So far everything looks good on paper, but this weekend Metro Transit will find out exactly what happens when they put a fast ferry in the water and make the run from Mill Cove in Bedford to downtown Halifax. As part of HRM’s Ferry Cultivation Study, the Municipality has chartered a 200-passenger fast ferry from […]
Brent Sedo
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Pot shots
Listing his occupation as Marijuana Seed Vendor on his tax returns, Canadian anti-marijuana prohibition activist, Marc Emery, has paid over $575,000 to Revenue Canada since 1999, with Revenue Canada never once raising the issue of whether the money was the proceeds of a crime. In 2003, Health Canada advised medicinal marijuana patients that seeds for […]
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Till divorce do us part
It’s the classic story of love gone wrong. Ontario, the early ’90s. Girl meets girl, girls fall in love. For 10 years, the girls maintain a common law relationship, until that glorious day in June 2003 when the Ontario Court of Appeal finally recognizes the validity of same-sex marriages in that province, a decision the […]
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Tree’s a crowd
In my last year of minor hockey, playing in the aptly named juvenile division, the team went into the Christmas tree business as a fundraiser. Armed with axes, chain saws and home brew that could also come in handy starting frozen vehicles, we tramped into the woods and murdered about 30 spruce. We whacked down […]
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When a tree falls
Considering the size and weight, the oak tree that fell on my neighbour’s house at the height of Hurricane Juan landed softly, settling on the roof and bending gutters, but causing little other destruction. My neighbour is a handy-man type of guy, and the gutters will be repaired and replaced in a short Saturday afternoon. […]