For lunch I walked over to another spot on my recommended list, on the Halifax waterfront at Bishop’s Landing a stone’s throw from The Bicycle Thief: Sea Smoke Restaurant and Bar. Unlike my late night dinner at The Bicycle Thief, it was daylight and I was shown to a cozy table
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Jeff Jedras: Eating on the road: Evan’s Fresh Seafoods in Dartmouth
My visit to Halifax in December was planned as a culinary visit, and before I left I consulted friends who were or had been local residents to get their tips on where to get the best bites — especially those that come from the sea. A clear recommendation was that
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating on the Road: The Bicycle Thief in Halifax
I did a great deal of research and sought advice from local experts before my visit to Halifax, intending to make the most of my time from a culinary perspective and lean heavily onto the seafood side of things. And after getting off the train, checking into my hotel and
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: My meals aboard VIA Rail’s The Ocean
As part of my pre-Christmas travels last year, I used my VIA Preference points to knock another iconic sleeper train off my list: The Ocean. While not a bucket-list item like The Canadian, the Ocean was still a trip I wanted to try. It’s an overnight sleeper train from Montreal
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Saturday, Sept 4, 2021: Halifax Anarchist Bookfair!
Come and visit us this weekend, at our first tabling event in over 18 months! We will be tabling at the Halifax Anarchist Bookfair for both PM Press and Kersplebedeb; we will have copies of Necrocapitalism, Riding the Wave, False Nationalism False Internationalism, and all of the other titles we
Continue readingA BCer in Ottawa: Eating OFF the Hill: Donairs and seafood in Halifax
Spending a few days in Halifax last weekend for the Liberal biennial convention, I decided to make the most of my limited outside meal opportunities by focusing on the local specialty — the Donair — and the proximity of the ocean to eat as much seafood as possible. The nearer
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
Students at Dalhousie University in Halifax are a determined lot. Campaigning against the burning of fossil fuels, they have occupied the office of school president Richard Florizone. The students also created a six-foot-high dinosaur to signify that investing in pollution-causing industries is a skeleton in the university’s closet. Divest Dal is
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
Students at Dalhousie University in Halifax are a determined lot. Campaigning against the burning of fossil fuels, they have occupied the office of school president Richard Florizone. The students also created a six-foot-high dinosaur to signify that investing in pollution-causing industries is a skeleton in the university’s closet. Divest Dal is
Continue readingAlberta Politics: $15 is too low, and three years is too long to wait, for a higher Alberta minimum wage
PHOTOS: Greetings from Halifax, where a minimum wage almost as low as Alberta’s isn’t half of what a two-earner family needs to live a decent life. Can it be much different in Calgary or Edmonton? Below: Enthusiastic Tweeter Dan Kelly’s Twitter thumbnail; Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci. HALIFAX, N.S. The
Continue readingArt Threat: Activist pasts, austere presents, queered futures: An interview with Emily Davidson
“Imagine a new relationship to every aspect of everything.” “Capitalism has fallen; Art must be redefined.” “You get to pick your gender when you come of age, but feel free to change your mind.” “Living together is still hard; Art makes it better.” These missives from the Inner City Artists’
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Our First Canada Day
Our country was going to be called “Kingdom of Canada” instead of Dominion, but the British, fearing it would provoke the Americans, unilaterally changed it. The greatest thing we can do to celebrate our country is to know more about it. And certainly learning about Canada and celebrating it need
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Our First Canada Day
Our country was going to be called “Kingdom of Canada” instead of Dominion, but the British, fearing it would provoke the Americans, unilaterally changed it.
The greatest thing we can do to celebrate our country is to know more about it. And certainly learning about Canada and celebrating it need not be separate; below are a few quotes made on our first Canada Day July 1st 1867:
“Died! Last night at twelve o’clock, the free and enlightened Province of Nova Scotia.”- The Halifax Morning Chronicle, a newspaper that thought confederation would hurt Nova Scotia.
