It’s 2021 and Nova Scotia is having a provincial election. Despite repeated promises of an imminent turnaround, the economy continues to slide. Power ra...
I have a cherished black-and-white photo of my Gramp, Victor Adams, before he enlisted in the army. It’s a hazy summer day, circa 1936. He poses with his brothe...
I’m writing a story about math. First I interview a mathematician. She tells
me 2 + 2 = 4. She points to her research, her firsthand experience, and expert con...
Most people hold Nova Scotia Power to a pretty low standard, as essential services go. Several times a year, sometimes in rough correlation with the weather and...
After exhausting all other options, Halifax Council finally did the right thing and removed the statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park.
In addition...
If you’ve ever said “Why so negative?” to a journalist, congratulations: you’re part of an exclusive club that includes pretty much every business person and po...
If you commute via motor vehicle, you’ll mostly remember 2017 as the year of unexpected stop signs, rambling detours, unpredictable street closures, and way-beh...
In the last issue of Halifax Magazine, I wrote about why Nova Scotia needs transit that regularly serves the whole province (“You can’t get there from here”). I...
You might think Nova Scotia is a peninsula. But if you don’t own a car, it’s really a collection of islands. Halifax is one big island and you can get around it...
Editor of Halifax Magazine since Metro Guide Publishing began producing it five years ago, Trevor is a veteran journalist with a particular interest in stories about politics, urban development, CanLit and history. In September 2012, he published Long Shots: The Curious Story of the Four Maritime Teams That Played for the Stanley Cup, his first solo book. A Haligonian since 1994, he loves the city but doesn’t understand why it doesn’t have a single German pub.
