“People need to see it to believe it,” says Myriam Hammami. With her new veggie-fuelled car, Hammami will stoke the flames of belief wherever she goes. Hammami is the education coordinator for the Atlantic Canada chapter of the Sierra Club, and her job takes her to schools all over the Maritimes. Hammami drives an average […]
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Art of the matter
A quick tour around the HRM Cultural Advisory Committee’s open house on November 28 paints a grim picture for the city’s proposed cultural plan. While councillor Sue Uteck and a group of city staffers listen to citizens’ concerns, the other 10 members of the committee, comprised of citizen volunteers and other city representatives, are not […]
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Street smarts
Fred Connors says prior to opening his hair salon on the corner of North and Agricola Streets, he was focused only on his shop preparations, not the community in which he had chosen to operate. Within 24 hours of opening his self-titled salon Fred, Connors saw an abundance of pedestrian and automobile traffic, the diversity […]
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CSI: Halifax
Of course this simplistic generalization is not wholly without challenge. Especially given that these are hardly gentle times we live in. For some like Rob Furlong, there exists another category, the sort most of us don’t want to get: the bad news call. Over the past few years, these types of calls have been Furlong’s […]
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No place to go (part 2)
At the December 2, 2002 meeting of the Chebucto Community Council, councillor Linda Mosher brought to the assembly’s attention that an average 300 people per day were using the washrooms at the (now-demolished) Scotia Branch Legion on Cunard Street (Legion members, according to the minutes, obliged these visitors). This complaint appears to be an early […]
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Fuelling the fire
Not all gas prices were created equal. Often the gas prices at one station can be very different from prices at a station two or three blocks down the street, sometimes by as much as seven cents. For those who simply gas up at the first station they see, it’s a frustrating experience. But a […]
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No place to go
Matt Smythe is homeless. And while he may spend nights sleeping on the cold concrete sidewalks of downtown Halifax, he would never pee there. “It’s a real nuisance. But unlike a lot of other people, I really take issue with the I’ll-go-anywhere approach,” says the clean-cut Ontario native, sitting behind a desk at the Halifax […]
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Ground Zero
My wife spent yesterday in New Orleans, getting the house ready to put on the market. She woke up at 5 a.m. to drive in with a friend. She cleaned the kids’ rooms, hung the pictures back on the walls, stacked the Saturday, Aug. 28, issue of the Times-Picayune — the one with the “Katrina […]
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Grand ideas
It’s easy to criticize the parking lot in the Grand Parade. As a prime piece of public land and a centrepiece for the city, there are plenty of uses for the square that would be more inspiring than a car park. Now that city council has resolved to stop using the public square as a […]
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Need for speed
So far everything looks good on paper, but this weekend Metro Transit will find out exactly what happens when they put a fast ferry in the water and make the run from Mill Cove in Bedford to downtown Halifax. As part of HRM’s Ferry Cultivation Study, the Municipality has chartered a 200-passenger fast ferry from […]
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Drafty plans
Angela Weal might want to save some of the red tape she’s been buried under—she could use it to fix up her apartment. With winter looming, Weal has found herself in a battle with her landlord over the state of her Bloomfield Street residence, which she claims does not meet the minimum housing standards outlined […]
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On approval
There’s a prime piece of land, some 15,000 square metres big, between Salter Street and Bishop’s Landing on the Halifax waterfront. It currently sits as a large parking lot space. But city planners and a development group are now looking at the site with new eyes, hoping to turn the spot into the city’s brightest […]