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Letters to the editor, October 12, 2017
Clearcut and dried I’m happy to be reading about the most important issue in the province (“Clearcutting our losses,” cover story by Joan Baxter, Oct 5). Everything else pales when we face a future without habitats for species besides human. There are majestic beasts in this province—not just rats and squirrels/pigeons of the city. Let’s […]
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Sidney Crosby is wrong: Sports have always been intertwined with politics
In the lead up to the public relations event Tuesday with president Trump, Sidney Crosby kept digging a hole and doubling down on the idea that visiting the office of an elected official was somehow an act totally devoid of politics. More than that, he made the puzzling claim to the Associated Press that he […]
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Sidney Crosby praises Donald Trump’s invitation as a “great honour”
Cole Harbour’s Sidney Crosby is backing his team in accepting president Donald Trump’s invitation to the White House. The Pittsburgh Penguins defended their upcoming trip to Washington in a press release Sunday, stating the team respects the office of the president. “Any agreement or disagreement with a president’s politics, policies or agenda can be expressed […]
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How else should we be honouring Sidney Crosby?
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Best Athlete
Gold Winner Ellie Black Silver Winner Sidney Crosby Bronze Winner Nathan MacKinnon image-1] YAS QUEEN. After one of her best years yet, gymnast extraordinaire and young Olympian, Ellie Black has dethroned those millionaire Cole Harbour hockey dudes. (JK Sid and Nate. We love you and your Tim Hortons ads, too, but step aside.) The most-decorated […]
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Thursday’s 8 things to read during these dog days of summer
[Image-1] 1 This coming Monday is a big deal for the Halifax music scene–– longtime music hub/incubator/rowdy drunken staple $Rockin 4 Dollar$ celebrates its tenth anniversary of making the city a better place. Lewis Rendell rocks us down memory lane in this week’s issue, so you have time to brush up on your history before […]
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Wednesday’s 10 things to read about
[Image-1] 1 Well this is a bit of monstrous bullshit: a condo development has built a wall over the basketball courts used by neighbouring St. Joseph’s A McKay School. CBC’s Brett Ruskin took some photos and looked into the obnoxious wall, put up by Louis Lawen’s Dexel Developments. Originally, Dexel was to provide a new […]
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This is Sidney Crosby’s basement….sort of
By now, you’ve probably seen Sidney Crosby’s new Reebok commercial and know all about the legend of the pockmarked dryer. If not: This is my town. This is my house. This is my mom and dad. This is my basement…. Whoa. Wait a second… This commercial has me all riled up like a bad case of static cling. In December USA Today ran this revealing fact: The Pittsburgh Penguins star’s childhood basement was reproduced exactly in Pittsburgh for a Reebok commercial about Crosby shooting pucks into the dryer. However, Crosby, in good fun, conceded afterward that wasn’t exactly how the
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Sidney Crosby and the Olympic flame
“These shots were taken in front of the citadel. The crowd was going nuts, and you could tell that as big of an international star Sidney is, he was feeling the moment and was wearing his pride on his face with a smile ear to ear,” Coast freelance photographer Riley Smith says. “I ran along […]