Kris Bertin, who writes short stories by day and tends Bearly's bar by night, was featured Sunday in a Toronto Star story on "Five up-and-coming writers to watch in 2016." Bertin's first book, a collection called, "Bad Things Happen" will be published Feb. 23 by Biblioasis, the hip Canadian publisher de jour. Alexander MacLeod, who encountered Bertin in his short story course at Saint Mary's, served as editor on the project. Writes the Star: David Adams Richards says: “Kris Bertin’s stories are a revelation, a triumph — each stamped with the mark of a new and rising genius.” Alexander MacLeod says: “Kris Bertin’s images are built to last. His fiction...

31 January, 2016

Thanks to Tim Bousquet for featuring this drone-enhanced vacation video of New York-based Victor Chu's trip to Nova Scotia. The video is dedicated to Chu's late father, Jia-li Chu, who apparently always wanted to visit our province, but died before managing to do so. You're left wondering why Tourism Nova Scotia can't capture our province as skilfully as this. The locations shown, in order of first appearance: Mainland: Advocate Harbor, en route to the harbor (Intro) Peggy's Point Lighthouse (0:51) Halifax - MacDonald Bridge (1:11), Citadel Hill (1:14) Peggy's Cove - (1:26) Mahone Bay - 3 Churches (1:42) Lunenburg - Sailboats, red houses (2:00) Transcanada Highway/Truro - Pink Highways (2:26) Port Hastings - Highway near railroad tracks...

29 January, 2016

The hearing will centre not on the substance of the case—the appropriate size and style of government for a small, rural municipality—but on whether the court has any business second guessing the Utility and Review Board, which the legislature empowered to carry out boundary reviews....

27 January, 2016

This promises to be an eventful week in the history of Richmond County, NS, where the municipal government has been in turmoil ever since a palace coup ousted former Warden Steve Sampson in October 2014....

25 January, 2016

Martin Luther King Day having come and gone Monday, this post is 24 hours late. Still, I can't resist the chance to pass along this video, even tardily. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his "I have a dream"  speech, a Jewish choral group called The Maccabeats joined with a beatbox group called Naturally7 to record the James Taylor song, "Shed a Little Light." The song is an homage to King. Taylor himself calls the Maccabeats/Natually7 vesion one of the best covers of the song he's ever heard. There was a time, before the U.S. Jewish establishment doubled down on support for Likud Party, when American...

19 January, 2016

If you want to play with the cool kids in the Halifax twittersphere, griping about certain topics is pretty much mandatory. Fortunately, there's a cheatsheet to guide you, in the form of a bingo card. Fill up any column, row, or diagonal, and you get a free copy of the Coast. (Created by @Hooberbloob (aka Andrew Bourke), with contributions from  @lousyrock (Aaron Legge) and others.)...

16 January, 2016

If you had bought $1,000 worth of Postmedia Canada shares on July 4, 2011, you could sell them today for $8.82—a decline of 99.1% in four and a half years. The company, which publishes such papers as the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Calgary Herald, trades today at 15¢ per share. Excluding its recent purchase of Quebecor's Sun newspapers, revenue fell $22.2 million in the quarter that ended November 30. This period included a national election, normally a bonanza for newspapers. Nevertheless: Print advertising fell $16.4 million or 17.6 per cent Print circulation fell $3.2 million or 6.7 per cent Digital revenue fell $1.4 million, or 5.7 per cent. Postmedia had already announced plans...

15 January, 2016

I'd walk two miles for a horse. (A Jordanian Bedouin smokes his cigarette as he rests on The King's Highway, on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Photo credit: Norman Al Mafty/AP, via DIGG.)...

14 January, 2016
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