During election szn, some councillors said they supported it. Come budget time, they backtracked. This week Halfiax’s budget committee voted on the police budget, but talks about how HRM spends its money on policing have been buzzing for more than a year–since El Jones’s presentation on defunding the police to the Board of Police Commissioners in January 2020, to a global movement demanding the police and prison industrial complexes are dismantled. Back in October, when citizens of Halifax were deciding who to vote for in the municipal election, The Coast asked every candidate a long list of yes or no questions. On the subject of defunding the police, here’s how the eventual winners–now our elected representatives–voted.
Ryan Josey A building can be a chrysalis, transforming its contents and inhabitants–and, through this, its community–as it morphs from one thing to another. The Blue Building art gallery opened to the public last week, and even from the outside one thing was imminently obvious: The new arts hub at 2482 Maynard Street (the project that houses The Blue Building, as well as Wonder’neath Art Society and Eyelevel Gallery, plus professional studio space) isn’t an old tin shell anymore, the sort of place you’d walk by and not notice. The whole building has been transformed thanks to a fresher shade of azure on its exterior–but also thanks to airy glass-paned doors, a new accessibility-informed floor plan and The Blue Building: The city’s newest commercial gallery that boasts 1,400 square feet of local, contemporary art taking up the left side of the complex�
click to enlarge All trends point to straight guys needing to do the work to deserve to have a girlfriend. Joe Newton QI m a gay guy living in New York in his late twenties. My boyfriend has really been emotionally impacted by the pandemic, having been a frontline worker. I think he is suffering from some mild depression or at the very least some intense anxiety, so I just want to preface this by saying I completely sympathize with what he s going through. Before the pandemic we had a really good sex life, but lately he hasn t been interested in sex at all besides a few assisted masturbation sessions. While I know that these aren t usual times, I can t help feeling rejected.