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After being hit by a car on my scooter, a very nice man was the first to jump out of his car and offer assistance. Sir—you had to leave because of your kids in the car, but you will always be my hero. Thank you so much. —Scooter Girl
To the blue-eyed, red-haired, always well-dressed Regency Park angel. I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to you. You are a rare bird amongst the crows. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. —Great Admiration
Is it just me or are the prices in thrift stores getting ridonkulous? I looked at a faded cotton maxi dress—38 bucks! It’s not even in season! A fall jacket with fake fur trim—35 dollars. A purse with a broken zipper, scratched hardware and dirty lining: 10 dollars, not even that great of a brand…
Armco Capital has a lot of work ahead if it wants to earn back the trust of Beechville residents for the company’s new subdivision. Helping ease the tensions built up from 200 years of false promises and racist planning decisions is Joachim Stroink, the former MLA who made national headlines in 2013 after posing for…
Earlier this month the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the Paradise Papers—a massive leak of documents that show just how pervasive legal tax avoidance through offshore banking has become. Some of those whose dealings in Bermuda have been questioned have defended themselves by explaining that their critics’ outrage is misplaced since sending money offshore…
In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists have circulated a dual image purporting to compare a lithium mine with an oilsands operation. It illustrates the level of dishonesty to which some will stoop to keep us on our current polluting, climate-disrupting path (although in some cases it…
A note to all overconfident dog owners walking their furry beloved off-leash…stop! Lots of people don’t like dogs, or are terrified of them. These people can’t be expected to peacefully coexist with dogs if some dog owners aren’t respecting the leash laws by walking their pup off leash. These laws are there to protect everyone,…
Restrictions on live music has a local business owner wondering “where is music allowed in Halifax?” Due to multiple noise complaints, the Timber Lounge on Agricola Street is no longer permitted to host amplified shows. Acoustic performances, however, are still allowed. Owner Marc Chisholm says the axe-throwing bar previously made an agreement with the province’s…
A Friday meal at a restaurant in the Hydrostone. For Brenda and I a pleasant date, the best fish and chips in town and superb staff. To end our meal, a wonderful surprise…a young man unbeknownst to us, newly introduced to the restaurant’s great food, paid for his meal and OURS! The gesture was unknown…
Nova Scotia Spirit Co. is broadening its horizons and getting into the beer business. “It was kind of a natural progression,” says company president Alex Rice. “It’s something that we’ve kind of considered throughout the past couple years that we’ve launched the spirits brand.” The Trenton-based company acquired a former Scotsburn dairy facility in Stellarton,…
I don’t get it. I carefully park leaving equal space on either side at 5:30 in the AM. You felt it was your fucking right to gouge my car door on the passenger side. Why? We are all working stiffs that have to park along that fence. Why would you do such a nasty thing?…
I can only assume that the average Dartmouth apartment does not include luxuries like running water or laundry rooms. What else might explain the overpowering nostril assault of armpit, crotch, stale cigarettes, and weed wafting from the masses on public transit past the bridge? C’mon Dartmouth dwellers, let’s have a personal hygiene moment every now…
Good news if you haven’t booked your office’s holiday party yet. The final, absolute, this-time-no-lie opening date for the Halifax Convention Centre will take place December 15, after nearly two years of delays. The province sent out a news release Tuesday announcing the opening ceremony. A welcome weekend for the public, featuring a series of…
Hey Halifax, long time no see. I woke up here instead of a hospital bed in Ontario today. I was blackout drunk for 10 years and had no idea who or where I was and now that I’m back I can’t believe how in-your-face the party scene is here. My family are in their autumn…
What would you think if you read the following on a menu?: “Enjoy a bottomless coffee with your meal” (There is no price listed beside this, despite all the other beverages on the page having listed prices). Well, I think the average person could reasonably assume that the coffee was included in your meal so…
An unlicensed driver in Halifax has been posing as a legitimate taxi cab and picking up unsuspecting fares. On Monday, a social media account posted a warning about a driver using a fake roof light after hearing complaints from two Casino Taxi drivers. Brian Herman, president and operations manager for Casino, says he’s aware of…
Call it a war of the oranges. Nova Scotia NDP president Bill Matheson and vice-president Judy Swift have both stepped down from their positions with the Party’s executive. The resignations happened at a meeting this past Saturday. In an email subsequently sent to the NDP’s provincial council, Swift blames her departure on the actions and…
Whoever is responsible for the transit changes really does not like people. Why would you change the number 9 to 29 and the 6 and 20 to 9A and 9B? Why not just leave the 9 as the 9 and do whatever you want with the 6 and 20. Cause it is just going to…
To the smoker girl who worked at a Dartmouth grocery store. We talked a little about work and weather; you even said I looked like I was going to Hawaii with my blue colours and tropical shorts. I had a nice time chatting to you that evening while I waited for my friend to pick…
An Intimate Evening with Hey Ocean! did not disappoint. Friday’s show consisted of many HO! back catalogue tunes (starting with “If I Were a Ship”), a handful of new ones and solo songs from the band’s three founding members. Although the crowd was very chatty (seems to be a problem in Halifax these days) HO!…
Okay, this is a rant to all those people who go to 24 hour gas stations. I think you should really pay attention to it. 1. We are working. Just because we are not standing right by the cash register, doesn’t mean we are off somewhere, sleeping or purposely ignoring you. 2. If it says…
As reported by everyone today, some 800 workers for the Sobeys grocery chain are losing their jobs thanks to corporate restructuring. According to the Chronicle Herald, 150 of those job losses are office workers in Nova Scotia. The company’s Stellarton headquarters will be hit particularly hard. The corporate head office will lose 100 employees. The…
