She/her. Intervening or confounding variable? You decide.
@eastandcentralcda.bsky.social
My adulting includes wfh, books, homemade food, a house cleaner semi-monthly and knowing that small strategies have outsize benefits. Big encourager of offspring realizing their dreams.
Living where I'm not from.
1vid. Novavax & mask lover which tracks.
Living where I'm not from.
1vid. Novavax & mask lover which tracks.
My favorite Christmas movie is Death of Stalin.
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My favorite Christmas movie is Death of Stalin.
The person who used to have my home number was/is an irresponsible #NovaScotia driver who is also a serial a cellphone deadbeat. Collection calls for them. What a system.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The person who used to have my home number was/is an irresponsible #NovaScotia driver who is also a serial a cellphone deadbeat. Collection calls for them. What a system.
People in my friend circle have ideologies about how vaccines affect them personally when they get them and it is generally garbage thinking. I go silent because there is only so much time in the day to talk about such things. Like just get er done and pop some Extra Strength Tylenol is my motto.
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
People in my friend circle have ideologies about how vaccines affect them personally when they get them and it is generally garbage thinking. I go silent because there is only so much time in the day to talk about such things. Like just get er done and pop some Extra Strength Tylenol is my motto.
Austerity kills community.
I’m in council chambers now and there’s a debate about money for the skatepark in the Halifax Common. Coun. Trish Purdy said the money for the repairs to the park should be delayed. It has about two years of life left.
Councillors are debating it needs to be fixed and helps to build community.
Councillors are debating it needs to be fixed and helps to build community.
#Halifax's budget committee meets today starting at 10am. I plan on being there for a bit and will have a story or two on what happens.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Austerity kills community.
Would dissolve any vestigial people pleasing tendencies.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Would dissolve any vestigial people pleasing tendencies.
Yup
The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yup
Yeah, and social capital matters in Canada too. Things that connect people physically and socially need to be built and repaired. You know a synonym for investment is spending.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Yeah, and social capital matters in Canada too. Things that connect people physically and socially need to be built and repaired. You know a synonym for investment is spending.
Just booked my Covid and flu shots for next week!
Probably the Covid shot should be available 3 times per year. My friends in Ontario get theirs earlier as per usual.
Also, middle aged friends please think about asking your primary care for a pneumonia shot. It's a nasty complication.
Probably the Covid shot should be available 3 times per year. My friends in Ontario get theirs earlier as per usual.
Also, middle aged friends please think about asking your primary care for a pneumonia shot. It's a nasty complication.
The Covid vaccine rollout across Canada, but especially in Nova Scotia, is about administrative ease, not infection control, population health, or public health. We know there's an annual wave around September, yet nothing changes. Another year of failure.
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just booked my Covid and flu shots for next week!
Probably the Covid shot should be available 3 times per year. My friends in Ontario get theirs earlier as per usual.
Also, middle aged friends please think about asking your primary care for a pneumonia shot. It's a nasty complication.
Probably the Covid shot should be available 3 times per year. My friends in Ontario get theirs earlier as per usual.
Also, middle aged friends please think about asking your primary care for a pneumonia shot. It's a nasty complication.
Hyacinth would have been pretty shocked by the announcement of a woman as Archbishop of Canterbury. #RIPPatriciaRoutledge.
October 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hyacinth would have been pretty shocked by the announcement of a woman as Archbishop of Canterbury. #RIPPatriciaRoutledge.
I was the only one in my circle of friends to be unsuprised that one of us, a 30+ year consumer of OST intentionally left this realm last week. The OST is not a villain here as it gave him some peace but all the people trying to get him to turn his life around, get clean, were missing the point.
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I was the only one in my circle of friends to be unsuprised that one of us, a 30+ year consumer of OST intentionally left this realm last week. The OST is not a villain here as it gave him some peace but all the people trying to get him to turn his life around, get clean, were missing the point.
The really gross, disgusting people are the ones who think that because their kids are doing well the world is good enough.
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The really gross, disgusting people are the ones who think that because their kids are doing well the world is good enough.
Some things make me sad.
The properties inside the circle generate roughly half of all of HRM taxes revenue.
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Some things make me sad.
Dunno maybe I've been boycotting this my entire life.
Booze Boycott Alert! Multinational company Diageo couldn't "read the room" and have decided to move bottling of the once-iconic Canadian brand, Crown Royal, to the U.S.A., putting Canadians out of work and supporting the U.S. economy. Let's make their short-sighted decision hurt!
Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, moving operations to U.S. | Globalnews.ca
Spirits maker Diageo says it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some of the bottling volume to the U.S.
globalnews.ca
August 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Dunno maybe I've been boycotting this my entire life.
Peak #NovaScotia #ClassSystem that this exclusive club has more aquatic recreation access than the rest of the #HalifaxPeninsula put together.
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waegwoltic.ca/welcome
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August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Peak #NovaScotia #ClassSystem that this exclusive club has more aquatic recreation access than the rest of the #HalifaxPeninsula put together.
waegwoltic.ca/welcome
waegwoltic.ca/welcome
A little sad to learn that Pierre Polievre won in #Crowfoot. Hope he changes his tone and begins to act like a decent person. I fit into at least four categories of humans he rails against and he's gonna bring down morale big time.
