Here’s the speaker of the legislature flipping off people during a vote. On TV. #nspoli

‘Becoming unlivable’: Halifax residents fleeing city due to rising housing costs - Halifax | Globalnews.ca A new report found that Halifax's average asking rental price has overtaken Ontario markets like Kingston and East York, and is now more than $200 higher than the national average.

"A new analysis from Rentals.ca found that Halifax’s average asking rental price has overtaken Ontario markets like Kingston and the East York area of Toronto."

I'm not sure people realize that over 50% of Nova Scotia's arts and culture organizations are rural. All of these cuts are going to hit rural communities so hard.

We are just going to become a playground for ultra rich people and fuck everyone else aren’t we?

'We feel betrayed': Disability community says provincial budget 'punches down' | CBC News Parents and advocates are sounding the alarm over the harm the provincial government’s proposed budget cuts will cause some of Nova Scotia’s most vulnerable.

I have no words

Where's the bee that flew into Doug Ford's mouth?

As people contact their NS MLAs about recent cuts, you should specific ask if their trying to increase out-migration. The province said they had specific population goals, but these cuts will encourage people -especially younger Nova Scotians- to leave.

I just got confirmation that Tim Houston’s PCs cut the entire Writers in the Schools program.

This man is cutting a program that lets children meet and learn from local authors (among many many other things) so he can spend $5 million teaching civil servants to use AI.

They had enough room in the budget to get rid of bridge and highway tolls but can’t afford bus passes for kids?

Woe Is My City's Budget #urbanism #finance #halifax YouTube video by HFX by Bike

This would normally be scheduled for next week, but I made a short explainer about Halifax's current budget problems and am dropping it early because the events are currently happening.

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Also, if Halifax Council cuts Sunday and holiday services.

I hate the fact that stories about this ignore that bike lane spending is $65 million out of a $3bn capital budget of which we can only actually pay for $1.8bn of $3bn before we run out of money and debt. Cutting 0.021% of the capital budget is not fiscal responsibility, it's affordability suicide.

Transit advocates decry Halifax mayor's autocentric plan to address traffic congestion by providing more space for cars

"If transit is to work it must be freed from having to compete with cars for existing road space. That means bus lanes or other forms of separated rights of way"

– February 1974

Writing to @hfxgov.bsky.social councillors feels like a full-time job these days. My email on the wrong-headed proposed cuts when there's a blindingly obvious & evidence-based solution to address budget pressures. Feel free to adapt #Halisky & #BikeHFX folks docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Halifax could never do this. Literally. We outsource both of these services so we literally cannot convert our non-existent city garbage trucks into snow plows when needed.

Where’s my Bedford fast ferry? Halifax's Mill Cove terminal delayed until 2030 $258-million Halifax rapid transit project was supposed to be up and running in 2028

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What really made me feel well-rounded were my high school extra curriculars, especially 4-H (again, rural!). Lots of emphasis on lifeskills, leadership, independence & trying new things outside of academics.

As a kid with my nose in a book, it forced me out of my shell, which helped at university!

I went to a rural high school (no IB) which I often found boring/unchallenging - when I got to university it did seem like IB kids had a leg up academically at first, mostly because they had already studied first year level subject matter.

I was very jealous when I learned about IB kids!

*stairs runners 🫠

Steel stairs going up the Niagara escarpment in Hamilton

Two way steel stairs going up the Niagara escarpment in Hamilton. There is a tire trough on each edge for rolling bikes up and down

Hamilton has 5 sets of stairs up its escarpment! Very popular among pedestrians, stair-runnere, and even cyclists (some of them have tire troughs so you can roll your bike up!)

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Me too! They do such a wonderful job of making the bike share feel like a community (I actually used their bike share, unfortunately what we have here really isn't useful/accessible to me because of where I live 🥲).

Here are the things that I think make a city child-friendly that also make the city better for everyone else:
- affordable transit coupled with parking chargers that together discourage driving, even for a family;
- parks and shade that make it pleasant and safe to get around;
- walkable schools;

I love Hamilton Bike Share so much!

a man in a pink shirt with the words my job it 's just beach on it ALT: a man in a pink shirt with the words my job it 's just beach on it

My last two posts have been about Hamilton, must redeem myself by shouting out how beautiful the Halifax public gardens are in the summer. Also this time of year in NS, my job is beach.

Craig Cassar: How To Take a Holistic Approach to City Building The Bottom-Up Revolution · Episode

Love a little Hamilton representation in the wild. In my memory, James St N art crawls are so integrated into the rhythms of the downtown core. 🔨

Halifax 🤝 Hamilton

Not an influencer per se, but beautiful lifestyle content ➡️ PEI Camera Roll on Instagram (I haven't found similar content for NS yet) www.instagram.com/peicamerarol...

Incredible!!

Fingers crossed!