Lezlie Lowe
The Chronicle Herald
United Kingdom
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LEZLIE LOWE: Public inquiry no panacea
by Lezlie Lowe Why now? After a universally soggy response to a public review, federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair on Tuesday announced a full public inquiry into Canada's deadliest mass shooting. No sound thinker refutes that → Read More
LEZLIE LOWE: Catching up to Whitman on slow streets
You know those Local Traffic Only signs? The ones used to designate Halifax’s COVID-instituted slow streets, where residents have priority over cars to roll, walk and bike? They’re the perfect lens for viewing the political brand → Read More
LEZLIE LOWE: Wishing for a better option than 911
I called the cops on a guy about a month ago. He was hanging around on a bench outside my house, alternately slumped over and dancing around, randomly yelling at pedestrians and cars. None of this moved to me to dial. I worried about his → Read More
LEZLIE LOWE: Social distancing isn't solely about the rational
Everyone can name one — a cohort of folks in their community supposedly not social distancing properly. White male baby boomers at the grocery store; junior high school girls; construction workers. Women say it’s men. → Read More
LESLIE LOWE: You can't self-isolate yourself from family
Are you ready? I'm not asking: do you have enough toilet paper? I'm not asking if you've been dutifully and frequently washing your hands, coughing and sneezing into your elbows and regularly de-contaminating all your → Read More
LEZLIE LOWE: The ‘subtle poison’ of Valentine’s Day
I love chocolate. But if you're thinking of giving it to me for Valentine's Day, you'd do well to think again. Same goes for flowers, jewellery, lingerie and all the other clichéd gack of Valentine's — the least sexy → Read More
LEZLIE LOWE: Ride-sharing is cheap and fast, sure. But good?
If you know anything about clichés, you know that if you want something fast, cheap and good, you only get to choose two of the three. And so it is with ride-hailing. Uber and Lyft are fast. You book a ride on your phone, know the price → Read More
LEZLIE LOWE: To combat the climate crisis, we need total war
New year. New decade. And as we hit reset, we desperately need a new war. Because as I see it, we’ve got the 2020s to engage in a concerted battle against the climate emergency, and not much longer. So far, we’ve proven ourselves → Read More
The rise and fall of public toilets in Toronto
The city's defecation problem is an open secret thanks to officials who long ago washed their hands of providing bathrooms for citizens, writes Lezlie Lowe → Read More
LOWE: Drivers hold all the power on roads
“Last week was a hard one on livestock hereabout,” begins a front page July 1907 story in the New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle. “On Friday, the common enemy, the automobile, got next to a cow on the East River Road, (and) broke her up so badly that Policeman Chisholm had to destroy her.” The worst part of the bloody affair? → Read More
LOWE: Take heart, jilted Haligonians pining for Ikea
My local Ikea is the Ottawa location. Yes, that’s right. A store 1,400 kilometres away. When I visit family in the capital a couple of times a year, I cannot resist the siren call of Gorm, Grundtal and Pax. Ikea is my long-distance lover. A dedicated when-I’m-in-town hookup. As it happens, I’m not the company’s only inamorata. → Read More
LOWE: Remembering the good times at Dartmouth High
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. That’s a paraphrase of Plutarch, quoting Heraclitus. And it’s also me, wandering the halls at Dartmouth High. I enter through the front doors, as I’ve been instructed to by my friend, a teacher there. → Read More
LOWE: Halifax must take a page out of success stories like new library
You don’t quit junk food to impress your boss. You don’t volunteer to make your Auntie Lila feel better. Everything important you do, you do it, ultimately, for yourself. And it should be no different for Halifax. All the greatness our city has embraced and brought about of late has been decidedly for us, and not for anyone else. → Read More
LOWE: Halifax, please let me know: Should I stay or should I go?
What’s in your letter? Your farewell to Nova Scotia? Writer and activist Allison Sparling posted her Dear John to Halifax on her blog two weeks ago. Sparling, who is young, smart and passionately Haligonian, is moving to Toronto. Her reasons for breaking up with the city are myriad, including bugs in the transit system and Nova Scotia’s particular suspicion of the new. But cash is the crux. → Read More
LOWE: Donair-gate’s a tempest in a foil wrap
Either donairs matter or they don’t. None of this in between. If proclaiming the donair our official food has some tangible payoff, I’m cool with the city devoting time and money and brain power to its promotion. Tell Destination Halifax to get on it. But if it’s a lark? Ugh! Stop wasting time. Coun. → Read More