[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 […]
Hillary Windsor
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Nova Scotia refuses to open up adoption records
[Image-1] Adoption. The word itself summons emotions, opinions, sensitivities—insensitivities. Many of us know someone who’s been affected by it. Someone who gave up a child, or someone who was raised by parents who weren’t the ones that birthed them. But most of us know very little about such a heavy issue—and even less about how […]
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Who’s to blame when apartments don’t recycle?
[Image-1] There’s a big waste problem slipping between the city’s cracks and winding up in the landfill. Compost and recyclables are getting mixed up with regular garbage—and the culprit is often apartment buildings. Living in a multi-unit building, you may have come across this issue. There will suspiciously be no green bins for organics, and […]
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Megan Leslie wants a ban on microbeads
Like aerosol cans, Styrofoam and the common car, oftentimes it takes us awhile to realize how detrimental our everyday products are to the environment. Turns out microbeads—the little artificial exfoliators living in your favourite face wash and toothpaste—are the newest addition to the shit list. The seemingly harmless mini-scrubbers carry with them myriad consequences, from […]
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An audit of the Otter Lake landfill
The Otter Lake landfill received about 58,000 tonnes of black-bag garbage last year, and, according to diversion planning coordinator Laurie Lewis, almost half of that could have been recycled. Lewis, of Halifax Solid Waste Resources, says 47 percent of last year’s garbage was stuff that didn’t need to be there: “Any recyclable or compostable item […]
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How Robert Houle “decolonized” himself through painting
[Image-1] Robert Houle turned painting into a full-time gig after selling his first piece—a small eight-by-10-inch acrylic titled “Red is Beautiful”—for $90 back in the ’70s. Since then, he’s served as the first curator of Contemporary Indian Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, garnered international exposure and most recently won the Governor General’s Award […]
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Closure and the social media accounts of the dead
[Image-1] Over the years, the Facebook community has grown exponentially, and, as life runs its course on all of us, people keep dying. More and more posthumous profiles continue to haunt cyberspace. Whether it’s creepy or comforting, we are the first generation to ever have to deal with it. Twenty-four-year-old Alex Walker lives in Halifax, […]
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Lone Wolf
It’s been four long years since the elusive William Matthew Mays III (or Matt Mays, as he’s better known) submerged into the dark and mysterious abyss that is album-writing, after his last record, Terminal Romance. But, after a couple broken guitars, hours of self-critique, and much, much ado, he’s finally ready to come back up […]
