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Transport diversity? Just cram more into our streets! Add a transit priority route, cycle lanes, more space for pedestrians. But we’ll need to keep everyone happy by maintaining plenty of room for traffic—including those precious dedicated turning lanes—and oodles of on-street parking fit for a fleet of Yukon XLs. All of this and more for…
Kari Beiswanger and Alex Stewart’s friendship has lasted longer than any piece of clothing in your closet, no doubt. The pair of pre-school pals and longtime thrifters are behind north and willow, an online second-hand shop and sustainable fashion initiative that launched its web store this week. The idea started simply after a conversation at…
An Angus Reid poll found 58 per cent of Canadians think lack of pipeline capacity is a national crisis. They can be forgiven for this. The company that owns a near monopoly on newspapers in Canada, aided by politicians and fossil fuel interests, has put significant effort into convincing them. That the number rises to…
“We learned sometimes not-so-nice things happen to change the course of where you’re supposed to be,” says Nicole Tufts, co-owner of Vandal Doughnuts, of the whirlwind last few months. Back in the fall she and Sonia Mota announced they’d be moving their fried-dough biz out of its incredibly popular Gus’ Pub location and down to…
Metro Regional Housing Authority’s pest control budget for its HRM properties is $1.4 million, but for the past two years, less than half of that amount was spent on hiring pest control companies. The 2018 federal budget gave the provincial government an additional $12.4 million for improving housing properties, but pest control budgets aren’t specifically…
I had a parent taken to the hospital for emergency surgery for this week. I was scared to death, but all of the hospital staff were so kind. Thank you so much for taking care of my family. I’m forever grateful.—Thankful child
Thank you to the workers at Purdy’s Wharf who, at 3am, had to deal with me stepping in their wet cement. I had had a long night and apparently became careless and disoriented in your work zone. You were so forgiving and friendly—and one of you sweethearts even cleaned off my sneakers with a sponge.…
Kijiji buyers are the MOST annoying motherfuckers on this planet. WHY the fuck can’t you assholes read the instructions in the ad? It says call the number. Don’t send me a million messages to my email. I’m not sitting at the computer all day playing with you fucking idiots. Call the number to pick up…
Life is busy. We all wanna get shit done, we all wanna make it to the end of the day in one piece. And, we wanna heal (with possible exceptions.) I know I’m guiltier than most when it comes to being overly dreamy and hopeless and talking too much, however, I’m tired of people—all sorts—vacillating…
Page 3: Editor says New Year’s resolutions are an industry so there will be no wellness warriors in this issue that feed off your dollars of self-inadequacy. Page 14: An article which features a wellness witch doctor who charges people for nutritional advice you can get for free, telling us to eat a big ass…
Does Halifax know there are other boots than Blundstones? Just wondering.—Sincerely, Crocs
I just bought a beater Honda Civic 2004 just to get around until it dies. We only got one key and fob with it. I inquired about getting another key and fob at a dealer. The key alone is $160.64 with tax, and with fob it’s $329.39! I’m in the wrong business! Oh, and I…
A group of about 20 Dalhousie students protested Monday afternoon at the welcome reception for the university’s new interim president and vice-chancellor, Peter MacKinnon. In a press release, the group of students say they don’t believe MacKinnon’s appointment was made with the university’s best interests in mind. “We feel the interests of faculty and students,…
Luckily, the city’s lawyers aren’t paid by the hour. Halifax’s legal director John Traves told council this week that his department has seen a 25 percent increase in litigation against the municipality since 2016/17. “It’s not just more numbers,” said Traves. “It’s more challenging in terms of the claims that are being brought.” The docket…
The best cure for weekend panic? F-U-N in the form of poetry workshops, basketball games, Shakespearian theatre and good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll. Read on and get ready to make some plans. Blackout poetry w/Israel Ekanem Saturday CFAT’s current artist-in-residence, Israel Ekanem, discusses his latest project, a collection of blackout poetry, before leading a workshop…
“I’ve always been interested in many different things and I choose to do them all, unapologetically,” explains Sidath “Sid” Paramee Rankaduwa. At just 22, Rankaduwa is an alumnus of Dalhousie University with a rather unusual combined Bachelor degree in both music and neuroscience. Through his craft, he’s exploring society’s intersectional interplay between the brain, culture,…
