Students down it to pull all-night study sessions, office workers to put in 100-hour work weeks, truck drivers to go the extra kilometres and even partygoers to dance until dawn. Caffeine, one of the world’s most commonly used psychoactive drugs—meaning it affects a person’s mind, mood or behaviour—can now be found in a consortium of […]
Robin Gillingham
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Moment of youth
It’s been one year. One year since 52-year-old Theresa McEvoy was killed when a stolen Chrysler LeBaron broadsided her silver 1991 Toyota Camry as she drove through the Almon and Connaught intersection in west-end Halifax. One year since a 16-year-old boy was charged with a number of offences, including criminal negligence causing death, related to […]
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About a boy
The Mother climbed into her red Dakota pickup truck and placed the key in the ignition. She was about to pull out of a parking lot at Bayer’s Lake Industrial Park in Halifax—she’d just spent the afternoon shopping with her mom—when her cell phone rang. She looked at the clock. 2:50 pm. She thought it […]
