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Since my early teens, I’ve been combatting early onset osteoporosis while living with chronically inflamed tissue, anxiety, depression and attention-deficit difficulties. Over the last decade I have opened my cannabis consumption up to its medicinal uses, including microdosing in my one-hit pipe, using THC-infused topical arthritis balm on my joints and smoking decent hauls of…
The Noodle Guy 964 Main Street (Highway 358) Port Williams @valleynoodleguy Ross Patterson has been a noodle guy for as long as he can remember. “I grew up with a lot of Italian people in Toronto,” he says. He moved there from Montreal when he was a kid. “Because I’m Catholic, I ended up in…
The area councillor says it’s time for HRM to take back control of the old Spring Garden Road Memorial Library. At the next meeting of Regional Council, Waye Mason will request a staff report looking at formally withdrawing HRM’s offer to return the old library back to the province. “My feeling is a lot of…
It’s official. On Wednesday, September 27 Haligonians will officially have nothing left to look forward to. That’s when the monstrous home decor wonder IKEA (645 Cutler Avenue) will be opening its doors to its first customers in Dartmouth Crossing—at 9am to be exact. The store will include a full restaurant for all of your meatball…
FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival (formerly known as The Atlantic Film Festival) has announced its eight-day lineup for this year’s fest, featuring homegrown and international talent. “If you’ve never been to the Atlantic International Film Festival, this is the year to take the plunge,” says program director Jason Beaudry. Things kick off at opening night…
Gina Etra Stick, Ritual Objects of Everyday Life Through August 27 Mary E. Black Gallery, 1061 Marginal Road While many locals may steer away from the waterfront this time of year, there is one event that should pull them towards the boardwalk. Mary E. Black Gallery, nestled between NSCAD’s port campus and Pier 21, boasts a…
The city is going to drastically overhaul how cyclists travel to-and-from the Macdonald Bridge. Regional council voted Tuesday to approve the Macdonald Bridge Bikeway Connectors project—rebuilding access and exit ramps for cyclists in Halifax and Dartmouth. At $7.3 million, the new project isn’t cheap. But it is vital, said councillor Sam Austin, as the bridge…
Wildfires are sweeping B.C. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North America with smoke. Fighting them has cost more than $230 million—and the season is far from over. It’s not just B.C. Thousands of people from B.C. to California have fled homes as fires rage. Greenland is…
Halifax is giving the provincial government one more shot to get it right at Bloomfield. On Tuesday HRM council voted to sell the former north end school to the province, with the implicit hope of using the site for a new Francophone school. Although councillor Lindell Smith’s motion doesn’t specifically name any organizations, the Conseil…
One of the voices behind Tuesday evening’s demonstration in solidarity with Charlottesville says fascism and white supremacy isn’t isolated to the deep south. “It’s important to recognize the way the forces that animate the far right and white supremacists in the United States don’t stop at the border,” says Brad Vaughan, who’s with the local…
Why are you always on my mind…from the time I wake until the time I fall asleep and even in my dreams…I wonder if it’s true when it’s said that when you are thinking of someone they are thinking of you. —Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
If you park at Mumford Road to catch the bus, you will notice the orange vest security guards protrolling the parking lot. Their job -to make sure that if you don’t park in the wrong place or face fines. Unfortunately there is not enough transit parking spots and security will offer you no solutions if…
To the short jerk in the ballcap on Harvard that didn’t have the balls to call my dog a “monster” to my face and instead said it to his two dogs—yeah my small dog barked twice at your dogs from a block away, and you felt the need to call him a monster and go…
Last weekend, Gottingen Street bar and arts venue The Company House (2202 Gottingen Street) announced via a Facebook post that September 5 would be its last day in business, citing online harassment as the reason for closure. The bar came under fire last spring after community members criticized comedy podcast Laugh House, which records at…
I mean, hey ASSHOLES…If I’m behind you when the light goes green, and you don’t move, I’m going to honk and gesture for you to move. Don’t act like I’m in the wrong, just get the fuck moving. No, I don’t want to fight about it, I’m telling you to move…green means fucking go! —Yes,…
You met me at a very strange time in my life. Things are getting less strange and I wouldn’t mind meeting you again. —I Am Jack’s Small Crush
To the selfish person who slammed into my car while it was parked on Ashdale Avenue and chose to drive away and leave me with a nice repair bill: Karma’s a bitch baby and one day it’ll bite you hard on the ass so I hope I’m there to see it. —Just Trying To Earn…
10 Meatballs and Strange Brew screening Friday The Atlantic Film Festival Outdoor Film Experience series finishes with a double bill at the Public Gardens: Meatballs, the 1979 flick about a less-than-average summer camp and its wacky councillors, and Strange Brew, the classic 1983 laugh-fest following Bob and Doug McKenzie’s quest for free beer. 9 India…
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Q My boyfriend of eight months, K, and I are polyamourous. We started the relationship on that foot, and for awhile I was the partner he spent the most time with. There have been ups and downs, but overall our relationship is solid and loving. However, recently we both started dating the same woman, L,…
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