“We’ve just put an offer on the table.” So begins the full page ad in the Globe and Mail (my colleague Tod Maffin reports that such ads cost about $63,000) on Day 45 of the CBC lockout. It’s going to create a lot of talk, this ad. People are going to think it means a […]
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A real mixed bag
To the editor, Just went to your website for the first time once I saw the banner headline on the front page of this week’s edition, which I get at Dave Doolittle’s. Read Stephanie Domet’s very moving column. Two points: For those of us who aren’t very computer savvy, what are blogs and how do […]
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Rock out with your lockout
Dear HRM and Canadians everywhere, I don’t even know where to begin. My understanding of the CBC lockout was that the union was threatening a walk-out. In a pre-emptive strike, CBC management locked them out just ahead of the walk-out deadline. Just because someone beat you to the punch doesn’t give you the right to […]
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Is that a park in your pocket?
To the editor, I feel compelled to write to you on behalf of the merchants, property owners and residents of Quinpool Road and the surrounding area. The “Neighbourhood watch” article that was written in your September 1 Back to School issue has ruffled many feathers and created disappointment and frustration on the street. We very […]
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Sign of the times
To the editor, Your recent Back to School edition (September 1) includes a fascinating photograph of some students gathered at the gates of a concentration camp, grinning at the camera like a gaggle of tourists at Disneyworld. It appears to be advertising some kind of a cultural literacy course for Saint Mary’s. I’m not sure […]
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Repertory roll call
Dear Coast, OK, I can’t take it any more. Every 12 months or so The Coast runs an article about a non-existent repertory cinema in Halifax and reports on how they’re not doing (like Shayla Howell’s September 1 feature “Tarnished rep”). Why isn’t there a repertory cinema in Halifax? The answer is simple: there isn’t […]
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Blues, brother
The name is a storied one in Halifax, but the latest incarnation of Scoundrels (beneath Club 5171 at 5171 George Street) is less homage and more mnemonic device. “The bar that used to be there was called Scoundrels,” says general manager Gary Demone, “and we kept the name again so that people will know where […]
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Crappy daily troubled: expert
It’s depression time at the Green Toad, the glass building that squats on the Halifax waterfront near the foot of Sackville Street. Journalists who toil in the Toad’s Daily News offices worry “the people’s paper” is going down the tubes. Shaune MacKinlay, one of its best reporters, recently departed to the greener pastures of PR. […]
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Week six: Lockout night in Canada
It’s week six and frankly, it’s hard to believe we’re still out there. Do I start every entry like this, or does it just feel that way? I haven’t been to the picket line yet this week. I’ve done a bit of clerical and committee stuff, but not nearly enough to earn my $350 lockout […]
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Save-the-world tour
After nearly five months and thousands of revolutions of their bike pedals, the group of young activists who comprise the Otesha Project Coast2Coast Tour is wheeling into Halifax. The team hit the road in Vancouver on May 2, with 15 riders, and has since visited nearly 100 cities and towns across the country, speaking to […]
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Getting it together
How can the benefits of living in a co-operative be communicated to today’s youth? That’s the question facing organizers of this week’s Halifax Co-operative World Café, an event designed to inject some new blood into the city’s many co-ops. “There are very few young people under age of 30 who start co-ops or are involved […]
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Whose spirit are you calling fat?
To the editor, In regards to last week’s article “To have and hold on,” in grade 7 I moved to a southern Ontario city and took so much crap for being from NS—from peers, parents and teachers—it scarred me for life. I used to wonder how much shit these people could get into if another […]
