The city’s march towards being a dynamic destination full of culture and life continues its lurching progress. Today’s case in point: putting posters on power poles. Walk down any busy street in Halifax or Dartmouth and you’re sure to see utility poles with posters covering them (provided you don’t run into them first). What isn’t […]
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Evolve Postering Charges Dropped
spinsandneedles.com HRM Courts are not pursuing the case against Evolve Festival organizer Jonas Colter involving $4,500 worth of postering charges.In an email to the Honorable Judge William Digby, copied to Colter’s lawyer Gordon Allen, the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office wrote yesterday that “there is no reasonable prospect of conviction on the charges before the court.” The case was originally intended to go to court Friday May 13. During last July’s Evolve festival, Colter was arrested and fined 18 tickets at $250 each for 400 Evolve posters that had been placed in several Halifax neighbourhoods. The charges cited that Colter had violated
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Pole of confusion
Eight staples per poster, four per side: that’s how you’ll recognize the work of Ian McRuer. He aligns the temporary signs one on top of another with a bit of space between, as if in an outdoor gallery. He picks up fallen, soaked and crumpled posters from the ground, though it isn’t his job, and […]