Sara F.L. Kirk

Thought I'd better crack on with a pinned intro. I'm an applied health researcher, using primarily qualitative methods & focus on how policies & environments shape health behaviours like healthy eating & active living. I ❤️ bikes & volunteer with Velo Canada Bikes to promote a #BikeFriendlyCanada 🚲

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles riding through an intersection.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles some are wearing Halloween costumes. The group comes to a stop at a stop sign.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles resume riding on a hill rounding a corner. One adult push a bike with a bike trailer.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles. A cat has wandered onto the street and a few riders stop to pat it.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles one adult is wearing a viking costume.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles riding towards the camera on a tree lined street. Some are wearing Halloween costumes.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles. One adult is wearing a red flowing cape.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles rounding a corner.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles, some are wearing Halloween costumes.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles ride towards and past the camera. The sun is behind the riders.

Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles. One bike has a large ghost placed on its from cargo rack. A person dressed as an orc rides by with a plastic axe on the sidewalk. The full lane width is occupied by people riding bicycles.

Video clips from Sunday's #BikeHFX #KidicalMass ride (Oct 25, 2026). Video Description: A large group of children and adults on bicycles some of which are wearing Halloween costumes. The full lane width is occupied by people riding bicycles.

“What’s the point of spending any money if it’s not actually going to get people riding bikes?” Cleary said. “I cannot imagine we can make an informed decision on any of these [alternatives] without feedback from the people who are actually going to use them.”

Statement from HRM: "Drivers should expect delays and are asked to use alternative routes where possible" We never ask or expect drivers to use alternative modes of transport like transit of course, which would ease the congestion

EverWind proposing to put in writing promises around AI data centre Reported by @dartjenhen.bsky.social

Commercial interests pushing their agendas to influence health policy is bad/common enough, but AI bots take it to a whole new level - 3/4 of responses in UK govt consultation on disposable vapes were identified as machine-generated. We need more regulation not more AI! #CDOH via @theguardian.com

the second of the day, or at least 2 in the past 24 hours - not so unusual? bsky.app/profile/ligh...

I am a guest professor again. 😍 The topic: 'How can science communication succeed in the age of AI and fake news?' For Thursday's lecture, I have unearthed the oldest example of 'historical revisionism'. The mechanisms are age-old, but AI now enables fraud to be committed in a matter of seconds.

Fun with slop: A quick tour of some manufactured nostalgia Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Fun with slop: A quick tour of some manufactured nostalgia Morning File by Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

People gather in Council Chambers in their bike helmets to draw attention to how our safety and that of all residents, particularly seniors and kids, is threatened by the staff report under consideration today. #bikehfx

I understand there will be a silent protest by cyclists who plan on showing up to City Hall wearing bike helmets. Here's the full agenda: pub-halifax.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

Looks like the morning will start with a presentation on Halifax Regional Centre for Education's (HRCE) Supplementary Education Funding Annual Report. I am heading to City Hall shortly and will have stories later.

Halifax regional council meets starting at 10am. Here's some of what's on the agenda for today. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

This huge decision is on the consent agenda: "a method to deal with routine or non controversial items early in the agenda, leaving Regional Council additional time to discuss strategic or substantive matters." Wow. www.halifax.ca/sites/defaul...

We hope Councillors will not pretend they are making a decision based on cost alone - because the report repeatedly and clearly sets out why the alternative routes will be "non-AAA" Would we approve a product design that is unsafe for children? Would we build an unsafe building for children?

We mentioned six questions but this one is key: Today at 10am Regional Council must decide: Do we want to cut costs by making our minimum bike/micro-mobility lane grid unsafe & unfit for children, seniors & people with disabilities? visionzerohfx.ghost.io/six-critical...

“Having high-speed rail is now seen as a requirement of 21st-century nationhood. With cars being problematic in so many ways, high-speed trains seem to have been blessed with good great fortune: they are beautiful, fast, elegant, modern and environmentally friendlier." @christianwolmar.bsky.social

A game-changer, not just for civic life in London, but for the idea of street transformations for people all over the world.

"My car in the garage, hallowed be thy name. Thy petrol flow. Thy speed be done on the motorway as in the city. Our daily traffic jam be done today as ever. Forgive us our speeding as well as our transgressions. And lead us not into the temptation of an electric car." NOR freedom of choice.

Here's a link to Fillmore's budget feedback survey, which is open until Oct. 30, for anyone who can't make the final meeting at 2pm on Wednesday at St. Andrew's Community Centre in Halifax.

Dear Halifax (the Nova Scotia one)... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Traffic Safety Act same old dangers

Monstrous beyond all reckoning. The US is using remote sensing *designed for humanitarian purposes* for the opposite purpose, potentially drowning civilians en masse. Trump hates Somalis. His troops appear to be exploiting the weather to help slaughter them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

well for those of us with kids who bike along atrociously unsafe routes and have no alternative, it is more than a slap around the face

Here he is on record last week confirming he is an advocate of completing the triple A bike network. That means he must reject the recommendations made in the report to downgrade sections from that. Politicians need to be straight when it comes to kids safety globalnews.ca/video/121122...

Update: bsky.app/profile/lecw...

Tuesdays Agenda can be found here: pub-halifax.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

Please contact your councillor about this. Council is talking about this on Tuesday. After being released on a Friday, it's been added to council CONSENT Agenda. What this means is that it could be automatically approved without debate.

Solar is booming.

You can’t really see everything: each of us is an unreliable narrator in the stories we tell Morning File by me

You can’t really see everything: Each of us is an unreliable narrator in the stories we tell Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social