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Just because you are doing 120 and the right hand lane is doing 105 does not entitle you to stay in the left lane. I flew up to your bumper at 160! You need to get the hell over. I am faster so therefore you are slower. —Pissed off and late
Really, former employer, do I intimidate you that much? I saw a former employer around town a year after they fired me. I kindly said ‘Hi.’ What I got in return is an eye roll and the dirtiest look I’ve ever seen someone give. —Kill them bitches with kindness
People fall into two categories when it comes to multi level marketing: They either recognize that it’s a bullshit industry, or they’ve invested thousands in a company and are not making the money they thought they would make. Who is buying into this?—Perplexed
When Chris White was downsized from his outside sales job in 2017, he started thinking about what was next, how he would reinvent himself and what made him really happy. He took on a job as a bus driver for the flexibility to be active and outdoors—and wound up loving it—but this summer, he’s following…
I saw you at the most recent HomeBass. You were dressed in green neon and grooving effortlessly on the dance floor. I took your cool neon sunglasses and you slapped me for it. I think I fell in love right then and there. I hope I see your red hair at another event, you’re truly something…
Nova Scotian residents and born applicants can now obtain a new birth certificate or drivers license displaying M, F or X, as well as have the option not to have displayed at all. As of July 9, these changes include the sex indicator X, which will be available for individuals who do not identify exclusively…
Dartmouth’s slick and stylish The Watch That Ends The Night (15 King’s Wharf Place) announced today that the bar/restaurant had closed its doors for the last time. Owners Mark Gray and Alissa Maloney took to Facebook to share the news, writing, “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we must say this, but say this…
Seriously? You believe the best place to pick at your fly bites and scabs is at the bus stop and on the bus? Not only were you picking—not scratching, but full on picking—your fly bites and scabs, but then you were wiping the blood onto your legs, arms and the bus seat. Come the hell…
To the lovely woman who saved us so graciously when we embarrassingly pulled into a MacPass Only lane: Your sweet customer service made our day! —Need glasses
Thank you, “Susan in Halifax,” for finding and reporting my credit card lost! You saved me from quite the hassle! I hope some good karma comes your way! —WK
The recycling bin. It’s the place where your yogurt containers go to start a new life, where an old magazine becomes new paper. Traditionally, some items have been harder to recycle than others, but over the last few years, manufacturers have made significant advances to ensure that some previously unrecyclable packaging and containers can now…
Update July 5: After discussion with Åsa Kachan, CEO of Halifax Public Libraries, The Radical Imagination Project screenings will take place in the Halifax Central Library, without a presentation from HRP as previously requested. The Radical Imagination Project has screened films and hosted discussions about radical ideas that emerge from social change and movements at the…
To July 21 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Group effort, the aptly named exhibition at Dartmouth’s Craig Gallery, features work by eight artists at various stages in their careers. Since 2006, Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s mentorship program has paired emerging and established artists for a 10-month period; the resulting show works to highlight the…
The Sudanese community in Halifax has been reeling over the events happening back home. People in Sudan have been calling for a civilian government, and have paid dearly for it. A relative of mine was beaten to death while defending his female peers outside his university campus—he was not even protesting. As part of the…
The Radical Imagination Project has screened films and hosted discussions about radical ideas that emerge from social change and movements at the Halifax Central Library for the past four-and-a-half years. But it won’t be returning this fall, according to Alex Khasnabish, director of the project and professor of sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent…
Winegrunt grand opening 43 Water Street, Windsor Sunday, July 14, 12-8pm Something new is greeting visitors to Nova Scotia wine country: A wine bar run by former university professors, in an unlikely town, with an entirely sensible location. “So many times, we stopped in Windsor,” says Robert Buranello, of trips to the Annapolis Valley from…
Dawne Fraser has dyskinetic cerebral palsy. The physical disability causes involuntary, repetitive muscle contractions. But that doesn’t mean Fraser is disabled. Instead, she calls herself an able-body person with unique abilities. Those abilities have helped her through a 20-year teaching career and two businesses. An advocate for “uniquely abled” people, Fraser says she has remained…
QI’m a man from a very liberal background. A girl I started dating—from a similar background—recently mentioned she has “a thing for Black guys.” She also met my best friend, a man of Korean descent, and commented she found him handsome despite not typically being attracted to Asian guys. The position that I’ve always held…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER (June 21 – July 20) Cancerian voice actor Tom Kenny has played the roles of over 1,500 cartoon characters, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Spyro the Dragon, Jake Spidermonkey, Commander Peepers and Doctor Octopus. I propose that we make him your role model in the coming weeks. It will be a favourable time for…
Fungus w/Kaledioscope Horse, Juice Girls Thursday, July 4, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, $8 T he rock trio Fungus goes with the flow: When the music calls for something else, the band follows. When a music video isn’t coming together, they throw some paint on the floor and start over. “When a new…
Tim Baker w/Kathleen Edwards Wednesday, July 10, 7:30pm Halifax Jazz Festival waterfront stage Lower Water at Salter Streets $45 ($189 festival pass) S solo career for Tim Baker wasn’t quite starting all over again. It was a new adventure of discovery with its own challenges. When the Newfoundland indie-rock band Hey Rosetta! called it quits…
Up on the third floor of The Law Courts building in Halifax, down a long corridor from the elevator, is Room 314. It’s an unremarkable space, across the hall from one of the courtrooms. There are a couple of cheap office desks, a few mismatched chairs and an old green filing cabinet in the corner.…
Rent revolution Everyone I know seems to say “Tough luck, we’re all struggling” when we talk about out-of-control rent in this city (“What is affordable housing, anyway?” Reality Bites article by Caora McKenna, posted June 24). If we all came together and realized that it doesn’t have to be that way, we could make things…
Foreclosure is perhaps the most dramatic manifestation of a huge problem facing Canadians: Skyrocketing debt. And the picture is particularly dire in the Atlantic region. According the Canadian Payroll Association, 45 percent of Atlantic Canadians say they are overwhelmed by debt, compared to the national average of 40 percent. And when it comes to mortgages,…
For Olivia Weir—the curatorial eye behind Instagram account Fat Chance Vintage—a love of thrift that saw her skipping high school to hit up Value Village became more than a hobby with the speed of a Nike swoosh. She held a 1980s bomber from the brand in a thrift shop, and, as she recalls, “It was…
You’re either old enough to remember chasing the sound of the Dickie Dee through your neighbourhood, or you’re young enough that a bicycle selling frozen treats is totally novel. For Jacqui Keseluk, either option works. The pastry chef-turned-entrepreneur is ringing in her first summer on wheels, selling hand-crafted popsicles under her newly launched business (run…
