unravelhalifax

10000

Features

The Conversation: Chief Mike Sack

Nova Scotia’s legacy of injustice, why the fishery fight matters, the power of community, and how to be an ally For most policymakers, topics like the fishery are abstract policy issues. For Sipekne’katik Chief Mike Sack, born and raised in the central Nova Scotia First Nation, the issues are connected to his working-class roots. Among his blue collar experience (which includes running his father’s [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Sep 01, 2021
Features

The Home Game

These are exciting times for Cam Whynot. In July, the Calgary Flames chose him in the third round of the NHL draft, 89th overall. As he works towards a career in the pros, the defenceman is getting ready for his third season with the Halifax Mooseheads. The Kentville native will also rejoin his billet family in the city next month. Like major-junior teams across Canada, the Mooseheads rely on local billets [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Sep 01, 2021
Features

Attack with love

The Floatation Centre’s Lindsay MacPhee proves doing good is good business Before you even walk through the Floatation Centre (TFC) doors, you sense something different awaits. The rainbow flags, inspirational quotes, and anti-racist messages that greet you at the front door confirm the centre’s reputation as a safe, inclusive space is not just well-earned. It’s intentional. Stepping inside the cen [...]

By Robyn McNeil Sep 01, 2021
Features

Breathing underwater

As Halifax’s kids return to school this month, are they ready for the new normal? Are we? The question will dog people for years, even generations, to come: Where were you when the pandemic hit? Like the rest of us, Coady Monk has a story. “We didn’t know what COVID was back in March 2020,” says the recent graduate of Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford, whose goal was to become a polic [...]

By Alec Bruce Sep 01, 2021
Features

Coming into focus

Emerging from COVID-19 and a tumultuous few years, has Nova Scotia’s filmmaking industry finally found a way forward? Tara Thorne had always dreamed of being a filmmaker. As an arts journalist she’s rubbed elbows with filmmakers and actors, regularly attending the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2007 she made a short. On the morning of her 40th birthday, Thorne was on the phone with EI. She� [...]

By Carsten Knox Sep 01, 2021
Cover Features

The Changemakers

To get the bright future it deserves, Halifax needs to take an honest look at itself —meet the people fighting for change Halifax has a hubris problem. We like to think of our city as hip, fun, dynamic. But we often fail to recognize its ugly underbelly — an unjust, unfair place for so many, for so long. “Its well-intention is also its big blind spot,” says Rebecca Thomas, a Mi’kmaw writer a [...]

By Janet Whitman Sep 01, 2021
Features

The Conversation: Chief Mike Sack

Nova Scotia’s legacy of injustice, why the fishery fight matters, the power of community, and how to be an ally For most policymakers, topics like the fishery are abstract policy issues. For Sipekne’katik Chief Mike Sack, born and raised in the central Nova Scotia First Nation, the issues are connected to his working-class roots. Among his blue collar experience (which includes running his father’s [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Sep 01, 2021
Features

The Home Game

These are exciting times for Cam Whynot. In July, the Calgary Flames chose him in the third round of the NHL draft, 89th overall. As he works towards a career in the pros, the defenceman is getting ready for his third season with the Halifax Mooseheads. The Kentville native will also rejoin his billet family in the city next month. Like major-junior teams across Canada, the Mooseheads rely on local billets [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Sep 01, 2021
Features

Attack with love

The Floatation Centre’s Lindsay MacPhee proves doing good is good business Before you even walk through the Floatation Centre (TFC) doors, you sense something different awaits. The rainbow flags, inspirational quotes, and anti-racist messages that greet you at the front door confirm the centre’s reputation as a safe, inclusive space is not just well-earned. It’s intentional. Stepping inside the cen [...]

By Robyn McNeil Sep 01, 2021

Arts

Artist Andrea Crouse uses a unique technique to capture a distinctive Halifax scene Andrea Crouse’s art is a form of collage mastered over years of thoughtful practice. She takes tiny paper cut- [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 02, 2021

Share this story

Food & Drink

The local cup

The craft drink craze is still at fever pitch — Bluenose beverages for any budget Recommendations from Bishop Cellar’s director of consumer experience Kathryn Harding. TATA KETCH BE [...]

By Brooklyn Connolly Sep 07, 2021

Share this story

Latest

The Roundup

Roundup: Another COVID death and 147 active cases, Northern Pulp may treat toxic run-off on site, new use for old school land

Plus: It's just too much — surviving in the age of information overload COVID-19 has killed another Nova Scotian. The victim is a woman in her 80s who lived in the Central Zone, according to [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 24, 2021

The Roundup

Roundup: Strang urges unvaxed to step up, housing crunch forces family into tent, New Glasgow police buy body cameras, 10,000 daffodils for Isle Madame

Plus: Emerging from COVID-19 and a tumultuous few years, has Nova Scotia’s filmmaking industry finally found a way forward? Vaccination is the only way for Nova Scotia to avoid the worst of the [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 23, 2021

The Roundup

Roundup: 25 new COVID cases, unleashed dogs terrorizing vulnerable birds, Royal recognition for Pictou girl, Port Hawkesbury welcomes newcomers

Nova Scotia has 137 known active cases of COVID-19, with 25 new cases and 17 recoveries reported in the latest government update. Nine people are hospitalized in provincial COVID units. There are [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 22, 2021

The Roundup

Roundup: Trudeau wins another minority gov, Jordan out, Tories and NDP can't take Liberal HRM fortress, 55 new COVID cases, Pictou team claims baseball title

Justin Trudeau holds on as prime minister and his Liberals will form another minority government, claiming 32.2 per cent of the popular vote and winning 158 seats; one seat more than the party had go [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 21, 2021

Opinions

Healing in the Highlands

The human animal is odd in that it doesn’t consider itself an animal. We instead imagine ourselves as divine beings, having outgrown our dirty origins in the great outdoors. In reality, our physica [...]

