Deny Sullivan
@denysullivan.bsky.social
I make charts. Blogs @ deny.substack.com
Halifax
Halifax
I’m in the Grand Parade this week — about an early look at how the HAF reforms are panning out
New paper is out today!
On the front @denysullivan.bsky.social looks at the Housing Accelertor Fund and explains how council made the housing crisis worse.
On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social updates on Community Council & Advisory Ctee meetings. Public hearings = scheduled, homlessness = bad.
On the front @denysullivan.bsky.social looks at the Housing Accelertor Fund and explains how council made the housing crisis worse.
On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social updates on Community Council & Advisory Ctee meetings. Public hearings = scheduled, homlessness = bad.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m in the Grand Parade this week — about an early look at how the HAF reforms are panning out
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Unintentionally[?] brutal review IMO.
Nov. 4 is the first year anniversary of this Halifax regional council meeting.
I have been trying since December to get an interview with Mayor Andy Fillmore. Three tries with no luck. But I wrote about reporting on Fillmore and some of his motions:
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
I have been trying since December to get an interview with Mayor Andy Fillmore. Three tries with no luck. But I wrote about reporting on Fillmore and some of his motions:
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
Going through the motions of Andy Fillmore's first year as Halifax's mayor - Halifax Examiner
While I wait for a face-to-face interview with Fillmore, here are thoughts on the last year of reporting on City Hall.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Unintentionally[?] brutal review IMO.
Good write up of Mayor Fillmore’s first year. And “good” as in it highlights the mayor’s lack of action on HRMs big issues of housing, transportation and austerity
Nov. 4 is the first year anniversary of this Halifax regional council meeting.
I have been trying since December to get an interview with Mayor Andy Fillmore. Three tries with no luck. But I wrote about reporting on Fillmore and some of his motions:
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
I have been trying since December to get an interview with Mayor Andy Fillmore. Three tries with no luck. But I wrote about reporting on Fillmore and some of his motions:
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
Going through the motions of Andy Fillmore's first year as Halifax's mayor - Halifax Examiner
While I wait for a face-to-face interview with Fillmore, here are thoughts on the last year of reporting on City Hall.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Good write up of Mayor Fillmore’s first year. And “good” as in it highlights the mayor’s lack of action on HRMs big issues of housing, transportation and austerity
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Much more housing should be permitted in Halifax's South End specifically
Oh The Urbanity: "Show me a city with a legally protected mansion district near downtown and I'll show you a city that hasn't really taken the housing crisis seriously."
Halifax:
Halifax:
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Much more housing should be permitted in Halifax's South End specifically
So much of the housing crisis stems from politicians choosing to block housing and cause huge economic and societal damage in order to avoid “an ugly change” for rich people
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So much of the housing crisis stems from politicians choosing to block housing and cause huge economic and societal damage in order to avoid “an ugly change” for rich people
Interesting piece on the stories behind CBU's international student boom
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Lobsters & Logarithms/Aragoste e logaritmi
The New Kids on the Dock/Nuove facce giovani in porto (la versione italiana segue quella in inglese)
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November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Interesting piece on the stories behind CBU's international student boom
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substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why not property taxes?
Don Drummond out with a paper calling for a tax shift to improve Canada's productivity: reductions in income tax offset by returning the GST to 7% (pdf)
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www.policyschool.ca
October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Why not property taxes?
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Hey. Hi. Hello.
In this Halloween Special , I continue HFX By Bike's annual tradition of trying to genuinely scare you using nothing but spreadsheets and graphs.
This year it's all about the city's taxes and why it feels like Halifax can never get ahead.
youtu.be/l8kCed6o4Bc
In this Halloween Special , I continue HFX By Bike's annual tradition of trying to genuinely scare you using nothing but spreadsheets and graphs.
This year it's all about the city's taxes and why it feels like Halifax can never get ahead.
youtu.be/l8kCed6o4Bc
Built To Fail
YouTube video by HFX by Bike
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October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hey. Hi. Hello.
In this Halloween Special , I continue HFX By Bike's annual tradition of trying to genuinely scare you using nothing but spreadsheets and graphs.
This year it's all about the city's taxes and why it feels like Halifax can never get ahead.
youtu.be/l8kCed6o4Bc
In this Halloween Special , I continue HFX By Bike's annual tradition of trying to genuinely scare you using nothing but spreadsheets and graphs.
