Hi there, me and my wife had a long year, and we need to visit some places nearby in this Christmas. We live in downtown Halifax. I was just wondering where can we go for 2-3 days in this time and spend some quality time. We don’t have a car and we are here for about 1.5 year only. We need some suggestions with suitable options to travel (not rental cars), accomodations and attractions.

Thank you in advanced 🫰

Hi everyone! I live in sydney but often travel to halifax/surrounding areas so that's why I'm posting here! I would prefer to find something closer to me, but at this point it's whatever.

I am looking for suggestions on where I can find old pokemon cards for sale. I have checked the pawnshops, card shops etc locally in Sydney but am not having much luck at all. I have reached out to flea market guys/Facebook resellers/kijiji and still am not having much luck.

I am hoping somebody here can point me in the right direction. At this point, I feel as if I have exhausted all my options. Any stores that may have something, old collections, singles, lots, resellers ANYTHING that can help me on my search.

I’ve been using app to purchase my lotto tickets for the past few years, very convenient. I would either transfer the $$ for the tickets thru email transfer or use VISA card with no issues.

A few weeks ago I noticed app had an update for the payment method I could just use Apple Pay (hooked up to my visa)

Just checked my credit card statement and noticed my Scotiabank is charging an additional $5 for a “cash like transaction fee” on top of the $10 I was transferring over from my card to pay for the tickets.

For anyone who just started doing this as well please check your credit card statement, it’s ridiculous lol!

I live in the Annapolis Valley, I don't have a car and I wanna buy a cheap writing/drawing tablet. It'll be my first time using one so it doesn't have to be super high tech; I want one to use for assignments and to see if digital art is for me. I was wondering if there are any good second-hand shops in the area that might have something like this. I know about value village and facebook market place but other than them is there any other place that would be selling them for cheap?

I’m not living in Ns anymore but my folks are. They are getting their shingles vaccine Dec 14 and paying hundreds of dollars out of pocket. I see Houston had making it free as part of his election promises. Anyone have any intel on when that could happen!!?

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I am preparing to open an account at Tangerine Bank ahead of migrating to Canada. I see a question on the application inviting a referral code or "orange key," whatever that is.

If this can benefit someone, I'd be happy to enter their promotion code if you send it to me.

...on a drive through the Annapolis Valley!

I've been pouring over all the different municipalities bylaws, and some say yes, other say maybe, and some sources say nay, it's so confusing,

the bylaws from Halifax talks mostly about the City and Suburbs, some other municipalities don't even have detailed info, and some other municipalities are very vague about it... but I can't seem to find a clear answer if I can have a Full brown chicken farm to produce both meat and eggs.

page 54 https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default/files/documents/about-the-city/regional-community-planning/PlanningDistricts8and9_LUB_Eff_February252017.pdf

RE USES PERMITTED

A development permit shall be issued for all uses in an RE (Rural Enterprise) Zone except

for the following:

Fish waste processing plants;

Salvage Yards;

Adult entertainment uses;

Beverage rooms and lounges over one thousand and five hundred (1,500) sq. ft. (139.4

m2); Mobile home parks; and

Any industrial or commercial use which is obnoxious:

- Composting operations (refer to Section 4.26) (MC-Feb 26/96;Minister-Mar 28/96)

- C&D Materials Transfer Stations, C&D Materials Processing Facilities and C&D <--- ( this actually meant construction and demolition (C&D) waste)

- Materials Disposal Sites (RC-Sep 10/02;E-Nov 9/02)

This is also a little bit confusing, so they do expect you to use RE zones for commercial and industrial, but... you can't have Business sign up, if there is a neighbour nearby (this part is understandable, the part the comes after is the confusing portion), ... not allowed in your own yard... like seriously I can't have a Business sign in my own yard, how are people supposed to find my Farm?

OTHER REQUIREMENTS: COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES

(a) Where any portion of any lot in any RE Zone is to be used for commercial or

industrial uses, no parking and open storage or outdoor display or sign shall be

permitted within any side or rear yard where such yard abuts any lot containing a

dwelling or any residential zone, except where a fence or other visual and physical

barrier is provided within the abutting yard;

(b) Notwithstanding Section 14.6(a) above, where the abutting property is under the

same ownership, no fence or other visual and physical barrier shall be required

within the abutting yard.