August 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A little sad to learn that Pierre Polievre won in #Crowfoot. Hope he changes his tone and begins to act like a decent person. I fit into at least four categories of humans he rails against and he's gonna bring down morale big time.
Perhaps his event cancelation insurance only covers "physical" illness.
#SelfAwareness
#MentalHealth
#Grief
#TheWriteKindOfSickNote
#TimeOff
#SelfAwareness
#MentalHealth
#Grief
#TheWriteKindOfSickNote
#TimeOff
Jordan Pettyson's daughter announced he's on sick leave due to chronic mold illness which he picked up cleaning out his late dad's home. Mold is not good for people, I get it. Perhaps tho, he's also grieving and needs time off. Glad we're getting time off.
Where's a psychologist when you need one?
Where's a psychologist when you need one?
August 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Perhaps his event cancelation insurance only covers "physical" illness.
#SelfAwareness
#MentalHealth
#Grief
#TheWriteKindOfSickNote
#TimeOff
#SelfAwareness
#MentalHealth
#Grief
#TheWriteKindOfSickNote
#TimeOff
Jordan Pettyson's daughter announced he's on sick leave due to chronic mold illness which he picked up cleaning out his late dad's home. Mold is not good for people, I get it. Perhaps tho, he's also grieving and needs time off. Glad we're getting time off.
Where's a psychologist when you need one?
Where's a psychologist when you need one?
August 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Jordan Pettyson's daughter announced he's on sick leave due to chronic mold illness which he picked up cleaning out his late dad's home. Mold is not good for people, I get it. Perhaps tho, he's also grieving and needs time off. Glad we're getting time off.
Where's a psychologist when you need one?
Where's a psychologist when you need one?
I just want to say that most small-time landlords I know think of 30% of tenant income as a minimum when setting rents.
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I just want to say that most small-time landlords I know think of 30% of tenant income as a minimum when setting rents.
Acadia University used same stupid rationale for shutting down their pool and Canada suffers austerity goonery coast to coast.
A little over a year ago, a University of Victoria decision sent shockwaves through the South Island swimming community. Now, an Olympian questions the ballooning cost to reopen the University of Victoria pool.
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Olympian questions ballooning cost to reopen University of Victoria pool
Advocate Wayne Kelly calls UVic’s rationale ‘disingenuous’ as university cites high operation costs for shutdown
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July 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Acadia University used same stupid rationale for shutting down their pool and Canada suffers austerity goonery coast to coast.
Really glad the #DonCherry industrial complex got shut down before the Covid times.
July 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Really glad the #DonCherry industrial complex got shut down before the Covid times.
It's too many people we're losing right now.
She helped me understand Toronto.
She helped me understand Toronto.
Reading this brought me to this great piece on the Cameron House in the 80s, with Donna Lypchuk mixed in with a cast of other names that were familiar at the time. RIP. www.artoronto.ca?p=1159
July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It's too many people we're losing right now.
She helped me understand Toronto.
She helped me understand Toronto.
Why is Rex Murphy's ghost still haunting us?
Today's Cross Country Checkup in its second half will ask if there are too many bike lanes in your neighbourhood. Or too few.
July 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Why is Rex Murphy's ghost still haunting us?
When the other adult in our household is out of town, I do way more meals on repeat, focusing on protein and veg. No complaining from me about Costco chicken every day with broccoli or other green leafies. Same with leftover hamburger hash. Food prep for others is emotional labour imo.
July 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
When the other adult in our household is out of town, I do way more meals on repeat, focusing on protein and veg. No complaining from me about Costco chicken every day with broccoli or other green leafies. Same with leftover hamburger hash. Food prep for others is emotional labour imo.
Women and their pets as social universes:
A near BFF let some recently separated jerk infiltrate her home. The legal expenses to get him out before the common law date and to repatriate HER money + the social isolation of embarrassment.
Way costlier than the costliest pet.
So there's that.
A near BFF let some recently separated jerk infiltrate her home. The legal expenses to get him out before the common law date and to repatriate HER money + the social isolation of embarrassment.
Way costlier than the costliest pet.
So there's that.
July 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Women and their pets as social universes:
A near BFF let some recently separated jerk infiltrate her home. The legal expenses to get him out before the common law date and to repatriate HER money + the social isolation of embarrassment.
Way costlier than the costliest pet.
So there's that.
A near BFF let some recently separated jerk infiltrate her home. The legal expenses to get him out before the common law date and to repatriate HER money + the social isolation of embarrassment.
Way costlier than the costliest pet.
So there's that.
These chips can be inhaled. Great for Saturday morning breakfast with eggs and other stuff on top. Soft nachos.
Canada's best tortilla chips are made right here in Manitoba 😍
It’s not a party without chips
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It’s not a party without chips
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Ste. Anne-based La Cocina Foods sets table for fire-delayed 40th anniversary celebrations
STE. ANNE — Pat and Jodi Warkentin had a vision for their company’s 40th anniversary — until a fire threatened to derail it. Pat was in Vancouver for a trade show one Saturday in April 2024, when he r...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
These chips can be inhaled. Great for Saturday morning breakfast with eggs and other stuff on top. Soft nachos.