Let’s be clear: The creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank is illegal. It must stop. The wholesale destruction of Gaza is intolerable. It must stop. Unilateral actions that would forever undermine the two-state solution are unacceptable. They must stop.

Just a friendly reminder that your state spends way too much money on car infrastructure.

The tram is the only street-level mass transit which integrates seamlessly with the ballet of the street. It fits human-scaled public spaces, it’s quiet and you always know exactly where it’ll be thanks to the tracks. 📍Amsterdam

Create trams for more prosperous place. The evidence is …

Porches and places for people to walk? Let’s just replace it with more lanes for cars.

Failed Traffic Modernism by Planning a la Halifax NS: $200m will go to widen Robie St, wreck historic Gentle Density, cut 80 Street trees, destroy affordable housing (50-70 Homes) and shops, inflate land values/rents, when signalized lane changes would work. Ecology Action Centre (EAC)

Just beautiful and hopeful, no words needed.💚🌿🌱☘️🌲🌳🍀💚

Danny Chedrawe's Westwood Development's 23-storey tower was approved in 2020, against HRM staff recommendations and public input. 2032 Robie was demolished. Now 2050 Robie & 5 multi unit buildings on Parker St head to a dump, gutting affordability, climate & public realm.

instagram.com/p/DMvj3C4SI9N/ On CBC’s On The Coast, Gloria Macarenko hosts a sharp 21-minute debate between two housing experts—UBC’s Patrick Condon and UBC Sauder’s Tom Davidoff—on the federal government’s latest housing plan. Condon, author of Broken City, argues that the root of

I’m in Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week to mark 80 years since the atomic bomb. It's been incredibly moving to listen to survivors and their descendants calling for a future free of nuclear weapons. We are all human beings on one planet - let us build a world of peace for all!

Andy Yan | @ayan604.bsky.social Halifax's November point time tally has 1132 homeless, 'nearly' double the 2022 number. Redevelopers are demolishing buildings as fast as they can, no protection for renters, no requirement for new affordable units. Many empty lots are used for parking-reduces property taxes.

Housing crisis may get worse, new forecasts show" feat. Patrick Condon as told by Simon Tuck via National Post #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre nationalpost.com/news/canada/ho…

"Because we’ve become so adept at cooling the indoors with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling the outdoors, too. There's no technology that cools it as effectively as a tree; public infrastructure with major implications for energy use and public health."

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Site C's original budget of $6.6b grew to $16b. Alternatives to produce the same amount of energy would have cost $8.8b. Like Muskrat Falls it follows the Iron Law of Megaprojects “over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again.” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/0…

Halifax's $200m plan to cut 80 historic street trees to widen Robie will cause irrevocable harm. "There's no technology that cools ..the outdoors..as effectively as a tree; public infrastructure with major implications for energy use and public health."Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

B.C. is facing the inevitable fallout of an economy built not on value-added manufacturing, technology, innovation, or unshackling our resources, but primarily on real estate. The province’s economic engine has been re-geared to run on relentless mass immigration, where the core

~ 30% of the Halifax Common's 240 acres is parking, mostly for hospitals. Tim Houston's decision to make it free means Health & Wellness must not get how bad cars are for human health: adding GHG emissions, noise, accidents. pollution-taking public money & space for private use.

New car technology is designed to make corporations money. Pedestrian infrastructure is designed to improve lives.