[Image-1] It’s getting close to performance-review time for the 19-month-old Stephen McNeil government. Nova Scotia’s major political parties are vying for support in three provincial by-elections to be held this year. Candidates for the ruling Liberals, and the opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, are going to be busy glad-handing strangers they encounter and promoting themselves […]
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Wine snob
[Image-1] To the snob who doesn’t understand wine: you have no taste. Screw-top wine is no worse nor better than corked wine. Screw-tops in fact are better for the endangered cork trees, but you don’t care about that cause you’re a tasteless snob. Also, a lot of table wines (e.g. Jackson Triggs) come in boxes […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gemini (May 21-July 1) Nobel Prize-winning physicists Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr were both amused at how counterintuitive their innovative theories seemed. Once Pauli was lecturing a group of eminent scientists about a radical new hypothesis. Bohr got out of his seat in the audience and walked up to the front to interrupt […]
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Letters to the editor, June 4, 2015
Market my words I read with interest your article “Three reasons to visit the new Forum Farmers’ Market” (Food + Drink by Nick Laugher, May 21). And I can give you a couple more good reasons to attend that market—vendors there are treated with respect, and the atmosphere is one of congeniality and happiness, as […]
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Where I work: Saronn Pov
WHO SHE IS Saronn Pov moved Saronn’s Kitchen to Halifax from Toronto a few years ago after experiencing the richness of Nova Scotia’s seasonal produce and the growing local food and vegan movements. Her nutritious, flavourful recipes are inspired by her mother’s traditional Cambodian kitchen: “No appliances, no measurements. She did everything by hand. I […]
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Bridget Moser’s worker persona
The patch of river rock tucked under the stairs at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery may never have caught your eye, but it’s one of the first things Bridget Moser mentions when she talks about her upcoming show. “The gallery has this really nice mezzanine setup, and then this river rock, and I thought […]
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In a HIFF
The Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival has a local focus, but festival director Nelson MacDonald says you’d be wrong to assume that priority is a kind of parochialism. “I feel no obligation to show local films,” says MacDonald. “I show local films because they’re good.” In addition to two programs of local short films, the June […]
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#HelpLily trends on Twitter after 14-year-old turned away from hospital
[Image-1] Social media saw an uproar over the weekend after a Halifax teenager was seemingly denied admission to the IWK Health Centre. Fourteen-year-old Lily, who is developmentally disabled, was reportedly taken to the IWK Sunday while experiencing a mental health crisis. According to those tweeting at the scene, she was sent home instead of being […]
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Delusional Old Men
[Image-1] Although I tend to date men my own age, I don’t discriminate when it comes to friendships and networking; I have friends young and old, male and female. Yet, I’m beginning to see a pattern among my older (50+) male friends to which they are oblivious. Three of these men are divorced, unhappy and […]
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Vote for Change
[IMage-1] Were you taught the history of Confederation? Our glorious country, from sea to shining see? Sorry, that’s that Other Place – that place of mottoes, Of Live Free or Die, of Resist Much, Obey Little… Our place is ancient, pomp, powder wigged – Right Honorable, but God Forbid Sir’d or Lorded. Change, Change! the […]
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Seriously, CSFF, where did you go?!
[IMage-1] Fall isn’t the same without the Canadian Surf Film Festival. What the heck happened to it? It just fell off the face of social media. You can’t just start up an amazing film festival, run it for a few years, and then just disappear! That is just cruel and unusual! At least pass it […]
