[Image-1] For Danica, childhood wasn’t a happy time—not even during the holidays. “I had a mother that was very physical with me,” recalls Danica. “She would throw me down the stairs.” For just over six months, Danica (not her real name) has been staying at The Marguerite Centre in Timberlea. The centre is a shelter […]
Rebecca Dingwell
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The ongoing fight against on-campus rape
[Image-1] A young woman walks through campus at night. She cuts across a parking lot and behind the Howe Hall residence at Dalhousie. There, she sees a group of male students—about five, or maybe six. She’s a student at King’s, adjacent to Dal, but these men are not familiar to her. One locks his eyes […]
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Paint the town Rad
Pride began as a protest. Demands for political change brought together LGBTQIA activists who took to the streets of New York City 46 years ago. People in the community felt they were being treated poorly, especially by police and authority figures. They’d had enough. A riot broke out and eventually spread across the city. Millions […]
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Plenty of options for staying sober at Pride
Pride week in Halifax means tons of chances to party—but where do you go if you want to be dry? Don’t worry. Being sober at Pride doesn’t have to be a buzzkill. Only a handful of Halifax Pride events are officially 19-plus, however Pride chair Willem Blois does admit the overall program lists many boozy […]
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I’s the bi
Mike Morse feels bisexuality gets a bad rap.”People think that we can’t make up our minds, that we’re really greedy,” Morse says. During last year’s Pride week, Morse and their partner Alix Todd noticed there weren’t any events geared towards people who identify as bisexual. “We were like, ‘Well, if no one else is doing […]
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Halifax to Toronto on foot
[Image-1] Living in the city has its upsides: lots of people, public transportation and plenty of things to do. But the hustle and bustle can be tiring after awhile. That’s one of a few reasons why Aaron Beck and Jillian Moran decided to walk from Halifax to Toronto this summer, tenting all the way. Well, […]
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What’s the best way to file your taxes?
Mimi Cahill says she knew “absolutely nothing” when she first started filing taxes. But who can blame her? “How to do taxes” usually isn’t a high school course. She was only 15. “The people I babysat for actually put it in their taxes to get a credit for me, because they were paying me so […]
