Year In Review

Two thousand nine is the year the system failed us. On every front, the established order collapsed, and regular people realized we can no longer rely on the powers-that-be: we have to take matters into our own hands. Rightly, 2009 began in September 2008, when the absurdities, lies and perverse power relations of capitalism were […]

Alexa McDonough The MP for Halifax announced on June 2 that she wouldn’t run again, which might have been the signal Stephen Harper was looking for. Just three months later he called the federal election. But the prime minister was sadly mistaken if he expected Alexa’s nearly 30-year legacy of party building to retire along […]

January 22 Heath Ledger dies in New York City Not since the mid-’90s deaths of Brandon Lee and River Phoenix has a hot young actor passed so unexpectedly. Shrouded by whispers that his method—playing the nihilistic Joker in the just-completed Batman movie The Dark Knight—had pushed him to the accidental prescription drug cocktail overdose, morbid […]

Violence: So what random act of violence story do you have to remember 2007 by? I saw a guy hit in the head with a brick. Violence continued to be the big pink elephant in City Hall. When an elderly woman is beaten up by a group of young girls with a table leg on […]

Agricola Street: Not just for antiquing anymore—although, you can still do that too, if you’d like. Frankly, you can do almost anything these days on Agricola, given the variety of things that have moved onto the historic north end street. Once seen as too sketchy to be trusted, Agricola has turned itself around. Close proximity […]