The HRM plans to convert the Armdale Rotary to a roundabout and add a third, reversible lane on Chebucto Road in order to improve the efficiency of the rotary. Andrea McQuillin, a homeowner in the area, says, “I think this is short-sighted. I don’t even think it’s a solution,” adding she and her neighbours would […]
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All the small things
Last Saturday, the Shearwater Aviation Museum was home to a number of craft much smaller than its usual big birds. The Eighth Annual Model Makers Showcase & Contest was on. Downstairs, folks were showing off their handicraft, which ranged all over the historical time line. They sat at tables with models, tackle boxes of tools […]
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Twisted design
What stops Halifax architects Craig Mosher and Niall Savage from embracing heritage defenders is bigger than the chain-link fence that surrounds the Texpark site on Hollis and Sackville Streets; it’s their imaginations. As modernist architects, both put function before form. They prefer straight lines. They emphasize shape, light and transparency before things like the decorative […]
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Broken home
Early Monday morning, a backhoe began ripping through an old blue house on the corner of Creighton and Gerrish Streets. By 11:30am, the view from the sidewalk was deceptive—the facade of the building was still intact, giving the impression of a fully-formed home. But behind the outer walls, most of the house already lay in […]
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Snow parking zone
Last year, Kristian Curran and his wife lived though their first full winter as downtown homeowners. Curran also lived through his first experience with the downtown winter parking ban. Abiding by the ban, which does not allow parking on downtown streets between 1 and 7am, Curran moved his car off of Maynard Street street every […]
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Lords of dogtown
There were paw prints in the snow outside the doors of Exhibition Park last weekend. Hundreds of dogs made their way over snow banks and past what must have been an achingly tempting arena full of soccer balls to Exhibition Hall where, full of dogged doggy hope, they attempted to paw their way to victory […]
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Bus route
Andrew Curran spent hours last week riding Metro Transit busses and hanging out at bus stops, but he didn’t have any particular destination in mind – he was there for the conversation. “We were out taking to people all day,” recalls Curran, who made the aimless trip along with a friend and a video camera. […]
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The Khyboshed Club
the chalkboard that hangs above the bar of the Khyber Club says everything: “The HRM has decided to close The Khyber Club. Saturday, February 4, is it. No, we don’t know why.” In spite of an agreement made by the city to keep the bar open until February 20, Heather Gibson, manager of The Khyber […]
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My bloody Valentine
About 15 years ago, I decided that I hated Valentine’s Day. I’d spent the day wading through wave after wave of nauseating treats—flowers delivered to classmates, candygram tables in the student union building and those stupid, stupid heart-shaped foil balloons—each of them obviously intended for someone other than me. Each of them reminding me that […]
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Let me count the ways
Love defies definition. As one of those universal truths we all hold dear, it’s a huge concept that people, time and again, try to boil down or reduce to an easy and digestible idea. So why do people bother trying to nail it down? People try to define love for different reasons, although you can […]
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Lovesome town
Piping hot I don’t know how juicy it is, but my now fiancee and I met six years ago. I was having plumbing problems; there was water everywhere. I looked like a drowned rat. I called a plumber and George came to the door and fixed the pipes. We chatted the whole time. He had […]
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Supreme court
In a small auditorium in the Dalhousie architecture building, roughly 250 people came to debate the future of the area near Spring Garden Road and Queen Street. By the time the meeting got underway at 7:00 pm, there were no more seats. When Mark Reid of Urban Strategies Inc. formally began his presentation, audience members […]