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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 23h

@lecwhite.bsky.social do you know about this zoning quirk? That empty lot there would be an excellent place for, just eyeballing it, about 300-500 homes

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Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Evergreen.

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The ultimate version of this is to set up new buyer or new home tax credits / checks that will roughly approximate the CAPs impact and pay for it with rate increases

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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Adam (he/him) 🇨🇦 @adaminhfx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The last few times Halifax was given free money with a deadline (bike lanes, transit, windsor exchange) we blew through the deadline without even starting, got extensions out to around 8 years, still didn't manage to *START* planning before the deadline, and lost the funding.

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Chad Leddy @chadleddy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like the trivial complaints of affluent NIMBY homeowners get more coverage than the stories of people literally left homeless by the housing crisis generations of restrictive zoning rules have created

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's the press release: "Empire has agreed to formalize these measures through a consent agreement registered with the Competition Tribunal, making their commitments legally binding and enforceable." www.canada.ca/en/competiti...

canada.ca

Competition Bureau reaches agreement with Sobeys’ parent company Empire to address grocery property controls - Canada.ca

Competition Bureau reaches agreement with Sobeys’ parent company Empire to address grocery property controls September 22, 2026 – GATINEAU, QC, Competition Bureau

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This dot is on a car dealership parking lot

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BREAKING: Winnipeg just a few encampment dismantlings, arrests away from ending homelessness for good

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh god the FOIPOP part. Oh god. Oh jesus. Like, I knew it was like this, but on some level I also thought there had to be something about it that made me categorically wrong. There is not. It really is that stupid.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is Indigenous sovereignty.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 10/09/2026

Skill issue.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the city's road safety strategy is so bad! Our approach to road safety is assume that everyone makes mistakes and those mistakes can kill people Also the city, less than a page later, we can make roads safer by eliminating mistakes. NO YOU CAN'T! THE INTRO TO THIS SECTION SAYS THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

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timsplosion 🇨🇦 @timsplosion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On Mon 21st, #NSACORN is hosting a forum at the Halifax Central Library, 6pm, to push for proper enforcement of tenant protections. Right now repairs go indefinitely delayed, pests are given a quick spray with zero follow up, and HRM lacks the capacity to chase up almost any of it. #HaliSky

Poster for the "Fix Our Rentals Forum" hosted by ACORN. Location: Halifax Central Library, Lindsay Children's Room. Date: 21 September 2026. Time: 6pm.

Policy demands:
- Strengthen HRM's Building Standards by-laws to cover mould, amenities, and clear pest control protocols.
- Increase inspections and enforcement by hiring more inspectors to proactively inspect buildings.
- Make building conditions public through a color-coded grading system like Toronto's RentSafe program.
- Expand tenant education so renters know how to report through 311
- Fund a stronger program through a small annual per-unit fee paid by landlords.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The NS government has made changes to its income assistance regulations to exclude residents living in tents from getting access to the same level of financial support housed residents get. “It’s a very cruel policy decision by the province, and I think Nova Scotians will judge them accordingly.”

ctvnews.ca

N.S. government changes income assistance rules to exclude people living in tents

The Nova Scotia government has made changes to its income assistance regulations to exclude homeless residents living in tents from getting access to enhanced financial support.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just saw someone turn away and leave instead of going to Canadian Tire because of full bike parking. Empty car parking everywhere, of course

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

damn you're so right, anyway, here's 20 gazillion more dollars for suburban asphalt

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

CAP discount rate on residential properties by km from downtown (as the crow flies). The highest bin is just everything further away. r = 0.17 (association is strong at the extremes but weak in the middle - overall trend is pretty obvious, though).

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Ontario government now has an opportunity to do the funniest thing

"The legislature is free to legislate to remove a bicycle lane from a road — indeed, it may remove a road entirely — without implicating the Charter," reads the decision from three appeals court judges.

"it may remove a road entirely" is highlighted

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is my old apartment complex. Over the course of 5 years it went from a nice place to live to a hell that gave me literal hallucinations for months after I moved out. One of ACORN's rare weekend events, worth showing up for.

Poster for Nova Scotia ACORN Presents: Rotten Rentals. Award Ceremony for: Bayers Park Apartments

Join us for this very prestigious award ceremony "celebrating" Bayers Park Apartments owned by Universal Properties, for their contributions to water shut-offs, pests, mold, disrepair, and more.

