While Metro Transit is getting its Go Time and Google Transit act together, a local software developer has launched a bus route planner to help Haligonians—without help from the city. William Lachance created hbus.ca beta, a route planner that allows Metro Transit patrons to plug in starting points and destinations to get route plans. The […]
Holly Gordon
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The Feds buy half a bus
In the grand scheme of things, it isn’t much—the $105,000 Transport Canada awarded the Halifax Regional Municipality this month through its ecoMOBILITY program, plus $140,000 from the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission and Conserve Nova Scotia, could only buy half a bus. But it’ll help. The ecoMOBILITY program gives money to cities and towns that have what […]
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Range of Mocean
Watching Estelle Clareton describe the band member that inspired her new dance piece for Mocean Dance is like attending a show in itself. The petite choreographer from Montreal stands on the Dunn Theatre steps, hunches her shoulders, spreads her arms in the act of holding an accordion and thumps her left foot on the next […]
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Treecycle and treeuse
Nova Scotia is home to 30,000 acres of sweet-smelling balsam firs and pines, some ready to be harvested for the holiday season. In 1996, Lunenburg was designated the world’s balsam fir capital because it produces more fir trees than anywhere else, and Nova Scotia trails just behind Quebec as the country’s biggest overall Christmas tree […]
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Miriam Toews hits the road
Three for the road Miriam Toews’ energetic new novel The Flying Troutmans depicts an unlikely family trip. Holly Gordon gets sucked into her characters’ lives. You wouldn’t know Miriam Toews’ voiceto hear it on the phone. Speaking from her home in Winnipeg, Toews’ upbeat, quick-to-laugh demeanor is unexpected after reading her Governor General’s award-winning A […]
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Come on, teacher!
Mention Lucy from the Trailer Park Boys and fake tits and bleach-blonde wigs come to mind. Maybe “trailer ho” slips in there, too. As Ricky’s on-again, off-again something-or-other on TPB, Lucy struts on screen with all the glamour a trailer-trash cussing woman should have: None. What comes to mind if you find out she’ll be […]
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Zip-lining in Laos
The sun rises over the Mekong River and meets my excitement about the next three days with no rain clouds to accompany it. Excellent. It’s monsoon season in Laos and a rainy day would mean six-to-eight hours of hiking instead of three. My boyfriend Jeff and I are about to participate in The Gibbon Experience—a […]