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Spending cycles

It’s a tense bike ride from Joseph Howe Drive to Bedford along the old Bedford highway. Cars and trucks zoom by at bike-rattling speeds all day, making the roadway a “horribly dangerous corridor for cyclists,” according to Rebecca O’Brien of the Ecology Action Centre’s TRAX program. But this eight-kilometre stretch of road has the potential […]

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One person’s junk

Even though the ad was lacking in specifics, the car still sounded like a loser. But the price was right. “’92 Lumina, blue, 4 door, about 349,972 km,” the ad read. The poster described it as a “great driving car,” but warned it was in need of a modulator, which would run about $200 plus […]

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Size matters

Small wonder First they take Little New York, next they take the city. Freeman’s Little New York restaurant, located on Quinpool Road, is one of the first local owners of a European-made Smart car, an ecologically friendly, micro-compact car made by Smart, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler. Picture a golf cart on steroids. Or better yet, […]

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