Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Long Lake Provincial Park When they say all dogs go to heaven they actually mean Point Pleasant Park. Wide open spaces, butts to sniff, trees to pee on, puddles to roll in—everything a furry friend could possibly need is here. Except for all those […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Public Gardens Silver Winner Halifax Central Library Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Park There’s no irony to the Public Gardens. For all the problematic Victorian era heritage and the hubris of a cultivated garden plonked down unnaturally into a city’s centre, the gated space really is a pristine gem to Halifax’s city life. It’s […]
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Theatre review: As You Like It
Romance is in the air in Point Pleasant Park, as Shakespeare by the Sea brings to life the Bard’s playful, pastoral comedy As You Like It. It’s a story of love of many kinds, from “unrequited” to “at first sight.” Rosalind (Catherine Rainville) is deprived of her father’s love when the cruel Duke Frederick (Henri […]
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Shakespeare by the Sea’s Pinocchio is winning by a nose
Shakespeare by the Sea has spruced up the children’s classic Pinocchio with some quirky new characters (a muscle-shirted clam and a bearded baby for starters), lovely, hummable tunes rooted in Italian folk music and clever humour that will leave you laughing. Melissa MacGougan gives an anything-but-wooden performance as the titular would-be boy, who is led […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Gold Winner Tom’s Little Havana Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Board Room Game Cafe If even the words “first date” make you feel queasy (in a good or bad way), Tom’s has got you. Maybe it’s the dim lighting, the cozy corner seats, the friendly, pressure-free service—or maybe just the beer—but the beloved […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook There’s no better feeling in the world than lacing up your running shoes and hitting Point Pleasant Park for a run, with over 75 hectares of harbourside wilderness and running trails of all inclines. In the summer, you can whiz past one […]
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Best Place To Walk Your Dog
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Long Lake Provincial Park Every year, it’s Point Pleasant, Shubie and Long Lake. Either the Halifax needs some exciting new dog-walking venues, or these three public pup places must have some enthusiastic fans. Office dog/Coast mascot Beans sure seems to enjoy PPP for its […]
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Baby guinea pigs dumped in Point Pleasant Park
Watch where you step, Point Pleasant Park-goers! A lesson learned to Jennifer Ferguson, who was walking her dogs through the park on June 20 when she noticed a man crouched by the side of the road. He appeared to be letting what she thought were his rabbits have a romp in the grass. When […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax Public Gardens Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Halifax Common The Public Gardens is that pretty classmate who makes the rest of Halifax’s public spaces look like wrinkled garbage. Like, we get it, Public Gardens. You’ve got gorgeous flowers and waterfowl up the wazoo. You don’t also have to corner the […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook Point Pleasant sprints at the finish to win gold again in this category, also known as Best Place To Walk Your Human. A fierce competitor that gives 110 percent, the park has lots to appeal to runners. Hills, for example. Steep hills, […]
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Best Place To Walk Your Dog
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Long Lake The Coast’s Investigative Reporting Unit was curious about Point Pleasant’s countless dog-walking wins. To humans, it’s hard to distinguish the city’s many lovely, albeit repetitive, parks. Yet the dogs voting in the Best of Halifax obviously have a favourite. To figure out […]
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Sarah Burwash’s brief Sojourn
She may call north end of Halifax home, but the woods are never far from Sarah Burwash’s imagination. “I’ve always been drawn to the wilderness,” says the 27-year-old artist and illustrator. Best known for her watercolour drawings of woodland clearings with playful critters, slender trees and bright-faced figures, Burwash moved to Halifax from the west […]