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Building a better you

By | Jan 31, 2012

Local fitness buffs, trainers, gurus and insiders to share advice and trends.

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Getting Noticed

By | Jan 20, 2012 Lesley-Ann Steelworthy (left) and Ally Garber—the “Fashionable People, Questionable Things” bloggers. Photo: Brian Larter

Halifax is a dot in a big ocean of blogs, but a few local writers are gathering fans for their clever, insightful creations

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The inside man

By | Jan 18, 2012 Nova Scotia Auditor General Jacques Lapointe, Photo: Christian Laforce. Republished with permission the Halifax Herald Ltd.

Auditor General Jacques Lapointe isn’t trying to score political points—he just wants clean government

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The man with the plan

By | Jan 12, 2012 Seaport Farmers' Market, Photo by Tammy Fancy/ fancyfreefoto.com

When architect Keith Tufts designed the Seaport Farmers’ Market, he gave downtown Halifax one of the region’s most innovative buildings

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Swagger starts here

By | Dec 5, 2011 MetroGuide_B2B_8.625x11.125_COL.indd

Don’t hate me because I’m confident

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The dance masters

By | Dec 2, 2011 The Mellotones

With a big ensemble, danceable playlist and solid musical chops, The Mellotones are throwbacks to another (funkier) era

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Making opportunity knock

By | Dec 2, 2011 The Napkin Works team (from left): Kristy O’Leary, Beau-Brandon Cleeton and Joshua Smith. Photo: Riley Smith

A unique collaboration of business and art is working to open doors for Halifax artists

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Taking the pulse of Halifax

By | Dec 2, 2011 Photo: Mike Dembeck

With a municipal election less than a year away, pollster Don Mills looks at the public mood, the capital city that isn’t and what it takes to unseat a mayor

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The future of transit

By | Nov 28, 2011 Illustration by Scott I. Neily

Halifax has a unique opportunity to build a world-class transit system, but railways and fast ferries aren’t the answer.

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Afterthought: The taxman doesn’t play fair

By | Nov 3, 2011

Downtown advocate Paul MacKinnon wonders why businesses in the core must subsidize urbal sprawl

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