Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2020

Vol. 27, No. 40

Letitia Fraser puts on her hiking shoes for a far-from-pedestrian odyssey to Africville, where she connects the ties that bind African Nova Scotian communities, and finds neither distance nor time has erased the lost community’s powerful legacy.

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City

Walking to Africville

An (almost) impossible journey to find a sense of home

By Letitia Fraser
Feb 27, 2020
City

Airbnb regulation in Nova Scotia leaves any strict rules up to municipalities

Registration and annual fee for users to give province a better idea of who is using—and earning—from the platform.

By Caora McKenna
Feb 27, 2020
City

Meet the super-plant from Nova Scotia’s shorelines: eelgrass

The carbon converter found by Owls Head protects against storms and gives fish and lobster a safe place to grow up

By Mira Dietz Chiasson
Feb 27, 2020
City

Provincial staff take a field trip to city hall to explain QEII expansion project

Parkade on Halifax Common solution under way

By Caora McKenna
Feb 27, 2020
COVID-19

Ice Breakers shatters your idea of hockey history

A new documentary highlights the history of Black hockey players in the Maritimes—and explores how it resonates in 2020.

By Matt Williams
Feb 28, 2020
Shoptalk

Coming clean about cosmetics with Toxic Beauty

How to detox your morning routine from the chemical-laden products you use daily.

By Steve Gow
Feb 27, 2020
Opinion

“Do not let Palestinians’ lives become only numbers”

A Halifax woman shares her family's story as political refugees from Palestine.

Feb 27, 2020

Arts & Culture

Finding the Disappearance at Clifton Hill

A film entrenched in its sense of place makes a case for shooting local.

By Steve Gow
Feb 27, 2020
Arts & Culture

The Halifax Black Film Festival gets reel

“We’re using the film festival to change the world.”

By Steve Gow
Feb 27, 2020
Arts & Culture

Three decades of wear-withal

The anniversary of the student-run Wearable Art Show proves there’s more to fashion than getting dressed.

By Morgan Mullin
Feb 27, 2020
Arts & Culture

Seeing Forest Town for the trees

A new, experimental play makes everyday gender injustice visible.

By Michael Lake
Feb 27, 2020
Arts & Culture

Review: Sweet as Honeyland

Missed the recent local, sold-out screening of this award-winning documentary? Here's why it's still worth seeking out.

By Jahsh Durrant
Mar 2, 2020
Comics

Hey You Goofs!

By Paul Hammond
Feb 27, 2020

Food

First Look: the return of Sushi Shige

A new home on Almon Street for Halifax’s sushi authority keeps things small, sincere and seriously delicious.

By Hal Atwood
Feb 27, 2020

Free Will Astrology

Seek out direct contact with the past, Leo

By Rob Brezsny
Feb 27, 2020
Savage Love

Spit and polish

How to overcome your turn-offs. Plus: Getting over your ex, one sexual experience at a time.

By Dan Savage
Feb 27, 2020

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