Nova Scotia is in the middle of a crisis—and we’ll say it over and over until everyone believes it. Since Oct. 18, seven women and one man have been killed in incidents of intimate-partner violence. In five of the seven homicides, the perpetrator then killed himself. As a province, we also own two records: the […]
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Ground-breaking psychology training program coming to Halifax
The kids are not alright. According to Mental Health Research Canada, 1.25 million youth in Canada need mental health support every year, yet more than half of them aren’t receiving it. The numbers are stark: surveys suggest roughly one in four young people have had thoughts of suicide; tt is now the second leading cause […]
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Municipal and provincial and federal, oh my!
In Halifax, it’s hard to imagine a time in the last year when front yards weren’t littered with election signs. First the municipal election, then the provincial one, and now here we are again. Hopefully you have recovered from your inevitable voter fatigue and feel reinvigorated to get out there and cast your ballot for […]
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Queer, trans and allied organizations across Canada have penned a powerful open letter—and you can sign it too
March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). This day is dedicated to celebrating transgender people, their contributions to society and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide. Transphobic sentiments continue to escalate among the far right in Canada. In the United States and United Kingdom, bills and laws are being issued […]
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Obladee, Ob-la-da, life may not go on for beloved downtown wine bar
Obladee Wine Bar—on the corner of Barrington Street and Sackville Street—is barely visible through the jungle of scaffolding. If potential patrons are making a decision based on curb appeal, they would most likely veer away from it, if they noticed it at all. The scaffolding has been in place since July 2023 when HRM issued […]
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Things aren’t looking good for our Halifax byelection
Mark Carney is under a microscope. (Yes, that would be a Markroscope, but let’s not make the term a habit.) Since his landslide victory in the Liberal Party’s race to replace Justin Trudeau on the weekend, Canada’s attention has turned to Carney to lead us into a trade war and/or general election. But there is […]
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Halifax cyclist eyes record-setting ride from Alaska to Argentina
Ashleigh Myles is not fazed by long hours in the bicycle saddle. The Halifax-based bike technician co-created the Tip 2 Tip Nova Scotia endurance race, a 1,000-kilometre haul from The Hawk Beach on Cape Sable Island to Cape Breton’s Meat Cove, in 2020. And then she went out and set the record for its time-trial […]
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Two deaths in HRP custody bring back painful memories for Halifax mom
They say that time heals all wounds, but for Jeannette Rogers, the scab is ripped off and bleeds fresh every time an innocent person is killed in police custody. Losing someone in such a senseless way is a club nobody wants to be part of, but in the past few weeks, two more families joined […]
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The Halifax byelection finally started, but it might not finish
Update: Mark Carney will be Canada’s next prime minister, following his overwhelming win—85.9% of the vote—at the Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention yesterday, Sunday, March 9. Carney must be sworn in by the Governor General (no date’s been announced for that yet) and has to form a cabinet, then he can call a general […]
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The future of AI news is here in Halifax, it seems—and god, it sucks
A few weeks ago, I ventured down Quinpool Road and visited a company office that doesn’t exist. The building is real. And the company—at least in some notional sense—is real. But the other parts—who works at the company, how they’re connected to Halifax, what it bodes for our new digital era—I’m far less certain of. I […]
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Where to buy groceries during Trump’s trade war on Canada
Update: After initial negotiations on Feb 3 led to Donald Trump delaying the imposition of tariffs for a month, the Cheeto-in-Charge announced they were back on the table earlier this week, taking effect on Tuesday, March 4. In the wild weeks since convicted felon and US president Donald Trump first threatened a sweeping 25% tax […]
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What’s next for Bloomfield?
Mountains of rubble piled high on Thursday morning at the same site where, less than a week ago, the former Bloomfield School stood. A hydraulic excavator sat parked inside temporary fencing off Agricola Street, its engine running. All around it, work crews shuffled about, cleaning up the wreckage from a weekend fire that tore through […]
