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Google intentionally making its search engine worse so people spend more time on it to be served ads makes so much sense now. Google is an anti-search engine.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Paris's "Le Plan Vélo (2015-2020) doubled the length of bike paths in the city with a budget of €150 million. By 2021, Paris built over 1,000 kilometres of bike lanes. We need to review how bike lanes are built, not why they are built www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

What a headline. The AAA bike network will be finished for less than the cost of just the real estate purchases for widening Robie for one 900 meter car lane.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

I could say a lot more about why I think this project is massively delayed and over budget but I think Anika’s quote is the most important: "There's a sense of urgency here that this isn't just a feel-good thing, that this is infrastructure that is life-saving”

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Same.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

New, by me, for the Halifax Examiner: Story on the first St. Margaret's Bay Pride, and on the importance of rural pride celebrations more generally. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/equity/first...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Tabled intersections are a great design that calms speeds, demands attention, and works better for all modes.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Councillor Trish Purdy is lamenting the massive cost of the AAA bike network, $66 million. $66 million is less than the annual cost of road maintenance, but not, apparently, a massive waste of $66 million.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Oh dear, CBC Mainstreet is giving Tim Houston, premier of Canada’s Corporate Playground and big extractive industry darling, champion of drill-baby-drill, dig-baby-dig, a totally unchallenged free PR session on the air. Platforming bullshit. Hoping to hear rebuttals in days to come.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

NEW: Smith’s Separatism Talk Is A Dangerous ‘Smokescreen,’ Albertans Warn We asked 10 Albertans and Saskatchewans what they think about Smith's separatist talk. 👇 www.readthemaple.com/smiths-separ...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

one underused solid argument against a car centric culture is that many people are absolutely terrible drivers

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

Thoughts on "crisis communications" which really means now "making a bad actor look good" rather than solving an actual problem. If you want to be a leader of any kind, you have to be willing to make decisions, even when they aren't perfect, even when people won't like you for the calls you make.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

STOP PRETENDING THAT DEPORATIONS ARE EVER DONE BECAUSE OF THE PERSONAL FAILING OF AN INDIVIDUAL.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

In Morning File, stories about the Dartmouth waterfront project, Q1 results from Nova Scotia Power, gold mines in Guysborough, and birds! I wrote about a recent experience with a frustrated customer and what we can all do to be nicer to service staff. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is excellent training to learn how to stick up for service staff who are being harassed. Sign up. It’s free!

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

It sounds silly, but fixing the Brunswick Street Painted lanes (drawings released) is exciting to me personally because it means I can use the Rainnie lanes in the outbound direction (currently no way to access them).

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Actually, there is an easy answer. We need to flood the market with no-profit housing and nationalize REITs. We need to stop pretending that this issue has no obvious solutions.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

We need to shut down Zionism and Zionist influence in all institutions in Canada. There is no room in a civilized society for such a dangerous and ethno-supremacist ideology. No group should be protected from criticism if they are supporting the extermination of human beings.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Holy shit, the Board of Police Commissioners is doing due diligence. It's very boring.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This article fails to mention that congestion is the consistent imperically expected outcome of how city planners have designed and built the city.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Solidarity with the #postalworkers!

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Biking is often part of climate response and mitigation plans. Getting people out of their cars and onto bikes reduces greenhouse gas emissions and offers health benefits. connectingwithscience.org/2025/04/29/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Alt headine: JOHN DeMONT: Has anyone else noticed that everyone is using the only transportation infrastructure we build?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

i thought the whole point of electing this guy was that he wasn’t an idiot

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Microsoft is trying to convince the public there’s nothing wrong with how Israel is using its tech or the fact it’s supplying an apartheid state with that tech at all, while stifling internal dissent. Probably a good moment to remind people BDS is calling for a boycott of Game Pass.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google announcements from this week show us that the future their leaders envision of mass generative AI deployment requires total surveillance

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.

submitted 1 day ago • 468 comments

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Nearly half of British youth would rather be young in a world with no internet. It’s a damning indictment of what social media has become. As its harms continue to grow, governments need to act — but they must take the right measures instead of reaching for easy fixes.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Turns out the children’s entertainers and comedians might be the role models we need right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Hundreds attend public sessions to give feedback on Dartmouth waterfront project By @suzannerent.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You can dismiss literally everything somebody says if they believe there's a white genocide in South Africa but not a genocide in Gaza. They're decrepit, immoral lying scumbags who know they're lying and don't care.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I wonder how my downstairs neighbors would feel about this.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Times are hard. But I continue to draw strength from people who are doing good work, like Charles T. Brown. We had him on @thewaroncars.bsky.social to talk about his essential new book, Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement. thewaroncars.org/2025/05/20/e... Listen if you can.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Exactly this. I have actual great ideas 40 times a day, I don’t need artificial intelligence to spur my creativity.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Completely out of control country

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Good riddance to the slip lane at the corner of Brunswick and Sackville streets!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I'm back and I'm already VERY INCENSED about something from the National Post. This piece, with its shitty clickbait headline attacking the Canadian government's tiny pushback amid an ongoing genocide, is written by the National Post's EDITOR IN CHIEF!!! He rarely writes articles... (cont)

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments