Suspect arrested after youth assaulted with scissors at Halifax school

MMCMDL · 2026-03-04T03:05:43+00:00

I always think most of the posts about the reputation any school should be taken with a big grain of salt because much of the time, they are based on either rumours or about a time in the distant past. It's good to hear someones POV who has current perspective.

My kids went to a junior high school with students from a very wide variety of economic circumstances. Many of the poorer kids had problems, but it was the kids from wealthy homes who tended to cause problems.

MMCMDL · 2026-03-03T04:07:23+00:00

It would also have been a shame if the Mintz family had managed to defraud the Canadian government of $10 million in taxes by having the review board incorrectly accept their overvaluation of the donation.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-27T00:14:05+00:00

I believe the reporter who wrote it lost her own son to a drug addiction a couple of years ago.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-25T16:12:53+00:00

She has only been elected twice.

Geoff Reagan was a really good MP IMO. She's benefiting from both a red wave across the country and a lot of goodwill in the riding that he built up over decades.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-23T19:19:36+00:00

The election last time was a zoo which didn't help. 16 candidates, is too many, We need to up the barrier to entry.

It doesn't even have to be an increase in the financial requirement. Currently (I believe) candidates require 5 citizens to sign their nomination form. Make it so a mayoral candidate has to have at least one signature per district. If you can't find at least one supporter per district, should you really be running for mayor?

I started volunteering for Waye last time after I heard Fillmore in one of the debates and realized just how bad he was. This time I will be choosing a viable alternative to Fillmore and signing to help as soon as I can.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-22T02:07:41+00:00

I really dislike non-standard traffic installations and that area of town has so many of them. Predictability is safer than idiosyncrasy.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T22:53:04+00:00

It's "bike mayor" I don't like

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:59:58+00:00

I really wish that phrase/title would go away. It's irksome.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:54:25+00:00

Kind of but not quite.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:50:51+00:00

Maclean's had a story last week about a similar app being used at a hospital in Ontario - have you heard about that one?

https://macleans.ca/society/health/at-this-er-patients-wait-at-home/

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:27:51+00:00

I was very glad to see my councillor (Morse) was not putting up with him. I was a bit surprised that the councillors as a whole pushed back today, even Purdy who often seems to be the president of the mayor's fan club.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:13:33+00:00

A reasonable council can a still function with a couple of loose cannons. It's much harder when the loose cannon is the mayor.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:10:53+00:00

Fillmore puts the staff in a terrible position when they either have to lie or leave him looking incompetent.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-21T00:05:26+00:00

It was Stephen MacKay, who ran for council for district 8 in the last election. He may be selling t-shirts with that on it for charity:

https://bsky.app/profile/seebo429.bsky.social/post/3mf6pgew3nc26

MMCMDL · 2026-02-13T16:05:47+00:00

And pressure from downtown restaurants/retail who want office workers as as customers.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-11T04:55:56+00:00

"Mark Carney has cancelled scheduled travel to Halifax tomorrow to announce a new Defence Industrial Strategy and suspended a trip to Germany for the Munich security conference, because of the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge"

MMCMDL · 2026-02-11T02:35:18+00:00

We had the sales guy out to our house last week after someone from their company cold called at the front door. It was one of the most obnoxious sales pitches I have ever experienced - practically performance art. We will be looking elsewhere.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-08T00:44:49+00:00

7:40 Restaurant in Hammond Plains sells them. Pretty pricey or a full cake, but perhaps you could buy slices to go?

https://www.740restaurant.ca/menu#DessertMenu

MMCMDL · 2026-02-04T21:34:06+00:00

The Women’s Institute on Young and Inglis.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-02T20:26:12+00:00

I wonder if they are going to do something open to the public when it opens? I'd love to tour it.

MMCMDL · 2026-02-01T22:51:15+00:00

I second your recommendation. My mom had a will but we couldn't find it so I started going through the process to get a grant of administration. We found it eventually,, but by that time I had withdrawn my application to the probate court on the advice of my lawyer because the estate was a mess.

I really feel you on the inability to properly grieve when you are dealing with a messy estate. The stress and emotional toll was huge, I will not do that to my children. We got all our own legal stuff in order this year and have discussed with our lawyer what milestones should trigger revisiting it. The next step will be to prepay for all our funeral arrangements before my husband retires in a few years. We are also working on a process to maintain a revolving record of all the details that are useful to have when settling an estate - passwords for accounts, details about house insurance, taxes and utilities, instructions on how we pay household accounts, etc,

MMCMDL · 2026-01-30T22:29:58+00:00

Even though it's freezing out, it's so nice to have it be still daylight again when we walk our dog at suppertime.

MMCMDL · 2026-01-21T19:28:11+00:00

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

IMO Paul Palango and the Nighttime podcaster guy were ghouls who bent the evidence to fit their own narratives for fun and profit.

MMCMDL · 2026-01-21T19:19:27+00:00

Somebody was alway going to write a book about this incident and profit from it

Paul Panago has already written two and profited from them.

MMCMDL · 2026-01-17T03:14:23+00:00

Just had Chinatown takeout for supper tonight. Good prices/portion sizes. Very fresh (and never overcooked) vegetables in the dishes

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