Not like someone who throws away animals into the Canadian cold will care but…
I hope whoever threw that rabbit away (in the park near Exhibition Park where people walk the dogs) reads this .You are truly a piece of shit. It is going to die cold and alone. You are fucking trash and I hope you suffer the same fate. I hope you know what its like to…
I deleted you on your birthday
Why’d you feel the need to post three statuses about your goddamn 30th birthday? We get it, you turned 30. Whoop-de-fucking-do. Most people have or will become that age. Not enough facebook friends posted birthday love on your timeline? Is that why you had to keep mentioning it? Um, we all get reminded when your…
Fake red head to fake blond
Your hair colours are a reflection of your personality. p.s you look awful —piss yellow hair
Dealership drama
To the dishonest dudes at the dealership, Do you really expect me to believe that the $1450 amount of vehicle work that you said I “needed” to do to pass my safety inspection is due to “interpretation” differences?! A second -opinion vehicle inspection came up with only a $300 amount of work to pass this…
Tax dollars may pay for healthcare but not bedside manner
I had to go to emergency last week after my family doctor informed me through my screams of pain that I probably had appendicitis. I expected a long wait, and it actually wasn’t too bad – only 3 hours in the waiting room in excruciating pain! What I didn’t expect was the lack of overall…
Geez, learn to pronounce Isleville already
Know what ticks me off, Halifax? People who don’t pronounce “Isleville” correctly, that nice long street in the North End. Get it right, dammit! —Share the love
McDonald’s McFlurry fairies
I ordered a regular sized McFlurry but unfortunately didn’t have enough to pay. This awesome couple jumped in and gave the extra change I needed. Thank you so much! I just wonder why? Whatever the reason, it was greatly appreciated! —Ice cream addicted student
Utilities Corridor
Halifax needs a utilities corridor… Give it prime land all around the halifax harbour and bedford basin, so we can get all utilities to water developments. Give it a highway, not one of those traffic jammed poor excuses of a highway. Make this a real highway that is designed to move traffic around the harbour…
cookie blues
My daughter has been in a non-profit, girls only organization since she was 5 years old. This organization does a lot for the community and overall my daughter enjoys the weekly meeting. However I recently learned of a new “policy” her unit has started regarding a yearly cookie selling campaign. This year for the first…
Ol’ School Donuts revs up
What started as a bit of a joke in the Connolly family has quickly become the beginnings of a brilliant new business—an honest to goodness family business, at that. After a 1977 Calgary Stampede tailgate bus they bought in PEI failed them (it looked good, but needed work), eleventh grader Noah Connolly and his dad…
Nova Scotia will one day become an island, but the danger is sooner than you think
Through 1868 and 1869, Stephen Martin Saxby, a lieutenant in the English navy, repeatedly warned that astronomical conditions would create exceptionally high tides on the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy on October 5, 1869. “There will be time for the repair of unsafe sea walls,” wrote Saxby, but that warning was largely ignored.…
Lisa Drader-Murphy’s looking fashion-forward
The wheels in Lisa Drader-Murphy’s head are always turning, that’s why her label Turbine (1475 Lower Water Street) has produced over 75,000 pieces over the last 16 years, and why she’s decided to let her creativity bubble over into a second shop. “I wanted a challenge,” says Drader-Murphy of her next move. “I think I…
The Great Pumpkin Thief
I would love to extend a huge bitch to the dude who took and threw away my beloved pumpkin hat at the show this Thanksgiving. Little do you know, the hand-knit hat has huge sentimental value to me and I have been wearing it every Fall for four years. Although I may have looked like…
your child is alive
If you thought the child you conceived with that insane “raspberry” died and was a girl, you are mistaken. HE is alive and well and her mother visits regularly. It was an adoption. Thought you should know. —concerned “friend”
who are you
you wait at bus stop every sunday morning waiting for first bus,, so pretty —curious
you put your blinker on and that gives you right of way?!
