Liz and Hannah are known to their customers as The Girls. On a Sunday afternoon, in their apartment in Halifax, they wear ladybug socks, stir candy cane hot chocolate and answer the door to conduct a mellow drug deal. “What can I get you?” Liz asks a new customer, who was referred to The Girls […]
Meagan Campbell
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Badminton—a darn Canadian sport
[Image-1] In a national gold medal match a few weeks ago, a badminton player earned a red card when he told the umpire—a petite gray-haired woman—to “keep track of the fucking score.” Yes, the sport can get more intense than a birdie going ping, leaving welts on faces and tearing skin from knees. But at […]
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The Sidney Crosby of dog handlers
Colton O’Shea wears a suit and tie when he’s working, and the sort of business shoes that are hardly fitting for the cardio his job entails. He’d never show discomfort though, especially since his comrades all wear collars too. As polished and unflappable as an English butler, he ensures his well-bred charges are perfectly poised […]
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We don’t need money to win the war on skin cancer
The fact that tanning beds can give you skin cancer is the most ingrained cliche on our disease-prevention radar. The vast majority of us are proud to say we’ve never used one and even prouder to say our province bans them for people under 18. But after my aunt, Ginny, was diagnosed two years ago […]