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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 2d

What is up democracy super friends, it is city council day and we are doing community announcements. Fun story while we wait for the meeting to start in earnest a fun story: Today I forgot my phone on my bike. When I came back into city hall the commissionnaires tried to wave me through

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Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social · 10d

Issue 19 of the paper goes out tomorrow.

On the front Giancarlos Cininni dives into the city's 1.4 billion debt problems.

On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social explains how council has given up on Halifax Transit and road safety.

Grab it in your inbox or at Atlantic News.

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

They should put me to work on a low tech solution. i will roll big rocks in and out of the street as needed. Something something sisyphus

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

Anyway what surprised me most about this episode of the podcast was hearing a developer (Danny Chedrawe of Westwood Hills) advocate for wider sidewalks, better transit, and bike lanes. All these pictures are from a city with a third the population of Halifax, cars do not scale asmasstransitsendtweet

Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

Road space allocated in a way I didn’t know was possible tbh. That wide strip next to the sidewalk is the bike lane. And then there’s more sidewalk separating it from the road. To also make it easy to get on the bus. Cool cool cooooool. When is it our turn to be happy?

A streer with more space for pedestrians and cyclists than for cars.

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

Parking garage but it doesn’t immediately make me want to kms

A parking garage with viney plants growing up its sides.

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

Actually functional ways of keeping cars out of the street. When you want. Can we have our cake and eat it too??

A sign explaining retractable bollards (sign is in German and reads “Poller”)

Retractable bollards om a narrow road. There are many parked bicycles in the background

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

EV chargers in a neighborhood where I almost got hit by a bike several times and weaved around children playing ball in the road (both good things)

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 10d

Some things I saw walking through Heidelberg today which enhanced the impact of listening to this episode:

Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 24d

If you listened to today's podcast early, you may want to go back and listen again. There are two additions in the latter half of the show and a new, mildly traumatizing homework assignment in the intro.

The worst version of water world, a Sept 8-12 council recap

open.spotify.com

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 13d

Sometimes municipal politics makes you reapply deodorant in the city hall bathroom to cover your stress sweat
But then sometimes you are reminded you’re still in a small city and councillors will shred at the local pump track. Yay

Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 13d

Cuttell shredding

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · 20d

Water water everywhere,
And how the budget did shrink,
Water water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink

Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social · 24d

New issue out tomorrow over at Atlantic News or online at grandparade.news

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · Aug 30

Why is Brazil the only latin american country that searched it lol

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Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social · Aug 24

New paper out tomorrow.

Halifax votes to fund the Davis Cup; this one is by a new writer for Grand Parade, Giancarlos Cininni.

@joshrjhealey.bsky.social keeps gives us an update last week's stadium vote.

And @landofsticks.bsky.social explains how John Lohr is delaying housing getting built

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gas leak resolved, evac over ✌️

Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · Aug 26

Power is back on

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · Aug 26

Got a notification before the alert from signing up for the everbridge thing.

www.halifax.ca/safety-secur...

hfxALERT

hfxALERT is the municipal mass notification system keeping residents informed about urgent and non-urgent situations.

www.halifax.ca

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Antonia Z. @acbzw.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gas leak and preventative power outage for safety in Dartmouth, Albro Lake area. Evacuation in place apparently

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · Aug 20

#Halifax regional council voted in favour of $50,000 in funding for the Davis Cup. My colleague @mmughees.bsky.social is working on a story for you for tomorrow.

I'll have other stories from council as well.

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