Newbie sailors and easy-access paddlers Congratulations, you’re a member of St. Mary’s Boat Club! The neighbourhood boat club is open to the public and it doesn’t get any better than this. SMBC offers various sailing lessons and camps to anyone over the age of 10. (And ranging to upwards of 85!) All instructors are nationally […]
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Easter in Copenhagen
Here I am, Easter weekend, 2004, stuck in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m a third of the way through what will become a three-month trip through Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Even before I left my home in Vancouver, my mother was fretting over the holiday weekend, that I’d be left out in the cold with nowhere to […]
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Mud Festival in South Korea
At the Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul, with a twilight parade of 10,000 paper lanterns making its way down the old temple streets, go figure I would randomly run into a guy I rode the bus with in high school. There are only about 10 million people in South Korea’s capital city after all. He […]
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Drive the Quinpool cruise
There’s something in our subconscious that ties us to our cars. Especially in men. Maybe it starts with our fathers and the cars we remember when we were children, the trips we took, stuck in the back seat as the world went by. It could be the lasting imprint of that adult thrill of learning […]
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Bike tune-ups across Halifax
The sun is shining, birds are singing, and bikes arecoming out of the garage. Some of them are squeaking, creaking and moving slowly. Al Barbour at Nauss Bicycle Shop (2533 Agricola Steet, 429-0024) says a lot of people wait until their bikes don’t work before they come in. His advice: Find out how much air […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m a bisexual woman, aged 20, and I am threesome-ing it with my best friend and her boyfriend during a stay abroad. I knew the girl (who’s mostly straight) beforehand. The girl thinks it’s hot when I participate—when it’s all three of us in bed—but she gets jealous when her boyfriend and I do […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m a 23-year-old guy and I have been dating my 21-year-old girlfriend for about two years. We did the long-distance thing for a year, and after she graduated, she moved from the east coast to the midwest to be with me while I finish my degree. Everything was great until she moved in with […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m a straight male and I love my fiancee. She’s perfect. But while I am physically attracted to her, I find myself masturbating rather than having sex with her. She knows, but we don’t talk about it—we can’t—and recently she walked in on me, and it was very awkward. I put it away and […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m writing on behalf of a 19-year-old guy with cerebral palsy. As you may know, CP causes the part of the brain responsible for motor function to work incorrectly. Troubles include muscle spasticity, weakness and/or painful contraction, sometimes a life spent in a wheelchair. My buddy is, like any 19-year-old, interested in finding out […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m a 31-year-old man and my girlfriend is 28. We’ve been in a monogamous relationship for four years. Recently we’ve been doing the long-distance thing and we’re going to be doing it for a while, until I can move from Canada to the United States. This is our problem: She brought up the idea […]
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Black Invitational Basketball Tournament
The website advertises it as “36 years long, 36 years strong.” Strong is the key word in describing the Black Invitational Basketball Tournament. After three- and-a-half decades, the Provincial Black Basketball Association has carved a niche for itself, unique to any sporting event in North America. This year, teams will come from as far away […]
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Underdog
Act 1: A ragtag band of misfits with nothing to lose and everything to gain. When the film The Mighty Ducks came out in 1992, it was a surprise hit. It grossed $50 million in the US and spawned two sequels. The people had spoken. They love underdog stories on ice (and, apparently, Emilio Estevez). […]
