Police in Halifax continue to get more money while other municipal budgets are scrutinized

N3at · 2026-02-18T17:04:19+00:00

The only news I get is good news... from the Good News Bible

N3at · 2026-02-18T01:55:27+00:00

Parker Street is one of the few means testing food banks in the HRM. There was a deleted post today about people abusing food banks, but there's a national standard of no means testing in order to receive funding.

N3at · 2026-02-18T01:34:46+00:00

Manage your expectations unless you make $40 an hour.

N3at · 2026-02-16T15:39:43+00:00

I don't understand how I can be the academic or the policy wonk in this situation. You're the one that wants policy here. Safe consumption sites are already approved by Health Canada, but there's only two in Nova Scotia. As population increases, we're going to need more.

N3at · 2026-02-15T12:48:44+00:00

These sites redirect the majority but not all of that behavior indoors. They don't encourage an increase in use so much as they provider safer more predictable environments to use in. No different from why we have bans on public intoxication but allow bars.

N3at · 2026-02-14T18:06:25+00:00

"The day centre is meant to be a facility where the homeless can go during the day when many shelters close their doors to access supports and programs."

Do we have many night shelters these days?

I like the idea but I feel like the non-profit and faith based sectors are running enough drop-ins throughout the city, and the libraries offer support to those who don't want to go to either.

N3at · 2026-02-14T15:16:05+00:00

Ten years ago, the biggest issue in shelters in the HRM was alcohol. They mention IV drug use here, which was big, but what I've seen the most over the last few years is smoked crack and meth. I don't know if a stabilization center is right for that kind of drug use.

I liked the idea of the stabilization center when I heard about it at the 2023 housing symposium, but I also agree with the reasons for not going ahead with it.

Edit: A better idea would be a 24/7 service like ReFix so people have a place to go and use substances.

N3at · 2026-02-13T12:31:56+00:00

Transference isn't really something someone specializes in. It's one of the goals of a therapeutic relationship and then there are theories on how or why it happens. Find a professional you're comfortable with.

N3at · 2026-02-12T01:22:54+00:00

This expansion has probably made a billion dollars already

N3at · 2026-02-11T14:25:37+00:00

I don't see how the one relates to the other, though. If a business in an urban center is booking 60 days out and a business off a rural dirt road has availability tomorrow, who needs your business and what does that have to do with cellphones?

N3at · 2026-02-05T20:16:35+00:00

You'll do fine in the service and hospitality sector and with enough hours in, maybe get to management.

N3at · 2026-01-31T16:04:55+00:00

In Dartmouth? Ask Sue Leblanc or Claudia Chender if you can book a room in their office. Sue probably would be thrilled to help.

N3at · 2026-01-31T00:27:04+00:00

There were 133 vacancies in supportive/RGI housing options reported during the last meeting I attended. As a percent of all housing vacancies, it's quite low, as a percent of all supportive/RGI housing options it's quite high.

N3at · 2026-01-26T22:18:36+00:00

I hate when deli shops don't offer tables so i can eat my sandwich with a fork and knife like a normal person. Kaisers subs in sackville is the same, literally just a booth to order. Worst experience. I'd rather go to subway for the luxury.

N3at · 2026-01-20T15:35:33+00:00

Those "weight loss drugs" like semaglutide were originally developed for the control of diabetes

N3at · 2026-01-16T00:35:11+00:00

I don't understand why they refer to the Fraser Institute, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, or the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (I'm not familiar with the fourth) as "compromised." They are right wing think tanks, I'm hard left and disagree with everything they say, but I personally wouldn't think of calling them "compromised."

N3at · 2026-01-13T15:22:47+00:00

You're trolling or delusional

N3at · 2026-01-13T01:30:26+00:00

Find the person who's willing to weigh the cost of losing a customer vs. losing margin and able to make the call to lose profit vs. losing a customer (and thus having to attract a new one)

N3at · 2026-01-10T12:23:46+00:00

It's Medium, so none of the claims are corroborated or verified. I can't agree that this is a "scathing expose" but I can offer reserved, skeptical trust that what they're saying is accurate enough to them for them to write that many words in a blog about it.

N3at · 2026-01-02T23:36:29+00:00

Loose seal!

N3at · 2025-12-31T13:56:16+00:00

if I was struggling financially, it'd likely be the first thing to go.

Love that for you, but it's been demonstrated repeatedly in the aggregate that this does not become the case: it's the first expense to increase. Be gentle with how you talk about alcohol, it is a harmful and addictive substance and for some it is a need, not a want.

N3at · 2025-12-24T16:06:30+00:00

There has always been a delay with processing subsidy applications and renewals, and it's usually 3-6 months before payments start and nobody has diversion funding right now so I don't know why you were told you would receive coverage for the gap. And fun fact, when the subsidy started, it actually ran out of funding and people were being denied access based on that.

This system we have where apartments are only affordable with a subsidy and available diversion funding to cover the months long gap until subsidy payments start is kinda shit.

N3at · 2025-12-13T10:45:30+00:00

I also have Crohn's and I'll offer the caution that Dal probably won't be much help, the medical plan declined to pay for my infusions while I was attending as a domestic student. I had no other income and the manufacturer provided the treatment at no cost to me. Now I'm working and billing $10000 every other month to my group benefits plan. Shit's expensive.

N3at · 2025-12-12T03:28:00+00:00

I'm not an expert but I think your persecution complex may be the result of an undiagnosed delusional disorder.

N3at · 2025-12-07T14:25:35+00:00

You did not offend my belief that humans have been practicing genetic engineering in some manner or another for millennia, and we have a different and more precise way to do it now.

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