WHEN: Saturday August 15th at 2PM
WHERE: 6967 & 6969 Bayers Rd

Want to nominate YOUR landlord for an award?
ACORN is calling on HRM to take real action against absentee landlords who neglect repairs and pest issues in their buildings. Tenants have a right to safe and healthy homes!

Join us on August 15th to share your landlord horror story and fight for a landlord licensing program with the TEETH to hold landlords accountable!

Contact NS ACORN at:
www.acorncanada.org
ns.lo@acorncanada.org
(902)989-4261
@novascotiaacorn

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I say this earnestly: I think the UK is doomed.

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Raccoon in the sky @seebo429.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Pedestrians should make eye contact 🙄

All black tinted windows and windshield on a white car

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

More of our urban parks should have basketball hoops. One thing I think the US does really well that we absolutely don't. I would love to see this as a possible conversation path for parking lots that don't qualify for housing intensification as well.

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Folks, you need to prepare yourself now for how you'll intervene if you see this shit happening. Don't leave it up to someone else. And if someone else steps up first, join them! Shame those racists!

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Let's play a game. Who can come up with the longest-standing example of explicitly "tactical" or "temporary" pedestrian or bike infrastructure? I'll bet we can find one over 10 years old without a permanent version in the pipeline.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There's a plant library and a normal book LFL near me. Trinket library soon too. These things rule. I think there's potential for this kind of thinking to also broaden its scope to integrating with homes, as well, making it more personal and facilitate community bonding & valuing your neighbours.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There is a 3 bike queue for the Quinpool Superstore bike parking

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Charges dropped. Cops hit a guy with a car and his charges have since been dropped. Definitely worth wrecking a cop car and setting the city up for a huge lawsuit. High fives all around.

ctvnews.ca

Halifax police hit suspect on bicycle with car, crash into power pole

A Halifax Regional Police (HRP) car collided with a fleeing suspect and crashed into a telephone pole in the north end Sunday.

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Below those weird stairs lies one of downtown Halifax's lesser-known attractions, the Barrington Street grease drums

Ben poses in a damp corner next to several blue barrels and a shopping cart with trash in it. There is a sign on the concrete wall that says "GREASE DRUMS" in bold, all-caps type.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just as many pedestrians as drivers on Agricola right now. Notably, it's raining.

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

ATU 508: A bus without A/C is a health and safety issue. Call 311 every single time you ride a bus with no A/C, reporting the bus number on the front. Every call demands accountability

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Before my mom died last year in Montreal, these increasingly hot days in the city always made me fear for her life. 45 degrees will kill many people. Those deaths are one of many prices of our continued climate inaction (many of which we dont even understand yet), despite knowing what we should do.

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy Three Corporations in a Trenchcoat Day

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“It turns out when people have to pay the true cost of suburban sprawl themselves they don’t think it’s worth it”

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It turns out that rich suburban neighbourhoods actually prefer to not pay for their streets to be paved. Therefore I suggest we do not pave their streets. Simple as that.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Mass of this Critical Mass is looking not super Critical right now 😭 If you happen to see this before we're done, please show up!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Humans are incredibly visual learners and we aren’t good at turning abstract concepts into concrete comprehension. You can take a photo of someone being dragged to a concentration camp and it’s powerful, but it doesn’t capture the full scope of the crisis, right?

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Other channels won't hang out on one of the quietest streets in the region to count traffic during rush hour. But HFX By Bike is just Built Different.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Why are car drivers worthy of having their system costs covered by the province but ferry passengers are not?"

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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm not sure 'tackle" and "homeless" should be in the same sentence as often as they are

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Covid-cautious queers of Halifax: I'm hosting this Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Mask4Mask at the end of the month. No prior experience with Wikipedia editing is necessary – bring yourself and a laptop. See mask4mask_queers_hfx on Instagram for details (or DM me)!

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Bartek Ciszkowski @justbartek.ca · 16/06/2026

For those in #BikeHfx curious about the multi use path adjacent to Commons skate park — is fully blocked off at the moment, no reasonable or marked detour yet. So many signs!

A construction fence with multiple PATH CLOSED and NO TRESPASSING signs

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left-shark politics @andrewctenor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

To accommodate playtime for billionaires, public services will pause daily

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Is there any way to get off the damn Rogers telemarketing spam call list? I get called several times per day from all different numbers, all Rogers cold-call telemarketing. Telling them to take me off their list doesn't work. Doesn't this break some kind of law? Should I talk to a lawyer?

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KirbyCub @kirbycubns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Like This: Swapped B and C, B = Beach

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