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Some suggestions of how to spend your Chrismas money this year and years to come. The idea of giving a goat really pleases me:http://www.oxfamunwrapped.ca/

The kids were safe at last night’s giant non-school high school dance – and the teachers at the schools that banned dances are safe, too. They won’t have to worry about being blinded by all that crazy close dancing, and they don’t have to try to stop it. When I was student teacher, I had […]

Methinks the folks at Esquire might have a Coast subscription. Don’t you think? All Coast covers designed and lettered by Kate O’Connor between November 2005 and October 2006.

Thanks to all the Coasters, writers and readers, for making the mistake of writing my name down. I am humbled, as well I should be. Wanted to get out to the ceremony, but on short notice there was no way for me to get out of a visit from the in-laws. You’ve all been there, […]

Really happy to read that we’re getting closer to midwifery legislation, but I’m afraid that it won’t go far enough, or that there will be some other issue. After all, it’s the mercury retrograde and you’re not supposed to sign major papers during that time. And we’ve been close many times before. I learned a […]

Halifax, we need to talk. Mayor Peter Kelly is hosting a violence summit in the wake of Damon Crooks’s murder, with invitees including representatives from the police, downtown businesses and the tourism industry. Mayor Kelly told me he’s heard from over 300 people since Crooks, a US Navy sailor, was stabbed on Argyle Street early […]

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I knew her because she was Sassy‘s favourite writing, directing actor. I’ve never seen anything she’s done, save an apperance in annoying Rosanna Arquette’s otherwise dope documentary about women in the movie business, Searching for Debra Winger. She was one of Hal Hartley‘s discoveries. She wrote and directed five films — the latest, Waitress, stars […]

Could there be a better way to spend a Halloween evening than by splicing together your own Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror episode? No. No there could not.