#halifax

Good on Joy for making this documentary, I may check it out. It's about Africville which is/was Halifax's black community that was absolutely devastated in the explosion of 1917. Their community was completely leveled while the rich up on the hill suffered only minor structural damages if that.

CBC has found that Loblaws and other major grocery stores have been overcharging customers for underweight meat. The report found overpriced fresh meat at seven Loblaw-owned or Sobeys-affiliated stores in the Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax areas. Last year, a similar investigation revealed that as many as 80 Loblaws stores in Western Canada — as well as Sobeys and Walmart locations in several provinces — had been weighing meat with packaging, increasing prices by 4% to 11%. Federal regulations state that posted net weights for packaged food, and subsequent pricing, can’t factor in the packaging.

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the three pics we have from halifax all have the fully arms around eachother grinning from ear to ear while a small child stands in front of them completely unnoticed, it's hilarious