Gold Winner Keshen Goodman Public Library Silver Winner Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library Bronze Winner Alderney Gate Public Library
 I think we all secretly know this category is going to be a wash next year in the epic countdown to Spring Garden Road’s glorious new facility. So we’ll give polite claps to the currently […]
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timeOUT for Pride
Pride may be all about celebrations, but it’s also about conversations. Since 2005, the timeOUT Lectures have been held at the Spring Garden Road Library on all sorts of topics, from queer history to HIV, trans rights to sex. Put on by Halifax Pride and the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, this year’s crop of […]
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Best Library
Gold Winner Keshen Goodman Public Library Silver Winner Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library Bronze Winner Alderney Gate Public Library Keshen Goodman has become the heart of Clayton Park, putting the “there” there, bringing sophistication to the ’burbs. The sleek design of the building, coupled with a user-friendly layout, has won big approval, so successful […]
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The Infinite summer’s not over at Spring Garden Library
Be honest: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is one of those books that people lie about reading, like James Joyce’s Ulysses. But Wallace, who suffered from clinical depression, also had many passionate fans who were devastated when the author committed suicide on September 15, 2008. In fact, many of them spent the summer as part […]
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Feds stimulate city’s wish fulfillment
Thanks to the collapse of the global financial industry, Halifax is getting a new Central Library, an additional Woodside ferry and a four-pad hockey arena in Bedford. Unless, that is, provincial politicians gut the deal with back-room deals and behind-the-scenes maneuvering to divert the money. All three projects have been on the city’s wish list […]