We kicked off our tour of the Savour Food & Wine Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia last night with a tasting dinner at The Five Fisherman , situated in one of the city’s oldest buildings. Chef Dafydd Williams-Jones and restaurant manager Gary MacDonald treated us to a tasting of Nova Scotia...

You know those people who only read one book at a time? I’m not one of them. At the moment I have two novels (one noir detective, one hard SF) on the go in my reading room, a collection of short stories (”M. R. James by way of Lovecraft”) in the bedroom, two books of poetry and pol...

Metro Halifax: Nova Scotia Power was the major target of the province's climate change plan released Friday. The plan calls for greenhouse gas emissions to drop 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. NSP produces just under half of Nova Scotia's emissions, and will face hard caps to meet the target....

Metro Halifax: Nova Scotia Power was the major target of the province's climate change plan released Friday. The plan calls for greenhouse gas emissions to drop 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. NSP produces just under half of Nova Scotia's emissions, and will face hard caps to meet the target....

Not that the Washington Capitals need an alibi, but is it too much to put this entire three-game funk on the atrocity of NHL all-star balloting? Feeling intense disrespect from fans, unable to rock the vote, much less the red, they have now scored an anemic three goals in nine periods at Verizon Cen...

Think some wacky stuff happens at your school? Probably. But here are some 2008 high school sports oddities from outside the Washington area....

Mostly I think that there are not enough hours in the day. That would especially be the case for daylight hours.  I always run out of daylight. Sometimes I work hard at planning around the weather, the tides, and the daylight. If you are careful you can even manage to stay up with your work. We...

In the Only in Canada File, 12 million honey bees are loose in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today. Beekeepers are retrieving the bees from a section of the Trans-Canada Highway. Do not ask me how you do this, because I don't have a clue. Personally, I am rooting for the bees to high tail it out of the Hali...

While I am happy that Rodney had the good sense to reverse the decision to buy child size ATV's to train younger riders, he acted like a true weasel when he hung the minister responsible for the decision, Barry Barnet, out the dry: Premier Rodney MacDonald emerged from cabinet Thursday to say it sho...

While I was wholeheartedly against the PC's decision to capitulate to big city elites when it essentially declared war on rural Nova Scotia & brought in sweeping reforms on ATV use, specifically the ban on young drivers. Rodney & his team are giving those same people a black eye & enraging the rest ...