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THE COAST | Halifax News, Events, Restaurants, Shopping, Concerts, Free Classified Ads | Nova Scotia

http://www.thecoast.ca/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-12-06&-token.story=151320.113118&-token.subpub= Whether a collector or not, Passmore would still be considered something of a recorded music expert. He worked at Sam the Record Man for 12 years, seven on Yonge Street in Toronto and five on Barrington as a manager. He’s currently part-time and seasonal at CD Plus in Halifax Shopping Centre. Since his first […]

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Activist loses 2nd son to gunfire – thestar.com

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/288714 After Patricia Wynter’s first-born son was shot to death in 2001, she and 17 others who lost sons to violence formed an organization called UMOVE, which stands for United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere… But on Sunday, Wynter’s world was once again rocked by gun violence when her only surviving son, Karim Rashid Ata-Ayi, 29, […]

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Darren Hanlon live “Hold On”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItKb5GNePE My mate Daz keeps an audience spellbound using only his voice, a ukelele and some terrific lyrical wordplay. It’s now nearly 7 years since I was part of his transfixed audience, and I must say, I’m getting damned impatient for his next Toronto appearance. **EDIT** SU has added its usual dose of surreality by […]

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http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/rewards/wynter/ I spent today remembering that it was my friend Chad’s 31st birthday. I say “was”, as Chad is now one of the Toronto Police cold cases – he was murdered five years ago, and they’ve never figured out what happened. I also say “friend”; I hadn’t seen him for a few years before he […]

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