Thusday, December 5 Brunch with Santa and Mrs. Claus Bacon and the big man! Get a photo as you feast. 10am-1pm, 3 Dakin Drive Friday, December 6 Christmas Glow Glow is a seasonal community festival, bringing together people you love to stroll, laugh and play under the twinkle of half a million lights. 3-5pm, Dec […]
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The big heart behind Santas for Seniors
After Robyn Carruthers’ grandmother died in 2006, she missed the joy of surprising her with Christmas gifts. Fourteen years later, Carruthers’ gift-giving hobby has helped to support nearly 1,000 seniors across the municipality who can’t afford to celebrate; an initiative she calls Santas for Seniors. “I’d go to the mall and see something she would […]
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Say, what’s in this drink?: 7 seasonal local sips
Holiday Candy Cane Liqueur Coldstream Clear(20% ABV) There are a lot of icky, minty concoctions available around this time of year. This is not one of them. Coldstream makes reliably tasty vodka and liqueur, and its gift packs tend to fly off the shelves. Its candy cane liqueur is available on its own, too—but it […]
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4 tips for handling the high holidays
Welcome to the first big holiday season of Canada’s post-Prohibition era. OK, maybe after Halloween, but that usually doesn’t involve breaking bread with problematic relatives or all the pressure that December jingle-jangles in our faces. Cannabis is now a perfectly legal addition to parties, and an excellent tool to combat seasonal stress. But that doesn’t […]
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A case against holiday giving
It’s impossible to look around and not see that our society is broken—or to be invited to fix it, one can of soup at a time. Especially at this time of year, charity is presented as the best way to help those in need. Real solutions to our problems, however, do not look like Giving […]
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Gonna find out who’s noggy or nice: A blind tasting of seven egg nogs
Seven nogs. Many Dixie cups. One completely amateur blind taste test. In the name of holiday imbibing we got to the bottom of the standard egg nog selection and discovered both minor and complex differences in the flavour profiles of the yellow (or supposedly yellow) elixir. The resounding winner? Scotsburn’s classic Holiday Nog. But there […]
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800 Sobeys employees laid off just in time for the holidays
As reported by everyone today, some 800 workers for the Sobeys grocery chain are losing their jobs thanks to corporate restructuring. According to the Chronicle Herald, 150 of those job losses are office workers in Nova Scotia. The company’s Stellarton headquarters will be hit particularly hard. The corporate head office will lose 100 employees. The […]
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Good things come in small packages this holiday
[Image-1] An MSVU student is hoping to alleviate the high cost of dignity this holiday season for disadvantaged women and trans people. Aiden Quinn, 23, is raising money to make care packages filled with things like tampons, clean underwear, wet wipes and other personal care items. Around Christmas time, he’ll be donating them to Adsum […]
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A Couple Photos from the Crafter’s Society Winter Show
The Halifax Crafters Society held their winter show this weekend, Friday to Sunday, at the Olympic Hall. The community sale featured jams by CKDU 88.1 FM, baked treats, sausage rolls and lemonade (Lemon Dogs), leather goods (Old Birch Workshop), prints and visual arts, glass wears and ceramics, beautiful jewelry, locally spun yarn and knitted materials, […]
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Independence holiday
In September of last year, I entered some search terms into an app called Skyscanner. Travelling from: Halifax. Travelling to: New York. Departure date: December 23, 2014. Return date: December 30, 2014. The price it spat back at me: $332.96 For years, I’d been working up the courage to leave at Christmas. My parents split […]
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Watch this for tips on helping The Shoebox Project
This morning, the Halifax organizers of The Shoebox Project, a national organization featured in last week’s issue of The Coast, released a heartwarming video that shows the immense value of small gestures. The project, founded in 2012, collects items in shoeboxes (up to $50) during the holiday season that many women need and distributes them to […]
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Battle for the best gingerbread house
Halifax’s newest breakfast joint, Robie Street Station (2394 Robie Street) has decided to put the grocery-store-bought, cardboard-tasting gingerbread house kits to shame. In the spirit of the season the diner’s hosting a Gingerbread House Decorating Contest in which it’ll provide an assembled, and homemade house, two freshly baked gingerbread people, handmade frosting, assorted candy and […]