Update: Coastal Cannapy was raided a second time on Saturday, November 25. Police say three men were arrested at the scene without incident. They’re facing one count each of possession for the purpose of trafficking marijuana and hash. Members of the Special Enforcement Section of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division raided two different Halifax cannabis dispensaries…
Five organizations have released a statement in the wake of accusations of sexual assault against a staff member at the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative. (As detailed here last week.) The Centre for Art Tapes, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Nocturne, South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre and Eyelevel Gallery—and all of their staff and board…
Limiting the number of cyclists allowed on Halifax Transit ferries isn’t nearly as much of a concern for one city councillor as whether or not Segways will still be allowed aboard. Matt Whitman—who is not part of the Transportation Standing Committee—sat in on Thursday’s meeting and repeatedly went to bat for letting users of the self-balancing…
Progressive Conservative MLA Tim Houston is facing some ethical questions—and firing back at his political opponents—after having his name discovered in a leaked database of offshore business dealings. The news was announced by Nova Scotia’s NDP in a press release Thursday afternoon. Meredith O’Hara, NDP spokesperson, says the party’s researchers are confident the Timothy Jerome…
10 The Best of The Fest Saturday The all-stars of Halifax’s ComedyFest return for a night of biggest hits (er, biggest ha-has?) that includes Debra DiGiovanni griping about skincare at Casino Nova Scotia. 9 Modified screening Friday Aube Giroux’s debut documentary tackles questions surrounding Canada’s lack of GMO labelling and will make you reconsider the contents of…
Wannabe: The Spice Girls Tribute Band Saturday, November 25, 8pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street tickethalifax.com There’s a scene in Spice World—the 1997 musical that would come to be the high water mark in the Spice Girls’ saturation of pop culture—where Sporty, Ginger, Scary, Posh and Baby crowd at a forest’s edge, watching a…
Willow Tree is in limbo. Armco’s proposed tower at the corner of Robie Street and Quinpool Road was approved by Halifax Regional Council this past spring at a staff-recommended, Centre Plan-inspired height of 20 storeys. APL Properties, Armco’s development wing, came back to city hall last week saying 20 wouldn’t work. The company had been…
The urgent and vivid public discourse surrounding rape culture has perhaps never been so ubiquitous. The stampede of coverage in the wake of a (seemingly nonstop) list of allegations of sexual misconduct against powerful men in media, entertainment and government is not slowing down—if anything it seems to be gaining more traction all the time.…
Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for her portrayal of Marge Gunderson in Fargo, an—this is the correct usage of this word—iconic performance of uncommon warmth in a typically cold Coen brothers film set in the deep snow of Minnesota. But she’s at her best when she’s being a fierce bitch—think Olive Kitteridge, her disgruntled…
As Sweeney Todd’s Mrs. Lovett Sondheim-sighs in her first solo, “aye sir, times is hard.” While I’m not making human pies to make ends MEAT right now, I have had to become savvy with my pot allowance. To get double dosages out of my stash, I’ve been vaping more often and then using the leftovers…
In whole acts of love and admiration, here are the tribute shows I have personally produced, played and sung in: Tori Amos, Under the Pink (May 9, 2014); Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (June 12, 2015, two shows); Tori Amos, Boys for Pele (January 20, 2016). These are three of the most important albums of…
I’m a Haligonian. And like most Haligonians, I’ve had to work pretty darn hard to find a way to stay here. For me, that meant going away for several years to learn new skills and then come home. When employment in my field wasn’t available when I returned, it meant creating my own opportunities. For…
Immigrant Women Entrepreneur Showcase Pitch Competition Monday November 27, 6:30pm Halifax Central Library,5440 Spring Garden Road An entrepreneur workshop series and showcase is enabling female immigrants to develop and pitch ideas for potential businesses in Halifax. Business “is a very male-dominated area,” says project manager Kyla Doornbos. “What we aim to do with this project…
Woodworker Veronica Post knows she’s a woman in a male-dominated field, but doesn’t let her gender overshadow her work. “I feel like it’s always there,” says Post. “I want to be talking about the furniture because that is what I’m passionate about and not have the attention be about something that really doesn’t matter.” Post…
Don’t cry for the death of the classic cinematic experience—weep for the original screenwriter. Hollywood has always remade, reinvented and recast itself: We’re fresh off an updated Murder on the Orient Express, and a new Jumanji awaits this holiday season for those who…wanted it? But take a look over the past five years of box…
Mauno w/Jon McKiel, Juice Girls Thursday, November 23, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Nick Everett doesn’t beat around the bush. The music he makes as a part of the band Mauno—with guitarist Scott Boudreau, bassist/vocalist Eliza Niemi and drummer Adam White—carries this same affects as his conversational style: Spry, thoughtful, quietly intellectual.…
Composer Dinuk Wijeratne could not believe it when he heard the news he’d won the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award last week. “I heard wild ringing on my phone from a friend congratulating me,” says Wijeratne. “I thought it was a hoax for a moment, so I needed confirmation before I could…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when…
Q I’m a twentysomething straight woman. About a month ago, I had a really vivid dream in which I was at a party and engaging with a guy I had just met. We were seriously flirting. Then my fiance showed up—my real, flesh-and-blood, sleeping-next-to-me fiance—who we’ll call G. In the dream, I proceeded to shower…
More great eats Fredie’s Fantastic Fish House has a nice story and super-friendly people running the place, but the last two times I was there the fish was under-cooked, with batter too thick and doughy in the middle (“25 things to eat right now,” cover story by Melissa Buote and Allison Saunders, November 16). Harbour…
