Five bearskin rugs lie cushioned in layers of plastic bags, under a utility table in David Harper’s Almon Street studio. Only their heads are visible, stacked in a semi-circle chorus—count two tan, one brown, one white, one black. Their jaws are open and wet, shiny with vampirish fangs and pale pink tongues. What makes these […]
Atlantic Journalism Awards 2009
Adam’s fall
Editor’s note This story was honoured with two journalism awards in 2009: The Canadian Association of Journalists gave a CAJ award for best investigative piece by a community newspaper, and it won a gold Atlantic Journalism Award for enterprise reporting. More importantly, the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission has decided to install suicide barriers along the entire […]

