have been opposed to bike lanes (and that those emails are factoring hugely into their decisions). Please email the province!!
31.07.2025 23:10 — 👍 47 🔁 20 💬 14 📌 3Powerful work assembling the facts and voices and making the case--that Trump indeed has a great deal to hide.
29.07.2025 00:57 — 👍 732 🔁 235 💬 8 📌 3“I think it's always unfortunate when people spread misinformation, particularly someone who's supposed to be a trusted public figure. It confuses the public. And I think it drives polarization and really does a disservice to the governance of our city."
- Councillor Patty Cuttell on the Mayor
Want to see Canada make real progress on TRC Calls to Action?
Still waiting for Proportional Representation?
Think we should have UBI instead of $150B extra for the military?
Here's a great way to quietly make your voice heard! Takes 5 minutes, every question has a write-in option.
Sigh.
17.07.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trucks to and from the port do not use Morris Street.
17.07.2025 12:27 — 👍 64 🔁 19 💬 14 📌 0Premier Tim Houston is a micromanager. That’s not leadership.
17.07.2025 12:24 — 👍 63 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0Yes, and even the mayor doesn’t/shouldn’t have the power to override the duly elected council!
17.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Where is the JRTA? Where is the funding for BRT? Why are government workers going into the office every day? Why do we have staffing issues for transit? Why are we spending 1B$ on highways?
If Timmy cared about congestion, there are countless ways he could stay in his lane and make a difference