Two cruise ships recently affected by norovirus outbreaks arrive in Halifax this week. When the Celebrity Summit and Viking Neptune come into port on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, the HRM will see the two most recent cruises to report onboard outbreaks of the stomach bug in 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control. […]
Martin Bauman
Martin Bauman is an award-winning journalist and interviewer, whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Capital Daily, and Waterloo Region Record, among other places. In 2020, he was named one of five “emergent” nonfiction writers by the RBC Taylor Prize. As host of the Story Untold Podcast, he has interviewed some of Canada's most notable figures, including Paralympian Rick Hansen, cave diver Jill Heinerth, and Juno Award-winner Shad. A passionate speaker and mental health advocate, Martin has been a youth panellist for the Canada-wide Spotlight on Invisible Disabilities Partnership and bicycled solo across Canada to raise funds for services in his hometown of Waterloo, Ont.
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Wanderers drop points in cagey 2-1 home loss to league-leading Pacific FC
The Halifax Wanderers are left wondering what could have been this week—and for more reasons than one. In front of a sellout crowd at the Wanderers Grounds, in a tense match between the Canadian Premier League’s second- and fourth-place teams, the Wanderers fell 2-1 to visiting Langford, BC side Pacific FC in a Natal Day […]
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Palm Tree Kitchen brings Island flavour to Quinpool Road
Demetrius “Meech” Ferguson is putting the finishing touches on a pair of fried fish sandwiches when a visitor arrives at his newest venture on Quinpool Road, the colourful—and intimately friendly—Palm Tree Kitchen. Soca music wafts over the stereo. The Toy Story VHS tape plays on a 15-inch tube TV behind the bar counter. Palm fronds […]
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8 things to do in Halifax this Natal Day long weekend (Aug. 4-7, 2023)
August is here—and along with it, a jam-packed lineup of annual favourites has returned, joined by what promise to be new summer mainstays. From the annual Natal Day fireworks celebrations to boardwalk buskers to barbecues to a new all-Black music festival, there’s plenty going on in the HRM this weekend. Allow us to be your […]
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Halifax’s Maggie Andrew is bringing alt-pop to new heights
It’s the build-up to Crescendo Fest, Halifax’s new music festival “designed to turn up the volume on Black music artists,” and Maggie Andrew is enjoying what might be some of her last days of relative anonymity. On Saturday, Aug. 5, the 24-year-old from Fall River, NS, is set to perform alongside the likes of Canadian […]
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Three blank sailings in Halifax this week. Are the leftover effects of the floods to blame?
The washed-out CN rail line linking the Port of Halifax to the rest of Canada was finally repaired last Friday, but looking at the weekly container and cargo ship arrivals into Halifax offers a slightly muddier picture—not unlike the aftermath seen across Nova Scotia following July’s historic floods. The reason? Cancelled sailings. The Port of […]
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The Wanderer Grounds podcast: João Morelli is back—and he isn’t done scoring yet
When Brazilian forward João Morelli found the back of the net for the Halifax Wanderers on Sunday, July 30, not only did it mark his first goal for the club in 479 days, it also represented a triumphant return from an ACL injury the forward wasn’t sure he would ever fully recover from. You could […]
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10 books to read about Black experiences in Canada this Emancipation Day
This Tuesday marks the third-annual Emancipation Day in Nova Scotia, an anniversary of the historic end to slavery across the British Empire. So-called Canada has a 200-year history of slavery—and Halifax itself hosted slaver’s ships in its harbour. Yet, public knowledge of this chapter of the past—and its effects on the systemic racism of today—is […]
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4 ways to mark Emancipation Day in Halifax in 2023
This Tuesday, Aug. 1 marks Nova Scotia’s third annual Emancipation Day—a day to reflect on the history and impacts of slavery in Canada. On that day in 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act took effect across the British empire. It freed over 800,000 enslaved Africans across the Caribbean, South Africa and here in Canada, too. Halifax’s […]
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Michie Mee headlines Crescendo, Halifax’s new all-Black music festival
Canadian hip hop royalty comes to Halifax next weekend. Rapper and actor Michie Mee—considered one of the genre’s pioneers in Canada, after rising to fame in Toronto’s hip hop scene in the 1980s and 1990s—is set to headline a new festival celebrating Black music in Nova Scotia. Crescendo Fest is a two-day event “designed to […]
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6 things to do in Halifax this weekend (July 28-30, 2023)
Friday might call for a chance of showers, but the weekend in Halifax is still hot, hot, hot—and that goes for what’s on offer around the HRM, too. From Canadian football to local film to a brand new taproom, there’s plenty to see and do. Allow us to be your weekend guide with these Coast […]
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What do the floods mean for Halifax’s shipping industry?
There is some irony in Monday’s arrival and departure of the Atlantic Sun container ship, given how little sun Halifax—and most of Nova Scotia, for that matter—saw this past weekend. Friday and Saturday’s torrential rain and flash floods washed out roadways, destroyed bridges and prompted a provincewide state of emergency. It also threw a sizable […]