Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Jubilee Junction Convenience and Takeout Bronze Winner Triple A Convenience & Pizzeria Atlantic News, categorically, is a corner store. But it’s also much more than that. Owner Michele Gerard feels the appeal of the 46-year-old shop is due in large part to its staff: Customers feel welcomed. “Because we […]
Atlantic News
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Best Corner Store
Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Jubilee Junction Convenience and Takeout Bronze Winner Triple A Convenience & Pizzeria Atlantic News might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of corner stores in Halifax, however it is a store on a corner and it sells a surprisingly huge variety of convenient […]
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Atlantic News delivers your Saturday Globe and Mail fix
Saturday is always the busiest day of the week at Atlantic News, the venerable newsstand/temple of media, so it stands to reason Fridays aren’t exactly slow. And sure enough, this morning the shop was humming—staff at two cash registers, someone in the back room unpacking boxes of magazines, multiple phone lines ringing. But it was […]
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Best Corner Store
Gold Winner Jubilee Junction Convenience and Takeout Silver Winner Atlantic News Bronze Winner Triple A Convenience & Pizzeria The best corner stores are life rafts of city living; shelves packed high with any and all items a bevy of regular customers could possibly want. They’re part diner, grocery store, pharmacy and hardware store all in […]
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Best Corner Store
Gold Winner Jubilee Junction Convenience and Takeout Silver Winner Atlantic News Bronze Winner Triple A Convenience & Pizzeria Topping a listicle of The Things Only Dal/King’s Students Know should really be the institution of Jubilee Junction—the unofficial, off-campus gathering grounds for anything—we mean anything—you could want a corner store to have. Convenient, sure. But it’s […]
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SHOP THIS: Hand Drawn Halifax Colouring Book
Emma FitzGerald was midway through her now-popular book Hand Drawn Halifax when she had the idea to make a colouring book version, inviting readers and creative types the opportunity to put their own stamp on her line drawings. “Three years ago in Toronto, I bought a Van Gogh colouring book,” says FitzGerald. “As a kid […]
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SHOP THIS: Hand Drawn Halifax Colouring Book
Emma FitzGerald was midway through her now-popular book Hand Drawn Halifax when she had the idea to make a colouring book version, inviting readers and creative types the opportunity to put their own stamp on her line drawings. “Three years ago in Toronto, I bought a Van Gogh colouring book,” says FitzGerald. “As a kid […]
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Best Newsstand / Magazine Store
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner Chapters, Bayers Lake The first-ever Best of Halifax poll—then known as “The good, the bad and the ugly”—didn’t have a Best Newsstand/Magazine Store category. The next two Best ofs, in 1996 and 1997, saw Daily […]
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Best Newsstand / Magazine Store
Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner Chapters, Bayers Lake Newsstands are a dying business in North America—you’ll be hard-pressed to find one at all, even in Manhattan—but Halifax’s Atlantic News, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last month, continues run strong. The secret to its success? “Halifax […]
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Best Newsstand / Magazine Store
Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner Chapters, Bayers Lake Print media is alive and well on the corner of Queen and Morris Streets! With walls of every friggin’ magazine you could possibly need and the capacity to print over 2,000 newspapers from across the planet, the […]
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Local graphic designer offers self-published book as holiday gift
Brenna MacNeil is a local graphic designer who grew up in western Cape Breton. This year she self-published a coffee table art book called twentythree. She sells her missbrenna products at the Seaport Market from time to time, and twentythree is currently available at Atlantic News (5560 Morris Street, 429-5468), though she sells her stuff […]
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Best Corner Store
Gold Winner Jubilee Junction Silver Winner Atlantic News Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Grocery What’s to say about a corner store? You got your chips, your candy, your backy, your lotto…. But gold winner Jubliee Junction has homemade ice cream sandwiches, an uber-convenient south end locale and a loyal customer base, which has gone so far […]