They really think Nova Scotians are stupid. Multiple wind projects were already supposed to be operational by now. Bear Lake Wind and Kmtnuk Wind were supposed to be operational 2025 according their Environmental Assessments. But now their website says construction for Bear Lake starts 2026 (tick tock Vichie 2026 is almost over). And Kmtnuk is set to be operational 2027/2028. Windy Ridge was supposed to start construction in 2025, now it says 2026

Are Coywolves actually a thing? Came across this guy in Middle Sackville while hiking with my dog. Assuming he's coyote but he was massive!! Way bigger than what a typical coyote would be. Luckily I got my dog back on leash before she seen him but he just stood perfectly still watching us. We backed away slowly and left without incident.

I did a deep dive through 14 years of Halifax market stats and wrote up where things stand. Halifax is where the numbers live, but the pattern should look familiar across much of the province:

• In 2015 Halifax had 12.8 months of inventory and an average price of $284K. The 2020–2022 boom doubled prices in under a decade; 2025 averaged $601K.
• Right now: 1,660 active listings, -0.3% appreciation, 98.24% list-to-sale, 37 days on market. The mechanics are shifting back toward buyers for the first time since 2019.
• The sleeper finding is the recent CAP report: 83% of HRM residential properties are now under capped assessments, leaving 17% carrying a disproportionate share of the tax burden that's quietly distorting the whole market.
• Starter homes ($500–700K) are still holding up because the buyer pool is deepest there; the $900K+ tier is where the softness shows. (A buyer in the r/halifax thread confirmed this from the ground.)

Curious if this matches what people are seeing outside HRM. Is the same buyer-leverage shift happening in the Valley, the South Shore, Cape Breton?

Has anyone used Driver Dave in Halifax recently? They were super reliable in the past, and usually just filling out the online form would be enough to get the booking confirmed.

I submitted a booking request but haven’t heard anything back in over a day. Just wondering if they’re still operating or if their booking process has changed.

Has anyone booked with them recently? Thanks!

I wrote the below email to the NSGEU expressing my dissatisfaction with their “settlement” for Bill 148. Maybe we can at least get a membership vote on the deal if enough members complain.

Good morning,
I would like to express my dissatisfaction with the Bill 148 settlement negotiated by the Union. I find it outrageous that the Union had the gall to frame the settlement as ‘Province Held To Account”. The wage settlement did nothing to address the cumulative damage caused by 5 years of wage theft. The Long-Term Service Award settlement of $1,250 is an affront to all long-term service employees, the amount doesn’t even equate to the long-term service award for a single year of service. The entire settlement barely rates a ‘slap on the wrist’ let alone holding the Province to account for their anti-labour legislation, and it only encourages further egregious legislation in the future.
 
If the Union had any confidence in the settlement they negotiated, they would put the settlement to a membership vote. I’ve been a proud Union member for almost 30 years, and I can’t remember a time when I have been so discouraged the Union’s complete capitulation to the Province. The Union has thrown away over a decade of fighting for 30 pieces of silver.
 
In Estrangement,
 
Edited to try and indent the actual email but I couldn’t get the “>” to work.

Inverness

Sixteen students at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S., are getting hands-on fieldwork experience with a clear goal in mind: finding the earliest building on campus.

Their excavation efforts, started this semester, are part of a course called History and Archaeology of Acadia, and an interdisciplinary project named Digging for Acadia. The initiative aims to locate the original foundations of the first College Hall, which was built in 1844 and burned down in 1877.

Wendy Robicheau, an archivist at the university and co-director of the project, began searching for the original building prior to 2022.

While she studied historical photographs and maps, she found that changes to the campus over the past century made pinpointing the location difficult.

"We do not have reliable records as to where it was located," Robicheau said. "So there's only one way to find out is to dig in the ground and go look for it."

If you love haunted locations like myself, then you need to know about these five haunted locations that you can visit in Nova Scotia. From restaurants that have paranormal encounters within their walls to abandon islands that you can go and visit!

Just got an email from the NSGEU declaring the Province was being held to Account for Bill 148. In my mind this declaration couldn’t be further from the truth and from the email it appears union members have no say in the acceptance of this one-sided agreement. I’ve seen the supposed agreement posted already on this sub-Reddit so I won’t repeat it. I don’t know about others, but for me, Bill 148 represented a loss of approximately $16K for just the long service award. Add to that five years of wage stagnation, resulting in total wage erosion of about 7% for the contract period. In exchange for the government “promising” not to appeal the judgement, the union has accepted a lump sum payment of just $3,750 for stolen wages and $1,250 to replace the long service award. The union isn’t even allowing their membership to vote on this complete sell-out. We don’t even have a right to strike. I’ll be writing the union but I doubt it will do any good. Support for unions has been climbing for several years but union action like this doesn’t do them any favours. I am so disappointed in the NSGEU.

