Snow justice Dear mayor Mike Savage, Last March I sent you a letter—to which I received no response—regarding the city’s failure to clear snow. This year I would like to remind you that your salary is paid by the citizens of this city, and that your office has an obligation to respond to complaints made […]
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New Art: Kyle Alden Martens
Kyle Alden Martens is standing in front of me in his studio, holding up a short sleeve turtleneck that’s covered in tiny pockets. Each pocket contains a miniature blue teddy bear—the kind you’d get from a coin-operated machine in an arcade when you were a kid. “I’m loosely referencing Operation, the game where you take […]
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New Art: Frankie Macaulay
“I like to go into nature and hike with my camera, and shoot nature as it is,” says photographer Frankie Macaulay (BFA 2015). “On the other end of the spectrum, I like to shoot urban environments and manipulate what we see through composite images and digital collage work, to create a fiction.” For the last […]
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Neighbourhood Pharmacy.
[Image-1] My previously friendly neighbourhood pharmacy is no longer friendly.The employees used to be curtious and helpful and with a smile ,with the exception of a pharmacist and a cashier.What changed?Im always nice ,smile when smiled at.Was it something I said or did or didn’t do to warant the change in you’re attitudesand quality of […]
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Hit and run causing property damage
[Image-1] To the driver of the light coloured vehicle who drove into a parked car in a parking lot on Quinpool Road on Friday night: please call or stop by the adjacent store with your name and information by Thursday. If not, on Friday the video surveillance of the hit and run will be turned […]
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Bed Buggin
[Image-1] I keep hearing terrible stories about bed bugs around Halifax. Bed begs in the hospital, on the bus, in apartment buildings, senior complexes, nursing homes, hotels and student housing. Halifax you have a beg bug problem!!! Get your shit together and do something about it!! This is not acceptable!!! —Sleeping Tight
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Why some of us aren’t thrilled about IKEA’s return to Halifax
[Image-1] IKEA’s arrival in Halifax promises jobs, which, in a province and city with high unemployment, is appealing. But what sort of jobs? Perhaps because of its socialistic Scandinavian roots, IKEA is a bit kinder than its retail competitors in terms of wages and working conditions. For instance, IKEA prides itself on a relatively generous […]
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C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon now touch me baby!
[Image-1] I just wanna fuck someone that I actually have chemistry with. I just want one of the people who make me feel swoony to want to fuck me too. —Inept at Dating, Not Inept at Fucking
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Freelance reporting comes with some heavy costs
[Image-1] When a newspaper starts to crumble—as seen recently with the Chronicle Herald—the burden falls squarely on the journalists on staff, who face apparently endless cuts and ever-increasing workloads. But the unravelling of traditional media has also affected those who aren’t even employees: that is, freelance journalists. According to an email obtained by the CBC, […]
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The future of weather
[Image-2] “The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” —Patrick Young, American author Folks, a “cold front” isn’t just a between-the-sheets phenomenon, and thermocline isn’t just another fun word to spell with Alphagetti. And even the TV […]
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Shame of union
[Image-1] To the specific union threatening to shame people for taking work: you don’t know a person’s situation. Threatening to reveal identities and make a person’s life hell is not the way to get them on your side. You should be asking them to not take jobs, BUT THAT’S IT. It’s tough for a lot […]
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A look inside Skratch Bastid’s studio
Last week, Halifax-bred, Toronto-based DJ Skratch Bastid (AKA Paul Murphy) released a filmed remix of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” on the morning after the rock star’s death. In just a few days, the video had been viewed and shared over 11 million times on Bastid’s Facebook page. This Saturday, Skratch Bastid returns to The Marquee […]