CKDU-FM, Atlantic Canada’s most celebrated campus/community radio station, has just turned 30 years old. Opening up the birthday party to the public is a shindig on February 19 at Plan B on Gottingen Street and an exhibit, What’s Left on the Dial: A CKDU Retrospective, on March 2-8 at the Khyber. Last fall, CKDU hired […]
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Snow Exodus
[Image-1] Ok. Here’s the deal. You are making the roads more hazardous when you leave work earlier during a snow storm. Here’s why; there are two major traffic rushes during the afternoon. One happens at 3:30, the other at 5:00. If everyone decides to leave at 3:30 or 4:00, it creates a clusterfuck on the […]
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Assholes at the pizza joint
[Image-1] My favourite toppings on pizza are: pepperoni, mushrooms, pineapple and raisins. I was aware that no pizza place would hold raisins to put on their pizzas because I’m sure I’m the only one who eats them this way. So I brought in a box of raisins when I went to order pizza at the […]
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The Bluenose belongs on a dime
[Image-1] The Bluenose belongs on a dime and Nova Scotian’s don’t need to spend any more of them to keep number 2 afloat. Sink the Bluenose by putting it in a museum. —Not one more Bluenose dime
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Thank God I escaped.
[Image-1] This doctor was not just incompetent, but aggressive He dismissed my rape, by a stranger as unimportant even though that’s why I went to him in the first place. I requested that he refer me to someone else, he refused to do so and pressured me to continue seeing him. He engaged in boundary […]
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Nova Scotia: Die Miserable
[Image-1] I’m trying to wrap my head around what it is in Halifax’s culture, and Nova Scotia in general, that is so negative and pronounced… I mean, the proof’s in the pudding and I’ve never seen so many downtrodden, moody and just plain miserable fuckers in all my life. I often wonder if there’s some […]
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Contractor handyman carpenter flunkie
[Image-1] I moved back east to a “small town” thinking that I would not have to deal with shady contractor handymen carpenters. Boy was I wrong. I am amazed at how many of these “professionals” can barely start a project on time, let alone finish one. This is my chosen profession, to be a contractor, […]
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I am an African Nova Scotian womanist artist
[Image-1] I was born in Halifax and raised in Uniacke Square (Squaretown or Squizzy for those who are familiar). I was always apprehensive about allowing society to determine what labels I should wear. Eventually, I would decide myself: middle class (I like it here), African Nova Scotian, womanist, artist. I choose to be known as […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) In 1753, Benjamin Franklin published helpful instructions on how to avoid being struck by lightning during stormy weather. Wear a lightning rod in your hat, he said, and attach it to a long, thin metal ribbon that trails behind you as you walk. In response to his article, a […]
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Where’s the worst slush puddle in Halifax?
[Image-1] Right now the jagged peaks and valleys of unclean sidewalks along our public roads are an impassable nuisance. But snow banks can be climbed (if you’re able). You can have snowball fights, or go sledding down their slopes. Slush puddles are just gross. You can’t have slush fights. Nobody goes tubing across scummy brown […]
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American jobs
[Image-1] Dear American firms/businesses: Please leave Canada and do not return. We do not need your type of jobs or your idea of what “Canada” wants. Please do not come here looking for a free ride (taxes, wages, rebates, et. cetera) since we can give to our own people instead of you coming here and […]
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Hey Cuz,
[Image-1] To the blonde, bitchy waitress at a certain well-known establishment: I could hear you. I could hear you after you took my order and called me an “uppity bitch” because I asked for a side of bacon with my cheese omelet and you didn’t know how to charge me for it. I watched you […]
