Tannaya Hantelman is a rare breed. Just ask her how many women are like her in Atlantic Canada. “Doing what I do?” she says, laughing and playing with the hair elastic around her wrist. “Just me.” At 6:30am, while you were probably just getting up, she was in spin class. Then, while you were having […]
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SAVAGE LOVE
Q How much piss can one consume without getting sick? —Sincerely Curious A I usually float medical questions over to Dr. Barak Gaster, Savage Love’s long-suffering resident medical expert. But after braving a torrent of piss questions over the years, Dr. Gaster has developed something of a piss-question phobia. So, SC, I tossed your question […]
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Savage Love
Q I’m a 21-year-old female, and I’ve been going out with my boyfriend for four years. He wants me to masturbate for him, but I don’t feel comfortable doing it. I love my boyfriend and plan on marrying him, but I cannot find a way to do this. I would like to do it. I […]
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Free Will Astrology
Judge not, Leo: It’s a surer way to be happy, says Rob Brezsny.
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Commonwealth Games Investigation part one: Halifax 2014 big plans
Seven months after Halifax’s Commonwealth Games bid collapsed, there still hasn’t been full disclosure of the records of the Halifax 2014 Bid Society, the non-governmental organization put together to pursue the Commonwealth Games. Neither has there been public discussion of the decision-making process that led to the demise of Halifax’s bid. So how are we […]
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Frequent flying
While detailed financial documents still haven’t yet been made public, I have been able to piece together the broad outline of the Halifax 2014 Bid Society’s international travel, and details of some of the trips, through documents obtained from the provincial government. In March 2006, a group of 11 Halifax 2014 board members and staff […]
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Rating approval
Commonwealth Games supporters repeatedly cited public opinion polls that showed the public was solidly behind the Games effort. Those polls, however, asked incomplete questions and were conducted by a polling firm that has a business relationship with a design company that won nearly half a million dollars in Games-related contracts. Corporate Research Associates is a […]
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SAVAGE LOVE
Q More than a few times, you have implied that if one’s partner is unwilling to satisfy, the deprived person has a right to seek it elsewhere. My sex life with my wife, despite my best efforts, is infrequent and uninspired. I recently met a married woman who has had a nonexistent sex life for […]
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Make a new treaty with your evil twin, Pisces, says Rob Brezsny.
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Grand slam
On the small porch outside of Steve-O-Reno’son Brunswick Street, Andrew Abraham recites his tongue-twister of a poem, St. Bullshit College. Two minutes in, he pauses. “See, if I choke like that at the slam I’m fucked,” he says, before continuing with his poem. The slam—a competition for spoken word artists—is one highlight of the Canadian […]
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SAVAGE LOVE
Q Who the hell wears swim caps anymore? I haven’t seen a swim cap in years. That question in your column last week from the swim-cap fetishist getting off on his visits to public pools was bullshit. I would think you, of all people, could see through it. —Sexy St. Louis Girl A Lots of […]
