In a month full of purging and cleansing, it’s time to resist the idea our bodies need to be corrected.
by Mollie Cronin
January, arguably more than any month of the year, is when we are the most focused on ourselves. This can be a great thing: What are our goals?
Five ways to break a winter sweat
Choked by the price of gyms in this town? Here’s how to move your bod for free or cheap this winter.
By Allison Saunders
High-speed connection
In a era of online over-sharing and follow requests, it’s both harder and easier to nurture and nix friendships.
By Morgan Mullin
What exactly is forest bathing?
Turns out the best medicine for exhaustion, burn out and existential dread is heading into the wild.
How to explore your way towards a happier, healthier sex life
Get what you really really want this year
By Isabel Ruitenbeek
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Six ways to stay warm and chill out this winter
Turn up, wind down, bliss out.
Fat is not a failure
Combat January’s onslaught of diet dialogue with this bootcamp in body positivity.
By Mollie Cronin
What I learned from living a bigger life in a smaller space
Less is best.
By Jessie Harrold
The neuroscience of ritual
The key to your everyday badassery could be in seemingly simple repetitive actions.
Noon Hoops is anyone's game
Herb Gamberg’s been hosting Noon Hoops—a sweaty, social, four-on-four tournament—every weekday for 47 years.
By Jonathan Briggins
Bliss out with our Well Being Guide
Our no-pressure guide to making more time to take care of yourself
The quiet crisis of mental health care in Nova Scotia
Resources in rural areas are overburdened, with a shortage of psychiatrists and waiting times approaching three years.
By King’s Investigative Workshop
Political party leaders make mental health an election issue
NDP Gary Burrill and PC Jamie Baillie both believe there is a mental health crisis in Nova Scotia.
From a fellow warrior
Jodi Myles reflects on her son's struggle more than a year after he died by suicide.
Falling through the cracks
"I see people suffering every day trying to navigate a system that's broken.”
Solving the failures of mental health care
This problem will need money, but throwing money at the problem isn't necessarily the answer.
By the numbers
Statistics on spending, wait times and other mental health care indicators.
What help looks like
Mental health care services that are available in PEI and Nova Scotia.
The making of Overburdened
People and process behind the investigative journalism project.
Get happy with the Well Being Guide
The Maritime Bhangra Group, simple self-care, fun fitness and money management apps
Dungeons & Dragons class at MSVU this winter, nearly full already
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
King's president says funds invested in weapons manufacturers reduced to zero
Two weeks after being attacked on Argyle Street, this couple is still waiting for answers from the police
By Julie Lawrence
Alan Syliboy massive retrospective at Dal Art Gallery hosts artist talk next Saturday