oh MAN gotta doozie for yas. dartmouth crossing i make a left hand turn in the right lane from the highway. i make a lane change to the right lane to go down into the loop and make my way to timmies. woman in front of me as im about to come up to her…
another hate crime in nova scotia
The recent stabbing of a gay man in New Glasgow FOR NO REASON but his sexual orientation makes me sick to my stomach. Thank god he is alive, but he is now paralyzed for life and by the sounds of it they intended on him dying that night. This cannot be swept under the rug…
the government
You don’t have a good paying job….the government needs to fix that. Your heating bill is too high ….the government needs to fix that. You never saved for retirement…. The government needs to fix that. You jumped into the sack with a stranger and now you are preggers…the government needs to fix that. Your benefits…
Doctor
I have a shamefully large fondness for your existence. Your personality is just too awesome, you’re beautiful, and your laugh is perfect. Your presence just makes my day I hope I can steam milk for you more often. —I don’t wanna charge you for that drink
A shout out to everyone
Fuck you. FU to the rude woman working the drive through yesterday. FU to the total asshole who cut me off on Quinpool today. FU to my dog who refused to shit this morning. FU to that place I got food poisoning from a year ago. FU to my ex for being such a fucking…
Unions represent who they want to represent
Go fuck yourself union. You are a bunch of incompetent douchebags. —Yours truly
Welcome To Another Dysfunctional HRM Playground
So sick and god damn tired of seeing all the decent all-ages playgrounds being replaced with ‘0-4’ and ‘5-10’ segregated play areas. This fucking SUCKS!! Do you think my 4 year old can read the signs that says he cant play here? And after I explain it to him- Don’t think my kid doesn’t remember…
Work gone sour
To the boss that stole tips earned by employees of his deli and proudly pocketed them and then firing one of the guys that spoke up and questioned where the money was going – you are a DICK as well as your hot-tempered pussy greedy wife! Did you not realize that you have to claim…
You looked right into me…
So while in line waiting for some free vegan food at a certain University building, i ended up locking eyes with a guy across the room for just the briefest few seconds. I swear i have never been looked at in that way before, it was as if he looked right into me. Whether it…
Why So Mean?
Why are the good looking people of Halifax always such assholes? We get it; you’re attractive. Maybe your personality should become attractive, too. —Don’t Listen To Me- I’m Ugly
Rude restaurant
Seriously, why is it that whenever I pass here everyone that hangs out regards me as though I’m beneath them? I’m sorry that I don’t pay tons of money just to look like I just rolled out of bed. Stop acting like assholes who think they’re hot shit and just be fucking nice. —I Just…
Diner love
You are the cutest little place I’ve ever eaten before. I’ve always walked past thinking the place looked gross, but boy was I wrong. The food was amazing, one of the best burgers I’ve ever had in Halifax, and the service was pretty fast even if there was only the owners working. I’ll be back…
Last Episode of Dexter (no spoilers)
What a horrible piece of shit of an episode. Talk about ending a show 3 seasons too many. Breaking Bad made up for it thank god. —It was all downloaded off torrents anyway
Narcotic Phamacutical Drugs
I wrote a bitch a week ago about the issues with obtaining pain medication for very valid reasons. Then today I go to the pharmacist and ask her… a 25 yr veteran of the front line drug dispensing business and asked her… “I know this is a touchy subject but why is it so hard…
Highway to Nowhere
Did you guess it? I’m talking about the 102. It takes me 8 minutes to drive from the airport to exit 1 on the 102. But once I get close to exit 0, the infamous traffic jam starts. _ I tell myself to be patient, things will get better after I get past the construction…
I am so tired.
Please stop writing about my life. I would have liked to have kept my personal life private. I am happy to have made it through. Until you have experienced what I have experienced in the past year, I really don’t think it’s fair to sit back and comment on the destructive train wreck that you…
everyone can go F*@k themselves
what the hell is wrong with everyone? think you know more then the person telling you about something? – Go Fuck Yourself Can’t return calls when it’s your job? – Go Fuck Yourself Think everyone needs to live by your set of life rules? – Go Fuck Yourself Can’t drive worth a shit? – Go…
Ummm…ya, about that….
Crossing guard. Last week I sat at a light in traffic, and watched you puke all over the grass at 8:30 in the morning. Today I watched you take a piss against the tree and fence of the house at that corner, in the afternoon. Thanks for providing children lessons in uncontrollable and evacuatory bodily…
Yoga Week Wrap Up
I checked out Bikram Yoga on Grafton St. for my final Yoga Week class. I have to admit that last time I stepped foot in this building it was the Coconut Grove Lounge. It is nothing like that anymore. It was bright, clean and had giant open windows. The change-rooms are huge and fully equipped…
slow trucks on the mag
Yesterday, I left burnside doing the speedlimit, and there was traffic all around me. This guy in a milk truck (maybe a courrier) gets to the mag hill and slows down to 45 km/h. It backed up traffic for atleast a km. It would not surprise me if over 1000 vehicles were affected. This pisses…
DINK
Double income no kids. Take your holier than thou starbucks drinking haikoo writing snotty attitude and shove it where the sun dont shine —there! I said it.
