I wonder where the glove is. The original glove. From the earliest time Michael put it on and strutted out to grab his crotch and made people go (not for the first time and most certainly not for the last): “what the hell?” There are traces of his gloves on the ‘net, of course—one supposedly […]
Lezlie Lowe
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Question: Is Premier-elect Dexter cool?
Yeah, I’ll fess up to a little bit of Obama envy, sure. And Chronicle-Herald columnist Ralph Surette says I’m not alone. Surette told CBC Radio’s Information Morning last Wednesday that a voting majority of Nova Scotians are green for Barack, and that’s why we signed in our historic NDP-thick legislature June 9. No question—Nova Scotians […]
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Plastic bag lobby wants to stay disposable
Elly May Clampett could really work a paper dress. Elly May was patriarch Jed Clampett’s daughter on The Beverly Hillbillies, a 1960s sitcom about a family of nouveau riche hicks who move to a mansion in Beverly Hills after finding oil on their land. The Beverly Hillbillies finished production before I emerged from the womb […]
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Sleep deprivation, torture, and Continental Flight 3407.
Slate.com ran a story last week about sleep deprivation techniques used by US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. While perhaps not Abu Ghraibian in their scandalousness—CIA agents forced shackled prisoners to stand for up to 11 days straight—it was enough for Slate columnist Brian Palmer to work to answer the question “Can You Die From Lack […]
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Skate free and/or die
Citing safety concerns, the law says skateboarders must wear helmets. But some skaters and their supporters see the police
crackdown at the Commons Skatepark as mean-spirited and counterproductive.
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Terri Peace de-cups Tim Horton’s annual contest
“It’s about garbage on the ground,” says Terri Peace, “and throw-away stuff.” Peace is a community recreation programmer with HRM who coordinates the annual Pick up to Win Challenge. The rules are simple: participants—from youth environmental action group HEAT—have two weeks to collect as many littered disposable coffee cups as possible. Over three challenges, they’ve […]
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Hope, coloured blue
Susan Earle is sad. “Soon,” she says, “we’re going to be Hopeless.” And no, she’s not on about the economy. Earle is talking about the Hope Colour Processor in the Photography department at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. The 10-year-old $30,000 beast that’s leaving the university at the end of this […]
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Port of Halifax’s cat fix
While Halifax council played cat-and-mouse with an elusive permitting bylaw, Pierre Filiatreault single-handedly solved the feral feline problem at the Dockyard. Will councillors adopt his purr-fect solution for the entire city, or will the political fur fly again?
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Legislating helmet safety
Dear provincial legislators: We are Canadian. You can force us to wear helmets when we ski and skate, if you want to. I’m not saying Canadians—as a people—roll over and take whatever’s coming. No, no. We are a strong, proud country. We resisted American invasion in the War of 1812 and we’ll continue our feisty […]
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Changing shirts
Is it rude or just cynical to say when I first heard about Haligonian David Nurse’s business idea to sell anti-bullying t-shirts to raise cash for Kids Help Phone I thought it was a bad idea? In any case, I did. Of course I’m no fan of bullying. And I’m all for the good work […]
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Francesca Rogier v. The Halifax Regional Municipality– excerpts
[Editor’s note: this article is related to today’s feature story, Saving Brindi.] Here is a list of excerpts from the January 16, 2009, decision of Justice Duncan Beveridge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decision in the case of Francesca Rogier v. The Halifax Regional Municipality, the Field Operations Supervisor, Animal Services, Halifax Regional […]
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Saving Brindi
Sometimes you have to laugh, so that you don’t cry. Just ask Francesca Rogier. “I wouldn’t believe this story if somebody told me,” she says. “Honestly.” And yet…the fantastically far-fetched plotline that belongs to the story of Brindi the dog—Rogier’s five-year-old brown mutt that was seized by the city after three attacks on other dogs, […]
