Andrew Cochran and I are sitting in a Halifax coffee shop. He’s moving my Olympus mini-recorder and his bottle of Dasani water around the table top—sort of like play ships sailing on a play harbour—to explain some otherwise inexplicable concept of intellectual property law. He’s already told me a recent study by the Law Commission […]
Transit
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Circular logic
The HRM plans to convert the Armdale Rotary to a roundabout and add a third, reversible lane on Chebucto Road in order to improve the efficiency of the rotary. Andrea McQuillin, a homeowner in the area, says, “I think this is short-sighted. I don’t even think it’s a solution,” adding she and her neighbours would […]
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Snow parking zone
Last year, Kristian Curran and his wife lived though their first full winter as downtown homeowners. Curran also lived through his first experience with the downtown winter parking ban. Abiding by the ban, which does not allow parking on downtown streets between 1 and 7am, Curran moved his car off of Maynard Street street every […]
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Bus route
Andrew Curran spent hours last week riding Metro Transit busses and hanging out at bus stops, but he didn’t have any particular destination in mind – he was there for the conversation. “We were out taking to people all day,” recalls Curran, who made the aimless trip along with a friend and a video camera. […]
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Big talk
The past year saw quite a few changes planned for HRM. From immigration to public transportation to harbourfront schools, a great deal of development was proposed and implemented. Immigration In June, the Atlantic Immigration Conference, hosted by Halifax mayor Peter Kelly, investigated what could be done to attract immigrants to and encourage them to stay […]
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Spin cycle
What does a feral cat have to do with a bike race? Just ask IDEALBIKES’ manager, Roger Nelson; he’ll tell you it’s all in the name. Nelson is helping to organize the first Alley Cat Scramble that Halifax has seen in over five years. “Basically,” says Nelson, “the Alley Cat Scramble is a cycling event […]
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Fuelling around
“People need to see it to believe it,” says Myriam Hammami. With her new veggie-fuelled car, Hammami will stoke the flames of belief wherever she goes. Hammami is the education coordinator for the Atlantic Canada chapter of the Sierra Club, and her job takes her to schools all over the Maritimes. Hammami drives an average […]
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Fuelling the fire
Not all gas prices were created equal. Often the gas prices at one station can be very different from prices at a station two or three blocks down the street, sometimes by as much as seven cents. For those who simply gas up at the first station they see, it’s a frustrating experience. But a […]
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Need for speed
So far everything looks good on paper, but this weekend Metro Transit will find out exactly what happens when they put a fast ferry in the water and make the run from Mill Cove in Bedford to downtown Halifax. As part of HRM’s Ferry Cultivation Study, the Municipality has chartered a 200-passenger fast ferry from […]
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Easy rider
As I pulled onto the highway on my Harley Davidson in the early morning fog of June 13, I had a particular David Mann painting in mind. It’s called “Ghost Rider.” It shows a lone biker rolling down a highway, his hair whipped by the wind. Running beside him is the ghost of a cowboy […]
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Easy Rider
As I pulled onto the highway on my Harley Davidson in the early morning fog of June 13, I had a particular David Mann painting in mind. It’s called “Ghost Rider.” It shows a lone biker rolling down a highway, his hair whipped by the wind. Running beside him is the ghost of a cowboy […]
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Motorcycle Diary
Garnet Hill is the kind of guy who likes to light it up, grab a handful and smoke a fattie. That isn’t to say Hill is a pot smoker. No, he prefers to light up the engine of a high-powered motorcycle, grab a handful of throttle, give it a quick twist and smoke the rubber […]