PD days
@CoyMoore @sleuth_4_truths PC government signed first deal. Dexter signed second, which mostly hadn’t materialized yet. —taking off time to be with my child
Good men? Not for you!
Sitting in a coffee shop and two known (to me) bar/waitress’ sit next to me. They immediately start ranting “where are all the good men? Why are all guys jerks? There’s no good men in Halifax.” etc. I should have SHOUTED; They won’t go near you because all you do is drink and party. You…
I Love the Pink Commons Fountain Water
I love that someone had the compassion and thoughtfulness to turn the water in the Commons fountain pink. Pink brings a deep awareness to all who encounter it now. We have all been affected by cancer and need be reminded of the threat it posses to everyone. I have deep respect for the tough and…
Thank You APPS security guy
I was the legally blind lady in the power wheelchair, on monday night, I was in a really badly depressed mood, buying 2 bags of chips at Shoppers, at the cash, my bank card got declined, I didnt have enough cash, but just as I was about to to put the chips back, nearly in…
B
You put me through hell and back. You betrayed my trust & I left you, finally. I’ve dated other people, but they’re just not you. You’re probably happy with someone else now. I can’t help but miss you. —Love you til the end
Library Bitties
If you “need an hour to fuck around” before you can get started on your actual studying, please do everyone else around you a favour and either do the “fucking around” at home or if you must do it here, at least don’t have loud conversations with your friends at a table across the room…
Pumpkinin’ it Forward?
It seems every year someone snags our pumpkin off the steps in front of our door on Falkland. This year it was, if I do say so myself, a beauty. That $5 investment off the side of a road in The Valley got the yank and I suppose if we’re dumb enough to keep putting…
Flightless Property
To a certain former landlord of mine who thinks his shit don’t stink: Fuck you. I don’t know what planet you live on, but every other past tenant of yours I know (at least 6) has told me you have been the absolute worst landlord ever. Each one has their long list of complaints about…
Hate pretending to be happy
I go through the motions every single day. Drag myself out of bed, check to see if there is a power outage / snowstorm / some other reason not to “Pass Go” and force myself to get ready for a day of pretending I am cheery and happy. I smile at everyone, exchange morning pleasantries…
Year long barista crush
Since moving down the street from a local coffee shop, I have frequented the raddest, most awesome coffee shop around. I come here to chill, work on school stuff, relax, and for the past year try and have awkward conversation with one of the Barista boys. I keep thinking, maybe I will ask you about…
Pedestrians… drivers… Halifax has the worst…
Alright, I am sending in this bitch complaint to all of those pedestrians out there that think they rule the road, what the fuck. You keep complaining that the people don’t stop for you when you are trying to cross the road, how about when you get to a crosswalk, make EYE CONTACT before you…
Chirp
One year ago you kissed me at the bus stop. My heart fluttered in that moment and has been full of love ever since. Thank you for loving me, supporting me and for never giving up on us. One year is a huge milestone but just a brief moment in time when I think of…
#59
Young dude with a Metro Link hat driver getting my ass to work quicky with time to spare. Dude got serious bus driving skills. Thanks for getting me to work bro. —Getting there on time
Our 39th chance at democracy come and gone
If you feel you can’t be trusted with any more input than one mark once every 5 years, Nova Scotia is the place for you! Voting in this province is the illusion of freedom and democracy. If anything is disrespectful to the men and women who fought and died for us its how the status…
Shout Out to my Senate Lovin’ Peeps
I love the Canadian senate; I love how it never challenges parliament on anything. I love how it costs the government millions of dollars per year. I love how all the people who are senators are appointed and that they are paid six figures per year. I love there sense of entitlement. I love how…
little bit of self loathing
Groups of people, I find tend to migrate away from me. I think that I may be an assault to all the senses. Except taste, I am delicious. —who cares?
A Grocery Store Is A Good Place To Meet Someone
To the lovely lady who was in the same line at the Young Street Superstore as I was on Monday, September 30 and complimented me on the Boston Bruins hoodie I was wearing….I can’t stop thinking about you. —Smitten While Buying A Salad
I LOVE N.S! Except for its INACCESSIBILITY!
