Rick On The Lake 🍁
@rickonthelake.bsky.social
"Just a modern boy in a post-modern world."
Hate is unimaginative, and lacks funk.
Retired in Halifax, NS.
Politics, Social Justice, music, Jays, Raptors, Senators, stuff...
Hate is unimaginative, and lacks funk.
Retired in Halifax, NS.
Politics, Social Justice, music, Jays, Raptors, Senators, stuff...
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Sign me up for free transit in exchange for a small municipal tax increase + doubling parking fees
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sign me up for free transit in exchange for a small municipal tax increase + doubling parking fees
So our already minimal services are going to get worse because we don't want to pay for them. Choosing this method for decades has left us where we are now with the homeless situation and somehow we don't know how to solve that.
Hailifax's budget committee votes against seven more officers for Eastern Passage
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Halifax council approves intimate partner violence investigators, but votes against more Eastern Passage officers
But municipality's budget committee votes against seven more officers for Eastern Passage
www.saltwire.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So our already minimal services are going to get worse because we don't want to pay for them. Choosing this method for decades has left us where we are now with the homeless situation and somehow we don't know how to solve that.
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Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
Elizabeth Renzetti: Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
Finally, the hounds of justice are nipping at Trump’s heels
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
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I’m re-upping this because this cause is so important
Lance/Aquakulture is asking the community for financial support for this work. If you are able, please consider this very worthy cause. It's an act for justice.
Please contribute towards legal expenses to exonerate Daniel Perry Sampson
Please support us in exonerating Daniel Perry Sampson. Any amount you’re willing to contribute is greatly appreciated and will help us begin to heal from the legacy of a terrible wrong.
fundrazr.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I’m re-upping this because this cause is so important
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Is this your urn? Hamilton police want to know #Ontario
Police say the urn doesn't have any markings that would help identify its owner
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Police say the urn doesn't have any markings that would help identify its owner
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Is this your urn? Hamilton police want to know | CBC News
Police are looking for the owners of an unmarked urn found in Dundas.
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Is this your urn? Hamilton police want to know #Ontario
Police say the urn doesn't have any markings that would help identify its owner
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Police say the urn doesn't have any markings that would help identify its owner
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
If it was already known that this land was protected, what made a developer think it would be possible to get it un-protected? IOW, what went on behind the scenes before any of this was made public?
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
#NovaScotia #nspoli #WestMabouBeach #ProvincialPark #CabotCliffs #Development #GolfCourse #Tourism
#environment #SpeciesAtRisk #wildlife @nsgov.bsky.social
#NovaScotia #nspoli #WestMabouBeach #ProvincialPark #CabotCliffs #Development #GolfCourse #Tourism
#environment #SpeciesAtRisk #wildlife @nsgov.bsky.social
Bruce MacKinnon: Park golf course not strictly out of bounds in Nova Scotia
Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for The Chronicle Herald
www.saltwire.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If it was already known that this land was protected, what made a developer think it would be possible to get it un-protected? IOW, what went on behind the scenes before any of this was made public?
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November 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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TIL that when the Beatles first came to America there was still someone alive in the US who'd been born into slavery here
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
TIL that when the Beatles first came to America there was still someone alive in the US who'd been born into slavery here
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
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If these rich assholes want to keep their covenant, the city should slap a "pay through the nose for single family home density downtown" area rate on downtown's mansion district.
Halifax has removed the final hurdle to development in some areas — and neighbours are fighting back | CBC News
A wealthy Halifax neighbourhood with tree-lined streets and grand homes on the Northwest Arm has become one of the latest battlegrounds in the city’s push to build more housing.
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If these rich assholes want to keep their covenant, the city should slap a "pay through the nose for single family home density downtown" area rate on downtown's mansion district.
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Here's the whole thing - I paid:
November 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Here's the whole thing - I paid:
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Charge your devices. Power is already out in downtown Halifax!
a green battery is glowing in the dark on a black surface
ALT: a green battery is glowing in the dark on a black surface
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Charge your devices. Power is already out in downtown Halifax!
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Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
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Best Comment of the Day!
"Terrorists tried to destroy the White House in 2001 with a hijacked plane. 24 years later the President is destroying the White House himself and accepting a plane from people funding terrorists... ironic"
"Terrorists tried to destroy the White House in 2001 with a hijacked plane. 24 years later the President is destroying the White House himself and accepting a plane from people funding terrorists... ironic"
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Best Comment of the Day!
"Terrorists tried to destroy the White House in 2001 with a hijacked plane. 24 years later the President is destroying the White House himself and accepting a plane from people funding terrorists... ironic"
"Terrorists tried to destroy the White House in 2001 with a hijacked plane. 24 years later the President is destroying the White House himself and accepting a plane from people funding terrorists... ironic"
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Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11 • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/
Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11
: Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again
www.theregister.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11 • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/
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Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)
Nova Scotia is practically giving away 'some of the purest water in Canada' - Halifax Examiner
Every year, two corporations withdraw hundreds of millions of litres of groundwater from wells in Colchester County. They bottle the water — which the companies market as “pristine” and “some of the p...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)
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So good 🤣
I know it’s early but…
Wondering what to buy for the Secret Santa swap at the Antifa Christmas Party?
Wondering what to buy for the Secret Santa swap at the Antifa Christmas Party?
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
So good 🤣