Proving that he can work with humans too, check out the trailer for Jacob Owens’ new film, The Last Day, which he created for a three-day film competition. And while you’re there, relive the magic of Copain.
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Burning Ears for Friday
Major yawns today as Halifax lives up to its reputation as the city that sleeps. The only vaguely unusual mention of our town on the world’s wonderful web comes from a site based in Washington, DC, that appears to specialize in telecommunications news. According to TeleGeography.com, some Canadian phone companies are trying to…actually, I’ve got […]
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Liberals see Green
Some time this morning, national Liberal Party leader Stéphane Dion is supposed to announce that the Liberals won’t be running a candidate in Central Nova if/when the next election is called. This should make things easier for Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who chose a high-profile battle by running in Central Nova against Conservative cabinet […]
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Burning Ears for Thursday
Today we’re going on strike, to protest any attention that Stockwell Day’s stupid stowaway search receives, whether local, national or international. The guy is not a spy, who had to come to Halifax under “news blackout” to surprise a couple hundred hungry stowaways. He is a glory grubbing loser who tried to find a spotlight […]
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Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can’t lose.
I’ve held off on writing about Friday Night Lights because I haven’t been able to articulate how it makes me feel. Now that NBC has done the right thing by taking a chance and locking down the low-rated but awesome 30 Rock for a second season, I’m adding my voice to the rising chorus of […]
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Revving for a fight
As far as Kevin Moynihan is concerned, there’s a battle going on in HRM these days between people and cars. “As of right now,” he says, “cars are winning.” As one of the residents directly affected by the Chebucto Road widening project, Moynihan is in a position to know. If the project, approved in an […]
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Where goes the neighbourhood?
Imagine dozens of tourists passing by the Public Gardens and Peggy’s Cove—and making a bee-line for what’s left of one of the oldest surviving inner-city neighbourhoods in Canada: peninsular Halifax’s north end. They’d come to see the area’s saltbox-shaped houses; its Georgian architecture; its tiny one-and-a-half storey houses; its four-storey decaying Brunswick Street mansions; its […]
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No Burning Ears today
Sorry, Burning Ears fan(s), but I got swamped by other Coast work today and can’t keep up with the rest of the world. Tune in tomorrow for more links than you can shake a mouse at. And please don’t say too much nasty shit about me.
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Taking the dish out of discrimination
Remember the human rights case from last summer about Ahmed Assal and the satellite dish? Assal is the Muslim man in Clayton Park who claims that practising his religion depends on a dish that receives Arabic programming, and thus the “no dish” rule that that covers his condominium complex hampers his religious freedom. Well, a […]
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Heather Mallick speaks the truth
I am a big fan of this former Globe columnist. She writes for the CBC website now, and this week’s column about real-world and online communities is really powerful; in particular, this paragraph about open blog/newspaper/comment writing struck me: “The result of all this is not, I think, democracy. Why should everyone have a voice? […]
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Stephen Kimber collects nominations
Appanetly Atlantic Journalism Award nominations aren’t enough for this guy. Coast Senior Features Writer Stephen Kimber’s first novel Reparations was also nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction! Happy to see another of my fave writers Ami McKay also up for a couple. All of the Atlantic Book Award winners will be announced at […]
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Burning Ears for Tuesday
It’s been a long Easter break for Burning Ears, but I’m back with a basket of clippings. No surprise that big snowstorm got plenty of attention, as did a Haligonian death in Afghanistan. And of course in Maine they’re on about about kicking Moosehead ass. Full links to these stories and lots more below. CANADIAN […]
