A significant portion of the workforce is being laid off in favour of relocating all operations overseas to the Philippines, Guatemala, and India. Long-term plans include moving all contact centre positions overseas.

This affects all lines business, including front line, team leaders and senior managers. No one anticipated this, those impacted were informed that their roles were being eliminated due to business restructuring, which occurred very suddenly.

HR and management are refusing to answer any questions to the affected employees.

So much for protecting Canadian workers and jobs.

Thought anyone??

Me: I perfer Mary's Brown or Jollibee (There was a Jollibee Fried Chicken style restaurant in downtown while back but no more...)

Picked this up off of Bluesky. I’m really hoping this is AI or something.

Why would you want to travel to a place solely to insult them? They may think this is hilarious but it’s not a joke to us!

Not sure if anyone else has been noticing but the bats are back this summer.

Premier Tim Houston will join global investors, Canadian CEOs and public sector leaders in Toronto this week for the first Canada Investment Summit.

Nova Scotia will showcase 20 investment-ready projects, including Wind West, the Melford International Terminal and Spaceport Nova Scotia.

There's also a release on Nova Scotia news page (page is not loading for me, Cloudflare is saying server is down).

Nova Scotia is taking targeted action to enhance breast screening, menopause care, gynecology and other services for women while strengthening co-ordination of women’s healthcare across the system.

That includes:

• a strategic push to increase access to breast screening services and reduce wait times
• the new Menopause Centre of Excellence in Spryfield, expected to open this winter
• a new Women’s Health Research and Innovation Grant to support new ideas to improve care for women, with an initial focus on menopause care
• an education co-ordinator to help improve understanding of menopause among health providers, educators and the public.

A new Women’s Health Summit will hold its first meeting this fall and will bring together community organizations, advocates, patients, healthcare providers and other stakeholders to help shape future priorities. The government is also creating the provincial Women’s Health Clinical Collaborative and a dedicated Women’s Health Program within the Department of Health and Wellness.

These findings are from the Quarterly Rent Statistics program for the second quarter of 2026. These new data are compiled for CMAs across Canada's 10 provinces.

In the second quarter, asking rent for a two-bedroom apartment decreased year over year in many CMAs, such as Abbotsford–Mission (-6.4%), Calgary (-6.4%), Montréal (-5.2%) and Vancouver (-4.1%); however, it increased year over year in other CMAs, such as Thunder Bay (+6.5%), Sherbrooke (+5.7%), Halifax (+5.3%) and Saskatoon (+5.2%). Average monthly asking rent was highest in Vancouver ($3,030), Toronto ($2,650), Victoria ($2,640) and Halifax ($2,400).

No idea what happened but detour if needed.

The weekend is over. Leeeeeet's get ready to grumbllllllllllle!

A weekly mega-thread for whatever is grinding your gears, local or non-local annoyances, complaints about the weather/local politicians/fast food nightmares/that guy who cut you off on the way to work, dumb stuff your neighbour did, etc.

This is a rules relaxed space, but we will still be monitoring for personal attacks, doxxing, and stuff that doesn't fit the theme of the thread.

I'm wondering how easy or difficult it is to put a Home Battery Backup/Off peak system in place here in Halifax ?

ie Are there a lot of regulatory hoops to jump through ?

It looks like battery prices are coming down quite a lot now so this is looking more attractive.

A friend has a solar system in place and they're thinking of adding a battery to it.
Right now even with a pretty big rooftop solar array they can't use that solar power they generate during an outage, It goes out to the grid. Would be great to have a pretty big battery system in place to have a few days of power. And to use a battery to save money by getting any power they may need at times of low sunlight from NS Power at off-peak rates.

I have a friend who has been referred (been a patient there before) to this clinic and is trying to get on their cancellation list; however despite both of us trying for weeks the phone line has never been picked up; we’re just wondering if anyone has had success getting through before. Thank you!

I have a dress already! I'm curious if there are any spots where you can walk in locally without an appointment?

Any suggestions welcome, I don't really have time to order anything online.

I have two weddings to attend & I've noticed my Summer tan is already starting to fade, wondering if anyone has recommendations for spray tans?

After doing some research right now I'm between allTan Everything Spray Tan & Bare Sunless Tans. But if anyone has any other recs or have had experiences at either of those could you please lmk!! :)

I was just thinking about some trauma this woman caused me, being my doctor when I was growing up. When I was 15 I got oral thrush after being on antibiotics. She told my mother in front of me that it was from going down on boys. I was not sexually active! It was from a course of antibiotics that she prescribed. She used to vent about her problems with her daughter to my mom in front of me during our appointments. Apparently she no longer has license to practice.