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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 3h

This cafe is being absolutely fucked by UberEats and they're on the phone trying to turn off orders to get caught up and it sounds like if UberEats is paused they won't let the cafe turn it back on.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 16h

The friends of the Halifax commons went on the Atlantic News pod and pronounced FIFA wrong.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The CAP needs to be wound down and, arguably, taxes start representing estimated costs to provide services locally.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I need to write but I want to play City of Heroes with my kid.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 29/09/2026

Based on driver behavior, I can only deduce the average driver LOVES waiting at red lights for as long as possible. They often use extra gas to get to red lights faster!

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*driver gets stuck in car traffic* *cyclist passes them* *slight break in traffic and driver hits the gas to get in front of cyclist* *driver gets stuck in car traffic* *cyclist passes them* *driver flies into a rage and blames the cyclist, obviously not the traffic or their own aggressive passing

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something you often notice when you learn a lot about things like housing and public transportation is that an inordinate amount of time get spent on things that are either not going to help in a meaningful way or might actually be counterproductive

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Get out of here optimism, council will still fuck this up.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Purdy: well I don't want to fix the cap because my district disproportionately benefits

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haligonians: keep my water rate low! Halifax Water: okay we will only do things that are absolutely mandatory Haligonians: why don't I get premium cosmetic only brush clearing services for my water rate?

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just a heads up if you've been holding on to your NS Power payments due the lack of late fees because of that security breach, late fees are back on October 1.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Neocitrin has not knocked me out and council is going in-camera so I can start the download for Transport Fever 3.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The CAP is the reason for the slow downfall of Nova Scotia cities and also the most broadly popular tax policy in the province. I love democracy.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kent says removing the CAP should be a referendum (this would likely result in keeping the CAP)

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some councillors don't even want to send the letter.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hartling: Let's not try to fix this because it's so misunderstood.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damn, even the generally solid policy people are like 'fuck fixing this with area rates or LUBs we can help with a public opinion campaign with our newsletters instead.'

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I FUCKING CALLED IT! WE'RE WRITING A LETTER INSTEAD OF USING OUR POWER TO ACHIEVE OUR DESIRED OUTCOMES. GG.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Council just absolutely refuses to use their power to fix this issue.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The province: *punching the HRM repeatedly in the kidneys* City: *Stands dumbly* Me: So, you wanna block or dodge or punch back or... anything? City: You know it's a provincial responsibility to stop punching us in the kidney. Me: ... City: ... Me: ... City: So we're gonna ask them to stop.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kent: We have no control over the cap Me: *sweating in bed, screaming incoherently*

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! It came back!!!!!!!

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We bullied the NSNDP enough that they deleted their posts. Now hopefully they come back to this file with better policy in the future.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Likewise, tax reform shifting the collection mechanism off of the general rate and towards area rates for localized services/infrastructure would largely defang the CAP: when there's no one to make up the difference, everyone just pays roughly the same rate.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Neocitrin take me now, I don't want to listen to council be dumb today.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know what staff mean, but they are wrong. The city does have jurisdiction over the CAP. They can change the LUBs to allow developments that don't qualify for the CAP. Keeping LUBs that only allow CAP'd properties to be built is a council decision to keep the CAP in place.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NSNDP could have prevented this in 2010.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's also very funny to me that the NSNDP chose today, the day when council debates the CAP, to push this messaging.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New CAO wearing Forge orange at her first meeting 🕵️

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once you start pulling on that thread you go insane. It's basically inevitable. The solutions to our problems are simple and cheap (often free!) to implement but We Just Can't Do It because they have 0% overlap with things that are popular.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am full of neocitrin and am now going to listen to council's debates from bed. I do not think I will last until the end of community announcements.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Although to be fair 10 years ago I would have laughed because back then I was much happier because I didn't understand how zoning, car dependency and the CAP created the high housing costs we are seeing today.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's also not forget the NSNDP kept the CAP in place in 2010 which is a huge factor in driving up rental costs today as renters are being forced to subsidize low density suburban and rural communities.

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 29/09/2026

[𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As an aside, it's weird that this guy chose to crash through the front doors to show his displeasure of not being able to piss instead of, oh I don't know, peeing on the front doors instead.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a stupid headline. We will pay for it. If it's public we'll pay through taxes, if it's private we'll pay some other way. But make no mistake, we are going to be the ones paying for it, not the private company.

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Fixing or replacing Halifax's MacKay bridge could cost up to $3B. Who’s paying? | CBC News

The MacKay bridge enhancement was one of three projects the province brought to the Canada Investment Summit.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lol they have no idea how they're going to pay for it. "We're going to attract private money to the project, which means it has to generate returns. One thing I'll tell you upfront, the main mechanism to generate returns is off the table" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quote from the provincial public works minister saying that the bridge will somehow be paid for but definitely not by tolls

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will not be live posting council today because I will not be live watching council today 🤒

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Katy Jean @katynotie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pick up, or at least read, my latest with @grandparade.bsky.social . It is on hometown hero Robert Ross destroying Washington and inspiring the American National Anthem. It is also likely the only time I will get to publish the words “two enthusiastic Cocks” in print.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When your KPIs are centered around number of projects and amounts spent and not actual outcomes.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly super rude of council to meet on the day Transport Fever 3 drops

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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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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a remarkably lazy argument. Subsidizing cheap gas just guarantees continued car dependency. The true financial anchor dragging down the working class is living in a society where expensive private vehicle ownership is a mandatory tax just to exist.

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