In Hakodate, Japan there’s a star-shaped fort that overlooks the harbour and busy boardwalk. The port city boasts universities, colleges and a successful fishing industry. Sound familiar? Long before amalgamating with Dartmouth and Bedford in 1996, Halifax became twin to another city much further away. In 1982, mayor Ron Wallace signed a twinning agreement with […]
Twin Peaks
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My friend, my doppelgänger
Neither Emma Richter nor Kelsey Carey think they look alike, but for their colleagues in NSCC’s public relations program, keeping them straight is a challenging feat. From nearly passing back assignments to the wrong student, to confusion at networking events, the two are often mistaken for one another. “We had one instructor who couldn’t tell […]
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Peeking at Twin Peaks with a professor of David Lynch’s films
Before its revival this spring, Twin Peaks fans spent more than a pair of decades wondering whether anagogic detective hero Agent Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan) had been taken over by an evil doppelgänger. In an attempt to boost ratings back in the ’90s, ABC pressured the show’s creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, to […]
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Are twins who share the same dreams telepathic?
Around the time Twin Peaks first aired, identical twins Gary and Neil Peacock shared a dream. They were about 11 years old when Gary told his brother about his visions from the night before. It was then that Neil began describing the dream back to him. “My brother would be like ‘Wait, then did this […]
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Wrong Natalie and the curious call from the hospital
Natalie Rosen was 19 years old, going through a breakup and had a one-way ticket to Iceland when she got a call from the IWK Health Centre telling her she was pregnant. “I immediately started freaking out,” says Rosen. “I asked ‘Are you sure it’s me?’ and she repeated my name and I thought ‘Oh […]