First of all, Yes, I admit, I GREW UP in Ontario, a shitty city called Hamilton.. I am multiply disabled.. wheelchair & legally blind/hearing impaired. I TRIED to do research before coming here, I LOVE Dartmouth! but the asshat IA/MSI workers wont give ANY information in emails or over the phone, I TRIED FOR 7…
City considers reversing Africville Park’s off-leash status
Dogs still run free in Africville Park, but perhaps for not much longer. Jennifer Watts, councillor for District 8, says the Off Leash Dog Strategy Committee will hold public consultations throughout the fall towards transferring the park by spring of 2014. A date has yet to be set for the consultations. The former Seaview Park,…
New hurdles for gay refugees
Imagine you are a new immigrant to Canada. Within a few weeks of arriving, you are speaking at a hearing about why you feel you are under prosecution in your homeland because of your sexuality. The LGBTQ immigrant community faces unique challenges when claiming refugee status. The Halifax Refugee Clinic helps gay refugees in their…
Nova Scotia voters give Liberals a majority government
Voters have given the Nova Scotia Liberal Party a majority government, sending the NDP packing. With leader Stephen McNeil at the helm, the Liberals took 33 seats. Jamie Baillie’s Progressive Conservative Party won 11 seats and status as the official opposition in the new government. The Darrell Dexter-led NDP is left with just seven seats.…
Machete Kills
Made over a weekend with a budget of twenty bucks, Machete Kills exists. In a movie that’s entirely stunt-casted, super-killing human weapon Machete (Danny Trejo, looking his age) returns on a secret mission from the US president (Charlie Sheen, that’s the joke) to hunt down a Mexican terrorist attempting to nuke Washington with help from…
Savage comes to Halifax
I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia, last week to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Coast, Halifax’s kick-ass alternative weekly newspaper. I took questions for two hours in the auditorium of a Halifax high school that has a full bar. (First you have socialized medicine, and then marriage equality and now bars…
Captain Phillips
Ever have one of those days? Captain Phillips has, stuck at sea for a week after being kidnapped by pirates in the simply titled Captain Phillips. Based off the book that’s based off the real events, the film follows the 2009 hijacking of container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, and subsequent kidnapping and rescue…
Runner Runner
Justin Timberlake should have just developed another social network instead of spending his Princeton days losing money to online casinos in the hammy Runner Runner. After he presumes to have been cheated, Timberlake’s math wizard heads to Costa Rica to confront metaphor.poker.net’s owner, inevitably getting engrossed in the fast cars, loose women, big bucks lifestyle…
Stephen Kimber
Stephen Kimber just wanted to write a novel. When the Halifax author and University of King’s College journalism professor travelled to Cuba a few years back, he did so in order to research locations for a love story. Once there, though, the novel was swiftly cast aside, as Kimber learned more about The Cuban Five…
Legends of the Fallsy
“I struggled through writing Homing trying to figure out how to write a book,” admits author Stephanie Domet, humbly referring to her award-winning 2007 novel. A journalist by trade—you may know her as host of CBC Radio One’s Mainstreet— two books under her belt and a brand new novel, Fallsy Downsies, released by Invisible Publishing this…
Watermark
There was a time in the 1980s when Meryl Streep was very respected but seeing her movies felt like homework, what with all the dour subject matters and accents. The same can be said of Watermark, a well-made but dull documentary about water from Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, whose lauded Manufactured Landscapes was a…
Shashi Bhat
Like the main character in her first novel, The Family Took Shape, Shashi Bhat grew up in Richmond Hill, a suburb just outside of Toronto. After high school she headed a few hours south to Ithaca, New York, where she attended the illustrious Cornell, studying English and doing pre-med. Always a reader, Bhat got the…
The right stuff
“To me, the quintessential Thanksgiving turkey stuffing is the one my mom makes,” says Dan Vorstermans, “obviously.” Pretty much everybody’s favourite stuffing is the one their mom makes, but Vorstermans—chef owner at the local-focused Field Guide, which will be opening in a few weeks—and a few other chefs in town have some other suggestions for…
Rachel Lebowitz
Rachel Lebowitz has been a writer on the east and west coasts and a few places in between. Now settled back in Halifax, she juggles her time between writing, raising a child and working at the Halifax North library coordinating adult literacy programs. She originally planned on a life in academia but after completing her…
Fierce Ink Press
