Thief & Bandit grand opening 1673 Barrington Street Saturday May 25, 11am-5pm A mie Cunningham uses the word organic a lot when she’s talking about Thief & Bandit. From the fabric she prints on, to her creative process, to the slow-and-steady evolution of her fashion line, a nod to the natural sums up her nearly […]
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Total catch: Afishionado’s seafood subscription
Afishionado Halifax Fishmongers has a new approach this year. Gone is the brick and mortar location at Local Source on Agricola Street, and in its place is a Catch of the Week seafood subscription. “Last week was our first delivery,” says Hana Nelson, owner of Afishionado. “We’re so excited with the reception that it’s had.” […]
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Finding a simple cure for cancer
Inka Milewski raises an issue about method: “The scale at which an observation is made is really important.” When government scientists measured the North Atlantic cod population in the early ’90s, they missed small areas where cod had disappeared. They were looking at too large portions of the ocean—the small collapses were averaged out by […]
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Local catch key to fisheries
We’ve got a strange relationship with fish. On the one hand, Nova Scotia pretty much is fish. The human geography of the province consists mainly of hundreds of settlements built around the coves and inlets that stretch along our coasts. From the Mi’kmaq forward, fishing has been the foundation of the local economy and fishing […]