[Image-1] So, the World Health Organization came out earlier this week saying that eating bacon, sausage and a number of other nitrate-heavy deli meats is the equivalent of smoking cigarettes. If you heard the news, you probably just shrugged your shoulders and said “Ah well, what can you do? There are so few pleasures in […]
Sherwood Hines
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Scenes from growing up gay in small-town Nova Scotia
[Image-1] In the opening scene two fairly fit, athletic, working-class boys from New Glasgow (but it can be any small town in Nova Scotia) are caught holding hands out in the local park by a group of local toughs, and are accused of being “faggots”. The group of boys are furiously homophobic. They set upon […]
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The Seaport Market and the problem of “authentic Maritime culture”
[Image-1] Update: Hines has published an update about this Voice of the City submission on his own blog. For added context, we’ve added a relevant passage from that post below in italics. The rest of his original Voice submission follows. “First of all, I wish to apologize to the Port Authority for potentially implying that […]
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The truth about Ottawa
[Image-1] “Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.” “There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers…” —Bertrand Russell […]