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Sara F.L. Kirk
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Health Promotion Prof @dalhousie.bsky.social‬. Posting mainly about pop health, climate anxiety & advocacy for safe streets. UK export now physically located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Volunteer board member of @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. She/her.
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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · Nov 11
Thought I'd better crack on with a pinned intro. I'm an applied health researcher, using primarily qualitative methods & focus on how policies & environments shape health behaviours like healthy eating & active living. I ❤️ bikes & volunteer with Velo Canada Bikes to promote a #BikeFriendlyCanada 🚲
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 2h
The federal NDP need a leader from the working class. The party long ago lost its connections to working people. There’s a lot of elitism on the left and we keep putting faith in leaders who don’t get it.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d
Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.
A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.
www.bloomberg.com
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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 17h
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 20h
This one made it to Halifax reddit too

www.reddit.com/r/halifax/s/...
From the halifax community on Reddit: Not a single day without seeing complete morons on the roads of HRM
Explore this post and more from the halifax community
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 16h
Walking is healthy apparently
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 20h
This one made it to Halifax reddit too

www.reddit.com/r/halifax/s/...
From the halifax community on Reddit: Not a single day without seeing complete morons on the roads of HRM
Explore this post and more from the halifax community
www.reddit.com
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 3h
there are results of the evaluation but I haven't seen them disclosed at any TSC meeting. Have you @landofsticks.bsky.social ?
Ditto with the leading pedestrian interval pilot

www.halifax.ca/home/news/sa...
Safety upgrades coming to 65 intersections
The Halifax Regional Municipality is upgrading 65 intersections across the municipality to high-visibility zebra crosswalks. The crosswalk upgrades are part of an overall goal to adapt all signalized ...
www.halifax.ca
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 3h
So they did a pilot, but then they never publicly discussed the results of the pilot?
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 3h
From my councillors newsletter. Information on the results of the 2022 pilot program for "high visibility crosswalks" is not referenced or is anywhere in the public domain, to my knowledge
www.facebook.com/MorseDistric...
NEW ZEBRA CROSSINGS; COMMENT ON REGIONAL PLAN; DUTCH VILLAGE ROAD UPDATE; HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS BETTER CROSSWALKS You may have noticed three intersections in our district now have high visibility crosswalks. They are located in Fairview (at Main and Titus), in Clayton Park (at Lacewood and Bayview) and in Rockingham (at Castle Hill and Kearney Lake Road). These crosswalks are painted in a "zebra pattern" with reflective paint to provide more visibility and safety for pedestrians. In total HRM traffic safety staff selected 65 intersections for zebra crossing treatment across the municipality. High traffic intersections, intersections with a history of collisions, and intersections near schools were considered. Regional Council earmarked and approved funding for this project last spring.
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 3h
we're commencing the most dangerous time of year for pedestrians and our municipality continues to focus on paint as a solution. Email to leadership requesting urgent action to address systemic harm that we have chosen not to address

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Paint is no solution to a road safety crisis
Dear Councillors Morse, Austin and White, I would like you to respond to this email and request please. Laura, I am copying you in as an established road safety advocate. Sam, I am copying you in you...
docs.google.com
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d
Let’s pass the HELLNo Act

Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
Let's pass the HELLNo Act - Halifax Examiner
Enough with using the names of laws for sloganeering.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 1d
#IdeasAtWork

What would happen if Toronto prioritized reducing car trips?
To strengthen #TransformTO To bolster #VisionZero To ease the financial burden on #TOpoli’s maintenance budget to repair our streets.
What might that look like? Do we have politicians & the #PoliticalWill to make it happen?
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d
since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...
Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates
Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d
Monday's podcast episode is out now for subscribers
🎧Ticking boxes until the end of the world(🔒)
A council recap
www.grandparade.news
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1d
open.substack.com/pub/thegrand...
🎧Ticking boxes until the end of the world(🔒)
A council recap
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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 19h
Interesting that uni arts is still down. It’s been counting in the 100’s every time I passed by it this week. Pretty impressive given the number of cars that park there!
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Scott McMillan @scotthfx.bsky.social · 1d
Heads up #BikeHFX , the BLT is closed after the Cranberry Lake Bridge for trail repairs. It looks as though they are grading it and fixing the potholes along that section
A temporary construction fence across a gravel trail hust ahead of a wooden bridge with four signs reading "TRAIL CLOSED FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS "
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 22h
“buried in the modelling results” of the LinkNS report is “that even if the government pulled off its fantasy plan, congestion would still get worse.”

“There is simply no plan to keep Halifax moving, but the premier would rather distract you with a bike lane drama to distract from his inaction.”
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.
www.saltwire.com
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 20h
All the people suddenly sending me "letters to the editor" about the same subject are demonstrating that they don't read the Examiner enough to know that we don't publish letters to the editor, and that there is a coordinated campaign.
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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 19h
Classic #ZeroVisionHFX
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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 1d
the affordability gaps, graphed:
A series of graphs from an October 2, 2025 report titled "House Price Assessment – Update" published by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The figure has 12 panels each showing affordable and average house prices at a monthly frequency from January 2015 to August 2025 in CMAs and in Canada (national level). In each panel, the y-axis represents house prices and the x-axis represents the month. From 2015 to 2020, affordable house prices remain relatively flat or rise gradually in all jurisdictions. Affordable prices then fall sharply in 2022 but begin to recover steadily in 2024 and 2025. Trends in average house prices diverge across different CMAs: In Edmonton and Winnipeg, house prices remain relatively close to affordable levels from 2015 to 2025. In Calgary, Halifax, Montréal and Québec, average prices rise above affordable levels between 2020 and 2022 and remain persistently higher afterwards. In Hamilton, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Canada (national), average prices follow an increasing trend and rise above affordable prices. Average prices peak in early 2022 before falling slightly but stabilizing above affordable prices.
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ISBNPA @isbnpa.bsky.social · 1d
New #IJBNPA systematic review and meta-analysis examined the effectiveness of mobile apps in promoting healthier, more sustainable #EatingBehaviour in high-income countries! #Nutrition
Check this out👇
https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-025-01823-7
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d
I am shocked that the President of the United States who has multiple felony convictions and is currently busy doing everything to undermine the judiciary and media in his own country while also threatening to invade Canada, Greenland and Panama did not win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rigged!
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize CO
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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 23h
Oh yes, thank you! Linking the @halifaxexaminer.ca article on that here www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
Halifax council approves motions on local street bikeways, ways to reduce congestion in Lucasville - Halifax Examiner
And Coun. Janet Steele has her say on weakening local democracy.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 23h
FFS!
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1d
Pedestrian accessibility on our most pedestrian heavy commercial streets is our passion.
Construction sign almost entirely blocking an open sidewalk.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d
We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities.

Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.
For isolated seniors, Canada Post delivers more than mail | CBC News
As the Canada Post strike hits the one-week mark, there are growing concerns for one group of Canadians who typically rely on the delivery service more than most — seniors.
www.cbc.ca
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