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[Image-1] It’s all we hear about. You’ve annoyed just about every employee with your non-stop chatter about your precious little guy, hell you even show the same damn pictures on a daily basis. No one cares and some of your workers have kids and you don’t hear them non-stop chattering about what little Mikey did.…
I thought this battle was won, since only six months ago women servers led to sex discrimination complaints at the Ontario Human Rights Commission. In Halifax, women servers at two waterfront pubs wear black, extremely short shorts or skirts and low cut tank tops. Some argue it’s good for tips, but it’s better for the restaurant owners because…
[Image-1] I sat in my cozy Halifax home, and read loves about missing the city I had ceased to appreciate. Now that I’ve spent some long months on the other coast I’m here to contribute. Halifax—I’m sorry I stopped considering you and your potential every morning when I woke up, and that I thought your…
[Image-1] I have been searching like mad trying to find a place that has decent reviews where someone in their early 40s can go and shake what their mama gave them to some good dance music on a nice large dance floor. It’s been a while since I have been out and now it seems…
The Bard’s local theatre troupe is performing *As You Like It* tonight in a public park. It was disheartening to find tickets are $25 per person. I think that price is a bit excessive to sit on grass. Shopping comparatively with the world famous festival in Stratford, Ontario, it turns out one can buy tickets for the…
[Image-1] To the bagel man on Quinpool: you are a local legend! Your constant excitement over bagels makes our days brighter. You inspire us to love our jobs as much as you love bagels. —Locals
You – Glasses, baby car seat. Acting incredibly ridicules this morning in traffic. Hope your child does not grow up to be as hateful and immature as you acted today. —whoa tiny d
To the two individuals using sign language on the buss to ridicule myself and my friend for whatever petty reason): Your language is not subtle. Any one that speak another language and decides to use it to be cruel in front of someone that barely understands places you near the top of shittiest people to…
The Arctic’s Baffin Bay and Davis Strait region is home to seals, bowhead whales, polar bears and up to 90 percent of the world’s narwhals. The area’s marine waters also provide habitat for 116 species of fish, such as Arctic char, an important dietary staple for Nunavut’s Inuit communities. Although the area is crucial to…
[Image-1] Now don’t get me wrong I love pets a lot and have three different species. Now this is where my Bitch comes in. At least once a week I hear someone talking about how they care more about animals (i.e. only their own pets by the way) then people. I guess their attitude always…
[Image-1] In a post-credits stinger worthy of any superhero blockbuster, Halifax Public Libraries and Dalhousie University have swooped in to purchase 5,500 hard-to-find films from Video Difference’s collection. The news comes just a day after the Quinpool Road and Bedford Highway landmark stopped renting movies after 34 years of business. “We’ve seen great enthusiasm across…
[Image-1] 100s of hours prepping professional documents for your highly esteemed, world recognized, Organization. One phone call and you blame me saying, “the onus is on me to confirm receipt” when you blatantly stated “Don’t call us, we’ll call you”. You discriminated against me and most likely prevented me from getting solid work; then you…
As a local to the north end I always try to support the community, enjoy the food, live music and culture. Unfortunately its near impossible to get any kind of acceptable service. Such a good feels place, it wouldn’t be hard to improve…Are these guys getting paid in beer!? 5 strikes, you’re nearly out —A…
Unfiltered Brewing is launching a lawsuit against the Nova Scotia’s Liquor Corporation over what the north end microbrewery calls an “unconstitutional tax” levied against it. According to court documents filed today, Unfiltered is alleging that NSLC has been unfairly charging the brewery $0.50 a litre for its beer sales since the brewery/bar opened last year.…
[Image-1] Me: the bride on my bachelorette party You: a random man who gave me a few puffs of a joint Apparently you thought it was okay to pull me backwards a few feet by my hair in order to get my attention. I want you to know that you hurt me and that what…
Why is my current romantic aspiration to find a someone who will have the decency to cheat on me with someone who is at least a little bit attractive? —my bile tastes like yard sale
[Image-1] As a person who identifies with an alternative subculture(s), I tend to dress myself befitting to the lifestyle I lead and it gets noticed. I wanted to say to everyone who approaches me to tell me how nice they think I look, or how interesting and wonderful, a very big THANK YOU!! I have…
We’re cutting cake for Castro’s 90th, getting our groove on with The Chess Club and squeezing in some late summer stargazing.