This year it's all about the city's taxes and why it feels like Halifax can never get ahead.
youtu.be/l8kCed6o4Bc
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Do young people face higher shelter costs than their older compatriots? @lausterna.bsky.social and I look into this question and the underlying mechanisms that can lead to age disparities in shelter costs.
Age Disparity in Shelter Cost per Room – Mountain Doodles
Housing sometimes feels like a generational issue – because it is.
doodles.mountainmath.ca
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Do young people face higher shelter costs than their older compatriots? @lausterna.bsky.social and I look into this question and the underlying mechanisms that can lead to age disparities in shelter costs.
Not Just Bikes on the Ocean! 😬
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This Train Just Keeps Getting Worse 😢 (VIA Rail "The Ocean")
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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October 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not Just Bikes on the Ocean! 😬
youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc?...
youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc?...
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Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
Good piece. I would like to hear Frank Palermo’s take on what parts of Halifax’s heritage were protected by ER-1 zoning (which he defended during HAF)
‘This is a special, important, significant place’: Protesters march for heritage in Halifax
Story by me
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
Story by me
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
'This is a special, important, significant place': Protesters march for heritage in Halifax - Halifax Examiner
Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia wants province to amend Heritage Property Act to save buildings from demolition.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good piece. I would like to hear Frank Palermo’s take on what parts of Halifax’s heritage were protected by ER-1 zoning (which he defended during HAF)
Always disappointing to see urgent calls for climate action - and then equivocating on natural gas, even as it has clearly cut emissions in other places and can work very well in a renewable buildout. We still burn COAL. Smells to me like the ideological crusade trumps the climate concern
Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it
commentary by @joanbaxter.bsky.social
commentary by @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it - Halifax Examiner
Not even a year into his second mandate as premier, Houston is proving himself to be yesterday’s man, surrounded by yes-men with yesterday’s plans, which weaken democracy and spell climate and environ...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Always disappointing to see urgent calls for climate action - and then equivocating on natural gas, even as it has clearly cut emissions in other places and can work very well in a renewable buildout. We still burn COAL. Smells to me like the ideological crusade trumps the climate concern
One year since Mayor Andy Fillmore’s election. What has been accomplished?
-Useless debates about bike lanes 🚲
-Grovelling for Strong mayor powers ✊
-Nothing on enabling more housing 🏡
-Useless debates about bike lanes 🚲
-Grovelling for Strong mayor powers ✊
-Nothing on enabling more housing 🏡
October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One year since Mayor Andy Fillmore’s election. What has been accomplished?
-Useless debates about bike lanes 🚲
-Grovelling for Strong mayor powers ✊
-Nothing on enabling more housing 🏡
-Useless debates about bike lanes 🚲
-Grovelling for Strong mayor powers ✊
-Nothing on enabling more housing 🏡
Would love to see this for Canada
Great chart here from @resfoundation.bsky.social on housing costs by square metre by age. Britain's problems with Nimbyism and the planning system in a nutshell.
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Would love to see this for Canada
New blog - on the stunning reversal going on at CBU
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Enrolment collapse at Cape Breton University
International student cap brings enrolment back towards 2020 levels
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October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New blog - on the stunning reversal going on at CBU
open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/e...
open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/e...
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"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"
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Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.
bit.ly
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock
An extremely well placed right of way through the South End (rail cut) sends off one train a day to Ontario/Quebec
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An extremely well placed right of way through the South End (rail cut) sends off one train a day to Ontario/Quebec
10% increase in traffic on already congested bridges.
If you hate traffic, this has added over 10,000 vehicles per day, vehicles that clogging up the roads. Vehicles that *literally* weren’t willing to pay $1 to make their trip
If you hate traffic, this has added over 10,000 vehicles per day, vehicles that clogging up the roads. Vehicles that *literally* weren’t willing to pay $1 to make their trip
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
10% increase in traffic on already congested bridges.
If you hate traffic, this has added over 10,000 vehicles per day, vehicles that clogging up the roads. Vehicles that *literally* weren’t willing to pay $1 to make their trip
If you hate traffic, this has added over 10,000 vehicles per day, vehicles that clogging up the roads. Vehicles that *literally* weren’t willing to pay $1 to make their trip