FamilySOS lost 100% of their provincial funding, funding they used for their Family Support Program. 8/10 families using this program were referred by CPS, the NS justice system, the IWK, or SchoolsPlus. This government seems to have no idea what they’re doing.
Neighbor told me that seeing me bike to work last week inspired her to start riding again!
🚲 It's like the opposite of the broken window theory. Ride, and others will join! #BikeTO
Screenshot of a news article from The Post titled “Repeatedly getting Covid doesn’t build immunity, ‘it’s more like accumulating damage’,” written by Melanie Earley of RNZ and dated March 10, 2026. Below the headline is a portrait of leading vaccinologist and associate professor Dr Helen Petousis-Harris, shown facing the camera against a dark background. The article discusses how repeated COVID-19 infections may cause cumulative harm rather than building lasting immunity.
"Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on overall health."
"What many people don't realise is that getting COVID repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.
Source: archive.md/Qsv13
Tony Mancini’s “we don’t make fleet beg for fuel, so we shouldn’t make the libraries beg for their collections” line has been stuck in my head.
Buying less single-use fuel was in no way shape or form up for discussion in all those austerity talks.
Halifax city government is decidedly not real. Not only does the province not let Halifax set its own speed limits, a bill last year gave them power over transportation, and a bill they’re trying to pass now would give the province more power over land use, and decision-making power over sprawl
“Last year, at Christmastime, Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore gave councillors copies of a self-help book”
WTF
I made a short video explainer of the Allen-Oak diverter debacle.
A case study of #CarBrain & driver entitlement. Of political pussyfooting. If infrastructure only works when drivers choose to follow the rules, it’s not safe infrastructure #ZeroVisionHFX #SafeStreets urbanists.video/w/jSp8sSpyiX...
Local news outlet: Young people aren't buying cars, and it's not for the reason you think.
Me: Is it because they can't afford them?
Local news outlet: It's because they can't afford them.
Some countries without huge oil production have learned they can insulate themselves from oil shocks by relying on the energy they have…
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Do you have ideas on how we could improve sharing information about our accessibility policies and features, as well as programs, routes and schedules?
Give us your feedback by completing the survey before March 16 at: engagehalifax.ca/talktransit
The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs
Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT
A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer
Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡
This Conservative government is starting to look and sound more like MAGA Republicans every day. Privatizing jails instead of fixing the social safety net is a classic American Republican staple we don't need here. #nspoli #novascotia #peopleoverprofit www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
March 15, 2026 is International Long COVID Awareness Day!
One of many many events includes lighting up buildings, monuments and other landmarks around the world with teal and grey lights!
Here is a list of known locations around the world:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Icy Conditions reported on HWY 101 inbound before Mt Uniacke (exit 3)
That's causing issues/back-ups on the 101 inbound RN
One caller said there were Emergency Crews on the scene there..
And another caller say it's slick on the ramp from Mt Uniacke to HWY 101 #HFXTraffic
Very happy to share @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social Jillian’s wonderful piece of writing.
Covid causes lasting immune dysregulation.
“… findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise. The sustained subnormal lymphocytes… highlight a key immunologic feature of long COVID & underscore the need for personalized care.”
historical oil demand vs secnarios
On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts
First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility
On call today seeing a ++HIGH risk patient.
Me: You have COVID-19
Patient: I thought that was over.
Me: It's not.
A blue t-shirt that says tax me daddy proud supporter of public services in yellow text
Tax Me Daddy update!
We sold 49 t-shirts! And thanks to @hfxshippingnews.bsky.social providing the shirts at cost and volunteering their labour AND a donor matching every dollar raised we were able to raise $1750 for African Nova Scotian Road to Economic Prosperity anseconomicprosperity.com
"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...
So, this Brandon Blades used the below photo from a story about the "special interests" rally I reported on March 5, 2025 and used it in a Facebook post he wrote last week.
We politely asked him to at least give us credit and then he blocked me.
Graphic for March 8th International Women’s Day. The Long Covid SOS logo appears at the top in awareness day colours. Beneath it, “March 8th International Women’s Day” in teal and underneath in a lighter teal shade “Women living with Long Covid and other invisible illnesses deserve to be heard, believed and supported” “No more gaslighting” in orange italics. At the bottom the image shows layered silhouettes of diverse women in profile, in different colours and hairstyles to represent solidarity and shared experience. A faint lifering motif from the Long Covid SOS logo forms the background. And at the bottom left text reads “#IWD2026”
Women are too often dismissed when it comes to their health told it’s “anxiety”, “your age” or “all tests are normal”
#LongCovid is following a pattern many women already know. Women living with Long Covid deserve to be heard, believed and supported.
#IWD2026 #NoMoreGaslighting
For every woman in the #ME & #LC community on #InternationalWomensDay
Endless gratitude to every one of you for your courage, strength, compassion & resilience
We're suffering due to widespread medical misogyny &
our resistance will change how medicine treats women everywhere💙
The service of reflection at St James's University Hospital gave local staff, patients and families a chance to "reflect on the sacrifices made" and recognise the ongoing impact of those living with long Covid. There are an estimated 1.9 million people in the UK living with long Covid, a condition that has more than 200 symptoms with no cure. Fran Haddock has had long Covid for three years and said there needs to be more awareness for those "living in this complete limbo". Haddock, 35, said: "I'm still seeing new people getting long Covid and entering the long Covid community now. "People are still getting sick long-term, like me with no treatment or cure and not knowing what my future holds."
#LongCovid
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bar chart of bikes counted for week 9 over last 8 years. The most recent year had 3,357 bikes counted, 5% fewer than the previous year.
Chart with line per year's total count by week for recent years
Previous year counts for week 9:
2026: 3,357
2025: 3,554
2024: 4,413
2023: 2,530
2022: 2,317
2021: 2,390
2020: 461
2019: 178
Congrats to everyone for that epically unserious debate about “quiet quitting” and how nO oNe wAnTs tO wOrK aNyMoRe and structural unemployment v2.0 during the raging global pandemic. Looking forward to doing that again during the next global economic crisis.
1) 🇩🇪 This German study will test the feasibility of home-based diagnostics in patients with severe and very severe ME/CFS (Bell score < 30).
They plan to take blood and saliva samples, questionnaires and measurements such as ECG, ultrasound, pupillary responses, HRV, etc.
Today we have a brand new student blog post on my class blog! This one is written by Justine C, who wrote a fascinating summary on Toxoplasma gondii. Want to know more about this fascinating pathogen and its relationship to your cat? Click below!
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Do you have ideas on how we could improve sharing information about our accessibility policies and features, as well as programs, routes and schedules?
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