To the Editor: Some time ago I posted a classified in your paper. It appears my e-mail address was saved, without my consent, for your mailing list; and in the last few days I’ve started receiving unsolicited e-mails asking me to sign up for more classifieds. I never would have believed it: spammed by The […]
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Letters to the Editor
To the editor, I moved to Halifax from Montreal just under two years ago on that fateful weekend when Nova Scotians we’re given the chance to vote for or against Sunday shopping. Starting my new life here I remember how let down I felt with the outcome. In Montreal I was extremely used to having […]
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Letters to the Editor
I’m writing this in response to Resident Weevil who thought bikes should be kept off the sidewalks. Now I ride a skateboard, not a bike. Although, I experience the same grief as many bikers, pedestrians who think they own the sidewalk. You can just walk in the middle of the sidewalk, pick a side! Besides […]
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Divisionary tactics
too bad he had to use profanity…for no good reason at all. By BoB.
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Historic events
The Harbourside Market in Historic Properties near the waterfront welcomes two new additions this week: The Mad Greek will take over the space formerly occupied by Brisket, and Harbourside Pub (a tentative name) will take over from John Shippey’s. The two are located on either side of Pizza Del Forno, and all three are owned […]
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Me-owch
We promise not to go on at length about the provincial election. Honest. Everybody knows the results by now anyway; the Conservatives won another minority, R-Mac still presides. Yeah, yeah, fine. But still, we feel the need to mention: of all the stories to emerge on election night, you gotta feel for former Waverley-Fall River-Beaver […]
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Rules of the road
To the editor, As a bicyclist in Halifax, I have noticed a number of dangerous dysfunctions in the streets of this city. Roads riddled with potholes make it hazardous for bicyclists. For example, there is an abysmal pothole situation on the corner of Rainnie Drive and Ahern Road; the street is in a shameful state […]
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Public nuisance
To the editor, Have you noticed the large, full-colour advertisements pasted to the construction fences at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on George Street, outside the Lieutenant Governor’s residence or on closed gas stations and other construction fences around town? These would be ads for Coke products, Axe boy’s perfume, the Junos and other […]
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Vote for me—or else
To the editor, At a recent all-candidates debate in a local riding, the Tory candidate kept stressing that the local inhabitants should vote for him if they wanted to be heard at the cabinet table and have favourable decisions. This is an immoral and pathetic example of the old style patronage politics practiced by the […]
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Self starter
For some, the term “do-it-yourself” (or “DIY”) evokes images of a Bob Vila-type handyman installing their own light switches or toilets. For others, it means a lifestyle comprised of responsible choices—a slower pace of life in a supportive community. For the most part, Iris Porter identifies with the latter definition. While her DIY theory also […]
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Slug it out
Dear slugs, You have won, you great stomach-turning bastards, with your slimy, decelerated ways. I concede a grave, shoulder-hunched defeat. Take my garden. You can have it. And go fuck yourself while you’re at it. I believe that is the only time I’ve been able to say that literally. I read in the paper last […]
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The wheel world
It’s been four years now since Halifax passed its Blueprint for a Bicycle-Friendly HRM and progress has been, well, like riding a one-speed straight up Duke Street. That is to say, slow and painful. There’s a handful of bike lanes, curiously placed around the region with little-to-no continuity for practical, day-to-day cycling. There’s a bike […]