Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Park Halifax’s waterfront is the Best Place For A First Date for lots of reasons. It’s idyllic. It’s romantic. The views are nice and there are enough people to people watch when you’ve run out of things to talk about […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner Halifax Public Gardens Bronze Winner Halifax Central Library Ten reasons why Halifax’s waterfront is the best: 1. It’s only a 25- or 30-minute walk from anywhere on the peninsula. 2. Ice cream at both ends. 3. You can smell it from Brunswick Street if the wind blows in the […]
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Halifax, meet Jah’Mila
Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s w/Pretty Archie, Jah’Mila, Eaton McGrath & The Halifax All Stars Sat Aug 31, 2pm Halifax Waterfront Free Jah’Mila first came to Halifax to visit family and ended up staying for love. Originally form Kingston, Jamaica, Jhamiela Smith Dunn would regularly come to Halifax to see her […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Stillwell Beergarden Although there’s currently some construction going on, the waterfront is still pretty damn romantic, and it doesn’t cost you a dime to take a stroll along the boardwalk. It’s hard to resist spending some cash while you’re there, however. There […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner Halifax Central Library Bronze WinnerHalifax Public Gardens The Halifax waterfront: A bad limerick If you’re living here then you must know, the waterfront’s the best spot to go. It’s a special place, the Best Public Space. Just bundle up when winter winds blow.
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Best Staycation Spot
Gold Winner Lunenburg Silver Winner White Point Beach Resort Bronze Winner Halifax waterfront It takes an entire town to dethrone White Point and its bunnies. The quaint and colourful Lunenburg scores gold with authority this year, drawing in tourists and locals in droves to its historic harbourfront, kick-ass restaurants and adorable shops. Dots and Loops, […]
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A day in the life of a busker
Halifax Busker Festival August 2-7 Halifax waterfront buskers.ca Sharon Mahoney—AKA Sharon from Canada—is a busker in demand, on the road most of the year, and travelling the globe performing her street performance/comedy show. Sharon from Canada is a passive-aggressive, patriotic and apologetic character, who, throughout the course of the show, breaks down and turns into […]
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The waterfront’s next wave
The construction of Queen’s Marque continues to make its exasperating mark on the Halifax waterfront this summer, creating dusty havoc in what will likely be a huge tourism season between Canada’s 150th and Tall Ships. With June almost at an end and everything from the waterfront kiosks to the sea bridge still unfinished, you’d think […]
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Best Staycation Spot
Gold Winner White Point Beach Resort Silver Winner Halifax Waterfront Bronze Winner Peggy’s Cove When it’s done right, the staycation is a miracle. For minimal travelling time—with the perk of avoiding airport limbo entirely—and contained expenses without currency exchange hassles, you still get away from it all. As far as breaks from regular life go, […]
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The merroir the merrier
If anybody knows oysters, it’s Patrick McMurray. A two-time world-champion oyster-shucker, McMurray holds the Guinness World Record for the most oysters shucked in one minute—38 oysters—he set in 2010, breaking the old 2002 record of 33 oysters held by, well, Patrick McMurray. His quick hands also helped lead a Canada shucking team to a Guinness […]
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Squid goals: urban fishing in Halifax
Leaning over the wooden ledge of the boardwalk, Andrew Hunt preps one of his many fishing rods with a shrimp-like lure—a tackle suited for squid. “Those are huge!” he says, as he jigs his line near the tentacled shadows below the surface, waiting for them to take notice. Hunt, a local artist and graphic designer, […]
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Stillwell’s serving up a summer beer garden
“We can’t have a patio on Barrington that makes any sense. And we’re big fans of drinking beer outside, as most people are,” says Stillwell‘s Chris Reynolds. “We especially like to drink really good local beer outside.” Just when we thought it wasn’t possible to be any more excited for summertime, downtown’s packed to the […]