The Purcell’s Cove area (from Williams Lake to Ferguson’s Cove) is a place of striking beauty. A significant part of the Backlands to the west of the area will become Halifax’s new Urban Wilderness Park. The serenity the Cove’s appearance contrasts sharply with the tension in its relationship with the central city since its annexation […]
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Gender reveal redux
Professionally, I never came out when I came out. I just disappeared. I couldn’t deal with it. For most of my career, coming out in any way would have demanded doing so very publicly. I held those kinds of jobs—advocate for people with disabilities, legislative researcher, assistant to a provincial cabinet minister, communications person for […]
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A war on every front
You are eight years old and today is the first day of fishing season. Your father has finally taken you out with him and even bought you your own pole. Though you’re too young to understand adulthood, you can tell that this is how you become the person you hope to be. Your chest swells […]
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Letters to the editor, November 22, 2018
There goes Bilby I just read the story on residents getting priced out of Bilby Street by development (“Bilby Street’s unaffordable future,” The City story by Sandra C. Hannebohm, November 8). We bought our first home on the street in 1992. Great location for the city. I could walk to work, the kids to school […]
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Sharing nudes: Advice for all the Tony Clements out there
On Tuesday, November 7, amid the Ameri- can midterm election results starting to roll in, Conservative MP Tony Clement issued a statement admitting to sharing nude images online with a person other than his wife. This came as no shock to many twenty-something women who quickly took to Twitter to share stories of creepy Instagram […]
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Letters to the editor, November 15, 2018
Hit the brakes on Creighton St. bikes I have been an owner/resident in the north end’s Creighton Street neighbourhood for almost 20 years. It has always been an amazing area to live in, and continues to have more services all the time, with new people and businesses settling in and making the area more enriched. […]
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Halifax is not Canada’s Black Mecca
Growing up in Toronto we all thought of Nova Scotia as Canada’s Black Mecca. My parents, like so many others, were Black immigrants born either in Africa or the Caribbean. They moved to Canada during the first Trudeau era—moving to Canada’s largest city promised economic prosperity, safety and inclusion. However, our elders had no idea […]
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Refugee moms at serious risk for postpartum depression
Her first pregnancy is a unique experience in any woman’s life. Welcoming a new family member could be an exciting event, especially for a woman becoming a mother for the first time. However, this isn’t always the case for newcomer Syrian refugee women resettling in Canada. From November 2015 to January 2017, 40,000 Syrian refugees […]
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Letters to the editor, November 8, 2018
Defender defence Our apologies for the delayed response, but we are writing to respond to a letter to the editor that you printed on September 6, regarding a land and water ceremony in Point Pleasant Park this summer (“Settler nonsense,” Reply all, writer’s name withheld by request). We were two of the organizers of that […]
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Letters to the editor, November 1, 2018
A CFL stadium?! Just say NO! to the city paying for a stadium for a local Canadian Football League team (“Halifax tackles funding options for $200-million CFL stadium,” Reality Bites story by Jacob Boon, posted October 26 at thecoast.ca). It’s unclear who will own the stadium and who will pay for the cost of building […]
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Trump’s words have weaponized terror
Words cannot adequately express my outrage at the attempted bombings against one of the most reliable sources of journalism in America and on this planet. It is heartbreaking to imagine what CNN workers and their families went through as these attempted bombings unfolded. Likewise for the families of the Democratic politicians, liberal supporters and Trump critics […]
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Gothic Voices of the City
Every year Dalhousie University awards its Varma Prize to English students who compose original works of gothic fiction. The award is named in memory of Devendra Varma, former professor emeritus at Dal and a former honourary vice-president of the Vampire Research Society. For your horror this Halloween, the Midnight Society once again proudly presents, in order, […]
