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...

The chaotic situation in the financial sector is creating a branding headache for banks' marketers. My wife comes from Tasmania, a weird and wonderful island off the southern tip of Australia. It has some of the slackest planning provisions in the Southern Hemisphere. As a result, when her friends t...

Download 128: Trivial pursuit Bruce Murray makes his return to the Canadian Podcast Buffet with coverage of PodCamp Halifax, we talk about great WordPress plugins and Mark digs up a whole lot of CPB trivia. Oh yeah, stick around to the very end of the show for our long absent blooper reel. NEWS AND ...

"Black Halifax boiled in phosphorus" [ Ted Hughes ] "From Hull Hell & Halifax Lord God Deliver us........." as they used to say in 16th + 17 th century England................................Halifax & The Gibbet Street Area is the setting of a 4-Part Murder Story on ITV that started last nig...

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...

Tania found the following choice piece of clueless commentary among the protectionist responses to the revitalization plans that are being considered for Halifax. Protect the harbour views at all costs. Protect harbour views whenever possible - this is what makes Halifax stand out from the other cit...

I’m not as afraid of cars or the people that drive them as I likely should be. When I’m in a pedestrian crossing with a green light, a nice fresh light, and other people, do not come anywhere near me. If you push your metric ton of metal into a crosswalk, hoping to beat the pedestrians, ...

There was a story the other day in what passes for a newspaper in Halifax. I’d link to it, but the Chronicle Herald has one of the worst web pages I’ve ever seen. They even have RSS feeds, though even the links from those become useless after about 24 hours; there must be big money in th...

I spent the weekend minding a table full of shiny objects for the absent Tania, who has ventured across country on a mission involving sushi, sanity, and plentiful cheap coffee beans to sustain us in the upcoming year. Sadly, I don’t imagine that there are proper steam buns from China Town in ...