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Emergency departments are for emergencies. Sickest people are seen first. If you end up waiting many hours it is usually because there are people sicker than you who need help first. When staff are helping critically ill patients, or comforting families who have lost loved ones, it is unfair and inappropriate to stand there, sipping…
Am I the only person to clue in that Halifax Transit’s improvement plan has a direct correlation to the time they realized they were losing business? People leave this city by astounding numbers and I wonder why. Some days I get off work in winter and there’s no cabs, buses are canceled and sidewalks are…
To the patient, genuine human who works at the fragrance/cosmetics counter at a north-end pharmacy: You helped me. While I am only one day into trying new treatments, the fact that you were inquisitive and patient with me helped make me feel a little better. I’m not sure where these enormous, painful, under-the-skin cysts are…
To the retired square grandparents in our local gourmet grocery store. I may look a bit dumpy on the weekend when I go shopping on the weekend but I am accomplished and understand very well that kids sometimes pick stuff up and walk out of stores with it. I noticed my 5 year old daughter…
To the scrawny looking pissant who works at a pizza place in the south end…my GF and I stopped in for a slice and you looked at us all annoyed for being at the counter then walked away. Confused we waited for you to come back. A few minutes later you did and just said…
It’s been over a week since Halifax Regional Council voted for an expert panel to examine how the city commemorates its problematic founder, but there’s still no word on who will take part. Officially, HRM has four names selected. Those individuals are being contacted by city staff for confirmation. Another four names will be selected…
The Canadian government is banning plastic microbeads in toiletries. Although designed to clean us, they’re polluting the environment, putting the health of fish, wildlife and people at risk. Manufacturers and consumers ushered plastic microbeads into the marketplace, but when we learned of their dangers, we moved to phase them out. Why, then, is it taking…
The duo behind Riot Snack Bar (6293 Quinpool Road) want to help heal the hole in your heart Ace Burger Co. left when it said goodbye to its Gus’ Pub (2605 Agricola Street) location a couple of weeks ago. Emphasis on the hole. Nicole Tufts and Sonia Gillies-da Mota are gearing up to open Vandal Doughnuts…
Hey! Yeah so you work at a brewery bar or whatever…that doesn’t mean you have the right to go to whatever bar you want in Halifax and act like you own the place. Don’t talk over bands, you dick! —You’re Not Funny
In the lead up to the public relations event Tuesday with president Trump, Sidney Crosby kept digging a hole and doubling down on the idea that visiting the office of an elected official was somehow an act totally devoid of politics. More than that, he made the puzzling claim to the Associated Press that he…
Living with you two ladies is a gift sent from above. Kitchen haircuts, being able to freely walk around in my underwear, drinking beers and eating chips and watching Broad City… life doesn’t really get much better. Kweens of my heart! —Local Girl Loves Pals
I ordered a coffee to go, you didn’t have a milk and sugar station like most spots…cool…However, you asked if I’d like cream or milk. After I requested cream you proceeded to walk over to a fridge on a far side of the counter take the carton and put the cream in my coffee for…
Shoutout to the guy waiting at a red light with the windows down and singing with full voice and body to AC/DC, then taking a smoke break during the guitar solo. Thanks for the moment! —Patio Customer
Dear Halifax driver, Do you think that shaving 4 seconds off your commute is worth almost running over a mother and toddler cycling down a quiet residential street? Did you need to swerve in front of us to beat us to the stop sign, which you barely stopped at anyway? Are our lives not worth…
Catherine Banks’s Governor General’s award-winning play Bone Cage is brought back to the Halifax stage by the intrepid Matchstick Theatre, and on the play’s tenth anniversary, no less. The story has its characters in rural Nova Scotia, a down-and-out bunch of young men and women, whose work is clearcutting the forest and mourning its wounds. Jamie…
To the sexy biker dude at the Mod Mansion Last weekend: When I first saw you I actually thought I missed Halloween. Sober me would have kept that to myself but in my drunken stupor I tried to make a joke out of it and your friends vacated the scene in horror. I apologized, you…
To the guy on the bus that that was sleeping, sorry for waking you up. You were sleeping for the last 10 stops though! I just didn’t want you to miss your stop. I hope you can forgive me and I hope you make it home soon so you can finish your nap. —Trying Too…
I made the switch over to a large gym recently, and was a bit unsure about working out in and navigating through a new space. This gym attracts a more bro-like demographic than gyms that I have used in the past and, boy, did that make me feel nervous. However, my fears could not have…
You are a beautiful, genuine and rare person. If others can’t see your light they weren’t meant to…they’re dimwits and jealous of you! STOP GIVING A FUCK! Cee Bee you are perfect. In every way. The things you say, the things you do, and they way you look. No one is like you, no one…
The two pieces presented by Spanish dance company, Compañia Sharon Fridman, are based in the technique of contact improvisation. The resulting movement is wonderfully fluid and allows pairs or groups of bodies to move and balance in ways that should be impossible. The dancers support one another and move as a single unit. A foot…
