by Morgan Mullin on August 16, 2019 at 8:06 pm

A blue sky, dotted with cumulus clouds, spins lazily by overhead, as if you’re out for a summer drive with your best friends—or you suddenly found your arms were replaced by wings and you needed to test ‘em out. Ghettosocks (real name Darren Pyper), the venerable Halifax MC, comes into view, towering over the frame. […]

by Morgan Mullin on August 16, 2019 at 6:21 pm

With a practice that encompasses photography, performance and building virtual reality realms, Séamus Gallagher is on the experimental edge of art in both form and content. (Their work is informed by their generation's climate anxiety and the need to “create personal spaces” as a non-binary person). […]

by Morgan Mullin on August 15, 2019 at 7:55 pm

From the overflowing talent at DCAF to a new Africville retrospective to the torn-up punk tunes of Like A Motorcycle, here's what you should be texting the squad about this weekend. Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Saturday, Sunday Grab a hot cup of DCAF as the two-day celebration of comics, cartoonists and crafts returns to Alderney Landing. […]

by Morgan Mullin on August 15, 2019 at 4:00 am

As the artist-run centre celebrates four decades, it continues to be a flexible, fluid space for creation. The Centre for Art Tapes' 40th Birthday Aug 15, 7-10pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street, fr […]

by Caora McKenna on August 15, 2019 at 4:00 am

How readers feel about living in apartments, sharing space with roommates (and pests) and trying to get by in what's officially a landlord's market. Over 500 readers took our inaugural renters' survey to tell us what life is like as a renter in Halifax. The results were grim, with housing affordability out for reach for over half of respondents, people paying more than initially budgeted and spending more than eight weeks looking for new apartments. […]

by Chantal Caissie on August 15, 2019 at 4:00 am

After 14 failed applications, a move off the peninsula and a broken fridge, how one renter became a buyer. When I moved to Halifax in 2007, the first apartment I went to see was a $750 bachelor in the south end with no windows. […]

by Joseph Hall - Feature Writer on July 26, 2019 at 4:35 pm

At least 12 post-secondary schools are getting in on the educational boom, developing scientific knowledge and preparing students for work in the industry. […]

by Joseph Hall - Feature Writer on July 12, 2019 at 9:00 am

Unlike the cornucopia of pot-wares sold in legalized U.S. states, Canadian firms have opted to focus on a small core of offerings when the edibles market opens up in December. […]

by Joseph Hall - Feature Writer on June 23, 2019 at 11:00 am

As Colombia promotes legal trade, and fights stigma, company seeks importation licence to prepare for when Canada turns to foreign producers. […]

by Kashmala Fida - Star Edmonton on June 20, 2019 at 11:40 pm

Edmonton police made 53 drug-impaired driving arrests between October 2018 and April 2019. During the same time frame the year before, they arrested three people. […]

by Kevin Maimann - Star Edmonton on June 14, 2019 at 5:38 pm

Industry experts say restrictions on THC could result in excessive waste as people buy more packages to get the dose they want. […]