“With the first dawn of this gladsome midsummer morn, we hail the birthday of a new nationality.”- George Brown, a father of confederation
“This new Dominion of ours came into existence on the 1st, and the very newspapers look hot and tired with the weight of announcements and of cabinet lists. Here–in this house–the atmosphere is so awfully political that sometimes I think the very flies hold Parliament on the kitchen tablecloths.”- From the diary of Lady Agnes Macdonald, the wife of our first Prime Minister.
“La seule voie nous soit offerte pour arriver à l’independance politique.”- La Minerve, a newspaper in Quebec on the province being a part of a new Canada. (Rough translation: “The only way offered to us to achieve political independence.”)
And lastly a favourite quote of George-Étienne Cartier, another father of confederation, made a few years before our first Canada Day:
“Now, when we are united together, if union is attained, we shall form a political nationality with which neither the national origin, nor the religion of any individual, will interfere…. In our own Federation we will have Catholic and Protestant, English, French, Irish and Scotch, and each by his efforts and his success will increase the prosperity and glory of the new Confederacy….We are of different races, not for the purpose of warring against each other, but in order to compete and emulate for the general welfare.”
This material was from Richard Gwyn’s excellent book, John A, The Man Who Made Us.
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Our First Canada Day
Our country was going to be called “Kingdom of Canada” instead of Dominion, but the British, fearing it would provoke the Americans, unilaterally changed it. The greatest thing we can do to celebrate our country is to know more about it. And certainly learning about Canada and celebrating it need
Continue readingBlevkog: City sidewalks, pretty sidewalks
Well, today was a shoveling day for this Haligonian. I chose to clear my own sidewalk, rather than allow the contractors working for the city to do it. These are the reasons: 1) Weather event one: A fairly minor freezing rain event which left a thin sheen of ice on
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Halifax-based rapper, Kyle McKenna, calls out Stephen Harper (VIDEO)
Inspired by Idle No More, frustrated by the continuing erosion of democracy under Conservative rule, Halifax-based rapper, Kyle McKenna, calls out Stephen Harper: What’s up Steve? We recommend: Hunger Striker Chief Theresa Spence’s Exclusive Interview With The CBC Canadians Mourn The Untimely “Death of Evidence” Three second rule for the
Continue readingArt Threat: NSCAD students disrupt university board meeting to announce manifesto
Last week over 100 students from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, concerned about how government funding cuts will impact the future of the university, disrupted a Board of Governors’ meeting to announce a political manifesto. The Manifesto for a Vibrant, Strong, and Independent NSCAD, which can be
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: We Are In The Sights Of A Double-Barreled Shotgun. A Fish Tale
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor We are in the sights of a double-barreled shotgun. One barrel forces us to farm Atlantic salmon, while letting wild salmon die off. The second barrel will force us to raise Atlantic salmon, genetically modified to grow twice as fast as normal. Based on careful documentation
Continue readingLeDaro: Tuxedo Stan: Mayoralty Candidate for Halifax, Nova Scotia
Now this is a candidate one can vote for. This candidate is an international celebrity now and Anderson Cooper of CNN has endorsed this new contender. Tuxedo Stan has made news on Arabian Network. Rest of the candidates must watch out as competition has become very tough now.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Halifax Gay Activist Murdered
Tremendously sad news out of Halifax today as Raymond Taavel, a well-known activist for the gay community, was killed by an assailant while trying to break up a fight outside the city’s gay bar. A candlelight vigil is being organized by the Halifax community to honour his memory. My thoughts
Continue readingBlunt Objects: At Least One Liberal Ex-MP is Doing Well…
Mike Savage, who narrowly lost re-election to failed NDP leadership candidate Robert Chisholm in the riding of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour back in May 2011, is well on his way to becoming the next mayor of Halifax: After months of speculation, former Liberal MP from Dartmouth, Mike Savage, recently announced he will
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