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justip.bsky.social
Canadian by choice.📍Halifax. International in outlook. Leftie. Foodie. Queer. Multilingual. Bike person, but pedestrian at heart. Social scientist by trade. Household = me, Partner, two cats. Embracer of reality in an anti-reality world since early 2022.
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They are terrifying!
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How generous! I would definitely take you up on that.
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🤦‍♀️
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Swiped! Thank you!
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😡
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What the hell??? What is that space supposed to be for???
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Wow! Gorgeous! What sort of flower is it?
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We were there for the first time on the weekend. Good lord.
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Where is the full recording available? I missed the beginning!
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My current enemy is the little green things that the maples overhead keep spitting down. 😡
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(For the record: we don’t have any Japanese knotweed on our property, but we’re surrounded on three sides by homes where no one takes care of the yard at all, so I figure it’s only a matter of time that I’ll need to know the ways to kill it 😬)
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Noted!
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Swung by today. They are definitely well on their way to opening!
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For anyone who needs to know, here’s a paper I was referred to about how to get rid of Japanese knotweed permanently. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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As I understand it, chopping at Japanese knotweed just makes it worse. You need to poison it, and specifically during a particular window of plant growth, or else it will propagate it further.
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I would be much more willing to forgive the former sin if it weren’t for the latter one.
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The timing of all of this wasn’t fair to council (especially those not on TSC), wasn’t fair to city staff, and wasn’t fair to HRM residents as a whole. Some of these projects are 4 or more years in the making. And one of them is now potentially overturned by a partially uninformed council. 4/
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I was one of those 4000 followers, and I certainly didn't follow them for the first time since that post. Maybe they somehow automatically took on all the followers who were following the mirror from Xwitter?
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Huh. Somehow I was already following them? 🤔
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People like that often just want to vote for a nice professional person who they know personally. An organization campaign for a good young candidate could make that happen.
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Exactly. They would have to campaign hard and travel a lot, but MP candidates manage that.
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Fair. But I think a really charismatic young truly rural candidate could also oust Hendsbee.
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If you have ever appreciated having Laura White on council as someone not in her district, please don’t support this? It’s hard enough electing someone like her with the boundaries of District 7 the way they currently are.
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The actual villain of the piece is amalgamation. Full stop. It's very hard to convince rural folks that $90m for bike lanes is a reasonable use of funds when they barely have road shoulders to walk on. And Andy would rather get the votes from their rage than try to sell the actual benefit.
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That’s how it works right now.
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If you’re pleased with how your councillor voted, let them know. It’ll encourage them to stay the course the next time Fillmore tries something ridiculous.
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Or to make another analogy that works better—if Edmonton were set up as a similar “regional municipality”, its council would NEVER get anything urban accomplished. NOTHING.
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Right, the analogy doesn’t quite work—but that actually makes my point even better, doesn’t it? Our “HRM” is not an integrated unit at all, but a whole sprawling region that has such diverse needs that the non-urban areas are reluctant to fund things that nothing to do with them.
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theconversation.com/mounting-res...
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This is exactly what should happen. But if the New York City area had a “regional municipality” that extended far into rural New Jersey, it would have never passed there either.
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I read it back when we started thinking about possibly moving here!
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My least favourite councillor!
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Pleasepleaseplease let this happen
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I love this!
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This is my worry too.
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Not the worst, but these are the people who voted to revisit the Morris St project.
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They could always move it back to South! 😇
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My first engagement with council was about this project. The planned Morris infrastructure was already a big compromise. 😭 bsky.app/profile/just...
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Or he was trying to stick it to Laura White.
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Yeah, I just can’t.
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She’s my least favourite councillor. And there’s a lot of competition for that position.
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On a purely selfish basis this makes me want to cry. I need the Morris infrastructure so much!
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Nice shot! I took either the underground LRT or the tram-style-LRT most days that I was there for work between January and April of this year. The increase in ridership was palpable as compared over previous years when I lived there.
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In the Netherlands, there are few places where cars are truly banned. Instead they use engineered infrastructure to make it unpleasant to drive in the places they don’t want lots of cars. The drivers who absolutely need to be there still can, and everyone else finds another way.
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YEP.