I'll take a look next time! I've been buying "Cabbage Patch Kimchi" at the Windsor St Sobeys which is local.
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I'll take a look next time! I've been buying "Cabbage Patch Kimchi" at the Windsor St Sobeys which is local.
I live in the West End. Since all the Asian groceries on Quinpool (Taishan, M&Y, Ocomart) closed in the past 1-2 years I've tried to divert my spending to Heiwa (Chebucto Road) which is nice (but small).
I will miss their expansive sauce aisle
Exterior of a Chinese supermarket in a strip mall in the Bayers Lake business park in suburban Halifax
The interior of Union Foodmart, devoid of people and with mostly empty shelving
Union Foodmart in Bayers Lake closed for good this week. The store in Dartmouth (Wyse Road) remains open.
Yeah, cool, so a short 🧵 about Halifax's finances.
Right now, after 14 or so year of taxes Halifax is at the precipice of a debt crisis which has the genuine potential to be destabilizing to our government. Most likely reforms instead of revolution but destabilizing none the less.
Why now?
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Nova Scotia estimates are also less certain this week, because the province has not reported waste water data to PHAC since mid-January.
I’m really impressed with all the HaliSky folks who’ve come together to advocate for fiscal sustainability in Halifax.
Unlike the astroturf landlord group with their clickbait facebook survey, we now have a website with facts & tools for folks to contact council. Send those emails!
#TaxMeDaddy
I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.
30+ residents of @hfxgov.bsky.social have been killed or seriously injured on our roads since the current Council was elected (publicly reported cases). We are @visionzerokh.bsky.social & we are calling on our councillors to increase, not cut, road safety budgets 1/2 drive.google.com/file/d/1vQAw...
Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.
All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?
$300 million.
Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?
How important are local government housing policies?
They’re crucial.
Saanich and Oak Bay exist in the same economy as Victoria and Esquimalt. There’s no shortage of housing need.
The only reason they built so much less housing is because local policies prevented it
À scathing indictment of these budget cuts from a former colleague. An Open Letter to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Hants East MLA John A. MacDonald www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/a...
Great letter from Dr. Filiatrault on clean air and need for respiratory protection in hospitals.
montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...
There used to be a guy on Harvard Street who regularly pelted the surrounding houses with potatoes and fruit. that's the last time I saw the neighbourhood in such disharmony.
An early 3D render of the proposed Harvard-Allan street diagonal diverter in Halifax, with a small traffic island in the middle of the intersection. There is a traffic sign (and bollards) within the island.
I think your initial assumption is correct. I believe those plastic bollards are already the emergency vehicle friendly design, in that emergency vehicles can just drive over them if needed.
The original design had a fixed island in the middle:
Not that I know of. But if this continues, I think the Cycling Lobby™ should ask the city to augment the diverter in such a way that it can't be driven over, as was originally intended:
The people who took HRM to court cited supposed delays for emergency vehicles as the "most detrimental" consequence of the proposed diverter. They lost, but the city redesigned the diverter to allow for emergency vehicle passage anyway, and this is the result.
We taught Halifax drivers that they need only ignore the rules and the city will back down from anything that challenges the dominance of cars.
People keep trashing Halifax's first diagonal diverter at Harvard and Allan streets. My friend encountered the same thing yesterday:
While all these cuts are horrifying, I want to be clear that, at the moment, these are PROPOSED cuts. There’s still time to your voice heard. Call or email your MLA. Call or email Tim Houston’s office. Call or email the Ministers related to the cuts you’re most angry about. See below for contacts.
"What we see here is the natural instinct of municipal government finance: pull up the ladder and gouge the young. Anything to avoid raising property taxes."
Advocacy group expresses concerns about Nova Scotia Health chatbot
"I think that we’re going through a real hype cycle of ‘We’ll just slap a chatbot interface in the corner.’ And I don’t think that’s necessary, and I think that more care should be given,” Sabrina Gannon told me in an interview.
Free parking, remove tolls, back to work orders, remove student transit passes.
What... what would you do differently if you were the province and wanted to create the maximum amount of traffic humanly possible?
Sigh...
Advocacy group expresses concerns about Nova Scotia Health chatbot
reported by @dentremy.bsky.social
Thank you to @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social for bringing Nova Scotia Health's AI chatbot to our attention a while back, and to @dentremy.bsky.social for this comprehensive story:
"Handyside questioned why HRM appears to be doing nothing to hold the developer accountable."
so, they couldn't put a bike lane on Morris because of "concerns" about emergency vehicle access yet no one's doing anything about this?
HRM allows developer Francis Fares to flout occupancy rule at King’s Wharf
reported by Jennifer Henderson, @dartjenhen.bsky.social
A 1970s report on a desk. The yellow-green cover has an illustration of a proposed development on a hillside in Halifax, Canada, comprising numerous terraces of townhouses and a few apartment towers. The report is titled "Cowie Hill: A report on planning and engineering design considerations related to proposed residential subdivision". The bottom of the cover says: "for Centennial Properties Halifax. Research Planning Consulants, 100 Oxford Street Toronto 2b. Marshall Macklin Monaghan. 1480 Don Mills Road. Don Mills, Ontario."
A 1970s illustration of townhouses and a rectilinear apartment tower in the proposed Cowie Hill development in Halifax, Canada. It shows attractively landscaped pedestrian ways meandering through the townhouse blocks.
I love old report covers. I came across this one at the municipal archives yesterday.
I pointed out the former location of Reflections when Rodney and I walked past it (on Sackville St). It seems to be a parking garage entrance now.
