Holiday Planner

Turkey & all the fixin’s The Esquire Restaurant You don’t have to wait for the holidays—roast turkey is on the menu all year long. Full plate with sides for $16. esquirerestaurant.ca Kitchen Door Catering A two-person meal with turkey or ham, sides of potatoes, green beans, carrots and cranberry bread pudding, with apple crisp or […]

1 Plan ahead First, pick a platform. By now you probably know about Zoom, Facetime and Google Hangouts. As host, consider upgrading to a paid account to allow for extra time and more features. Plan your date and time, accounting for the time zones of everyone you want to invite. Then send out an invitation […]

Over the past nine months, food banks and shelters have adapted to pandemic regulations. Limited capacity and take-out meals have become the norm. And the holiday season won’t change that. “At first we were quite disappointed, and we really batted around, ‘what do we do?’ But then we thought ‘OK, well if they can’t come […]

Amanda Cluett always had a feeling that entrepreneurship was her path. After working years in a government job and raising her three children, she thought, “if I don’t do this, when am I ever going to do it?” and opened Black Bow Gift Co. in June 2019. The company first started out selling pre-made gift […]

There’s nothing like a crisis for making clear what matters most. “What’s really important is for all of you to support your local businesses,” premier Stephen McNeil told the province earlier in our coronavirus-shaped crisis. “Think local, buy local, support local. That makes us Nova Scotia strong and Nova Scotia proud.” McNeil nailed it, and […]

Elizabeth Simms knows this holiday is going to be a hard one. Travel restrictions, self-isolation requirements and gathering limits mean more of us than ever will be celebrating the season solo—and, as the registered psychotherapist who runs a private practice in Dartmouth says: “The pandemic is such a huge thing, it’s so big that it […]