Dear editor, John Hamm sounds like he’s out of touch with Nova Scotia youth and what it’s like finding work in today’s job market. As recent graduate I would have loved to have had the opportunity to stay in Nova Scotia. I grew up in Nova Scotia and lived in and around Halifax for 24 […]
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Hamm-fisted approach
Dear editor, I am absolutely appalled. Former premier Dr. John Hamm has suggested that university graduates who leave Nova Scotia to find work should be asked to pay back Nova Scotia taxpayers for part of the cost of their education. This from the man who so viciously cut funding from post-secondary education over the last […]
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The mess is the message
The Holocaust happened, right? We know it did, even though a few purported experts are in denial. Same goes for smoking. Despite the cadre of persistent doubters, there’s widespread understanding: You’re not doing your lungs a favour by inhaling fumes from a burning mix of tobacco and chemicals. So what’s the problem with global warming? […]
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Bin there, done that
Every April since 2000, mayor Peter Kelly has kicked off a “community clean-up campaign” on behalf of the city. Sometimes the campaigns come with snappy slogans (“Put Litter in its Place!”), sometimes they’ve been coordinated with non-profit group Clean Nova Scotia and sometimes they’ve had a specific focus, like cleaning the Sackville River in 2004. […]
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Peep this
News on the stale Easter candy front: those five Marshmallow Peeps hardening on your kitchen counter aren’t the last of this year’s flock. The little fellas left millions of sickly sweet brothers and sisters back at the factory. And here they come now. Marshmallow Peeps—the toxic-yellow sugar-encrusted baby bird-shaped candies—are no longer hatching just at […]
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Circular logic
I drive through the Armdale Rotary several times a day. Before I moved, I was worried about the Rotary; it had a reputation for being a traffic nightmare. After two or three trips through it, I relaxed. Even in rush hour, there is never more than a 30 minute delay added to one’s commute. This […]
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Circular logic
I drive through the Armdale Rotary several times a day. Before I moved, I was worried about the Rotary; it had a reputation for being a traffic nightmare. After two or three trips through it, I relaxed. Even in rush hour, there is never more than a 30 minute delay added to one’s commute. This […]
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Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn […]
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Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn […]
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Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn […]
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Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn […]
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Letters to the Editor
Most years, the Public Gardens open on the long weekend in May and close on Remembrance Day, November 11, limiting public access to the city’s most beautiful park. Given the good weather that Haligonians often enjoy in early spring and late fall, shouldn’t the Gardens be open as weather permits? Last year and this year, […]