Anybody who has waited far too long on a street corner for the privilege of boarding a lurching, overcrowded bus, or wrestled luggage onto subways and shuttles to get to a big city airport, knows that transit on this continent tends to be underfunded, ill-maintained and ill-planned. Given the opportunity, who wouldn’t drive? Hopping in […]
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A Sight For Sewn Eyes, Halifax’s fresh princes
“We approached this record by finding a pocket where we can splice chaos and beauty together without it coming out as a messy batch of undercooked cupcakes,” says Andrew Benoit, guitarist for Halifax’s tech-metal hot-boys A Sight for Sewn Eyes. After a 2012 debut and some time off, the band is returning with a new, […]
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Holy comics reading, Halifax!
“Comics are the world’s most democratic art form,” says cartoonist Jonathan Rotsztain. “They are truly one of the best ways to communicate.” On Tuesday at The Khyber, Rotsztain presents Holy Comics Reading, Halifax!, an evening of cartoonists and writers sharing their creations one doodle at a time. A zine-maker since 2008, Rotsztain has been a […]
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Access meets art at The Art of Disability Festival
As Nicole McDonald sits in her power wheelchair in a workaday office, she smiles and laughs as she describes what the Art of Disability Festival is all about. “To bring awareness is the big thing,” says McDonald. “To bring awareness of what we can do and that we’re not shy and we can be approachable […]
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Halifax’s drinking problem
The photo is colourized and a little fuzzy, but the image is crystal—two girls wait for their drinking cups to fill, the picture of Victorian trim-and-tidiness, in front of the grotto, the old concrete and granite recessed drinking fountain at the Halifax Public Gardens. Their attire—white, puffy-sleeved dresses, stockings and straw hats—suggests a picnic. But, […]
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Why are Halifax Transit buses always running late?
One late bus can ruin your day, and your relationship with Halifax Transit. That long wait in the rain, the blown appointment, a bus that you missed because it went early—these are more powerful memories than the smooth trips, so it seems like the buses are always late. But are they really all that late, […]
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Wednesday’s 10 things to read about
[Image-1] 1 Well this is a bit of monstrous bullshit: a condo development has built a wall over the basketball courts used by neighbouring St. Joseph’s A McKay School. CBC’s Brett Ruskin took some photos and looked into the obnoxious wall, put up by Louis Lawen’s Dexel Developments. Originally, Dexel was to provide a new […]
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Nova Scotia’s sad state of environmental racism
[Image-1] Tonight, activists, politicians and community members from across Nova Scotia will meet at the Halifax Central Library for Connecting the Dots: Confronting Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia. The free event, organized by ENRICH (Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequalities & Community Health Project), the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group and the Ecology Action Centre, aims […]
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Price check: Who’s selling the cheapest clear garbage bags?
[Image-1] Call us Pepsi’s disastrous early-90s marketing fad, because Halifax is going clear. Starting this Saturday, all residents of the municipality will need to bag up their trash in transparent bags. It’s a bit of rubbish voyeurism to increase sorting and cut down on what’s headed to the city’s landfill. Love it or hate it, […]
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Lessons learned on the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees
[Image-1] In 2005, Iranian queer activist Arsham Parsi became a refugee in Canada. Through his Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, he’s helped more than 1,100 other LGBTQIA Iranians escape a country where the punishment for having a same-sex relationship is death. In Halifax, LGBTQIA Iranians are supported by the Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia. […]
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Take a walk on the wild side
[Image-1] Running from now until the end of August, Hike the Greenbelt wants Haligonians to see this city’s remarkably accessible ecological beauty through a month of hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, paddling, running, walking and sailing events around an enormous loop of Halifax’s open wilderness. The 15 free events will showcase the city’s potential greenbelt […]