The meeting minutes of Develop Nova Scotia are a pretty prosaic affair. Participants discuss their contract with Grant Thorton for auditing services; preparations for the move to a new office location; the ‘lots of progress’ being made with the Queen’s Marque development. In short, they resemble the kinds of meeting minutes you could expect to…
Sixty-five kilometres up a logging road near Houston, British Columbia, just beyond a river from which you can drink directly, lies an unceded territory actively defended by its original people. To enter, you need to go through a free, prior, and informed consent protocol designed to keep people out who do not benefit the land…
Halifax Regional Police plan to address low employee engagement numbers during the second phase of its 10-year strategic plan. Staff presented a report to the Board of Police Commissioners on Monday, outlining updated goals for the next three years of the plan, which was originally introduced in 2015. Additions include a set of goals in…
Something didn’t feel right when we sat down to bounce around ideas for this year’s Well Being Guide. While the annual issue has changed over the years—from a sports and fitness focussed attempt to get readers moving their bodies during the most hibernatable months of the year, to a more well-rounded wellness round-up with advice…
Q I’m a thirtysomething straight woman married for 16 years. Eighteen months ago, I met a man and there was an immediate attraction. For the first 15 months of our relationship, I was his primary sexual and intimate partner, as both sex and intimacy were lacking in his marriage. (My husband knew of the relationship…
In the final shot of On the Basis of Sex, Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, having slowly ascended the steps of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, disappears behind a pillar. She comes out the other side as the present-day, 85-year-old judge. In the theatre last weekend, a voice—male, of course; elderly,…
January, arguably more than any month of the year, is when we are the most focused on ourselves. This can be a great thing: What are our goals? What are the changes we want to see in the coming year? How can we do better? It’s pretty much “me” month, which makes this well-being guide…
You’re stressed, over-caffeinated and filled with an existential dread whenever you check the news or your to-do list. Exhaustion fizzles and cracks from your joints as if you have some weird, fatigue-fuelled form of the bends. The diagnosis seems inescapable: You’re a human in 2019. So what, then, does it take in this very online,…
In January, it’s common to hear friends and family talking about the ways they want to get healthier: Starting therapy or eating an apple for every slice of pizza. Resolutions usually revolve around physical, mental or emotional health. Sexual health is forgotten, or if it’s not, those of us making sexy resolutions are staying quiet.…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19) Writing at The Pudding, pop culture commentator Colin Morris reveals the conclusions he drew after analyzing 15,000 pop songs. First, the lyrics of today’s tunes have significantly more repetitiveness than the lyrics of songs in the 1960s. Second, the most popular songs, both then and now, have more repetitive…
Jordan Bennett, Ketu’ elmita’jik To March 31 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 1923 Hollis Street The use of colour in Jordan Bennett’s Ketu’ elmita’jik is almost dizzying. Standing in front of a patch of gallery wall painted an impressive neon red, you can imagine how Bennett and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s prep team…
1. Skate There’s nothing a dose of vitamin O can’t fix. The Oval—AKA the most joyous place in town this time of year—has you covered when it comes to free-for-all ice surface, also no-cost skate rentals, a warming room, top 40 radio and so many cute families and dates and brand new skaters. There are…
My first breakup happened the summer before grade nine. I answered a late-night phone call from my best friend, who told me matter-of-factly that I didn’t have the social capital needed for her attempt to launch herself amongst the popular girls. We could, she offered, still hang out outside of school, but lunchtimes discussing weird…
“Possible, poetic, hypothesis—it’s all po.” Underground jazz legend Joe McPhee is listing a string of words connected through the phonetic sound “po”—a reminder, he says, of the creative possibilities of approaching the world from a slightly different angle. McPhee, 79, attributes the theory to the philosopher Edward De Bono, whose book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook…
Stop the pipeline To Members of Parliament, I can’t believe the government which represents me would perform such colonial violence as it is currently—in support of a liquid natural gas pipeline—on Wet’suwet’en territory. Wet’suwet’en people and those at Unist’ot’en Camp are defending their land from environmental destruction, the land which they never ceded. They have…
