Good on ya, Halifax. A look back at 2015’s notable retail and restaurant openings and closings reveals some really good news: our hellos doubled our goodbyes this year. Ninety-nine brand new storefronts and eateries brightened our neighbourhoods since last winter and helped lessen the blow of the 49 dearly departed local businesses. That doesn’t even […]
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Walking home from the bars
The next time you’re walking home from the bars at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., look around you at the houses. This is not an abandoned ghost town you’re walking through. It’s a neighbourhood. Behind those windows are people sleeping – or at least people who WERE sleeping before you walked by, yelling your fool heads […]
Yet another reason to license parents
So you’re a proud parent who has a sweet ass tat of your kids’ names visible. Since you have a boy and a girl, when you left your 3 year old son alone at a table in the busy food court while taking your stroller-strapped daughter to order your meal, it wasn’t hard to figure […]
Pine street racers!
I know Pine Street in Dartmouth is a way to avoid traffic, and it’s on a hill. But please, slow down. Cars race down here like race drivers getting close to the finish line. You wouldn’t want someone racing through your neighborhood, would you? I’m going to start taking pics of license plates zooming through […]

