A Dartmouth billboard reading ‘Canada has no abortion laws’ is turning heads and raising ire. The sign on Windmill Road is rented on a four-week contract and paid for by We Need A Law—a religious advocacy group based in Vancouver and Ottawa. Jennifer Taylor, a research lawyer with Stewart-McKelvey was “fired up and frustrated” when […]
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How to poster a pole, the video
The city’s march towards being a dynamic destination full of culture and life continues its lurching progress. Today’s case in point: putting posters on power poles. Walk down any busy street in Halifax or Dartmouth and you’re sure to see utility poles with posters covering them (provided you don’t run into them first). What isn’t […]
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Flack attack: The first USB-powered cat bed
[Image-1] We get a lot of press releases during our day. Some of them are useful, others not so much. Presented without judgment or context, March’s weirdest releases. Meow Mix Launches World’s First USB-Powered Cat Bed “A product that prevents your cat from sitting on your actual keyboard by instead providing an alternate keyboard that […]
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Flack attack: Rod Stewart is Coming to Cavendish!
[Image-1] We get a lot of press releases during our day. Some of them are useful, others not so much. Presented without judgment or context, February’s weirdest releases. Action heats up in Canadian bedrooms as the temperature drops “Hockey isn’t the only activity that keeps Canadians busy in the winter. More than half of Canadians […]
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Flack Attack: What a messy desk says about you
[Image-1] We get a lot of press releases during our day. Some of them are useful, others not so much. Presented without judgment or context, this past month’s weirdest releases. Bending Over Backwards Is For Gymnasts—PsychTests’ Study Reveals Why Being Too Nice Is A Disadvantage “What would Mr. Rogers do if the people who lived […]
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Halifax has a nasty case of corporate branding
[Image-1] Names are powerful things. They’re not just signifiers, but the means with which you and I can talk about our shared environment. That becomes annoying when the language is infected with sponsored advertisements. It’s regrettable then, that Halifax is so eager to sell pieces of itself off to the highest bidder. There was BMO, […]
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Just watch it
Normally I’d be embarrassed to blog a YouTube vid that’s both old (it went up a month ago) and popular (15 million views). But this three-minute Nike ad, starring a bunch of soccer greats plus other celebs including Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer and Homer Simpon, is so amazing it should have 15 billion views. […]
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The Coast is free, so STFU!
To anyone who has the audacity to complain about cigarette ads or beer wraps in The Coast, I ask you: How much does your weekly subscription cost? How much do you pay for your weekly rundown on the latest goings-on across town? Unless your answer is anything higher than the low, low price of $0, […]
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Coast cover a disappointment
I am writing in regards to the cover of the latest issue of The Coast (October 1, 2009). While I understand the financial pressures of running a print publication in this day and age, and the siren song of any extra advertising dollars that can be found, the cover of this week’s Coast was just too much. A wrap-around ad for beer (no matter how beloved by some) cheapens the newspaper that Haligonians have come to love. It is gauche, unnecessary and, furthermore, detracts from the one truly pure editorial space. I will be deeply saddened if this practice continues.—Jen
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SEXIST BEER ADS
This may come as a shock to beer companies but women (gasp!) drink beer too!!! Why then, are beer companies flogging their products with scantilly clad ‘beer babes’ who are clearly designed to appeal to hetero men or lesbians? Where are the scantlly clad young men for the women beer drinkers to ogle? Seriously! If […]
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Metro Transit Ads Suck
I just want to look out the window when I’m on the bus. It’s one of the only things that makes riding Metro Transit bearable. But Metro Transit has to cover up the windows with ads, so the view is obscured by a fuzzy haze created by the advertising decals. I just want to tear […]
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Tobacco sellout
To the editor, Suppose the Roman Catholic church asked you to run anti-family planning, anti-abortion, anti-gender-equality advertisements: Would you do it for a price? Suppose Charlton Heston rose from the dead with an AK-47 clenched between his teeth and demanded, on behalf of the American gun lobby, that Canadians stop being such pussies and get […]