The stress was like a dull throbbing toothache that wouldn’t go away. Her hair fell out, she chewed off her nails and she lost her appetite. Helen Jackson was in a vice grip of stress and anxiety for three years. It started with a single payday loan. “I was scared. I was ashamed to be […]
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Why, oh YWCA?
To the editor, Regarding the closure of the YWCA Women’s housing program I was going to try and take the high road with this, but I’m just too damned pissed off to be the bigger person. YWCA Board of Directors, Community of Social Services and those commercial bastards that are tearing down the YWCA and […]
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Sod still off
Dear Coast, All summer long the eyes and ears of residents and visitors to Point Pleasant Park have suffered as a long deep trench has been dug all the way around the Park on Franklyn Street and then down the hill to the new sewage pumping station on the North West Arm. I suppose it’s […]
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CBC solidarity
Dear Mr. Wark, Congratulations on your fine editorial regarding the CBC lockout (“Tough lock” August 18). This is a real Canadian tragedy. In that same issue, Lezlie Lowe’s “Time machine” article also affected me; and “On the line” by Stephanie Domet, with her very personal reaction on the lockout’s change to her life, saddened me. […]
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Idea moves west
Idea of East recording studio closed its doors on September 1 after 10 years in business at 3250 Barrington.“It’s been a fabulous place to do work,” says owner Laurence Currie. “But after 10 years the building is being turned into condos, and there’s not a lot you can do about progress I guess, if you […]
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Insecure
Week four. Many of us didn’t believe it would last this long. Others think it’ll go on for a while yet. So much time to think on the line. Lately, I’ve been thinking about security. I’ve been on contracts of varying lengths at CBC for three years. My current contract is for 12 months; it’s […]
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Four score
On a cloudless September morning four years ago, hijackers commandeered two passenger jets and flew them into a showcase of American capitalism. The 110-storey twin towers of Manhattan’s World Trade Center collapsed in less than two hours. The American writer, Lewis Mumford once described those towers as dinosaurs, examples of “the purposeless giantism and technological […]
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Pot shots
Listing his occupation as Marijuana Seed Vendor on his tax returns, Canadian anti-marijuana prohibition activist, Marc Emery, has paid over $575,000 to Revenue Canada since 1999, with Revenue Canada never once raising the issue of whether the money was the proceeds of a crime. In 2003, Health Canada advised medicinal marijuana patients that seeds for […]
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A bigger barking lot
After a dog’s age in one location, the Halifax Veterinary Hospital is moving on to greener pastures. The pet care clinic plans to move its operation to the old Lawton’s space at Quinpool and Beech (6485 Quinpool), next to Great Ocean. “It’s got a great parking lot,” says Shelley Flinn, who was working the front […]
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To have and to hold on
Dear Dalton McGuinty, premier of Ontario, The one-armed boy’s yelling woke me up this morning. I poked my head outside to see if the pit bulls were at him again, and soon discovered what all the excitement was about. “There’s a boat coming, you,” he said. “Better get the frig down there, wha?” Although I […]
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Finding Fudge
The crowd is still the same, a group in search of a drink and a good time, and welcoming any gender, race and sexual preference. People still frequent the club for weekly events such as karaoke and dancing on Friday and Saturday nights. The renovations, new sign, and new ownership and staff indicate there’s been […]
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Book ’em
A school in Vail, Arizona, becomes this autumn one of the first e-book high schools, ditching real, live paper textbooks for the flat screen sheen of student-issue laptops, e-texts, online articles and an extensive WiFi network. I can already hear the apocalypse-prophesizing of book lovers everywhere. But come now. This isn’t the same disaster of […]