It's like a concentration camp for grass. How do you fuck up grass no one's stepped foot on in five months? You hire a shitload of experts to consult on getting the tent people cooties out of it.
This is utter spite on the part of our muni pols and their utter bullshit on full display.
It looks like crap, nobody can use most of the pathways and wtaf #Halifax.
Today, in The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same:
A robot has replaced the person with the lawnmower on Citadel Hill National Park, but even so, it's still a Federal government gig, so one does the work and one, inset, stands there supervising.
All you have is a room that's yours. No running water. No cooking.
There's shared bathroom and kitchen. 8-15 other users of each.
Your place gets sold to some young capitalists. You're surrounded by housing for the wealthy. Nobody is making new humble accommodation like you can afford. Only destroying it.
Then the hammer drops. Fuck You time now is here at your doorstep. Here's a tent. Go far away with it.
Maybe if they sell naming rights to Victoria Park to Scotiabank and Scotiabank gives Waye Mason and Mike Savage new cars or something we can have our public park back.
God, I loathe our municipal politicians. They seem determined to make this city unlivable while constantly patting themselves on the back for what an extraordinary job they're doing.
"Spite Park", a fenced off place for garbage to blow into, is their idea of a public space.
The article that accompanies the photo - Peter Cheney, "Sex, Rugs and Boogie Vans," Globe and Mail, April 15, 2011 - includes anecdotes from the author, working as a mechanic in #Halifax in the early 80s, of installing a waterbed in one custom, "Playboy mansion" van and a casket in another, vampire-themed van.
If you have never been to #Halifax, I highly recommend it. Especially if you can go and be part of #AtlSecCon
Here is my recap of this year's awesome event.
Xitter: Why are the woke people trying to stop you looking directly at the Sun? What is it that they're hiding from us? The Sun isn't millions of miles away, everyone knows that. It's safe to stare at the Sun. I do it all the time.
Mastodon: St Mary's University Burke-Gaffney Observatory will have solar telescopes set up in the football field and will have a limited supply of eclipse viewing glasses available between 3:30 PM and 5:45 PM.
5 Apr 1695: George Savile, MP and later Marquess of #Halifax, opponent of James II, d. #otd from a rupture caused by vomiting after eating an undercooked chicken (NPG) #foodsafety
#Halifax developers aren't going to be happy until the entire peninsula is nothing but towers full of rich people and the street level is nothing but extreme wind tunnels, making for the perfect environment to keep people away, like modern moats.
I hate what this city is becoming. Latest for the chop are those charming multicolor houses hosting small shops with apartments on the 2nd floor a block from the old main branch library.
I used to call them 'Canada's best known Reggae band'... @zorrita
I've met them all several times, in #Halifax & #Toronto.
I have their early cassettes signed! Sadly Jo-Jo has passed.
I might understand, if it wasn't #HalifaxWater. They have some business model questions.. If they won't explain a slight $0.16 on the end of every bill (under TIER) than they could be pinching $16,000 per billing period in bad accounting. They charge $12 to print your bill. They just lost another CEO, they are 'bigly in debt', like Trump.
I DO NOT TRUST THEM
💥 Must-read report from Tim Bousquet on Pierre Poilievre's latest campaign rally in #Halifax.
"As #Poilievre spoke, I realized that he in fact needs lots of fact-checking.
The crowd seemed relatively healthy, relatively prosperous & to all outward appearances, #Canada has done them well, at least in comparison to most people in most places in the world.
So I wondered about their evident resentment and anger. Just how have they been wronged?"
Has anyone actually heard Conservative leader Pierre #Poilievre claim that after he's cancelled the carbon tax, Canadian consumers will see big box retailers, gas companies & grocery stores reduce their prices enough to result in significant savings?
Because that's what many of PP's #AxeTheTax rally attendees think is going to happen. 🤦 Some even think they'll be buying a house straightaway once he's elected.
Best guess for my NS Government website problem is the NS Government website has a bunch of exclusionary rules on the web server that block TOR or anything it might think is a VPN.
Since I'm not on any VPN, just plain old Bell internet in a house, and getting blocked, their exclusionary rules are broken horse shit denying me access while serving no useful purpose.
Whatever this particular change was kicked in within the past month.
Making the government website inaccessible is so on brand.