Fierce Ink’s Colleen McKie and Kimberly Walsh love books, quite clearly. The PEI-based McKie is a freelance writer and editor and Halifax-based Walsh is a freelance communications strategist who founded All Rights Reserved literary magazine and both women are currently involved with bringing BookCamp to Halifax (November 9). And in their unbridled love for literature,…
Alison Smith
Alison Smith’s poems evoke the feeling of a solitary weekend spent at the cottage in order to sort some things out. Bracing, overcast and contemplative, her work is distinct and resonates especially with Nova Scotians. “It’s been a good year for me. I decided to concentrate on my writing full-time in the spring and since…
Kris Bertin
Nearly every article about Kris Bertin mentions that he’s a bouncer and a bartender (at Bearly’s House of Blues and Ribs, so go say hi). It’s somehow incongruous that a brawny dude slinging beers writes imaginative and insightful fiction when he’s not serving up a round of shots or helping someone who’s had one too…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA! (September 23-October 22) The advice I’m about to dispense may have never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to express. Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will help…
Travelling home
It was Thomas Wolfe who said you can’t go home again—as if the desire to recapture something of a lost past is impossible or unadvisable. But what happens when your past is torn from you, as so many residential school survivors’ pasts were? NSCAD student Carrie Allison Goodfellow wrestles with these themes and more in…
Obscuro references
Taking form in the 17th century, the string quartet was a four-piece ensemble small enough to play in the drawing rooms and salons of the European aristocracy. Classical composers explored the tonal relationships between violins, violas and cellos, and the musical structure of the quartet became the essence of repertoire chamber music. That is until…
John Dunsworth and poetry of the moment
Late last Thursday evening the actor John Dunsworth was draped over an armchair in a living room on Moran Street. Dressed from head to toe in crisp black—suit, shirt, socks, shoes—he looked like an elegant priest. Handsome. In a sense he was a priest. Thom Fitzgerald and Doug Pettigrew have been shooting their first…
Pub to club
All over the world, female DJs light up the clubs to create space for female EDM, hip-hop and soul DJs behind the booth. In Halifax, with DJ Gwen West (AKA Gwen Westell) and DJ Swayback (AKA Katie McKay), Bodywork has been rocking the mixers and tables since 2011. A semi-regular event at Gus’ Pub, Bodywork…
Letters to the editor, October 10, 2013
Red (and orange and blue) bull Tim Bousquet’s article, “The Politics of Bullshit” (October 3), certainly contains elements of truth. A principal reason I’ve been working with Project Democracy on electoral and political reform is that the present systems in Canada are increasingly dysfunctional and incline politics towards zero-sum hyper-partisanship, with the kinds of results…
Uncle Oscar’s Experiment
Gorgeous. Clever. Horrifying. Fantastical. Fun. These are all adjectives that could be used to describe Zuppa Theatre’s 10th anniversary remount of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. The production is a beautifully choreographed feat of physical theatre, a hummable, strum-able musical mash-up (with a delightfully eclectic score by Jason Michael MacIsaac), a touching love story, and a gore-filled…
The Balconies’ are moving on up
If you’ve been a fan of Toronto’s The Balconies from the beginning, then you’ve probably noticed a significant change in the band. Where they were once fresh-faced indie-rock kids, they’ve now morphed into a hard-rock machine. For bassist Steve Neville, the decision to beef up the band’s sound grew out of a dissatisfaction with their…
Romeo and Juliet
An obscure English play gets adapted, yet again, in the entirely unnecessary Romeo and Juliet. The annoyingly named Juliet Capulet (Hailee Steinfeld) and playboy Romeo Montague (Douglas Booth) fall madly in love despite their families’ longstanding blood feud. Spoiler alert! Things don’t end well. Director Carlo Carlei takes no risks with his lukewarm attempt at…
Congrats to Sobey Art Award winner Duane Linklater!
North Bay, Ontario artist Duane Linklater takes home the prestigious Sobey Art Award in the prize’s 11th year. The $50,000 prize was awarded to Linklater after a jury deliberated over the work of 5 emerging contemporary artists under the age of 40—including Atlantic nominee Tamara Henderson, Quebec’s Pascal Grandmaison, Alberta’s Mark Clintberg and BC’s Isabelle…
Oscar’s ballad
Zuppa Theatre Co. presents a milestone production—a 10 year anniversary remount of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment (October 10-20, Fort Massey United Church, 5303 Tobin Street, uncleoscar.eventbrite.com), and lucky you gets to witness how the company has aged like a fine wine. “I’m waiting to see what people who saw the show ten years ago think,” says…
