Week four. Many of us didn’t believe it would last this long. Others think it’ll go on for a while yet. So much time to think on the line. Lately, I’ve been thinking about security. I’ve been on contracts of varying lengths at CBC for three years. My current contract is for 12 months; it’s […]
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Key words
I went to a lot of parties last weekend. The kind of parties at which the CBC lockout inevitably comes up. Maybe strangers are discussing how much they miss As It Happens, or maybe it’s someone who knows me, who asks how I’m handling the strike. “The lockout?” I say, “Oh, you know.” They respond […]
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Easy rider
As I pulled onto the highway on my Harley Davidson in the early morning fog of June 13, I had a particular David Mann painting in mind. It’s called “Ghost Rider.” It shows a lone biker rolling down a highway, his hair whipped by the wind. Running beside him is the ghost of a cowboy […]
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Club Meditation
When I signed up to work as an office temp, I thought I was in for a summer of polyester blouses wet in the pits, bloat-inducing Chinese lunches in underground cafeterias and endless hours of staring at a computer. What I got instead was induction into the Maharishi yogic cult, phone sex with a billionaire […]
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Easy Rider
As I pulled onto the highway on my Harley Davidson in the early morning fog of June 13, I had a particular David Mann painting in mind. It’s called “Ghost Rider.” It shows a lone biker rolling down a highway, his hair whipped by the wind. Running beside him is the ghost of a cowboy […]
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Mean Streets
THE ATTACK Wednesday, October 27, 2004 It was nearly two o’clock in the morning, and Devlin Kerry was out of cigarettes. A non-smoker likely would have ignored a late-night attack of the munchies and gone to bed, or decided he could live without breakfast cereal or milk in his coffee the next day. But for […]
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About a boy
The Mother climbed into her red Dakota pickup truck and placed the key in the ignition. She was about to pull out of a parking lot at Bayer’s Lake Industrial Park in Halifax—she’d just spent the afternoon shopping with her mom—when her cell phone rang. She looked at the clock. 2:50 pm. She thought it […]
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How low can they go?
Dozens of protestors wore blue paper placards and paraded around Halifax’s Mumford Road Wal-Mart store parking lot in the cold rain and wind. Their bibs lampooned the Wal-Mart name and slogan: they read “Mal-Wart” and “Always Low Standards.” The ink ran in the rain. Some fliered Wal-Mart customers with mock ads for items like the […]
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Pier Genius
Starting on May 13 to October 30, passengers disembarking from cruise ships into Halifax will face some unusual sights: Colleen Wolstenholme’s collection of Alice in Wonderland-sized psychoactive pills, Thierry Delva’s chiselled granite Two 45 Gallon Drums, Gerald Ferguson’s cascading pile of one million pennies. This artistic haven, just next door to Pier 21 where over […]
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Motorcycle Diary
Garnet Hill is the kind of guy who likes to light it up, grab a handful and smoke a fattie. That isn’t to say Hill is a pot smoker. No, he prefers to light up the engine of a high-powered motorcycle, grab a handful of throttle, give it a quick twist and smoke the rubber […]
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Teen beat
“MOST of us in here have already chose our path and we’re already doing what we’re going to do,” says Lloyd, leaning forward in his chair and clasping his hands. “They need to work more toward younger kids.” He speaks slowly, softly, in a deep monotone. He seldom makes eye contact. When he does, he […]
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Spending cycles
It’s a tense bike ride from Joseph Howe Drive to Bedford along the old Bedford highway. Cars and trucks zoom by at bike-rattling speeds all day, making the roadway a “horribly dangerous corridor for cyclists,” according to Rebecca O’Brien of the Ecology Action Centre’s TRAX program. But this eight-kilometre stretch of road has the potential […]
