[Image-1] I’d like to extend a big “thank you” to whoever has been claiming our tiny front yard on Edward and Coburg as their dog’s daily outhouse all winter. It was weird to repeatedly wake up to footprints leading from the sidewalk to our windows, but now that the snow is melting it all makes […]
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SHOP LOCAL MY ASS!!!!
[Image-1] Halifax has become a mecca for hipster high-end overly-priced restaurants, coffee shops and stores. This shop local trend in my opinion is a load of crap. I think it crosses a line when the businesses are “owned” by young hip folk, but are actually backed by developers, which in turn will gentrify that area […]
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Review: Alana Yorke
Titled “The Wichita Years,” Alana Yorke’s opening track is a delicious entry point. A whirlpool of strings shows how ubiquitous Owen Pallett’s influence has become. Yorke sings about a film inside her head, inviting random reverie. If she reminds you of a certain Irish priestess of the ethereal, then it’s unanimous. Yorke’s vocals are less adorned […]
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The haircut: my story of living with depression
[Image-1] I just got a haircut. I know this sounds frivolous, but it’s not. It’s me caring about how I look. It’s me having the energy to style my hair in something other than a ponytail. It’s me being mentally healthy. Looking back, I see that I’ve lived with depression since high school. All those […]
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Letters to the editor, March 19, 2015
Faith restored Since winter finally hit, I have been finding it more and more frustrating to live my life. I use a wheelchair and have had numerous incidents trying to do everyday things like getting groceries, doing my banking or most recently, getting a haircut. I moved here in September and have since been going […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Do you need a reason to think sharper and work smarter and try harder? I’ll give you four reasons. 1. Because you’re finally ready to get healing for the inner saboteur who in the past has undermined your confidence. 2. Because you’re finally ready to see the […]
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Happiness is
Lexie Ivy is 30, a small-town business owner, fashionable and eccentric, funny and smart. She’s also the single, overweight one of a trio of sisters, a redheaded sheep sticking way out amongst a family of fantasy blondes. “Flawed yet lovable” is how director and co-writer Deanne Foley describes the protagonist of her second feature, Relative […]
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Reconnect to flamenco
Maria Osende is on the line from sunny Madrid: “I think I picked the right winter to spend away from Nova Scotia.” Osende, along with being a master of understatement, is a dancer and choreographer who created her own dance company, Maria Osende Flamenco, when she moved to Canada in 2004. She is spending the […]
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Why do you hate your job so much
[Image-1] Hey Mr. 34 Driver, you know, bus 998 driving Scotia Square on Wednesday at 5pm-ish. Why do you hate your job so much? I don’t care that you’re cranky and have been dick to everyone boarding the past 3 days I’ve been on your bus. I don’t care how you yelled at the nice […]
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Inconsiderate, selfish smokers
[Image-1] Seriously?? Smoking on hospital grounds – especially a children’s and women’s hospital?? Peeling off the “no smoking” signs that are posted everywhere? Are you so incapacitated by your poisoned lungs that you can’t walk the 50 feet to get off the property? Or you think hundreds of cigarette butts decorating every surface, snow bank, […]
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Dear Emporer of the Dartmouth Side Streets
[Image-1] To the rancid bag of dicks who sped your van down my lane of traffic because yours was blocked off by parked cars, only to stop in front of me and not move when you (obviously) couldn’t go further- fuck you. Fuck you for giggling with your buddy beside you as I waited in […]
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Badminton—a darn Canadian sport
[Image-1] In a national gold medal match a few weeks ago, a badminton player earned a red card when he told the umpire—a petite gray-haired woman—to “keep track of the fucking score.” Yes, the sport can get more intense than a birdie going ping, leaving welts on faces and tearing skin from knees. But at […]
