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Walking to Africville

An (almost) impossible journey to find a sense of home

By Letitia Fraser

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Letitia Fraser puts on her hiking shoes for a far-from-pedestrian odyssey to Africville, where she connects the ties that bind African Nova Scotian communities, and finds neither distance nor time has erased the lost community’s powerful legacy.

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Airbnb regulation in Nova Scotia leaves any strict rules up to municipalities 1

Registration and annual fee for users to give province a better idea of who is using—and earning—from the platform.

By Caora McKenna

Walking to Africville

By Letitia Fraser 02.27.20

Coming clean about cosmetics with Toxic Beauty

By Steve Gow 02.27.20

Meet the super-plant from Nova Scotia’s shorelines: eelgrass

By Mira Dietz Chiasson 02.27.20

Voice of the City

“Do not let Palestinians’ lives become only numbers”

A Halifax woman shares her family's story as political refugees from Palestine.

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Food + Drink

First Look: the return of Sushi Shige

A new home on Almon Street for Halifax’s sushi authority keeps things small, sincere and seriously delicious.

By Haleigh Atwood

From Hangzhou to Halifax

By Haleigh Atwood 02.19.20

Cocktail Cupids

By Isabel Buckmaster 02.13.20

The Cheesecake Test

By Kyle Shaw 02.13.20

Community Cafe

@ Fairview Family Resource Centre

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Love the way we bitch

Treatise from an angry queer

By Team Coast 02.27.20

Idiots who can't park

By Team Coast 02.25.20

Does it get better soon? 1

By Team Coast 02.25.20

Love the way we love

To my friends

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Dining forgiveness

To the two couples...

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Music

Buffy Sainte-Marie to play Halifax August 26

Catch the iconic singer-songwriter at Casino Nova Scotia.

By Morgan Mullin

Jenn Grant knows it’s Inevitable

By Brennan McCracken 02.13.20

Alessia Cara to play Halifax Jazz Fest on July 9

By Morgan Mullin 02.10.20

Vadell Gabriel loses at love but wins with rhymes

By Alec Martin 02.06.20

Joe Murphy & The Water Street Blues Band

@ Your Father's Moustache

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Arts + Culture

Three decades of wear-withal

The anniversary of the student-run Wearable Art Show proves there’s more to fashion than getting dressed.

By Morgan Mullin

Finding the Disappearance at Clifton Hill

By Steve Gow 02.27.20

Hey You Goofs!

By Paul Hammond 02.27.20

The Halifax Black Film Festival gets reel

By Steve Gow 02.27.20

Singles Dance

@ Newfoundland Social Club

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Best of Halifax

The 25th annual Best of Halifax Readers' Choice Awards winners

Best Chicken Wings

Best Radio Station

Best Tailor

Best Artist / Band To Turn Up Loud

Best Italian Restaurant

Best Independent Bookstore

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Meet the super-plant from Nova Scotia’s shorelines: eelgrass

The carbon converter found by Owls Head protects against storms and gives fish and lobster a safe place to grow up
- by Mira Dietz Chiasson
- Feb 27, 2020
FILM + TV

The Halifax Black Film Festival gets reel

“We’re using the film festival to change the world.”
- by Steve Gow
- Feb 27, 2020
FILM + TV

Finding the Disappearance at Clifton Hill

A film entrenched in its sense of place makes a case for shooting local.
- by Steve Gow
- Feb 27, 2020
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A Halifax woman shares her family's story as political refugees from Palestine.

A new home on Almon Street for Halifax’s sushi authority keeps things small, sincere and seriously delicious.

@ Fairview Family Resource Centre

Just want to send...

To the two couples...

Catch the iconic singer-songwriter at Casino Nova Scotia.

@ Your Father's Moustache

The anniversary of the student-run Wearable Art Show proves there’s more to fashion than getting dressed.

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