A year ago this Saturday, April 17, three residents of Northwood, the long-term care centre in the heart of Halifax, died of COVID-19. Fifty more would die in the course of the next six, frantic weeks. While COVID raged inside the facility, the north end complex was sealed off from the surrounding community. The virus […]
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Video report: Catch up on Halifax Regional Council’s March 23 meeting
Struggling to keep up with what’s going on at city hall? That’s what we’re here for! All the details delivered in an easy-to-digest format that keeps you in the know without putting you to sleep. This week Halifax Regional Council made it through its first virtual meeting on Zoom. That was a switch from the […]
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ICYMI: The week in local book and music releases
JRDN’s new video for “Missing Us” One of Halifax’s biggest R&B exports, the Juno-winning JRDN served up a new music video yesterday, to remind us how dexterous and deft his range is. The slow jam is what Ne-Yo wishes every song he ever made could be, and you can vibe along to the video below: […]
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Video report: Catch up on Halifax Regional Council’s March 9 meeting
Yesterday was Halifax Regional Council’s last meeting on Microsoft Teams–the tech is switching to Zoom for the next meeting–and HRMs mayor and 16 councillors looked in to cracking down on illegal dumping, heard from Halifax Water and the Halifax Partnership, moved a development proposal for a 13-storey building at 2438 Gottingen Street forward to the […]
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Halifax’s Eli Goree nominated for a Black Reel Award
Real ones have known since his time hosting Street Cents–or at least since the time he played Malik on CBC’s Da Kink In My Hair–that Eli Goree has serious star power. Now, it seems like the rest of the world is catching up on the Halifax-born actor’s greatness: Yesterday the Black Reel Awards (a certifiably […]
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Halifax Regional Council to consider saving Sir Sanford Fleming cottage
Lately, Halifax Regional Council has had a knack for turning any agenda item into an excuse to talk about traffic. This week, it was the report on HRM’s COVID-19 Mobility Response Plan that spun the record on the dire need for traffic calming measures all across the municipality. The mobility response plan was put in […]
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Halifax Regional Police is all-in on body cameras, but police board isn’t so sure
Halifax’s board of police commissioners didn’t make it through all the items on its agenda again this week, and all the things that did get discussed also got deferred. So technically there’s nothing concrete to report but there are things worthy of reporting nonetheless. The commissioners voted to defer a decision on body-worn cameras to their […]
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Dave Gunning’s golden rage
A bird’s-eye view of a great river. A guitar strums. We see a man playing and singing next to the river: Dave Gunning. “It’s still up there in the hills, where the scars haven’t healed,” Gunning sings. He is sitting next to Cochrane Hill, where Atlantic Gold has proposed an open-pit gold mine. Gunning’s song “For […]
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Nova Scotia gets a cool new COVID-19 vaccine freezer
On Tuesday, the provincial government announced that Nova Scotia is set to receive its first batch of 1,950 COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday, December 15. “We want everyone to be vaccinated as quickly as possible, but we have to accept that the rollout will be gradual based on vaccine supply and we all want to make […]
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From A to Zamani
Evergreen Festival: John Gracie w/Zamani, Carloyn Curry Dec 18, 6-9pm, Facebook Live @EvergreenFestNS It’s hard to imagine the certified triple-threat, SOCAN Young Songwriters Award-winning Zamani ever feeling awkward. It’s easier to picture the R&B singer-songwriter/producer like a young Hannah Montana, but cooler: A teen idol-in-the-making passing amongst her peers with a magnetism that’s propelled her […]