The devil, it’s often said, is in the details. And while few details are known about the ongoing land-swap negotiations between HRM and the province (the municipality wants the provincially owned Infirmary site on Queen for a new library, while the province wants to expand the QEII Health Sciences Centre onto land formally occupied by […]
Brent Sedo
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The silent killers
It’s closing time at a Halifax bar and in the parking lot a fight breaks out. It’s over in seconds and the combatants scatter, except for the one they leave behind, the one they say started it all. The last they know, he’s on the ground, but they don’t think they’ve killed the guy. But […]
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Downtown rising
The revitalization of Barrington Street is moving into a new phase. Those involved in the project hope it will lead to the implementation of a plan by this time next year. The most recent discussions about Barrington began in 2004, when HRM formed a steering committee—comprised of Barrington retailers, property owners, Nova Scotia Heritage Trust […]
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Revving for a fight
As far as Kevin Moynihan is concerned, there’s a battle going on in HRM these days between people and cars. “As of right now,” he says, “cars are winning.” As one of the residents directly affected by the Chebucto Road widening project, Moynihan is in a position to know. If the project, approved in an […]
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Lacrossing over
His passion for the sport has turned Dan Finck into something of a lacrosse nomad. At the age of 26, the Halifax native has spent almost half his life away from home, playing lacrosse. He first left home to finish high school in the Boston area at a private school where he could play at […]
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Not addressed
For weeks, Diana Viet had watched the pile of garbage between her North Street home and the two-unit apartment next door gradually building up. Black bag after black bag of garbage, pieces of cardboard, bundles of newspaper, and even an old mattress was slowly filling the narrow space between the two buildings, all of it […]
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High time
It was a slip that started it all. A moment of carelessness that, had the planets been aligned differently, may have had few consequences beyond bruises and a couple days of walking around with a limp. But it was not Wayne Lalonde’s lucky day, and when he fell down a flight of stairs while moving […]
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The big easy
There sometimes comes a point on the road of higher learning when, because your brain needs a break—or you’re just a slack ass—you may want to throw all pretense of actually furthering your education to the wind for a while, and sign up for something, shall we say, easy. In my case, I carefully weighed […]
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Bilge and purge
Once, maybe twice a year you see it on the news. Seabirds on the Atlantic coast, dead and dying, covered with an oily mess, the result of foreign cargo and other ships deliberately dumping bilge oils—the slimy crap that accumulates in the bottom of the ship while at sea—into the ocean. They do so off […]
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Flip the scripture
It couldn’t be any more clear. Homosexuality—male homosexuality, at least—is an abomination. It says so in Leviticus, the third book of the Old Testament, chapter 20, verse 13: “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.” Both of them, it continues, should be put to […]
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Board games
Ah, life on the Canadian National Snowboard team. It’s waking up in the French Alps, and hanging out at the most chi-chi of European ski resorts. It’s photo-ops and media sessions. It’s making friends with fellow athletes from Austria, Finland and Japan. It’s personal trainers and top-line medical care. It’s, it’s… “It’s a lot of […]
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Dig Deeper
Give. Give generously. Give blood. Give a little, give a lot, give till it hurts. It’s better to give than receive. This is the season for giving. Forgiving. What can you give? On the phone, through the mail, at the door of the grocery store, people ask a lot of other people. In Canada there […]