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Hey! Nobody wants to hear you yak non-stop before 7 in the morning! Learn to have some respect for the peace and quiet of others who have a longer ride that you and your pal, who want to yak loudly for everyone to hear about your job, life or what you’re doing later. The rest of…
I could submit a bitch about how you’re not that considerate, how you don’t think to send a text after our nights out to see if I got home safe, how you take so long to get back to me but you’re glued to your phone when we’re together. This could be a bitch about…
To all of you who think you are a race car driver with skill, speed and accuracy on the highway: You are fucking wrong. I didn’t realize Nova Scotia increased the speed limit in the right lane to 120km/hr. I also didn’t know swerving, flipping off and trying to kill one another was also part…
Exactly one week ago, on Saturday, June 4 at 12:45pm, while cycling north on Windsor Street, I heard the driver of a white SUV parked in the cycling lane south of Windcrest diagonally from Sobey’s shout obscenities at two cyclists when they had to pull out quickly to go around him and told him he…
I generally do well alone, I enjoy the company of others a lot, but I find my personality can be a deterrence to people except for a select few. It’s difficult, I can’t help but romanticize the idea of maybe going out on a date with someone or just generally being cute with another person,…
Why do you even have an apartment? You and your kid seem to spend half the time in the hallways going up and down the stairs, yelling, slamming your doors, etc. You are fucking annoying. —Move already
I hope you’re proud of yourself, man. You really showed your true colours, didn’t you? Instead of being a professional (or even displaying a normal amount of human fucking decency) you chose to spread your nastiness and schadenfreude like a tornado of dickishness. I get it, you’re an asshole fucking bro who hides his lack…
Dear little pride flag in the window of Charles & Agricola. I’ve seen you every day as I walk to work, through winter and now into summer. Thank you. I feel more welcome because you are there. —:)
I understand that the sexes are treated as equal now. This is a good thing. However, employing a 22-year-old who seems to think yoga pants are appropriate attire to wear to work around a bunch of tough old roofers is not a good thing. If this girl—because she certainly isn’t a woman—keeps texting my partner…
You have your own sense of style that makes me want to go out of my way to make all my wine and beer purchases from your store. Your friendly attitude and piercing eyes make my day!! —LC Lover
To the man who lied about burying his grandmother just so he could avoid getting out of a date: You think that makes you a better person, but it doesn’t. You’re just a little boy who needs a woman to give him confidence. You went to extreme lengths to lie to a lady. I told…
For the short while we were together, you had an empty box of floss on your bathroom countertop. I mentioned it to you towards the end and you hadn’t noticed even that it was completely gone. Three days before we broke up, on the last night we spent together, I brought over a fresh new…
I saw you (in your grey and burgundy sweater) as I (in my denim jacket) slumped down the sidewalk on a foggy June evening on North Street. We caught one another doing double (and then triple) takes and it took everything I had not to call out or double over giggling. You’re the kind of…
I saw you in the parking lot, struggling to walk. Bent over sideways, battling to move the cane ahead and take a step, fighting not to lose your balance. When you accepted my offer to drive you, I was so relieved. You said it feels as though every bone in your body hurts. My heart…
Second date. You tell me it is a physical necessity for you to fuck 30 minutes a day. Nice moves, dude. —Ohmygodmenaregross
Dearest assholes at my old place of employment, Thank you for showing me that sexism still is very prevalent in the workplace in 2016. I appreciate this eye-opener because now I know to save all my emails to a thumb drive as evidence. To you, old bitter, bitchy little man that reminded me of a…
For the past six years, Chantal Kreviazuk took a break from her role as one of Canada’s foremost singer-songwriters. Instead, she was busy penning hits for the likes of Drake and Carrie Underwood—all while raising her three sons and getting lost in the joys of motherhood that she says bring new authenticity into her life.…
Halifax-born pop rock band Sloan has made a long career mixing punk-tinged vocals, sharp guitar lines and frothy, light melodies. With over 25 years in the music game, it feels safe to say they cinched Canadian Icon status long ago. If remembering that long ago makes you feel nostalgic, you’re not alone. It seems Sloan…
Submit a bitch, then get bitched at for bitching. Fair enough, but fuck y’all. I’m not a “feminist whore” or a “misogynistic d-bag.” I don’t need your relationship advice or your sexist/racist/random insults. I’m just a person who had a bad day/crappy experience. Why so much hate? —Keep on bitching
Just had a birthday—quietly, telling no one and being contacted by no one. The price I pay for bad life choices, burned bridges. But you still lift me up, all the time, the only one in my life who congratulates me on accomplishments, shares a drink or conversation, shows up. And I do the same…
Halifax, thanks for being my home for the past 9 years. You’ve introduced me to so many things and wonderful people. I have an amazing band that I am so sad to leave but so grateful to have had the pleasure to work with. All my friends who stuck with me through shitty times, through…
