[Image-1] It’s not that many years since I and my friends were on the dating scene. It was always an unstated no-no to give out details of your exploits. Anyone who got too explicit was considered a bit of a douche. That’s why I find recent events so perplexing. Posting sexually explicit, voyeuristic smart phone […]
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Embrace big ideas or Nova Scotia will never turn the corner of prosperity
[Image-1] The March 21 Globe & Mail article, “The Incredible Shrinking Region,” is honest and depressing. While it provided important context and outlined our current economic and demographic challenges, it didn’t reveal any real surprises. The insightful political history was the only “new” content for me but then again, I was raised in central Canada […]
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Media Madness
[Image-1] I’ve noticed that unless news comes from a “legitimate” news source in Halifax, people just completely ignore it or it’s shoved under a rug, never to see the light of day. I’m sure we all can recall the quagmire involving the ex-Mayor his failure to execute the wishes of someone who entrusted him to […]
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Famers Market Douchebags
[Image-1] A special thank you to the hipster douchebag fuckfaces who have ruined the local farmers markets for regular people shopping for regular food. I don’t want to hear live music at a volume more suitable for a bar. I don’t want to be subjected to the stink from your organic, hand made artisan soaps […]
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Put the vicious ones to sleep already!
[Image-1] Yeah, I bring it on myself by subscribing/liking/friending so many animal rescue sites but not seeing it won’t make it not exist. A dog dumped in a dumpster in Whitehorse after a year of systematic torture. Saskatoon SPCA just found a cat whose legs were tied together. The cats and dogs in Edmonton that […]
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Neptune Theatre launches 2015/2016 season
Neptune Theatre‘s 2015/16 season launch was announced yesterday, and yes, there is a Shrek musical. Now in its 53rd season, Neptune’s lineup includes six productions as part of the Fountain Hall series, and three in the Studio series. There are also four “bonus features”: Hank Williams Live – 1952 October 9-11, brought to life by […]
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Give a little more patience and love would ya’
[Image-1] To everyone out there who is frustrated by the winter and snow: the rest of the city feels the same way. Instead of bitching out other people on the roads, sidewalks, bus or wherever they may be; take a step back and realize that these final days of winter are sucking for just about […]
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Stupid or lazy?
[Image-1] Here’s to the bobcat operator (contracted) who doesn’t even try to do a HALF-decent job on our sidewalks. Get a real job, you pathetic sack of excrement. You have surely, ALL FUCKING WINTER LONG, pretty much just driven over the snow as to actually plowing it. Find some sort of fucking incentive to do […]
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Closure and the social media accounts of the dead
[Image-1] Over the years, the Facebook community has grown exponentially, and, as life runs its course on all of us, people keep dying. More and more posthumous profiles continue to haunt cyberspace. Whether it’s creepy or comforting, we are the first generation to ever have to deal with it. Twenty-four-year-old Alex Walker lives in Halifax, […]
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An unending cycle of violence inside the Burnside jail
[Image-1] One of the core responsibilities of government is to ensure the safety and security of all citizens. The citizens in our correctional facilities, staff and residents, are no exception. Over the past 18 months, a string of serious incidents and injuries at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, known as “Burnside,” have led to […]
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Community cooks
“It’s a local grocery store that’s trying to change the philosophy of what you think of as a grocery store,” says chef Paul Routhier of Gottingen Street’s The Carrot. “It’s the type of place you pop in every two or three days and buy what’s fresh.” But beyond that, the co-op grocery store is focused […]
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Review: Cast No Shadow
Between the isolation, landscape and accents there’s something distinctive about films made in Newfoundland, a combination that folds too easily and accordingly into the “regional” box Telefilm wants to shove movies from these parts into, while giving off that UK vibe movies from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick don’t. The most successful Newfoundland films lean […]
