Nova Scotia Alcohol Policy Coalition (NSPAC) has a few health organization members and others; they put together some resources here which includes their efforts made so far: nsalcohol.ca/alcohol-in-c...
Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds - VR exhibit by Taba Dani
my room - point and click experience by Emily Flinn
interface - interactive auditory experience by Gabriella Ciurcovich
Sonic Placemaking - experimental electronic instruments by Nicole Leroy
Stopped in at the Centre for Art Tapes for the opening night of the 38th Annual Media Arts Scholarship Exhibition! Four very cool, interactive exhibits. Recommend checking it out, on display till April 3, see link below for times:
www.cfat.ca/mas-2026
Would it matter to you if your cellphone provider were forced to preserve information about where and when you used your phone, and who you were in touch with, for possible use by police?
Why I think this new power in Bill C-22 violates the Charter:
www.robertdiab.ca/posts/metada...
Sorry that my overview of Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026) was 40+ minutes long. The second half, starting here, is what I think Canadians should understand. The open internet should not be deputized to collect more information for cops and spies. youtu.be/tZFbTYttuN8
🇨🇦 Attention Canadian COVID-aware community: Canada Surplus has several large boxes (N = 440) of 3M N95s available currently (bidding starts at $15 for the whole box + shipping). No catch.
gcsurplus.ca/mn-eng.cfm?s...
Between this and Rachel Reid’s callout of these cuts (she’s the author of Heated Rivalry), the Houston provincial government is catching so much well deserved bad PR for these arts cuts…
Also Nova Scotia punches well above its weight for creative talent holy shit!
Graphic with crowd of people in the background. Text in the foreground reads: February 4, 2026. The Todd Veinotte Show with Dan Ahlstrand. NSAB 2026: CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier on the Todd Veinotte Show. A conversation on Nova Scotia's fiscal health, what it means to have a return on investment, the housing market, and resource extraction. CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier is quoted: “For us, it really is about ensuring more Nova Scotians are benefiting from the investments–and not just the few.” The CCPA-NS logo and CityNews 95.7 logo. NSAB2026 linked at the bottom: policyalternatives.ca/NSAB2026. CCPA-NS Linktree at the bottom: linktr.ee/ccpanovascotia.
REMINDER: There are alternatives to Nova Scotia's budget.
Last month, CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier phoned into the Todd Veinotte Show to talk about the 2026 NSAB. They spoke about Nova Scotia’s fiscal health, returns on investment, the housing market, and resource extraction.
#nspoli
I can see it, but I think Mr. Burns is aspirational for him at this point so it felt too generous
Tim Houston has principal skinner vibes (derogatory)
Solidarity with everyone protesting today and continuing to push against cuts to the arts and conservation in Nova Scotia!
I think it’s similar to the “no edges vs all edges” brownie debate; smash burgers are maxed out on crispy bits!
I say this as a smash burger preferrer, but I also came up when it looked like there was a smash burger joint every block in my hometown.
"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...
You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.
- Helms Jarrell
You can impact this budget bill. Present to the Public Accounts Committee. It's your chance to tell this government face-to-face how these cruel cuts will affect you and your family.
Sign up to speak on Bill 198, the Financial Measures Act:
Call: 902-424-8941
Email: Legc.office@novascotia.ca
My official government petition to give Canadians rights over our likeness to combat deepfakes and AI companies claiming ownership of likeness is now live!
Please sign here:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#AI #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy
Remarks from @benmacleod.bsky.social at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2
So interesting point that I couldn’t help check into: for those curious / worried, I suspect the QEII’s new robot, the Intuitive da Vinci Xi, while having extremely positive mechanical benefits, is not an AI tool.
A relief if you’ve read the Reuters Article today.
U.S. Olympic men’s cross-country ski team member Ben Ogden, second from left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 5 at the competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left, Ogden’s teammates are Zak Ketterson, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)
Masked members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team pose for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 after a news conference at their competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left , Jessie Diggins, Hailey Swirbul, Sammy Smith, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe and Rosie Brennan. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)
Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.
Thank you for making it!
Two black and white zines sitting on a shelf. On the left is a larger half page zine titled "What's up with Covid and what we can do about it 2026 edition by Hazel Newlevant" and on the left is a single page minizine titled "Clean air in your school and everywhere"
Printed out some COVID mitigation zines today!
Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine
& "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
Mini-comic titled: Clean Air in Your School and Everywhere. Two masked kids in capes are flying in the air like superheroes, followed by an air-cleaner with a face, like a little robot sidekick. The comic is on a wooden table top.
Your zine inspired me to make a similar one a while back for an ongoing action to improve indoor air quality in schools. Download link here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
Posting this again because I'm printing it today and it's a really good zine and you should check it out/compensate Hazel if you can afford to do so.
I'm sure my students would LOVE your positive and constructive feedback. They would love to know that they're not screaming into the void, that people read their stuff and think it's cool, too! So I'm going to start posting my Medium blog, created specifically for this course, here.
My first post:
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a)
[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
David Lynch sitting in a chair with headphones and a bullhorn saying "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."
Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:
Also, if you'd like to assist with the archive's goal of preserving Nova Scotia video game and interactive digital arts history I have a Gofundme page. All funds go towards acquiring games and artifacts, as well as items to preserve them with.
gofund.me/11c2641e5
#NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax
Adam's work curating and archiving the Nova Scotian game dev scene, past and present, is admirable.
Check out all these new games!
a dashboard screen showing current CO₂ levels in ppm (parts per million) for 15 rooms / spaces at the Chaos Computer Club’s 39C3 conference the levels are illustrated with tachometer-style indicators that are colour-coded using standard green (good) -> yellow (medium) -> red (bad) colour scheme correlating with the ppm measured in each room the raw ppm value for each room is also visible in the middle of its respective “tachometer”
This is incredible: CCC #39C3 (hacker conference in Germany) is doing CO2 room monitoring this year just like @kawaiicon.bsky.social so attendees can assess risk!
- Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t...
- Image/alt via @itgrrl.com
- Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...
I love winter solstice. Not because it is the beginning of winter or the darkest day of the year but because from this day on, the light slowly starts to come back.