Are the people who designed and implemented the GoTme system the same ones who do the tracking site for Canada Post? Oh boy, is that site terrible. Conveniently updated once a day, with the first entry in EST, not in local time and no useful tracking information, just a notice there is a package en…
It isn’t last summer anymore, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still look for you on my morning and evening commutes. I hope you are able to bike to work again without thinking about Berlin and stitches and Norwegian baked goods. —Girl on bus
The members of Halifax’s Walrus are wedged into a cafe booth that’s almost shaking with laughter. Jordan Murphy, the group’s drummer, is talking about the time one of their teenage band practices got a little too rowdy. “Remember the time we broke dad’s guitar and blamed Keith? For sure we weren’t taking the heat on…
Ever wonder what it’s like inside the Citadel clock tower? Do the tall buildings downtown capture your curiosity during your daily commute? And what’s it like to be an architect, anyway? You’ll finally get a chance to satisfy your imagination and answer questions like these with Doors Open Halifax, a two day event running June…
It takes commitment, time and TLC for a little seed to put down roots and bloom into something spectacular. The veteran Halifax Seed (5680 Kane Street) knows this better than anyone—the north end gardening shop has been growing with Haligonians for 150 years. This weekend the family-run business is celebrating the mega milestone with gardening…
[Image-1] With all the construction and development in Halifax these days, you’ve almost certainly come across one of those flashy project renders, often posted just outside the construction site—a gorgeous illustration of the building’s final design, with perfect lighting, a spectacular angle and images of people revelling in the new space. The context provided by…
[Image-1] In November 2015, an open letter appeared in this paper addressed to me, the then-newly elected Halifax MP. The subject line: “It’s time to step up on climate change.” Since the open letter was published six months ago, I’ve met with its authors and other environmental groups in Halifax. The message I received was…
Tannessa Holt is a self-proclaimed foodaholic. Her devoted love affair took a nasty turn when she found herself overweight, unhappy and waiting to have bariatric surgery. Holt decided to make a drastic change and subsequently had to relearn her relationship with food, though the journey wasn’t easy. “Once I wasn’t able to eat how I…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gemini (May 21-Jun 20) In 1921, the French city of Biarritz hosted an international kissing contest. After evaluating the participants’ efforts, the panel of judges declared that Spanish kisses were “vampiric,” while those of Italians were “burning,” English were “tepid,” Russians were “eruptive,” French were “chaste” and Americans were “flaccid.” Whatever nationality you…
[Image-1] I’m flying around on a tube attached to a rope. I can see the city, just a few hundred metres off in the distance. I can feel the tops of my feet skidding across the water—my toes slicing the surface at 30 kilometres an hour. My hair, soaked, takes on a tentacle form and…
<Justice for all depends upon all David MacDonald touches on an important issue, namely how to improve the criminal justice system in relation to sexual assault (“Safe on the stand after Ghomeshi,” The City, May 12). There is, however, little that indicates how to accomplish this. Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie’s proposed Dignity for Victims of Sexual Violence Act…
Q There’s this boy—he’s 29; I’m 46 and female. We met when we were 23 and 41. I was not and am not into little boys. The Kid chased me, and I turned him down for months—until I got drunk one night and caved. It was supposed to be a one-night stand, but it isn’t…
“Do you like this song?” Ria Mae turns up the radio in her car. She repeats the pattern at least a half-dozen times through the next couple hours: Breaking off from what she’s saying, asking that question, turning it up, stating a fact about the song, then respectfully returning it to just-audible. “I’ve always been…
Ellen Page was in P’lovers, back when it was still in Park Lane, when the woman volunteering recommended Jean Hegland’s 1996 novel Into the Forest. “She said, ‘I think it would make a good movie.’ And I devoured it, and she was right,” says Page over the phone from Toronto. Set in the near-distant future,…
The Lonely Island’s love of popular hip-hop is what made them SNL stars—“Lazy Sunday” and “Dick in a Box” endure—so it makes sense the trio’s first film would be a music-industry mockumentary. Ever-affable Andy Samberg stars as Conner4REAL, a Bieber-esque sensation on a downward spiral. Island mates Jorma Taccone and Akiva Shaffer play his onscreen…
In 2011, Simon Abbott left his home in Quebec for what he thought was a three-month visit to Halifax. Only now, five years later, is Abbott saying farewell to Nova Scotia. The 27-year-old director of the Phoenix Community Choir is heading out in August on a bicycle trip from British Columbia to Patagonia, with the…
Whit Stillman’s been making movies about social-climbing affluent white people since before Wes Anderson knew what a tailor was. There’s always been an air, from his debut Metropolitan through 2011’s theoretically contemporary Damsels in Distress, of period-film stoicism in Stillman’s work. His dialogue and direction are equally precise and mannered, his often-static wide frames so…
As trees grow greener and commuters move from the sheltered lower deck to the open upper deck of the ferry, two Dartmouth events are inviting folks out of their homes for a weekend spent in the great urban outdoors. First, on Saturday, the Dartmouth Skate Coalition (that’s DSKC) is celebrating the grand opening of the…
