Small wonder First they take Little New York, next they take the city. Freeman’s Little New York restaurant, located on Quinpool Road, is one of the first local owners of a European-made Smart car, an ecologically friendly, micro-compact car made by Smart, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler. Picture a golf cart on steroids. Or better yet, […]
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A long way from home
Tucked in behind the sprawling Wal-Mart and Sears stores of the West End Mall, a little office complex is often one of the first sights greeting new immigrants to Nova Scotia. It’s also the unexpected front lines in the battle to keep them here. Today, in a classroom at the Metro Immigrant Settlement Association (MISA), […]
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Snow job
There are 23,000 students in the Halifax Regional School Board, and most of them unwittingly pray to Ann Bell.Bell is the coordinator of pupil transportation for the Halifax Regional School Board, and these days, she’s keeping a close eye on the skies. Every time a major storm slams into Halifax, Bell is responsible for deciding […]
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Year in Review
Municipal election A healthy dose of pre-election buzz came to a rather anticlimactic head on October 16, when metro voters chose overwhelming in favour of mayor Peter Kelly keeping his job. Going into the election, Kelly faced three challengers: folksy Mike Flemming, a school board member and former bus driver; sharp-tongued city planner Ernie Brennan, […]
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For the love of God
When is a box of toys not just a box of toys? When it’s full of God’s love. This season, Operation Christmas Child will distribute seven million shoeboxes full of dolls, balls, markers, soap and lollipops to children in 95 countries around the world. Along with the treats, Gospel booklets are included in every gift-wrapped […]
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In the Nick of time
“Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!” Peter Saulnier is demonstrating how to laugh like Santa. He holds his very round belly as he points to it.“It has to come from down there,” he says, and gives a jolly laugh. He does some warm up laughs in front of the mirror. Saulnier has a pair of black suspenders […]
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Tree’s a crowd
In my last year of minor hockey, playing in the aptly named juvenile division, the team went into the Christmas tree business as a fundraiser. Armed with axes, chain saws and home brew that could also come in handy starting frozen vehicles, we tramped into the woods and murdered about 30 spruce. We whacked down […]
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Attention all shoppers
Santa’s always on time. Stereo equipment manufacturers, not so much. “It’s a little desktop radio with a CD player in it,” says Chris Sweet, manager of Peak Audio on Agricola Street in Halifax. “It was supposed to be a great thing for Christmas. But now it’s delayed and the company says it won’t be here […]
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Diddly squat
Last week a group of protestors occupied an abandoned building in Dartmouth.The hope was to be there long enough to figure out how to turn the place into a shelter. But city officials acted quickly, and within a few hours the activists were back at noth
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Getting back to business
Snack attack Monday, after the storm had cleared, Spring Garden Road was bustling with pedestrians out to catch a glimpse of the storm damage. Many of them also decided to stop for a post-Juan beverage. By Monday night, the power had come back on the south side of the street but most of the businesses […]
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Cat came back
On Monday morning, when things have finally calmed down, I decide to focus on the fence in the backyard that fell during the hurricane. We’re lucky the fence didn’t kill anyone, for it was broken before Sunday’s storm. Most things half-broken then broke completely. Including, it turns out, my relations with the dogs living on […]
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When a tree falls
Considering the size and weight, the oak tree that fell on my neighbour’s house at the height of Hurricane Juan landed softly, settling on the roof and bending gutters, but causing little other destruction. My neighbour is a handy-man type of guy, and the gutters will be repaired and replaced in a short Saturday afternoon. […]