Letters to the Editor
On February 20th, 2006 the Heritage Canada Foundation issued a press release listing downtown Halifax as one of the top 10 Most Endangered Places in Canada. The report goes on to say that the United Gulf Development’s proposal for building 27-storey towers on the former Tex-park site on Granville will “threaten a historic district and…
Letters to the Editor
While I am not a huge hockey fan, I do occasionally enjoy watching Olympic hockey. I have been very disappointed, however, in the limited media coverage the successful Canadian women’s hockey team has received compared to the countless stories I have heard and read in the past few days of the abysmal failures of the…
Paying for power
As a fifty year old growing up in Halifax I found Steven Kimber’s article “Paying For Power””enlighting. The government backrooms are never seen. His unfolding of information only peels a small smart part of the unseen truths of Nova Scotia politicians. Rather than participate with the citizens of Nova Scotia, they hide stupid simple real…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor. I note with interst your article by Mr. S. Kimber in which he mistates various facts mentioning me. Mr Kimber, if he lived here would be a defendant in an intrusion of privacy suit as the Law here protects people from constant re-hash of old news. It is a different suit than libel…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Bus route
Hi, in Mike Fleury’s article “Bus Route” his opening sentence states that Andrew Safer spent “HOURS” last week riding metro transit… I would like to point out that the average transit trip from time point to time point is 30 minutes. If he spent hours, he may have made a maximum of 10 trips to…
Fair play?
The latest Vanity Fair — our annual favourite, The Hollywood Issue — has caused quite the brouhaha thanks to its guest editor, retired fashionista Tom Ford. The issue’s centrepiece is, as always, its portfolio of celebrities, which this year has a theme of “naked.” Keeping within the spirit of the festivities, you’ll find Ford on…
It’s an honour, et cetera
The Juno nominees were announced on February 15, determining the calibre of talent we can expect to see in town in six weeks. Adult contemporary stars Michael Buble and Diana Krall have five nominations each, with other multiple nominees including Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Nickelback and, ratcheting up the shriek quotient come awards night, Kalan…
Multi-media
Dynamite Media Group is now open and offering a range of services including sound production and recording, graphic design, 3D animation and photography. “If somebody wants to, let’s say, have a CD recorded, he can have the cover designed and a studio photo shoot,” says Dynamite co-founder and employee Sal El-Mekki. “Instead of going to…
Words to quit by
Dear Jane Kansas, I want to commend you on your well-written article in the January 26 issue, “Up In Smoke.” I work at Laing House, a centre for youth living with serious mental illnesses in Halifax, and I clipped your article and left it in our common room. Over the past two weeks I have…
I am what I am
On page 65 of your Valentine edition there is an anonymous piece about the question of God. The author makes the arrogant assumption that he could convince me of the supposed attributes of God. This he would be unable to do, for in order to be convinced I would have to first agree to the…
The cost of free speech
I am dismayed and disgusted by the insinuation that censoring the Danish Muslim cartoons is akin to blocking minority group rights. I think that some people are confused over whose rights are being violated. A bomb in today’s world implies terrorism, an action of extreme violence against the innocent. Depicting a bomb in the place…
March madness
Peter March seemed to be enjoying himself last week as students loudly called him a fool. “By many people’s accounts I am a fool, but even fools have the right to teach,” the Saint Mary’s philosophy prof said during a protest in which 100 people marched from the Dal campus to Saint Mary’s. “It’s a…
Lords of dogtown
There were paw prints in the snow outside the doors of Exhibition Park last weekend. Hundreds of dogs made their way over snow banks and past what must have been an achingly tempting arena full of soccer balls to Exhibition Hall where, full of dogged doggy hope, they attempted to paw their way to victory…
Branding Canada
Canadian tourism is down. Mounties, moose and mountains are to blame. So says Rod Seiling of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association, anyway. Bruce MacMillan of Tourism Toronto puts a finer point on it: he says Canada’s got a reputation as dull. (Toronto: such a happy place. Filled with such positive people.) The brunt of the…
Paying for power
There are things we know about Rodney MacDonald, the man who will be our next premier. He is 34 years old, the second youngest man in Nova Scotia history to hold that office. When he is sworn in next week, he will be the youngest premier in the country. We also know he is a…
All hands on decks
A dance floor filled with throbbing, sweaty and pink dancers. No, it’s not a case of food colouring exploding under the disco ball. It’s what organizers of the Chicks with Decks event want to see this weekend at Club Rain. The bill features the best female DJs in Atlantic Canada as well as national talent…
Cold comfort
As the season of discontent rolls through town, there is a bright spot—one that’s created not by a SAD therapy lamp, but through the sweet sound of voices. The In the Dead of Winter festival, running from February 17 to 19 at The Khyber Club, joins 18 artists who refuse to be bullied by one…
Firewall
Good actors can lend a movie credibility, charisma and merit, but they’re rarely dependable as a stamp of a quality product. Harrison Ford is a weird case. Through the ’80s and some of the ’90s, a Harrison Ford movie would imply a certain calibre of entertainment. He always made an effort to work with A-list…
New moon rising
Some properties seem to change hands, management and identities like I change my underwear, and 2215 Gottingen is one such locale. The newest incarnation of this cavernous nightclub space is composed of three parts. Upstairs, it’s a cabaret, downstairs in the back of the house there’s an after-hours juice bar and on the street side…
Savour-faire
The Savour Food and Wine Show, a fun-fair for foodies happening on Thursday, February 16, is the centrepiece of a month’s worth of food-and-drink-related events around the province. We talked to Christine White of the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia to get the details. Q: What is the Savour Food and Wine Show? A: The…
Dance portraits
When Yvonne Ng was a young girl living in Singapore, her mother would play Chinese children’s folk songs on the piano and Ng would perform solo dances in front of a pretend audience, a small light mimicking a stage spotlight. “It sounds like we had a huge bonding thing—not really,” Ng says, laughing, “but someone…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage is not a closet Scientologist
Postponement
February is a graveyard. From the perspective of a Hollywood studio head, now is the time to release all the movies that have tested poorly or in which he or she has little confidence. The studio marketing budgets for the past few months have gone towards winning the high-end product, the pictures that were released…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
It’s time to celebrate the malleability of reality, Aquarius, says Rob Brezsny.
Bus route
Andrew Curran spent hours last week riding Metro Transit busses and hanging out at bus stops, but he didn’t have any particular destination in mind – he was there for the conversation. “We were out taking to people all day,” recalls Curran, who made the aimless trip along with a friend and a video camera.…
