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The Silicon Alley Insider reports that layoffs at America On Line have taken some Canadian jobs offline: The AOL Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) campus covering Voice Services (AOL Voicemail, AOL PhoneLine, the former Total Talk system etc) was reduced by over 50% , including ALL of senior management and senior/lead developers. (60 days notice for […]

Canada’s environment minister ducked out of a speech he was supposed to give today at the big UN global warming conference in Bali, according to a local woman on the scene. Dartmouth’s Lise Richard just sent a note about the sinister minister, which I’m sharing with you below, hot off the email wire: As negotiations […]

Terrorists are coming! A suicide bomber is going to blow up your bus! Meteors will fall on downtown Halifax! Tidal waves! Anthrax! Pandemics! BOO! Are you scared yet? Well, you should be! How else is “Canada’s New Government” (now pushing two years “new”) going to hand bloated contracts to well-connected corporations? Here’s how it works: […]

Let’s give credit where credit is due: in one very important aspect, the provincial government is coming through with its promises. You’ll recall that this spring the legislature unanimously approved the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act, which established a series of environmental targets that the province is legally committed to reaching in coming years, […]

The Angels and Heroes’ production of Antigone is flawed, but not fatally. The TNS Space on Agricola is too small (and too hot), so the piece is awkwardly staged. Audience members are forced to peer around posts and actors are constantly trampling on the spot representing Polyneices’ grave. The play seemed too long, with too […]

Luna/Sea, the estrogen-powered theatre quartet of Martha Irving, Mauralea Austin, Mary-Colin Chisholm and Sherry Smith, has brought Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads” to Studio TNS. The series of portraits of “regular” English people works wonderfully in the tiny space, and the two monologues I saw made me wish that the rest of the run was not […]

Time is running out to see Doing Time, a highly entertaining mystery based on a sci-fi short story by Kansas City author Mac Tonnies and adapted by the play’s director Paul Kimball. It is staged in the tiny basement room of the Wired Monk Coffee Shop, which makes for a surprisingly effective space for this […]

Yesterday, the Ecology Action Centre held a press conference to announce its portion of the Climate Change Action Report Card, the collective effort that rates governments on their performance towards meeting the greenhouse gas emission reduction goals they established for themselves in 2001. The Nova Scotian government received an overall grade of C, but the […]

Nowadays, working as an environmental reporter can be like watching a train wreck in slow motion: you see the catastrophe laid out before you, you know how the catastrophe will unfold and, sure enough, there it happens, exactly as expected. All that’s left to do is document the details. This, at any event, is how […]

Families looking for an alternative to the standard theatre holiday fare should check out A Spider’s Tale, the first-ever collaboration between the Dalhousie Theater School and Symphony Nova Scotia. While not strictly Christmasy, it does have the element of magic (think talking insects, rodents and arachnids) that lights up little ones’ imaginations. The Dalhousie Costume […]

The Screen Actors Guild and George “Factory Girl” Hickenlooper have teamed up to create a series of shorts in support of the striking Writers’ Guild of America. Being hosted at deadlinehollywood.com, they feature an impressive line-up of actors including Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sean Penn and a few too many Desperate Housewives. Go HERE for […]

In today’s issue of The Coast—the paper version being picked up right now across the city—the music listings promise a Blue Rodeo/Cuff the Duke concert tomorrow night, Nov 23, at the Metro Centre. But of course the Rainmen are playing a game tomorrow night. And Blue Rodeo plays FEBRUARY 23. You can understand the mistake. […]