HfxPam 🇨🇦
@hfxpam.bsky.social
Halifax,NS.
News/Current Events/Political news enthusiast.
News/Current Events/Political news enthusiast.
This is nuts. Absolutely nuts.
I cannot over-emphasize how absolutely fucking insane this is.
These are the most expensive fuel sources in existence, with no abatement equipment to speak of, no smoke stacks to disperse pollution.
We could just build a power line, but instead we’ll suck on tractor tailpipes.
These are the most expensive fuel sources in existence, with no abatement equipment to speak of, no smoke stacks to disperse pollution.
We could just build a power line, but instead we’ll suck on tractor tailpipes.
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is nuts. Absolutely nuts.
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“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control. “
Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control. “
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Really interesting thread.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Really interesting thread.
Yup.
Doing anything after 5pm at this time of year is absurd.
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Yup.
Watching this now. I grew up in a similar small community where this would be met with the same resistance and not because of moderate livelihood or out of season concerns. Good reasons to never go back. Worth your time to watch.
Some commercial lobster fishers say Indigenous treaty fishing threatens stocks. Government memo says otherwise | CBC News
The fifth estate investigates misconceptions and allegations fuelling conflict in Canada’s largest lobster fishery, where Mi’kmaw fishers face broad opposition when exercising treaty rights.
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Watching this now. I grew up in a similar small community where this would be met with the same resistance and not because of moderate livelihood or out of season concerns. Good reasons to never go back. Worth your time to watch.
Same.
Some of my best friends are other people’s dogs 🐶❤️🥹
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Same.
Quite a headline
Seafood broker busted for grow-op fights forfeiture of $133K found in mom’s SUV | CBC News
A seafood broker who operated an illegal marijuana grow-op busted by Nova Scotia RCMP in 2021 during a large drug investigation is asserting that more than $133,000 found in a safe in his mother’s veh...
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Quite a headline
“Always believe something wonderful is about to happen”
Colleen Jones asked me to interview her a couple of months ago during a chemotherapy appointment.
She told me to write one heck of a story. I hope I did her proud.
About always believing something wonderful is about to happen.
My tribute to Colleen: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
She told me to write one heck of a story. I hope I did her proud.
About always believing something wonderful is about to happen.
My tribute to Colleen: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Colleen Jones was something wonderful to happen for anyone who knew her | CBC Sports
Colleen Jones was a tour de force. When you were with her you felt invincible and that anything was possible. She made you a believer.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“Always believe something wonderful is about to happen”
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New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Our libraries need our help
N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts | CBC News
The head of a regional library service in western Nova Scotia says that without increased funding from the province and municipalities, branches will have to reduce operating hours and services, and e...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Our libraries need our help
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Property tax caps are intensely corrosive! Nova Scotia’s cap distorts the housing market by piling the burden of maintaining our cities on “corporate” landlords - who then pass that cost on to renters. Meanwhile, actually wealthy sub/exurb dwellers who bought twenty years ago get subsidized.
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Property tax caps are intensely corrosive! Nova Scotia’s cap distorts the housing market by piling the burden of maintaining our cities on “corporate” landlords - who then pass that cost on to renters. Meanwhile, actually wealthy sub/exurb dwellers who bought twenty years ago get subsidized.
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(Traffic) Police Investigate Pedestrian Collision - Halifax
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November 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
(Traffic) Police Investigate Pedestrian Collision - Halifax
** Release
waterfrontmediahfx.the902hxir.ca/100024-2
** Release
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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I’m so sad to see this. This is not that far from Greenwich Beach/National Park.
A golf course. Another golf course that is. Jeez.
A golf course. Another golf course that is. Jeez.
Proposed golf course in eastern P.E.I. wins community support, but sparks anger from watershed group | CBC News
A proposed nine-hole golf course for Monticello, in eastern P.E.I., has support in the community, but the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance has complained the project has breached provincial and federal legis...
www.cbc.ca
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m so sad to see this. This is not that far from Greenwich Beach/National Park.
A golf course. Another golf course that is. Jeez.
A golf course. Another golf course that is. Jeez.
Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Powerful.
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Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
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'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables | CBC Books
The Next Chapter's Trinidadian Canadian host recently travelled to the inaugural Cavendish Literary Festival in P.E.I. There, he visited Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish home and fostered a new-found ...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
I rarely shop at the big 2 grocers but today I needed to go to both(specific item) and the absolute RAGE I had looking at the prices of everyday things. I’ll continue to avoid and shop local and alternatives.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I rarely shop at the big 2 grocers but today I needed to go to both(specific item) and the absolute RAGE I had looking at the prices of everyday things. I’ll continue to avoid and shop local and alternatives.