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once a year is enough thanks….
I’m going to run down the street yelling “I’m straight! I’m straight!”
To Here and Queer;Here are some tips for ya, Get a job at the Sobeys on Queen St. They have gay workers and customers and you’ll be well informed by lesbianworker. She can take you under her hairy arm pit and teach you a few things about the LGBT community, not to mention lessons in spelling and grammar. by the way…once a year is too much.
LGBTI is very active in Ottawa where my daughter has resided for the past 4 yrs. while attending university. She was living with a gay man for the past 2 yrs. and became involved in the community as a volunteer even though she’s straight. The backing for LGBTI events in Ottawa are student run and a great number of volunteers are straight.Discrimination of any kind is so OLD SCHOOL.
Rock on Here & Queer. Except organizing all that stuff takes energy! Call up your local gay groups and get volunteering 😉
All that time and energy bitching would be better spent planning some of those great ideas you have. Some activist you are. I hate when people are pro something or support something, but only when other people do it for them.
RUDE –>Igtbs. Watch out your child (if you can produce) may turn out gay!
I hope it rains next year…
H.Q. are you saying Halogonians in general want to show their pride, or are you referring only to the gay segment of society? Most Halogonians good give a rats ass about your once yearly show of so called ‘pride’. So be careful who you group yourself with.
This community sucks in general. A gay community that is overrun by e-popping/coke-snorting queens, headcases and those who think their shit doesn’t stink. I’m sure the straight community has the same issues but its not as concentrated as they have more places to hang out among a larger area.I’ve met a lot of gay people here over the past couple of years and had to ignore most of them simply because I’m not into headgames or being around headcases. The few others have become close friends that I care about.Hate to say it but I certainly wouldn’t recomment Halifax as a gay vacation or living destination.
Yeah, that or you can be like everyone else. So you’re gay, thats fine with the law, and me.. But there’s no need to flaunt it, just be.
I’m with “once a year”! Screw all of you and your Gay pride parades, clubs, dances, etc. If the heterosexual community took things as far as you, good luck to us. Keep your sexuality to yourself. I don’t go around in parades with the symbolism that I’m straight. Who cares??? We don’t need a parade and neither do you!!!!Gay Pride is nothing more than an event to show NOTHING but screwed up indivuals trying to prove a point. GET A LIFE
Hey, straighty, stay at home then. Wank.
–It’s great to be straight, speak for yourself. I’m straight and I say bring it on. I support people, and there choices.
Nice to see everyone’s true colours (definitely not rainbow, more like puke-brown) come out on an anonymous comments board. If you feel this strongly about your ignorant, homophobic point of view and want to share it with others, why don’t you include your name and email address, you cowards. Oh, and learn how to spell too.
It’s not about flaunting being gay. Gay folx have to endure straight things all the time. Straight people don’t need to flaunt their sexuality because it’s presumed that everyone is straight by default unless otherwise noted. And what the parades and other things do is note that not everyone is straight. Certainly I don’t think there’s a need to push the point in people’s faces but when we live in a society that tries to push us down the way black people and women in the past have been pushed down…. why is history repeating itself again?
I’m a little unclear as to the purpose of this bitch. Is the idea that the originator simply wants more LGBTI centered events in the area? If so, more power to those who want those events, and make the effort to organize them. Is the idea that straight people like myself are supposed to drive the creation of these events? If so, thanks, but no thanks. This has nothing to do with the fact that these would be LGBTI centered events; I simply have no interest in the events themselves. For those that do, by all means, have fun.I hope all people who are LGBTI feel comfortable enough with themselves to be who they are and not apologize for it. Only by showing the community that it has nothing to fear from those that are different can real change ever come about.