[Image-1] “Let me tell you a funny story about Elvis,” says Annett Wolf, the Halifax-based writer, filmmaker and wildlife advocate. “Elvis won’t let go of me.” This week Wolf, 79, is on her way to Bad Nauheim, Germany. Elvis Presley was stationed in the town during his stint in the US army. It’s hosted the…
[Image-1] If you were part of the conscientious minority who voted during the last municipal election in the Halifax region, you may recall city hall’s reporting of results was a tad slow. In 2012, not enough election workers using too few telephone lines set up by staff often couldn’t get through to the city’s main…
[Image-1] “The meals make you feel rich!” is a comment you’ll hear often at the Dartmouth North Community Food Centre, located on Primrose Street in Dartmouth. The centre, which opened last year as a project of the Dartmouth Family Centre in partnership with Community Food Centres Canada, takes an innovative, well-rounded approach to addressing food…
Making makers I may be biased, but I believe Halifax is a great city and I’d wager a lot of other people living here believe the same as well. Even a great city has room to improve, though, and one of the most controversial topics currently occupying mine and other Haligonians’ time is the issue…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22) Let’s assume, for the sake of fun argument, that you do indeed have a guardian angel. Even if you have steadfastly ignored this divine helper in the past, I’m asking you to strike up a close alliance in the coming weeks. If you need to engage in an elaborate…
I was already sitting in the sunshine enjoying the salt-laced citrus tartness of Good Robot’s Goseface Killah when my friend Sarah walked onto their gastroturf with her new puppy, Penny. A puff of curly golden fluff, Penny delighted everybody within two feet of her before rolling around and tussling with a nearby basset hound. And…
Liz Mac was terrified. It was the first time she was presenting her work as an illustrator at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival. And there she was, last August at Alderney Landing, beside local stars like cartoonist Andy Cotnam. A self-taught illustrator, she’d only been to DCAF once before, in 2014, and that was as an…
Seven and a half weeks spent in a van driving across the continent, and back. One band member trying to write her Master’s thesis in the backseat. Kanye’s album The Life Of Pablo blasting on repeat. United States border patrollers insistently asking if they’re a faith-based rock band. A dreamy house show in Victoria. Jumping…
When Stephen Maher was living in Halifax in 2003, he was perhaps best known to the public as an editor at the Chronicle Herald. But outside of work, Maher had another passion—sailing. In 2003, he bought his second sailboat: a battered fibreglass 1982 Tanzer, which briefly lived in Chester on the South Shore, and eventually…
When the weather’s nice, there’s only one place you’ll find Gilbert van Ryckevorsel: Skulking along the bottom of a river, documenting what he finds. The diver/photographer has been exploring down there for nearly 50 years, and snapping pictures of it for almost as long. “It gives us a unique view of the underwater world, because…
Kate Beaton has a lot on her plate. Within the past eight months, she moved home to Mabou, Cape Breton from Toronto; received a prestigious Eisner award for her book Step Aside, Pops! A Hark! A Vagrant Collection; and decided to devote full-time work to a new graphic novel based on her experience working in…
[Image-1] DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for the next three weeks. You’ll be getting a new column every week, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Dan Savage is a sports writer and the assistant director of digital content for orlandomagic.com, and he will be answering your questions this…
1. A private island on the south shore Turns out you don’t have to be Richard Branson to occupy your very own island for a couple of days. An hour from the city you’ll find this two-acre escape that’s a short canoe trip (canoe included!) off the coast of rugged beauty, Blue Rocks. There stands…
