The miracle of bluenose writers

Nova Scotia has produced a surprising number of great writers, but we don’t give them the recognition they deserve

By Harry Bruce 31 May 2018 Share this story

Farewell, Maestro

If Halifax had an all-star team of come-from-aways, internationally renowned German maestro Bernhard Gueller would be among its longest-playing and highest-scoring veterans but, alas, he’ll soon be just another gone-from-here. The music director of Symphony Nova Scotia for 15 years, Gueller, more than anyone else, has inspired its blossoming as one of the most skilled, […]

By Harry Bruce 27 December 2017 Share this story

Compared to autonomous vehicles, you’re all bum drivers

Think ahead. At 5:05 on a black December evening, a blizzard lashes cars and trucks as they creep across the bridges to Halifax, and then inch their way into gridlocks, and onward to grizzly entanglements at rotaries. But nobody in this entire mess leans on a horn even once, and nowhere to be seen is […]

By Harry Bruce 18 August 2017 Share this story

Not the city I knew

It’s taken me 46 years, but I love Halifax

By Harry Bruce 13 January 2017 Share this story