You live down the hall and call me to help you out when you’re on a “hard drive” and need help…but at work, you treat me like shit, bully me make me cry and mock me whilst doing so. You are the worst person I have ever known. Don’t expect me to do fuck all…
A post shared by CHKNCHOP (@chknchop) on Sep 17, 2017 at 4:38pm PDT Get ready for CHKN CHOP. The charcoal rotisserie chicken restaurant Jenna Mooers (EDNA) and Andrew Flood (Five by Five Renovations) announced in May is finally getting ready to open. “We are getting very close,” says Mooers, adding that the restaurant will be open…
Don’t ask for a tip from me after charging me over $14 for a burger, chip and fountain pop! —I Won’t Spare A Dime
Nova Scotia’s government wants the blunt truth. The province has unveiled an online survey seeking public input on proposed rules and regulations for recreational cannabis. “As the federal government moves toward legalizing cannabis, our top priority is to protect the health and safety of Nova Scotians,” claims Justice minister Mark Furey in a press release. “We want…
Energy East, the gargantuan, $16-billion pipeline project that would have transported over one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to New Brunswick, has died. It was four-years-old. Parent company TransCanada announced the death of its 4,500-kilometre pipeline baby on Thursday morning. Chief executive officer Russ Girling offered his thanks to the businesses, Irvings and…
12 Rapsey Recommends: Beats from Staying Underground Saturday One half of the epic beatmaking duo Staying Underground hosts this DJ night full of soon-to-be-hits at Lion & Bright. 11 Grease sing-along with XARA Choir Friday A sing-along screening of the classic good-girl-meets-bad-boy flick will be the one that you want. Held at St. Matthew’s United…
When will it end? Every day I wake with the hope that the 2016 presidential election was just a dream. Every day I am let down. Can’t he just shut the fuck up for three minutes? —Tired of Trump’s Turds of Wisdom
Works by Mario Doucette Anna Leonowens Gallery 1891 Granville Street To Oct 7 If history is a set of lies agreed upon, as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, then artists have long been complicit in those lies. Acadian artist Mario Doucette paraphrases this quote in his artist statement: “History is a lie that no one ever…
DaPoPo Theatre’s Live-In To Oct 31 Full schedule at facebook.com/DaPoPoTheatre With its net cast wider than ever, DaPoPo Theatre’s Live-In Festival is nine years old and going strong. “In contrast to previous years, we have curated a little less but opened the doors wider,” says Garry Williams, DaPoPo’s artistic director. This year’s festival theme is…
Sunday’s father is dying of cancer and he wants to go back to his hometown of Malagash to die. The kids, Sunday and her little brother Simon, are school-aged, and so the whole family packs up for the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s like summer vacation with the wonder of bucolic nature, except it’s…
Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road Sundays Each Sunday, Doubles PLUS can be found upstairs at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market serving up traditional cuisine from Trinidad and Tobago. Aleem Ibrahim, the man behind the vendor stand, says the dual-island nation is the “epicentre for food in the Caribbean.” Because of the diverse range…
A debate over illegal fishing has reached a boiling point in southwest Nova Scotia. Amidst accusations from non-Indigenous fishers about black market lobster sales, the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs is calling on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to finally clarify the policy surrounding a legal case nearly 20 years old. Mi’kmaw fishers…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22) You’re a good candidate for the following roles: 1. A skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. A robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. A charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. A smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate…
Please pay artists To Voice of the City writer Maggie Stewart: I’m so glad you are speaking up about this (“Stuck in the middle of the arts funding food-chain,” September 28). Our province and our country in general want to, as a good mutual friend of ours says, “support the art but not the artist.”…
Q I’m a 22-year-old straight male dating a 23-year-old woman. This is by far the most sexual relationship I’ve been in, which is great, except I recently “caught” my girlfriend masturbating with her roommate’s panties. (She knew I was coming over and wanted me to catch her.) She has a habit of sneaking her roommate’s…
The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition welcomes the recent report from the United Nations Group of Working Experts on People of African Descent on its mission to Canada. More than 25 African Nova Scotian organizations presented to the Working Group in October 2016 and are pleased to see many of…
Tall ships, strolls down the harbour and having the friendliest neighbourhood Maritimers around makes it hard to consider any other place “paradise.” As Scott Saccary backpacked around the world, it dawned on him how proud he was to be a Nova Scotian. The rest is the making of a business. The Saccary Brothers, Kevin and…
Jimmy Melvin got a not-guilty verdict at a murder trial earlier this year, but today he was convicted of trying and plotting to kill. A Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury in Halifax on Thursday declared James Melvin Jr. guilty of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit the murder of Terry Marriott Jr. The charges stem…
