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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

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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: 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

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Roundup: Election day! Vax stats, gypsum workers unionize, South Shore Olympian recounts Tokyo experience, Pictou Co. law firm winds down amidst controversy

Canada elects a new federal government today. If you haven't yet voted, polls are open until 8:30 p.m. Check your voter information card to find where you vote (or check here if you don't have a card [...]

By Trevor J. Adams Sep 20, 2021

The Roundup

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

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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

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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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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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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 [...]

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Roundup: Election day! Vax stats, gypsum workers unionize, South Shore Olympian recounts Tokyo experience, Pictou Co. law firm winds down amidst controversy, talking with Chief Mike Sack. Files: @Advocate1891's @LHNOWnews @StraitReporter @PictouAdvocate. https://unravelhalifax.ca/roundup-election-day-vax-stats-gypsum-workers-unionize-south-shore-olympian-recounts-tokyo-experience-pictou-co-law-firm-winds-down-amidst-controversy/

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