By Zack Metcalfe Sep 10, 2021

Share this story

City Life

Theodore moves on

It's been a long time since the real-life Theodore tugboat first sailed the waters of Halifax's Big Harbour.Theo was the product of CBC producer and polymath Andrew Cochrane’s imagination, the epon [...]

By Bob Gordon Sep 07, 2021

Share this story

Current Issue

Unravel Magazine

Newsletter

Subscribe Now

Editor’s Pick

City Life People The Perspective

The Perspective: Finding work during a pandemic

Even as employers talk of a labour shortage, newcomers find it harder than ever to land meaningful [...]

By Marianne Simon Sep 01, 2021

Share this story

City Life Development Neighbourhoods The Housing Market

Housing crunch worsens

Yes, Halifax, we have a housing crisis We asked Neil Lovitt, the city’s expert in real-estate [...]

By Janet Whitman Sep 01, 2021

Share this story

City Life Getting Around History The Backstory

Before cars were king

A century ago, the tram system offered Haligonians unprecedented freedom and mobility Tram [...]

By Katie Ingram Aug 31, 2021

Share this story

Twitter Feed

Unravel HalifaxFollow

Unravel is a magazine for a city that is rediscovering itself. Published by Metro Guide Publishing, an @Advocate1891 Company.

Unravel Halifax @UnravelHalifax·

Here we go!

Our editor, Trevor Adams, reflects on the changes and challenges that lead to the exciting new adventure Unravel Halifax is now on; and what the future holds for us.

#UnravelHalifax
https://unravelhalifax.ca/here-we-go

Reply on Twitter 1441771977363099649 Retweet on Twitter 14417719773630996492 Like on Twitter 14417719773630996494 Twitter 1441771977363099649

Unravel Halifax @UnravelHalifax·

23h

Heading into the weekend, check out these beverage recommendations from @BishopsCellar 🍻

Enjoy responsibly!
https://unravelhalifax.ca/the-local-cup

Reply on Twitter 1441502700529586184 Retweet on Twitter 14415027005295861841 Like on Twitter 1441502700529586184 Twitter 1441502700529586184

Unravel Halifax @UnravelHalifax·

24 Sep

Roundup by @HalifaxEditor: Another COVID death and 147 active cases, Northern Pulp may treat toxic run-off on site, new use for old school land, surviving the age of information overload. Files: @Advocate1891's @LHNOWnews @StraitReporter @PictouAdvocate. https://unravelhalifax.ca/roundup-another-covid-death-and-147-active-cases-northern-pulp-may-treat-toxic-run-off-on-site-new-use-for-old-school-land/

Reply on Twitter 1441390026919534596 Retweet on Twitter 14413900269195345962 Like on Twitter 14413900269195345961 Twitter 1441390026919534596

Retweet on Twitter Unravel Halifax Retweeted

Ameeta Vohra @AmeetaVohra·

23 Sep

This is 1 conversation people should read about the province’s legacy of injustice, why the fishery fight matters, power of community & how we can be an ally. Thanks to Chief Mike Sack for sharing his unique perspective so there’s better understanding

#UnravelHalifax #halifax https://twitter.com/UnravelHalifax/status/1441126471754346496

Unravel Halifax@UnravelHalifax

The Conversation: Chief Mike Sack

“As we have all seen in the past year, racism is alive and well."

He talks Nova Scotia's legacy of injustice, why the fishery fight matters, the power of community, and how to be an ally.
#UnravelHalifax
https://unravelhalifax.ca/the-conversation-chief-mike-sack

Reply on Twitter 1441128644001239044 Retweet on Twitter 14411286440012390441 Like on Twitter 14411286440012390443 Twitter 1441128644001239044

Unravel Halifax @UnravelHalifax·

23 Sep

Reply on Twitter 1441126471754346496 Retweet on Twitter 14411264717543464961 Like on Twitter 14411264717543464963 Twitter 1441126471754346496

Unravel Halifax @UnravelHalifax·

23 Sep

Roundup: Strang urges unvaxed to step up, housing crunch forces family into tent, New Glasgow police buy body cameras, 10,000 daffodils for Isle Madame, filmmakers busy but funding scarce. Files: @Advocate1891's @LHNOWnews @PictouAdvocate @StraitReporter. https://unravelhalifax.ca/roundup-strang-urges-unvaxed-to-step-up-housing-crunch-forces-family-into-tent-new-glasgow-police-buy-body-cameras-10000-daffodils-for-isle-madame/

Reply on Twitter 1441028332183867393 Retweet on Twitter 14410283321838673932 Like on Twitter 14410283321838673932 Twitter 1441028332183867393

Arts

Food & Drink

Latest

Opinions

City Life

Editor’s Pick

Twitter Feed

Telling Halifax Stories