A. Zwissler

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Freelance reporter in Kjipuktuk Published mostly at Grand Parade but also the Halifax Examiner, BBC, and The Signal

A crumbling sidewalk peters out at the edge of a wide road with some cars on it.
Sign stuck to a payphone that reads “this phone is out of service until further notice.” The sign is typed except for the word phone which is written in marker above the crossed out word door
A starfish on a wet brick. Next to the fingers holding the brick, the starfish is small (the length of one finger joint).
A distant raft of ducks. In the foreground are big rocks. In the background a boat.
A sign in some long grass reads “save Dartmouth Cove!” Behind it a truck driving away
Hand drawn map of Southdale/ Mount Hope development next to Eisner’s Cove Wetland
Bright fall leaves are in stark contrast to the wet tarmac they are on
An overgrown lakefront in fall. On the left are trees with leaves in autumnal shades and on the right is the water, with a small group of ducks in it.
A graph and a table showing collision data from the HRM. Collisions increased from 2018 to 2019, dropped in the pandemic year of 2020 and went up to almost 2019 levels in 2024.
Cars in traffic lined up in an intersection, blocking a car on the intersecting road
Cars in traffic stopped in an intersection
A streer with more space for pedestrians and cyclists than for cars.
A parking garage with viney plants growing up its sides.
A sign explaining retractable bollards (sign is in German and reads “Poller”)
EV chargers on a cobbled parking lot
“This great factory operated upon a mysterious system of production costs: taking no account of the economic dictum that capital investment should producee a return, it was dedicated a to a monstrous nothingness. No wonder then that each morning the workers had to recite mystic oaths. I have never seen such a strange factory. In it all the techniques of modern science and management, together with the exact and rational thinking of many superior brains, were dedicated to a single end - Death. Producint the Zero-Model combat plane used by the suicide squadrons, this great factor resembled a secret cult that operated thunderously - groaning, shrieking, roaring. I did not see how such a colossal organization could exit without some religious grandiloquence.”
A poster encouraging people to come to Halifax city council on July 8.
A jogger crosses the street behind a row of orange traffic cones. Excavators, trucks, and construction workers are behind them on a stretch of empty asphalt.