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The last best hope

Tom Martin wasn’t “full.” Not yet. He could still remember what Frank Hoskins, Sr., the legendary Halifax cop, used to tell the younger guys: No matter how much you love this job, he’d say, one day you’re gonna wake up and know you’re full. The first time Frank had said that, Martin was just a […]

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Hypnotic caterpillar

Hey this is really crazy and weird. Erm, I actually do other things besides look on youtube for bug and animal clips. Seriously. But I’d like to know who the genius was that came up the back crying back spots!Who, WHO? This advertising person clearly needs an award! I’d way rather watch foreign ads on […]

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Mining Silverstone

Actor Alicia Silverstone has been in town most of the summer filming MOW Candles on Bay Street, and she’s been spotted in practically every corner of the city. We’ve gotten sightings from Citadel Hill, the Waterfront, the Wooden Monkey, Barrington Street and the Lord Nelson. Last weekend Silverstone dropped by a house party, Mary Hamblin’s […]

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Power to the people

Today, the Herald is reporting on Stora Enso’s efforts to blackmail the province: Give us a break of $200 million off our power bill, or we close the Point Tupper mill and 610 people lose their jobs. Hopefully the province will tell the paper company to fuck itself. Why? As reported in yesterday’s Globe and […]

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CBC loses its senses

The Mother Corp is killing Street Cents. Idiots. And notice that story went up after 5 on Friday, suggesting the powers that be have picked up the devious politician’s trick of leaking bad news after the weekend’s begun and nobody’s paying attention. Fuckers. Watch the Thursday Coast for more on this stupidity.

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