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 […]
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We heart McNab’s
Dear Coastals, Sunday was my first wedding anniversary. After waking up to the realization I really may be an adult now, my wife and I had an incredible breakfast at a swanky downtown restaurant (name witheld to avoid the image being one of those consumerist trendsetter types). Following that, we took the ferry to Alderney […]
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Hell hath no fury like Quinpool scorned
To whom it may concern, I’m a member of the Quinpool Road Mainstreet Business Association. I speak for many of the merchants along Quinpool Rd. when I say I was angry and hurt by the horrific article in last week’s Back to School edition (“Neighbourhood watch”). Many of us are regular advertisers in your paper […]
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Stairway to heaven
Well, not exactly, but the new staircase connecting the Seahorse to the Economy Shoe Shop is now operational, with a grand opening scheduled for later this month. “The Seahorse will become more of an extension of the Shoe Shop,” says Argyle Cobblers general manager Gord Lapp. “It will be yet another place to wander when […]
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Air supply
The slow throb in your left temple radiates down the back of your neck and into your shoulders. For the past couple of months you can’t seem to shake that low-grade flu and you’ve lost your appetite. No one understands why you’re so sick. Some have suggested it’s all in your head, but the symptoms […]
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In search of fame
I Google myself all the time. Nothing dirty. It’s just searching my name on Google.ca. Though admitting it feels kind of like letting the cat out of the bag on chronic masturbation. And it’s a similar activity, really — fuelled by self-love, simmered in a feeling of shame that’s, if you’ll pardon the pun, bred […]
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Modern problems
Let’s say on your way to work every day you follow the same route heading north on Barrington, toward downtown. You pass the curved steel and glass Sexton gym—on Dalhousie campus—every day with no more than a passing glance. With his recently published overview of 50 years (1950-2000) of exemplary architecture in Atlantic Canada, including […]
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Line drive
Ever since CBC management locked its doors against my 5,500 colleagues and me across Canada five weeks ago, many, many things have broken my heart on a pretty near daily basis. In addition to walking the picket line, I’ve volunteered for other duties, most of them organizational, because I’m good at that, and it gives […]
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Reality cheque
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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Artist depreciation
I spun Mozart’s Greatest Hits recently as I perused a lengthy discussion paper on the development of the SuperCity’s new cultural policy. A Cultural Advisory Committee composed of two city councillors and an assortment of citizens, artists and kulturcrats released the paper in June. To the foreboding strains of Mozart’s famous mass for the dead […]
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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 […]
