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Joel Plaskett: The Eclectic Troubadour
Canadian rock musician and songwriter Joel Plaskett has yet again reinvented himself with his spirited new album "The Park Avenue Sobriety Test". Plaskett, who has been making music for over two decades, is a master of successfully mixing genres. The new album is reminiscent of time and place...
Le Caveau - A Look Inside on of Nova Scotia's Best Local Eateries
I can come up with a million reasons why you would want be in the culinary epicentre of our province. Le Caveau Restaurant at the Domaine de Grand Pré Winery is one of them.
There’s something special about this place in the approach; the landscape shifts to dykelands, fields and...
Lunching at Obladee
There are just two other tables at Obladee, A Wine Bar when I settle in for a quiet lunch, seated at a high-top wooden bar in front of a large window facing Sackville Street. It’s the perfect perch for solo dining. Obladee’s new lunch offering is dainty and selective, yet I find it hard to...
Terroir and Passion: Why Benjamin Bridge is Winning Over Wine Lovers Everywhere
When I moved to Nova Scotia in 2008, I had no idea that the province had wineries, let alone that it produced quality wines. A few months after my arrival, I was at a fancy press dinner at The Five Fishermen Restaurant, seated next to Gerry McConnell, owner of Benjamin Bridge, and being handed...
The Scotia Festival of Music
With the explosion of new buildings going up downtown and new restaurants and independent businesses popping up all over Halifax's north end, it's easy to get caught up in the city's bold new look and offerings. But this particular renaissance didn't come from nowhere; it's been inspired and...
Why Nova Scotian Kale Needs to be in Your Pet’s Diet (and Yours!)
We are facing the greatest public and pet health crisis of our time. Over 55 percent of pets and humans are overweight, and not only in our province but in all of North America. What do we do about it? It’s time to cut out as much processed kibbled or canned pet foods, which are...
Jym Line Glassware
The only drinkware decorator in Atlantic Canada looks locally to grow business.
After taking the last swig of a pint or pouring the last drops of a growler, have you ever looked down and wondered where that glass grail came from? If you got it from a bar, brewery or winery in Nova Scotia...
A BOLD Halifax
What is the future Halifax I would like to live in? One with a strong economy. A strong economy will keep our workforce here and attract new people and businesses. More people and businesses will drive a larger tax base, which will both reduce taxes and support increased budgets for more...
Battle of the Atlantic
The concept of national identity may be abstract, but if a dedicated group of volunteers and their supporters get their way, the Halifax waterfront will be home to a very real—and very impressive—tribute to one of Canada’s greatest identity-building events since Confederation....
Dear Haligonians,
I am writing this letter to express my heartfelt apology to you for an egregious misunderstanding. Had I known you better I would not have laboured under these cliché misconceptions. For all these years I thought that you were just a bunch of whiskey-drinking, bagpipe-playing...
Devour! The Food Film Fest 2014
A recap of Wolfville’s five-day food film fest from a hungry, thirsty movie nerdThe last time I talked to Devour’s managing director Lia Rinaldo, she told me that her team tries to gauge everything it does against one little phrase: “Keep it small, keep it exceptional, keep it...
From Consumer to Urban Farmer
Halifax has played a critical role in the resurging awareness of local food and growing support for Nova Scotian agriculture. This great city has done more than her fair share in creating a demand for local food that Nova Scotian farmers continue to scramble to meet. Chefs and home cooks alike...
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