The National Rifle Association’s ongoing efforts to make guns a totally normal lifestyle choice in the USA have now taken aim at Halifax’s official totally normal lifestyle choice, the donair. An NRA magazine called American Hunter published a recipe for Wild Game Donair on its website this weekend. Apparently meat from moose, deer and elk […]
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City nails new Halifax Explosion memorial
When Haligonians gather December 6 at Fort Needham Memorial Park to remember the blast that devastated the city 100 years ago, they will find some informative architecture has been added to the grounds around the old bell tower monument. The new commemorative elements don’t take the form of strenuous plaques droning on about the Imo, […]
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Traumatic re-creation
Arthur Lismer and the 1917 Explosion: When War Came to Halifax November 23–December 17 Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue If it happened today, producers would be bidding for the film rights by noon. Instead, the Explosion in Halifax Harbour—the worst human-made disaster prior to the atomic bomb—was documented in a 75-cent paperback filled with 60 […]
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What if the Halifax Explosion happened today?
Given the inescapable 100th anniversary coverage, it’s quite hard to imagine anything worse than the Halifax Explosion occurring again. But given current events, it’s also all-too-easy to picture another Mont Blanc-meets-Imo situation taking place. The more war gets mongered by Americans, the likelier Halifax goes into action as a naval staging site. The nuclear-powered USS […]