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Art on the rocks

The Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts returns, with organizers promising a reinvigorated festival after two years of pandemic disruption Running from July 6 to 17, the Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts kicks off with an opening night event at the new Hubbards Barn venue. "It's a change of scenery and a beautiful location," says Paula Fredericks, one of the festival's organizers. "Another wonderful th [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Jun 28, 2022
Cover Features Neighbourhoods

Across the great divide

With the Cogswell interchange redevelopment, Halifax has the opportunity to literally and figuratively transform the city It does not help Waye Mason sleep at night knowing that Halifax’s biggest public works project in recent times — involving some of the most exquisitely complicated engineering and public consultation the capital has ever witnessed — could be delayed by someone’s ill-timed trip to the t [...]

By Alec Bruce Jul 20, 2022
Cover Features People Sports

Standing alone, together

Mixed martial arts builds strength, clears the mind, and creates community — meet the people embracing the city’s fastest-growing sport The entrance to Titans Martial Arts and Fitness on Horseshoe Lake Drive offers little clue what’s going on inside. It’s at the side of a building that looks like a warehouse, and houses the Nothin’ Fancy outlet in front. Inside is a long strip of gym, car [...]

By Chris Benjamin Jul 19, 2022
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The wonder drugs

Therapists in Halifax want to offer their patients psychedelics, as healers have for millennia. Will the federal government let them? For years, Dr. Grayson Lloyd has used ketamine to help put people under for surgery. Then, he realized maybe it could do more. An anesthesiologist at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, Lloyd is also co-owner of Novaket, a ketamine infusion clinic in Halifax, where pa [...]

By Philip Moscovitch Jul 18, 2022
Cover Features People

Room to breathe

Artist Bria Miller hopes to encourage others to be themselves and find their space Yarmouth native Bria Miller left for Halifax after high school to escape racism and homophobia, and create space for themself. Now, as a Black, Indigenous, queer artist, they want to do the same for other marginalized and racialized people. “Creating those spaces is so important to invade that reality of discrimina [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Jul 14, 2022
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Summer in the city

Halifax revs up for a return to fun and sun After two-plus years of lockdowns, bubbling, and keeping a distance of nine donairs apart, government has rolled back most COVID-19 public health rules and most Nova Scotians are vaccinated. The pandemic isn’t behind us but Halifax has no shortage of fun and safe things to put on a city staycation agenda. “It’s funny because so many of us a [...]

By Janet Whitman Jul 11, 2022
Arts Features Visual Arts

Art on the rocks

The Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts returns, with organizers promising a reinvigorated festival after two years of pandemic disruption Running from July 6 to 17, the Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts kicks off with an opening night event at the new Hubbards Barn venue. "It's a change of scenery and a beautiful location," says Paula Fredericks, one of the festival's organizers. "Another wonderful th [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Jun 28, 2022
Cover Features Neighbourhoods

Across the great divide

With the Cogswell interchange redevelopment, Halifax has the opportunity to literally and figuratively transform the city It does not help Waye Mason sleep at night knowing that Halifax’s biggest public works project in recent times — involving some of the most exquisitely complicated engineering and public consultation the capital has ever witnessed — could be delayed by someone’s ill-timed trip to the t [...]

By Alec Bruce Jul 20, 2022
Cover Features People Sports

Standing alone, together

Mixed martial arts builds strength, clears the mind, and creates community — meet the people embracing the city’s fastest-growing sport The entrance to Titans Martial Arts and Fitness on Horseshoe Lake Drive offers little clue what’s going on inside. It’s at the side of a building that looks like a warehouse, and houses the Nothin’ Fancy outlet in front. Inside is a long strip of gym, car [...]

By Chris Benjamin Jul 19, 2022

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Remembering the glory days of Halifax's live rock scene About 30 years ago, the stars aligned to put Halifax on the music map. “We just wanted to be part of what was going on and … it [...]

By Katie Ingram Jul 28, 2022

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Searching for the best curry

A club of international aficionados comes to North America with a new Nova Scotian chapter Before 2016, Dan Houmann had never tried curry. He grew up in a small city in Denmark that had tra [...]

By Lori McKay Jul 22, 2022

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Roundup: COVID kills 5 more, RCMP testimony concerns shooting victims' families, C.B. team wins national baseball title, new owner for Pictou Academy

Plus: Artist Bria Miller encourages others to be themselves and find their space COVID-19 killed five more Nova Scotians from Aug. 2 to 8, according to the latest information from the provin [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Aug 12, 2022

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Roundup: Chester Race week returns, Pictou noise concerns rumble on, Emergency Health Services hiring more drivers, COVID spread continues worldwide

Plus: After winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games, paddler Bret Himmelman sets his sights on the Olympics Hammonds Plains paddler Bret Himmelman has long aimed to represent Canada at the 2024 [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Aug 11, 2022

Blog The Roundup

Roundup: No new COVID deaths as hospitalizations dip, emergency crews battle wildfires, gov commits $9M to Pictou Cultural Hub, NSCC Foundation secures big donation

Plus: How a band called the Harbour Sharks sparked a summer of music and exploration There’s been a dip in the number of people hospitalized in Nova Scotia due to COVID-19, according to the [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Aug 05, 2022

Blog The Roundup

Roundup: Organist raises $26K for Ukraine, masks remain mandatory at StFX as COVID continues, Stellarton sports complex in jeopardy

Plus: A pair of local podcasters help Nova Scotians rediscover their province South Shore organist Xaver Varnus has been busy travelling and performing over the last few months, raising money for [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Aug 04, 2022

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Summer of love

How a band called the Harbour Sharks sparked my love of Halifax I recall the exact moment I fell for Halifax. It was a summer afternoon in 1999. I had recently graduated and was beginning my [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Jul 28, 2022

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Local History: A chowder to remember

Plus: When a drugged meal in Halifax sent the cast and crew of a Hollywood blockbuster into turbulent waters In August 1996, filmmaker James Cameron and his crew were in Halifax shooting scenes fo [...]

By Dorothy Grant Aug 03, 2022

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The View: 'We Love Nova Scotia'

Artist Kristen De Palma celebrates a thriving wine scene Artist Kristen De Palma. Photo: Submi [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Jul 27, 2022

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Rediscovering Nova Scotia and travelling in a COVID world Although they’re both from the Sou [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Jul 18, 2022

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The climate crisis will transform our word — meet the researcher who is studying how nature can h [...]

By Ameeta Vohra Jul 15, 2022

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