Oct 6-12, 2016

News + Opinion

• City

  Let's get ready to rumble: HRM election guide 2016

  All of our district profiles and candidate surveys in one place.

  By Jacob Boon

  Oct 8, 2016

  
• City

  Lil MacPherson wants to change the conversation

  The mayoral candidate speaks about the environment, small businesses and what she'll change if elected.

  By Ashley Corbett

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• City

  Mike Savage wants to keep the good times rolling

  HRM's mayoral incumbent on his time in office, and his plans to carry on.

  By Ashley Corbett

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• City

  Getting acclimated to acclamation this election

  Four incumbent councillors have already “won” without any votes being cast.

  By Michael Lightstone

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• City

  Trying to fix voter turnout

  Why is it so hard to get people to care about municipal elections?

  By Moira Donovan

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• City

  City hall offers small reprieve to North Preston families

  New municipal tax break covers homeowners affected by the province's land title mess.

  By Francella Fiallos

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• City

  Not-so-friendly rivalries

  Some of the candidates in this election really, truly do not like each other.

  By Jacob Boon

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• City

  HRM’s rural/urban struggle is real

  Short of bringing back Halifax County, can we ever hope to be one, big, happy municipality?

  By Moira Donovan

  Oct 11, 2016

  
• News

  Rating this election’s campaign signs

  We gathered a panel to judge the best (and worst) signs from HRM’s council candidates.

  By Jacob Boon

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• News

  Who’s running for the Halifax Regional School Board?

  Meet the candidates in the municipality’s other election.

  By Payge Woodard

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• News

  Pinkwashing motion voted down at Halifax Pride AGM

  “We were outvoted by straight, cisgender members of a religious organization who deliberately attended to block our motions.”

  By Allie Graham

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• News

  Candidates come prepared for a fight at Halifax South Downtown debate

  Past, present and possibly future councillors duke it out over downtown development.

  By Adina Bresge

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• News

  HRM election debates to binge-watch

  Ignore your family this Thanksgiving and catch up with these candidate forums from Districts 2, 12 and 13.

  By Jacob Boon

  Oct 8, 2016

  
• News

  Nova Scotia’s Freedom of Information laws are dangerously toothless

  How politicians avoid accountability, and how to change that.

  By Kieran Leavitt

  Oct 11, 2016

  
• News

  School board candidates talk diversity and inclusion in HRM schools

  Learning while black is still an issue for African Nova Scotian students.

  By Payge Woodard

  Oct 12, 2016

  
• Shoptalk

  Guided Tour - North End Halifax

  Welcome to Halifax’s independent business incubator, a vibrant, charming neighbourhood where great shops and restaurants are thriving and launching—with very few chains or franchises in sight.

  Oct 5, 2016

  
• Shoptalk

  Over the moon for Moon Moon Cosmetics

  Downtown speciality shop brings Asian beauty essentials to Halifax.

  By Ashley Corbett

  Oct 7, 2016

  
• Opinion

  Letters to the editor, October 6, 2016

  These are the letters and comments from the print edition

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• Opinion

  Don’t encourage the edgy, white liberals running for council

  HRM needs diverse, progressive candidates.

  By Rhys Alden

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• Opinion

  We can encourage diversity and keep democracy

  Asking some people not to participate won't tackle institutional racism.

  By Brenden Sommerhalder

  Oct 8, 2016

  
• Environment

  SCIENCE MATTERS: We can’t dig our way out of the fossil fuels pit

  By David Suzuki

  Oct 6, 2016

  

Arts + Music

• Music

  All 164 Sloan songs ranked worst to best

  A superfan rates the entire catalogue, pulling no punches.

  By Corey Henderson

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• Music

  Twelve better-than-turkey weekend picks

  You'll be tempted to skip the turkey (or tofurkey) for these 12 picks instead.

  By Morgan Mullin

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• Music

  Sonic Avenues drives down a new road

  Montreal garage gurus to rock their latest album, featuring an evolved sound, in Hali.

  By Ashley Corbett

  Oct 12, 2016

  
• Comics

  Welcome to Hellifax

  By Tim Carpenter and Jordyn F. Bochon

  Oct 6, 2016

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  Gobblefest: 11 Thanksgiving dinners to try

  Find your own family dinner, forget about the dishes and get stuffed.

  By Melissa Buote

  Oct 6, 2016

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Free Will Astrology

  Seek a fairy godparent, Pisces

  By Rob Brezsny

  Oct 6, 2016

  
• Savage Love

  Vulva culture

  I can’t solve my recurring vulva problems! Plus: I’m a lady who loves biking but not crotch pain. Can you help?

  By Dan Savage

  Oct 6, 2016