There is something so unmistakably whole about people, whether thoroughbred or import, from the south shore of Nova Scotia. The stretch of land and water running from Lunenburg County to Yarmouth and curling up into Digby breeds a good, honest and endlessly admirable people. They come fully equipped with unabridged resourcefulness, a thriving arsenal of […]
Hillary Windsor
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Mining group pays school kids to film propaganda
For the past four years, the Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS) has been making its way into local schools, encouraging junior high and high school students to create homemade commercials about mining and enlisting political leaders to award cash prizes for the top submissions. Sean Kirby, MANS’ executive director, says the “Mining Rocks” video […]
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Dispensing with marijuana prohibition
[Image-1] Even though it may seem like the illegality associated with weed today is akin to the criminal severity of something like jaywalking, the fact is that here in Nova Scotia, under many circumstances, having, selling or smoking the stuff could still get you thrown in jail. That’s exactly what may happen to Shirley Martineau, […]
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Drinking wine and making cat furniture
Supplies Two lidded wine creates from your local liquor purveyor (free, usually) Nails that are normal/smallish ($4) Semi-ugly floor mat for carpet bits ($3 at the dollar store) All-purpose craft-glue ($5) It’s one thing to be an indebted post-grad using curb sides and Kijiji as the primary avenue for acquiring furniture, but where does one […]
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Fringe Fest for first-timers
Dark Matter Thursday, September 8, 10:30pm Friday, September 9, 6:45pm Saturday, September 10, 12:45pm & 9:45pm Sunday, September 11, 2:35pm Plan B Merchants Co-op, 2180 Gottingen Street $7 If you have enough time to make it through half an episode of Stranger Things, then you have enough time to check out some of this year’s […]
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“It’s a good homecoming.”
T. Thomason just released an EP, quit his job and moved home to Halifax for the summer. A few other things have changed since we last heard from him, but quite frankly, Halifax hasn’t yet been formally introduced. Known as Molly Thomason in a soon-to-be-forgotten past life, the 21-year-old from Antigonish has given birth to […]
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Swimming in Halifax Harbour
[Image-1] I’m flying around on a tube attached to a rope. I can see the city, just a few hundred metres off in the distance. I can feel the tops of my feet skidding across the water—my toes slicing the surface at 30 kilometres an hour. My hair, soaked, takes on a tentacle form and […]
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While you were sleeping
[Image-1] “It was fucking brutal.” Justine MacPhee doesn’t hold back when talking about her past bedbug infestation. The 24-year-old Haligonian is still trying to climb back up from the financial and psychological damage. “How shitty it was having to wash and dry on high heat, which destroyed a lot of my clothing,” she says. “I […]
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Welcome to university, now dump your boyfriend
[Image-1] College life has more than earned its widely purported reputation. There’s the top-notch education it instills in the leaders of tomorrow, and also all that wonderful, selfish lust-filled living provided alongside the overpriced academia, dingy dorms and calorically ignorant meal plans. It makes sense that any 18-year-old who’s living away from their parents’ place […]
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Chopped and screwed
[Image-1] We’ve all been taken aback by it while tuned into some FM radio station or another. There you are, gearing up to spit out Left Eye’s verse in TLC’s “Waterfalls” or priming yourself for Snoop’s verse in Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” and…nothing. Like a tree shaken bare, you’re left with just a leafy skeleton […]
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Why do people still hate cyclists?
[Image-1] When you’re a pedestrian, you hate drivers. When you’re a driver, you hate pedestrians. And when you’re a cyclist, everyone hates you. We’ve all been there—in the driver’s seat, so to say. I myself am a former quasi-cyclist, and a current motorist, and even I have caught myself getting lame-ass road rage when I’m […]
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Cycling’s not just for hipsters
[Image-1] Walking down Agricola Street on any given day, you’re sure to see anywhere from five to 47 vintage two-speeds either chained up or being navigated by charismatic, stylish and carefully dishevelled-looking twenty-somethings. Their modes of transportation are at least 30 years their senior—and the older, the better. But what about the folks who were […]
