The sun is streaming in through a large bay window in front of the house. The phone sits on the table, its cracked screen protector throwing weird reflections on the wall. The phone is on speaker with a recorder set up by the mic. “Do you mind if I record this conversation?” I ask. The […]
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Best of Halifax 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards results
Halifax is back! Not necessarily back to normal—if you can even remember, three years into the pandemic, what normal used to be. But as Nova Scotia ended mask mandates and gathering restrictions in 2022, Halifax got back to being itself. That unique sweet spot between small city and big town, with a great mix of […]
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Tenants say landlord held thousands in unreturned security deposits
Neena Brostowski says she’s been waiting four years for Michael Lawen to return her security deposit. The Dartmouth-based wedding photographer was a tenant of Lawen’s between 2017 and 2018, while she and her then-roommate were students at Dalhousie and NSCC’s Akerley campus. For Brostowski at the time, the location was great: One house in from […]
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The war on pizza
Monday, Oct. 3, is as per usual, a busy day at Triple A Convenience and Pizzeria. Owner John Amyoony greets his steady flow of customers by name and asks them how their day is going while drizzling donair sauce on slices of pizza bigger than a human head. Today is different though, because he’s also […]
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Saving Canadian hockey from a goalie crisis
The dressing rooms in the Cole Harbour Place arena are long and narrow. The dressing room smells faintly of stale urine and sweat. The locker room is under the stands, the ceiling is slanted, giving the room a cramped feel. It doesn’t help that tonight the room is packed with men. Todd Bengert is tall, […]
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HRM council denies asking province to intervene after Dal HoCo fiasco
Halifax councillor Waye Mason is pouring cold water on reports that he’s considering appealing to the Nova Scotia government to step in after students celebrating Dalhousie University’s annual Homecoming lit a bonfire in the middle of Larch Street and sparked a standoff with Halifax Regional Police. Police estimate as many as 4,000 people gathered in […]
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Watch Dalhousie’s Homecoming party end with police putting out a bonfire
As surely as Dalhousie University warns its students not to have “unsanctioned street parties” at this time of year, hordes of young people wearing Dal shirts gather for the annual Homecoming party in the residential neighbourhood just north of Dal’s Studley campus. HoCo 2022 started on Jennings Street, with public drinking—and urination—happening under the watchful […]
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What’s open (and what’s closed) after the storm
With the worst of Hurricane Fiona behind us, the city is in recovery mode. As of Monday afternoon Nova Scotia Power is reporting almost 175,000 customers without power, and there are still many Halifax roads blocked by fallen trees and debris. (Tuesday evening, that NSP number is down to 117,000 customers.) In other words, it’s […]
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Monday brings money from the province for storm relief
In the wee hours of my third morning without power, I hear the loudest crack of lightning and rumble of thunder maybe in my life. We just can’t catch a break. Later Monday, in an afternoon news conference, Jason Mew of Nova Scotia’s Emergency Management Office says the thunderstorms that rolled across the province this […]
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How to prepare for Hurricane Fiona
It’s time to crack open the first storm chips of the season. Hurricane Fiona is heading toward Nova Scotia, and it’s expected to bring heavy rain and powerful, hurricane-force winds and storm surges to the province. Environment Canada says the storm will be “potentially severe” for Atlantic Canada, and there’s a chance we’ll lose power […]
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Does Canada need King Charles?
Growing up in India, Aro Narendran was always taught that the British rule over his country was unquestionably bad. History classes were clear that colonization was a dark and terrible period in India. “You’d have been called crazy if you thought otherwise,” he says. When he moved to St. John’s, NL for university, Narendran, who […]
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The Queen and I
On Thursday, September 8, Queen Elizabeth II passed away at age 96 after a 70-year reign. She visited Halifax four times as Queen, so there are many people in this city with a royal story to tell. To mark her passing, we’re inviting readers to share their memories of QEII. To kick things off, we […]