My blood is my ink / My tears are my tales / I did a couple years in jail / But I shall prevail —rhymes by Corey Wrght AKA Vinny Deniroz He smiled. Big smile. “What you doing after?” It was nudging four in the morning on Saturday, November 4, 2006, closing time at Rain, […]
Violence
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Information is key
I want to thank Lezlie Lowe for “Is she safe?” (January 14). It is important that the media provides informative articles on the issue of violence against women and uncover the stories of women who have been harmed. I want to clarify a point raised in the article about the number of women on the […]
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Tyler Munford gives the big picture
One wall of Tyler Munford’s small apartment bedroom looks like an evidence board from a Law & Order episode. Photos of street scenes, colourful charts, online article printouts. Although it’s been almost two months since the NSCAD student was involved in an altercation with a Halifax Alehouse bouncer after Munford took his photo for a […]
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Bus reluctantly helps assault victim
You’re 15. You finish your shift at the downtown restaurant where you work, so you head to the bus stop to get a ride home. It’s 11 o’clock at night. Then two guys walk up to you at the bus stop and start causing shit. They ask for your phone, and when you don’t give it up one of the guys grabs you, holding you for the other one to hit with a piece of plastic pipe. A knife comes out, and you’re getting stabbed in the gut. But before they can kill you, a bus finally arrives. Are you
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Art photo project gets bounced – hard
The weekend before last, NSCAD students on a school project ended up in a planned confrontation with an Alehouse bouncer. The controversy has raged ever since, perhaps giving impetus to a proposal to license bar security. The students were clearly on a mission to cause trouble. Bouncers “tend to get angry and tell you that […]
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Don’t glamourize crime
Does printing a how-to guide which promotes dressing up for Halloween as a local criminal create a culture of acceptance of criminal behavior (“City dress codes,” October 29)? I dunno. Maybe someone at The Coast could call the Vancouver Sun, which often glamourizes gang activity, and ask them. I thought that The Coast was more […]
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Sex work in the shadows
Halifax’s sex workers are regularly assaulted and have even been killed on the job. But as a result of our hypocritical
attitudes toward sex—we can sell anything using appeals to our sexual selves, except sex itself—we can’t find a way to
protect these women. Meredith Dault tells their story. photos Aaron McKenzie Fraser