I was also trying to look up if the old school Water Wheels were allowed, the answer was "Yes" with some caveats, but after clicking the link from Halifax bylaw stuff, it just went nowhere with no additional detail about what should or shouldn't be done if I were to setup a good'ol fashioned water wheel.

I did find the "Chicken Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations" , but there was still no detail about farming in RE zones. https://novascotia.ca/just/REGULATIONS/regs/npchickf.htm

Speaking of the Devil, just found some recent 2022 old news about Zoning Problems in NS, not being Farmers friendly. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-farmers-say-zoning-laws-protect-agricultural-lands-drive-them-out-of-business-1.6668756

--- EDIT ---

Did some more digging, seems like I'll need to look for properties around "East Hants" municipality to find RU zoned lands for full on industrial level farming / livestock operations.
That discovery came from this reference https://www.easthants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Part-5-Rural-Zones.pdf

--- EDIT 2 ---

Yet more info keeps making things more confusing some other municipalities refers to Farming land as GD, and others needs to be A1 or A2, why can't they all just stick to the same zoning codes in NS.

Every Municipality seems to have a different Zoning ratings for what can be used as Farm land.

Hey everyone! I’ve done a few posts on here recently about a ducted heat pump, however after carefully thinking about the cost and the efficiency of them, would it be better to get a wood stove and to keep my oil as a back up? or get electric baseboard and use two ductless heat pumps? I’m not sure what we should do to lessen the cost for ourselves. Thank you, any advice is much appreciated!

Is the wait list for priority housing long ?

Are physical copies of the driver handbooks still available? I'm specifically looking for the Commercial Driver's Handbook. I assume the only place I can find these are at Access Nova Scotia locations? Thanks!

It should not be this hard, I have a family doctor which I am extremely grateful / lucky to have as I know many do not, so I make an appointment but can't get in to see them for over a week.

I don't want to go to emerg and overwhelm them even more because I know they regularly sit at 10+ admissions and over 20 beds occupied with the longest stay usually being over 100 hours in the department.

So I go to the same day / next day clinic to be seen because the problem is getting worse and I know I likely won't make it to my doctor's appointment. I actually see them quite quickly and get a req for a chest xray and prescriptions for antibiotics.

However, even though I live 5 minutes from 1 hospital and 20 minutes from 2 other sites that can do chest x-rays, walk in x-ray service is suspended across all sites in the province and those sites close to me do not have any appointments until 1 to 2 weeks from now, so to get my chest x-ray I have to drive an hour away as they happen to have bookings the next day.

Also can't get my prescriptions until the next day as my pharmacy was already closed by the time they wrote them for me.

I just needed to rant, I can't even begin to imagine how hard it is for those out there that don't have family doctors or aren't able to drive an hour away like I can for an x-ray.

Who is great with black and grey flowers? Looking for lower arm sleeve for christmas present. I live in Dartmouth but willing to travel.

I rent an apartment and can only garden at a community garden that only allows annual plants. Does anyone know of any annual flowers that is native to Nova Scotia?

Edit: i am looking to buy a used vehicle, working with at most $8000

I'm going to be buying my first car very soon. I plan on buying it Outright from a dealership and not financing. Can anyone walk me through that process and what i can expect/ any tips.

My fiance & I are packing up our lives & moving to Nova Scotia. Currently we live in Ontario. We are leaving everything behind (in a split decision) & moving out east. If anyone has any advice for us out there that would be greatly appreciated. Any help would be awesome. We have talked about this for a long time but neither of us were ready to do it however things have changed & we need to go asap.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm interested in the Woodlot Management Home Study Program that the government of nova scotia provides (provided?) however I can't seem to access any of the links or web pages that might lead to it. I've emailed the provided address but figured i'd ask here as well in case anyone knows anything about it.

https://novascotia.ca/natr/plso/woodlot-management-home-study-program.asp

Thanks in advance!