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“You’re going to get shit-bombed. It’s going to happen”
[Image-1] First, fill up a juice box with urine and fecal matter. Then place it next to the small crack at the bottom of a cell’s door. Stomp on it as hard as you can. The offending slosh will spray out through the crack, covering the cell’s occupant (and everything else) in piss and shit. […]
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Five years of solitude
[Image-1] Convicts don’t get much sympathy. They broke the law, and that’s enough for some people to write them off completely. Drew Butler admits he wasn’t always the best kid growing up, but he never used to be this angry. It’s now been three months since Butler’s been released from prison, just in time to […]
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No jail time for second offender in Rehtaeh Parsons case
[Image-1] A second man who pleaded guilty to distributing an explicit photo of Rehtaeh Parsons was sentenced yesterday to 12 months probation as a Nova Scotia court dusted its hands of the case. That’s 12 months of probation for looking directly into the lens of his friend’s camera and flashing a thumbs-up as he penetrated […]
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The depressing world of call centre employment
[Image-1] Over the past seven years, 25-year-old Samantha Devine has worked at four call centres, starting at the first immediately after graduating high school. She is now unemployed, taking anti-anxiety medication and anti-depressants and has been through several rounds of therapy. “They didn’t really care what happened to you,” says Devine. The mother of two […]
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Shifting focus towards rural communities
[Image-1] From March 11 to 14, Dalhousie’s school of planning will host its annual SHIFT planning conference. This year, the focus is on the challenges and opportunities facing rural communities in Nova Scotia. Masters student and organizer Eliza Jackson took some time to speak with The Coast about what SHIFT is planning. The Coast: Why […]
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It’s 2015 and a scalping law is still on the books
[Image-1] Sometimes the media ocean churns up a long-forgotten bit of news jetsam from its briny depths. Such a regurgitation happened recently when this 2000 story on Nova Scotia’s scalping law showed up in my newsfeed. According to CBC’s 15-year-old story, First Nations chiefs asked the premier to remove the province’s 250-year-old scalping law from […]
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Provincial tax review fails the Ivany test
[Image-1] Recently, Jim Vibert, who was hired to edit the government’s tax review report, wrote a Chronicle Herald editorial calling people who had concerns with it “knee-jerk tax review naysayers.” Ralph Surette asked people in his Herald editorial to “stop spewing rhetoric and digest tax report.” Not wanting to be a naysayer, I sat down […]
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No texting while driving is only the beginning in NS
A new Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling says just holding a cell phone while driving is illegal.
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No prosecutions in Rehtaeh Parsons publication ban
[Image-1] Rehtaeh Parsons has her name back. An unjust and impractical publication ban has, for all practical purposes, been struck down today. Lena Metlege Diab, the Attorney General and Justice Minister, has announced that almost all breaches of the publication ban will not be prosecuted. Issued to the Public Prosecution Service, the directive says no […]
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Bhutan beats Belgium
[Image-1] Last week Halifax Regional Council made a token gesture to welcome newcomers by letting permanent residents vote in municipal elections. Naturally, the topic elicited the usual xenophobia from radio callers and Internet commenters. The public seemed worried planeloads of new immigrants would invade our city, flex their democratic muscle and change all our blue […]
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Blue balls on Grafton Street
[Image-1] The good news is we all have an extra year to buy our convention centre-warming gifts, now that the Nova Centre isn’t going to be what we asked for, when we asked for it. A week ago the news broke that the Ivany tower dream project which is the Nova Centre is delayed nearly […]
