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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 allyFor 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
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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
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Attack with love
The Floatation Centre’s Lindsay MacPhee proves doing good is good businessBefore 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
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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
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Coming into focus
Emerging from COVID-19, has Nova Scotia’s filmmaking industry finally found reliable funding and 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’d lef [...]
By Carsten Knox Sep 01, 2021
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The Changemakers
To get the bright future it deserves, Halifax needs to take an honest look at itself —meet the people fighting for changeHalifax 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
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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 allyFor 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 businessBefore 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 sceneAndrea 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

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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

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Roundup: Phase 5 delayed, Conservative candidate apologizes for racist posts, suspicious fire at South Shore racetrack, farmer finds new way to prepare harvest

With 66 new cases of COVID-19 reported yesterday, the provincial government is delaying Nova Scotia's move into the final phase of the reopening plan."Given where things are here, as well as in [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 15, 2021

Blog The Roundup

Roundup: More COVID community spread, doctors call for drug decriminalization, Trenton fire suspicious, scofflaws plague recycling depot

Nova Scotia has 125 known active cases of COVID-19, with community spread again happening in the Central Zone, according to the latest government update, which spans Sept. 11 to 13. Four people are h [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 14, 2021

Blog The Roundup

Roundup: Vaccination update, combining art and hiking, Bridgewater filmmaker finishes first feature, Pictou United Way kicks off campaign, election environmental issues

The COVID-19 vaccine remains effective at reducing death and serious illness related to the disease, as a recent provincial government update illustrates.There were 4,422 known cases of COVID in [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 13, 2021

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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

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Healing in the Highlands

By Zack Metcalfe Sep 10, 2021

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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

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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

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City Life Development Neighbourhoods The Housing Market

Housing crunch worsens

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

By Janet Whitman Sep 01, 2021

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Before cars were king

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

By Katie Ingram Aug 31, 2021

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In the first issue of Unravel, our changemakers roundtable takes a hard look at our city’s past, present, and future.

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Roundup: A new magazine for a reawakening city, Phase 5 delayed, conservative candidate apologizes for racist posts, suspicious fire at South Shore racetrack, farmer finds new way to prepare harvest. Files from @StraitReporter, @LHNOWnews, @PictouAdvocate
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