Paul O'Connell

How safe are Halifax pedestrians? Not safe enough, according to reporting done by The Signal. Students in the news workshop put a spotlight on pedestrian fatalities in Halifax. Check out all the stories at ‘Eyes on the Road’: signalhfx.ca/series/eyes-....

Here's a project I helped edit in the news workshop at University of King's College. Lots of hard work and interesting stories here:
signalhfx.ca/series/eyes-...

Thanks, Nicole. The kids worked hard and did a great job.

This is good journalism and also done by students here in Halifax. Check it out: signalhfx.ca/halifax-pede...

Hoho!

Vandal Doughnuts in Halifax is closing.

Tourism numbers show 93 days where Halifax was 'essentially out of rooms' in 2025 Halifax's popularity as a tourist destination continued its upward trend in 2025, but there is room to grow, said Ross Jefferson, the President and CEO of Discover Halifax.

Tourism numbers show 93 days where Halifax was 'essentially out of rooms' in 2025
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14-storey tower proposed across from NSCC Akerley Campus in Dartmouth Other towers are expected to be built in this ‘open and underdeveloped’ area that lacks sewer infrastructure

New 14-storey tower proposed across from NSCC Akerley Campus in Dartmouth
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Round and round we go: Are roundabouts the intersection of the future in Halifax? Considered safer, more efficient (but not cheaper!) roundabouts are popping up throughout the city, but do they work?

Round and round we go: Are roundabouts the intersection of the future in Halifax? www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

John Semley: I’m tall and big. Does air travel really have to be so miserable for people like me? It’s enough to make you pine for the days when casual consumer aviators stretched out in coach, chain-smoking cigarettes freely as they glided around the globe.

In the @thestar.com, I weighed in on the heaviest issue of the day: airplane seats are getting too small. WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!?!?! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

'Everybody is safe' after massive fire rages through Wallace fish plant The Wallace Volunteer Fire Department was packed Monday afternoon with fish plant workers and local residents who fled a massive blaze at the community’s fish plant.

'Everybody is safe' after massive fire rages through Wallace fish plant
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Dizzy Gillespie
Ray Charles
Paul Simon
Neil Young
Leonard Cohen

Over 900 people are living in shelters in Halifax, 197 are unsheltered: point-in-time count Deep dive into homelessness in Halifax shows sharp increases and some progress

Over 900 people are living in shelters in Halifax, 197 are unsheltered: point-in-time count
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"Across Atlantic Canada, bustling newsrooms are shrinking or being shut down altogether. In August 2024, SaltWire Network, Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain, sold its more than two dozen publications to Postmedia"
Inverness Oran is a thriving local
Happy to support @halifaxexaminer.ca

According to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives the proportion of Canadians with one or no local outlets has doubled since 2008, rising from three per cent of the population to seven per cent today. signalhfx.ca/whats-left-o...

I think we'd prefer it if the Americans would go back to ignoring us, so that we could then resent that. We'd be much happier.

Dear Canada... Dear Canada... I felt compelled to do something, to make something for my country. To stick up for, and to honour it. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy,…

This is Canada. This is what we are fighting for.

We will NEVER be the 51st anything.

We have work to do. Let's do it for each other. Let's do it for our land, our water, our resources, and our history. We cannot, we will not, go down in history as anything other than Canada.

#Canada

Man who burned down White House buried in Halifax Craig Ferguson, a director of the Old Burying Ground Foundation, shares the story of Maj.-Gen. Robert Ross and how he ended up in Nova Scotia. Watch his interview with Amy Smith.

Some timely coverage of one of the Old Burying Ground's most noteworthy residents: Major General Robert Ross (with the OBGF's own Craig Ferguson @deadinhalifax.bsky.social) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

China slaps 25 per cent tariff on N.S. lobster, throwing seafood industry into turmoil Nova Scotian exporters have heard directly from buyers in China that tariff goes into effect March 20.

China slaps 25 per cent tariff on N.S. lobster, throwing seafood industry into turmoil www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

You elected him. Don't expect us to understand or make excuses for you.

Peter's on Inglis Street

Fact-checking him is pointless, since it's all lies start to finish.

Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thought about a cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale. Going to Portugal instead.

How stupid and arbitrary are Trump's mass firings at federal agencies?

A State Dept employee tells me some colleagues are racing to change their job descriptions so phrases like "transnational crime" don't get caught up in DOGE AI bots scanning for words like "trans" to fire people because "DEI."

Hey Halifax folks. If you don't have a great and urgent need to be anywhere I strongly recommend that you stay home. The streets are clear for the most part but sidewalks and parking lots are treacherous. #halisky

Fire at Bloomfield School site 'escalated quickly,' says firefighters' union | CBC News A vacant north-end Halifax building that was previously described as an "immediate safety risk" by a fire inspector caught fire early Sunday.

Fire at Bloomfield School site 'escalated quickly,' says firefighters' union

Some roads in area are closed to traffic

#NovaScotia

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Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

Sweet potato Hitler