John Dale

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Obviously bsky isn't great at getting into the granular details here on that last part, but its a conversation to have.

At the very least, unlike suburban / exurban development (whose North American style, flavour and history is grounded in racism) rural and urban are interdependent among multiple lines, which should be taken into consideration when we consider taxation and spending equitably.

Regardless, rural and urban Halifax have unique needs that one-size-fits all policy cannot address. Amalgamation rarely seems to work out in canada without stripping people of local control around policy stewardship.

We also have a lot of racialized communities in rural Nova Scotia with their own rich histories of care and reciprocity. Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust working on tons of units of targeted co-op housing is one great recent example.

Reactionary politics absolutely exist in rural, but simply chalking everything up to an innate backward-ness that isn't worth dealing with is intellectually lazy and dishonest. We also have kind, well-organized people concerned with social justice and looking out for others.

"So far as the left was urban, secularist, and both contemptuous of rural ‘backwardness’ and unappreciative of country problems, the peasantry might be full of suspicion and hostility towards it.”

-Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875

Yes, but also:

93% of submissions to the BC Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee committee called for proportional representation

The results of the public consultation by BC’s Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee are in, and the feedback the committee received was overwhelmingly for proportional representation. Time for action!

www.fairvote.ca/07/10/2025/9...

A couple w's got removed! Full URL: www.ipolitics.ca/2025/10/05/c...

Good luck! I am sure you'll have proactive points.

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I'm not sure if this really 'adds' to your comment, but foreign credential recognition and barriers to settlement are huge parts of that. Immigrants are also 1.5x more likely to be entrepreneurs in Canada, which might partially be birthed from that. too.

"proportional representation advocacy is partisan" is not a take I thought I'd ever live to hear, and yet here we are. We definitely have conservative leaning people on a ballot of 200 independent candidates lol. Watching the mental gymnastics made me wince.

Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.

I feel like the chance of a potential job or opportunity dying because I speak 5 degrees more casually with people I know is low and probably a decent filter for a healthy work environment anyway.

I can't really bring myself to use LinkedIn beyond the bare minimum. I can wear a professional hat with my colleagues without hesitation, but the platform feels like a whole different corporate arena.

Everything from meetings to symposia and workshops in my network feels comparatively human.

So glad I found this-- cackling.

Perfect to measure your children's height year after year ! "You can have a cellphone when you reach John Dale, and not a candidate before!"

Honestly with the state of Guelph driving culture I think I'd be a little nervous using the turnbox!

I saw the program schedule IMMEDIATELY after my reply and thread lol. Super excited-- good luck!!! Ten minutes until I set off.

Canada’s Tech Bros Have a Plan for the Country. Too Bad a Chatbot Wrote It | The Walrus It’s ambitious, visionary, and almost entirely indistinguishable from Silicon Valley clichés

We can't even get public housing apparently without it being a sloppy AI-fueled 'public-private partnership' these days, so my hopes aren't exceptionally high in meaningful strides in data policy and related tech coming from the top: thewalrus.ca/the-tech-eli... and betakit.com/minister-of-...

Okay, I'm done. This was like the bsky equivalent of raising your hand at a conference presentation and going "its not exactly a question, but. . ." 😵

I think a lot of us have been feeling the weight of all these things recently, and it doesn't feel like an end is in sight!

Our field is relatively small… maybe there’s the space for some sort of low-input member-based co-op, self-hosted servers and maybe some auxiliary data ethics resources or something of the sort.

Its much more difficult in my professional life, though. I am more or less ‘forced’ into interacting with big tech platforms and products, and being around stuff I do NOT anywhere near my work, like AI.

moving towards a ‘dumb phone’ when most working traditional flip phones in Canada are set to be bricked with the elimination of 3G despite 4G LTE capability, changing operating systems to a Linux distro, employing open-source software alternatives when possible, joining the web revival movement, etc

Also the whole ‘dead internet theory’ that people have been talking about as of late. I’m trying to develop a general ethos around how I use tech, and its difficult to make the switch. Deleting social media apps off my phone,