[Image-1] Recently, Jim Vibert, who was hired to edit the government’s tax review report, wrote a Chronicle Herald editorial calling people who had concerns with it “knee-jerk tax review naysayers.” Ralph Surette asked people in his Herald editorial to “stop spewing rhetoric and digest tax report.” Not wanting to be a naysayer, I sat down […]
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I know when you’ve been bold or good
Happy ho-ho-holidays, everyone! It’s me, your favourite old break-and-enter artist, Santa Claus! Whether you’re a Haligonian, a Dartmouthian, a Bedfard, a Cole Harbonite, a Person Of Passage Persuasion or from one of the Sacks, I wish to all of you in the catchment area of The Coast a most merry of merry Christmases! I’m so […]
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Women are half of Halifax, so make some room
[Image-1] I don’t know many Haligonian women who don’t have a story. A story where they define how this city, supposedly so friendly, can turn on them. I know I have a few. Sometimes I ferociously list them off when people talk about how gender violence is a thing of the past. But that’s not […]
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To my classmates: I’m sorry
[Image-1] Dear Class of DDS4, I know that many of you will not be interested in reading this message and I don’t blame you. If that is the case please keep it for later. As a previous member of the DDS4 Gentlemen’s group (something I am not proud of and will regret for the […]
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When a stranger comes home
[Image-1] “One year, I remember being away for eight months. “That’s the year the duffel bag never left the foot of the bed. Any conversations I had with my wife boiled down to grunts and money. I’d come home, we’d have a honeymoon for three days, then one day we’d wake up and we were […]
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The felon cyclist
[Image-1] I trace my lust for breaking rules on my bike to my elementary school principal. When I was nine or 10 my parents invited my school principal over for dinner. She showed up on her bike and she wasn’t wearing her helmet. My mom, half-joking, scorned her for it. She told my mom she […]
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Let us forget Movember
[Image-1] It snuck up on me this year. Normally I get warnings before it begins, but it was over a week into it before it struck me. It was during Remembrance Day; a solemn, dignified day that was ruined once I scanned the crowd at Grand Parade. A lot of the male-identified patrons of the […]
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How I got my name
[Image-1] Dartmouth teenager Rehtaeh Parsons’ attempted suicide and death drew international outrage, eventually galvanizing public and political action against cyberbullying and sexual assault. She would have been 19 this December. Her mother, Leah Parsons, has shared some of Rehtaeh’s writing and art. The paintings were made in her “darkest moments,” Leah Parsons says, “as she […]
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Harassment on the Hill
Last week allegations of harassment by Members of Parliament toward Members of Parliament were made public. This has shone a light on a workplace that is stuck in another era when it comes to gender equality; where power is currency; and where we don’t even have something as simple as policies on how to deal […]
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Why I’m cancelling my subscription
[Image-1] I am a 25-year-old subscriber to the print edition of the Chronicle-Herald—a rare breed these days. I became a new subscriber back in the spring. I was excited. I woke up every day looking forward to reading a new edition of your independent and comprehensive news coverage—delivered right to my door! I enjoyed being […]
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Geeking out on cosplay
With Hal-Con fast approaching this weekend, my every free moment will be spent surrounded by piles of fabric, spray-paint bottles, wigs and empty coffee mugs. Why would someone surround themselves with such ludicrous items, you might ask? For cosplay. What the frack is that? Cosplay is the act of dressing up as specific fictional characters. It’s […]
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Students aren’t at the table—we’re on the menu.
[Image-1] The McNeil government is currently in talks with Nova Scotia’s universities for a new Memorandum of Understanding, an agreement signed every few years to set multi-year funding levels and tuition fee regulations. Regrettably, the Liberal government is blocking students from participating in the talks. Students are key stakeholders in the university system and excluding […]
