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Deeksha Bhaskar is the real deal
Rasa Flavours of India 1542 Birmingham Street Twenty-one-year-old Deeksha Bhaskar grew up exposed to the food industry. As the daughter of a prominent restaurant-owner in Gurugram, India, she and her sister spent a lot of time visiting restaurants with their dad. “Whenever we’d be somewhere, he would tell us what each place was doing right […]
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NS Power pocketed $2 million in reconnect fees last year
A few weeks ago, Colin Duggan was at his day job when his wife called him saying the power was cut off. She was home alone with their six-month-old baby and was getting ready to pump milk. Duggan thought there was an automatic payment coming out of their account to Nova Scotia Power and was […]
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Faire Child wants to know who made your clothes
Faire Child’s Fashion Revolution Sat Apr 28, 11am-4pm Discovery Centre 1215 Lower Water Street Faire Child, a local line of children’s outerwear, is making Nova Scotia’s first Fashion Revolution event happen. Fashion Revolution Week is a global movement inspired by the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse—the factory that produced clothing for popular fast […]
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Anthony Reynolds’ strong, weekly designs
Denim, wool, cotton fleece and Indian silk sarees are just some of the leftover fabrics Anthony Reynolds is using after graduating from the fashion and merchandising program at daVinci College in September. Reynolds, 34, created an Instagram account for his line, åntrēy as a “creative exploration” towards making unique garments. Since January, Reynolds has dedicated […]
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Made with Local’s big year
Made with Local owners Sheena Russell and Kathy MacDonald went from producing 1,000 bars a month in 2012 to 20,000 a month in 2017 and are now aiming to make it 50,000 by the end of 2018. “I never thought I would be a business owner or entrepreneur,” says Russell. The special ingredient that makes […]
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What Christmas means to me
Christmas celebrations and the Christian faith are not exclusive to the western world. Practicing Christians in the Middle East, Africa and India have traditions that don’t centre on egg nog, Santa and shopping. These non-western traditions are widely celebrated, even here in Halifax, yet are rarely considered in the mainstream narrative. Nurse practitioner, poet and […]
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The multi-grained Veronica Post
Woodworker Veronica Post knows she’s a woman in a male-dominated field, but doesn’t let her gender overshadow her work. “I feel like it’s always there,” says Post. “I want to be talking about the furniture because that is what I’m passionate about and not have the attention be about something that really doesn’t matter.” Post […]
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Drink this: Good Robot’s Reclaiming My Time stout
First-time brewer, Evelyn White, is making a statement with her small batch of beer called Reclaiming My Time. White says she was inspired by congresswoman Maxine Waters and the now infamous viral video of her questioning treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. “For a Black woman to say ‘I’m reclaiming my time,’ I took it as a […]
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Wade Smith’s Afrocentric legacy
Andre Fenton barely made it to class in his first two years of high school. But the poet and activist eventually graduated with honours after finding inspiration in an Afrocentric literature course he took his senior year. “If it wasn’t for that class, I would not be doing spoken word poetry,” says Fenton. “It influenced […]