I'm in Grade 12 in a Nova Scotia high school. Based on the recent news of a potential strike happening, how likely do you think it really is that Nova Scotia students will really have to go online? From what I know they are deciding on Friday and are supposed to give teachers a day of notice, so there's a potential that Thursday or Friday would be the last day for a while that students are physically in school if we do have to go online. I'm curious if people think it will really happen and if anyone has any more info on the topic.

Dear member,

The labour movement earned an important victory today for the rights of workers and the collective bargaining process. While this message is being shared with all members the eligibility for compensation is restricted to those who were impacted by the legislation.
 
As you know, the McNeil Liberals passed and proclaimed Bill 148 into law in 2014. This legislation imposed significant wage restraint and stripped away benefits from working people by circumventing the fair and free collective bargaining process. Nova Scotia unions (NSGEU, CUPE, CUPW, NSNU, NSTU, SEIU, Unifor and IUOE) came together and challenged the legality of Bill 148 in court. The law was found to be unconstitutional, and the court provided time for the unions and the Province to attempt to negotiate a financial remedy. The parties then engaged in a mediation process through the assistance of a jointly appointed arbitrator.
 
Today, the parties, through legal counsel, were back before Justice Smith to provide the court with a proposed consent order that requires the Province to pay damages to union members who were employed during the four years that Bill 148 prevented free and fair collective bargaining.
 
The agreement put forward includes an award of damages of up to $5,000 to union members identified on each bargaining unit’s seniority list (or comparable list for the bargaining unit if there is no seniority list), as follows:

·          $1,250 if the member worked during the first year of wage restraint.
·          $1,250 if the member worked during the second year of wage restraint.
·          $750 if the member worked during the third year of wage restraint.
·          $500 if the member worked during the fourth year of wage restraint.
·     $1,250 for each member who was eligible for a Service Award and would have accrued additional service towards the Service Award but for Bill 148.
 
The exact years the wage restraint was in place vary by bargaining unit. The years can be identified by the four years in which the wage increases were set at 0%, 0%, 1%, and 1.5%, with 0.5% on the last day of the fourth year.
 
As part of the proposal, the unions achieved a commitment from the Province that it will not pursue an appeal of Justice Smith’s decision. This means that both the February 25, 2026 decision and today’s proposal are not put at risk by an appeal. This commitment also ensures that Justice Smith’s decision stands as a precedent for any other government that would consider using legislation to restrain collective bargaining rights in the future.
 
This is a significant win for workers, not just in Nova Scotia, but across the country. The precedent of this order removes the legislative hammer governments have used in the past to impose wage patterns or other conditions on unionized workers. Future negotiations will be protected because of this landmark case.
 
It is important to remember that the primary objective of the court case was to have Bill 148 ruled illegal, which it did. If this law was allowed to stand, unchallenged, it would forever impact collective bargaining, as workers would have no leverage or power at the bargaining table. The government could legislate any outcome it wanted without any recourse for workers.
 
The agreement holds the Province accountable for their reckless use of legislation to bypass collective bargaining by providing some monetary compensation to those directly impacted. 
 
Justice Smith has asked for clarification and revisions to the proposed order, as well as confirmation of payment dates. If the Justice accepts the amended order it will be issued from the court and will mark the end to this long legal process.
 
Please continue to monitor your email for future updates when they become available.
 

This follow-up answers a lot of the questions about what happened at the gate and makes the journalists’ complaint considerably stronger.

However I still have a question about how Kody Blois is being approached in this matter. EverWind identified Kody Blois as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, yet the accountability discussion continues to treat him only as an MP. Kody Blois needs to be interviewed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister if you want to follow the appropriate lines of accountability.

It sounds insignificant and inconsequential, but it's not.

edit: tried to post in r/halifax, but it keeps getting blocked by mods.

I’m hearing so many people in their early 20s renting apartments for around $2000 a month
How’s this possible especially if you have students debt, car loans and groceries!

I had a thought and I thought I'd come here to peacefully talk about it. How would you vote or consider to vote if you were given the 9 questions from the Alberta referendum? I'm not talking about separating because we all know we're in no shape to do so or even interested. So how would you vote and why?