My friend sits out on his back deck, where he would normally be grilling the hamburgers. The tiny pool is ready for our kids. The fence is propped up with two-by-fours. The house is clean, the toys are on the shelves, ready for an onslaught of little hands. But our kids aren’t there. Not only […]
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Letters to the Editor
Give The Coast a break. Although I COMPLETELY respect Claire Gallant’s right to be offended last week by the thought of turducken and meat consumption, I don’t feel that she had the right to be offended that The Coast published a story about the turducken. I think she owe’s The Coast an apology by suggesting […]
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In the loop
The Loop, a new knitting and needlework cafe, workshop space and retail store is opening in the former space of the Apollo Sauna Bath Club at 1547 Barrington, next door to The Mud Room. The Loop will sell yarn, embroidery supplies, crochet supplies and knitting supplies. “It’s going to be totally mad with colour,” says […]
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Give vegan a chance
To the editor, World Farm Animal Day was on October 2, and brought attention to the suffering animals endure so we can eat them. Stats Can reported Canada killed 650 million animals for food in 2004. Nova Scotia executed 200,800 pigs, 25,600 cows, 13,700 sheep and 21,924,000 chickens. The Canadian Coalition for Food […]
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Food chain letter
Dear editor, So I came up with a business plan. I’ll stuff a dog with a cat with a hamster, call it camsterog, and sell a whole pile of these meaty creations to Haligonians at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everyone will love me! And I sure won’t be criticized for lacking complexity. I may, however, be […]
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A light snack
Greetings, Turducken, hah! Here’s an ancient eastern recipe I came across on the internet that puts it to shame. 60 shelled hard-boiled eggs, stuffed into 20 chickens, stuffed into one lamb, stuffed into one camel. Roast until done and enjoy. If a camel is not available, a water buffalo may be substituted, although there will […]
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Building blocks
One night last week, a construction site on Hollis Street became beautiful. It was after nine o’clock, when the only visible activity came from a welder doing some sort of repair to a backhoe’s scoop. The beautiful part was the white-blue light coming off the welding torch. It cast the welder’s shadow six storeys tall […]
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Culture club
Sketch comedy, lawyer dramas and trailer parks have all had their day on Canadian television. But for 25 years, there has been Degrassi. “I loved Lucy,” says Michele Byers, editor of the just released anthology Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. “Lucy was kind of an ideal for a lot of little girls. […]
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Moment of youth
It’s been one year. One year since 52-year-old Theresa McEvoy was killed when a stolen Chrysler LeBaron broadsided her silver 1991 Toyota Camry as she drove through the Almon and Connaught intersection in west-end Halifax. One year since a 16-year-old boy was charged with a number of offences, including criminal negligence causing death, related to […]
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Normal
New Orleans, Louisiana The waiter pours an inch of Blackstone Napa Merlot into a plastic cup and offers it to me. I swish it around. “Very good.” We’ve landed here at Vincent’s, an old-line Italian restaurant where Dean Martin plays on the jukebox. The doors open to the rumble of the St. Charles Avenue streetcar, […]
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Changes brewing
Changes brewing Garrison Brewing Company is relocating from its current home at 6300 Lady Hammond down to the “historic Pier 21 area as we speak,” says owner Brian Titus. The brewery is moving into the former home of the Port Police, just north of the immigration annex and parallel to the sea wall. Titus is […]
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Messageboards: not so reliable?
To the editor, I would just like to point out that Michael Fleury, in his article “Dial tones” published in the September 29 issue of The Coast, neglects to tell readers about Information Radio 97.9 FM, which is Halifax’s official emergency broadcast system. On July 5, 2005, regional council unanimously passed the agreement, otherwise known […]
