Rob Shedden has a new business selling organic vegan pies at the Farmers’ Market. Operating under the name of Waudie’s, Shedden shares space with Selwood Green Organics in the Market courtyard. Shedden’s pies are all made using his grandmother’s pastry recipe, but he substitutes palm oil for butter to make them vegan. Shedden plans to […]
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The skatepark cometh
Last week, dirt-pushing machines appeared on the Halifax Common to break ground on the new $500,000 skatepark backed by the Halifax Skatepark Coalition. According to Coalition director/chairperson Jacquie Thillaye, the hope is that the new park will be fully skateable by mid-summer. “We’re looking at a two-to-three-month build schedule,” she says. The existing skatepark will […]
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Where the wind blows
To the editor, I was surprised by Mike Fleury’s rosy-spectacled comments about wind power in Reality Bites (April 20). It seems Mr. Fleury is quite happy to buy into the current “greenwash” around alternative energy that our provincial government and Nova Scotia Power are selling the public these days. Recently, the provincial government has been […]
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Don’t believe the hype
To The Coast, Man, I never write in to reply to editorials, but Kyle Shaw’s “The mess is the message” (April 20) made me think. Starting from scratch on global warming is exactly what we need. There have been so many conflicting predictions about what global warming has, is or is about to do. Look […]
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Et tu, Brute?
To the editor, While I was surprised by the fact that the Canadian media largely ignored Stephen Harper’s discontinuation of the One-Tonne Challenge (how do you cancel a challenge?) and took a blase attitude toward Earth Day (April 22) this year, I was downright shocked that the same went for The Coast. Where are your […]
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Major withdrawal
There’s a banking boom of sorts happening on Gottingen Street. For years the Pharmasave had the street’s only ATM, but now cash machines abound. Near the Gerrish intersection, Joe’s Market, Kit Kat Pizza and the Gottingen Food Market each have one. Further north around Almon, both Needs and Israel Convenience host machines. They’re in a […]
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Head games
Does fooling around with numbers make you math-savvy? It must. I convinced myself—a grade 11 honours student—I just “couldn’t do” math. I’ve been using a calculator ever since and now, guess what? I actually can’t do math. My multiplication tables have been erased to make space for information I access more often (Dharma Sushi’s phone […]
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The trials of Dr. Horne
Her first “light-bulb moment” occurred sometime on a Friday morning in the spring of 1999, probably in the stairwell between her tiny, windowless office on the second floor of the new Halifax Infirmary and the hospital’s Heart Function Clinic two flights up. Dr. Gabrielle Horne was on call at the clinic that morning—the nurses would […]
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Sticks to your ribs
Sticks restaurant opened last Monday at 5543 Young St in the Hydrostone Market. The name is inspired by the restaurant’s primary implement of service: the skewer stick. Sticks currently offers six varieties of skewers, including honey, peanut and lemon-oregano chicken, as well as salmon, shrimp and lamb skewers. “I do a lot of travelling to […]
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Down with Downhome
If you’re going to be in southern Ontario this weekend, be sure to take a bemused glance at Toronto’s Downhome Show, “a celebration of East Coast food, drink, comedy, and music,” according to the show’s website. The show, designed to give ex-pat Maritimers a little taste of home, does a fine job at capturing the […]
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Open sesame
To the editor, Most years, the Public Gardens opens on the long weekend in May and closes on Remembrance Day, limiting public access to the city’s most beautiful park. Instead, I suggest the city close the Public Gardens with the first snowfall after November 11 and open as soon as conditions permit in April. We […]
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Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve
Dear Mike Fleury, I like the Carnival idea for the Spring Garden and Queen lot, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use. Level off the big rubble piles and fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, a lounging-on-lawn-chairs area, beach […]