I definately wasn’t the only one who thought that attending the Parade of Lights was a huge waste of time… People were LEAVING all over the place! Oh my God Halifax, put on a better show… 10mins between floats? Sooo ridiculous! I won’t be wasting my time next year that’s fo sho.
—Me

This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2009.

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  2. yep.. if that’s the best we can come up with, why even bother?
    just put streamers on some trucks borrowed from a dealership (in return for their shameless advertising) and claim it’s a parade…..
    better yet, make em all hybrids and claim it’s a green parade…

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  3. I find it ironic that they were collecting food in Sobeys bags considering Sobeys and Superstore throw out a wack of food into the sealed dumpsters EVERY NIGHT!

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  5. You should have told them to carry the donated food around in their arms, just like at the bagless stores.

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  8. I think they should have had a more adult parade after the kids one, complete with elf pornstars and strippers dressed in skimpy red lingerie with white fluff dancing on candy cane poles. Santa could have come out later dressed as a pimp ready to party down and get CRUNK.

    But nooo, our completely inept, backwards HRM Council would never allow that, would they.

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  9. yea it is for kids mostly lamer adults around pissing on the kids parade and making the little ones sit on dads shoulders in the waaaaay back – good for you adults – your a fuckin disgrace . Maybe your lucky the “dads didn’t kick your asses waaaay back and watch it with a black eye while the little ones get upfront – jesus grow up

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  10. I agree, the parade is pathetic. I don’t know why everything was so spaced out. So much for Halifax being GREEN….each float was crawling along pumping toxic fumes into the air. At least next year harness the children together and have them pull the floats. You can even buy the whips at Naughty by Nature to make sure they keep moving.

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  11. So sebastian do you hang out long enough to see the food bank trucks pick up racks upon racks of product out the front? The stuff going into the dumpsters is rotten, you idiot.

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  12. The parade had Shriners on mini ATVs, my night was complete.

    *They actually drove them there themselves, I saw them on Cogswell headed for the start*

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  13. I thought the parade was decent. Could’ve done without the long gaps in between floats, though.

    A shriner was in a Flintstones car and yelled “YABBA DABBA DOO!” as he drove past us. My night was made.

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