by Sue Carter Flinn For his second novel, The Honey Locust, Dalhousie grad Jeffrey Round delivers an elegantly written and suspenseful saga of love and war, demonstrating that sometimes the quieter conflicts closer to home are the hardest to overcome. It's 1995 and photojournalist Angela Thomas has been sent to cover the Bosnian war, an event now recognized as one of the most horrific in our ...

The American six-piece feels at home north of the border, cozying up with new musical pals, Hey Rosetta. by Mike Landry James Croft sometimes feels a bit out of place in the States. But the frontman for Brooklyn six-piece La Strada was right at home playing his accordion in Montreal. This is because La Strada's music is the kind usually molded by cold winters and small communities. It's an indie ...

Problems with figuring out the exact effects of tax reform. by Tim Bousquet There is necessarily some problem with figuring out the exact effects of tax reform. Thats because, on the one hand, the Tax Reform Committees work dealt exclusively with 2007 budget numbers and the committee has not increased the numbers in their proposal to reflect an increase in city costs since then. On the other ...

Sandra Brownlee had abandoned the loom, but discovered the power of textile to connect words and feelings. by Mike Landry It's 1995 and Sandra Brownlee has stopped weaving. It's not quite the reaction she expected following the success of her internationally touring solo exhibition, Weaving Out Loud. But that dust has settled, and the physical repetition of the loom has begun to worm itself into ...

Indie bands and artists do what they do best to raise cash to buy crafty supplies for the IWK. by Charlene Davis It's the fifth year for Crafts for Kids, a festival to raise money to buy craft, art and music supplies for children at the IWK. Organizer Lindsay Allain started the event to raise money for sick children, like her own little sister. Allain says her sister "gets excited to stay at the ...

The president of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce says the bleak financial forecast delivered at Tuesday’s regular city council meeting shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone - least of all HRM’s mayor and 23 city councillors. In a release issued yesterday, Valerie Payn said the Chamber warned the Halifax Regional Municipality that it would face a tough fiscal year in 2010-11, and that the they ...

Premier Darrell Dexter said yesterday he will refuse to take money for chairing a committee that never meets. Every year the premier of Nova Scotia makes $2,060 for chairing the Internal Affairs Committee. The last time it met was the fall of 1994. Dexter said yesterday he wasn’t even aware of the issue until the story made the media rounds last week, but he won’t accept money for nothing. “I ...

The Atlantic Canada branch of the Red Cross is making some major changes in an effort to deal with the increasing number of severe disasters striking the region. The Red Cross currently manages a team of 850 core volunteers in the four Atlantic Provinces, but a steady stream of hurricanes, fires, floods and pandemics is prompting the organization to add an additional 150 people to the ranks. “We ...

Vanessa Lentz was looking forward to not having a 50-kilometre round trip just to get a decent Internet connection. Now that day is much farther off. Lentz lives in one of the estimated 60,000-plus people who have no high speed Internet access in Nova Scotia. As of Jan. 1, 100 per cent of the province was supposed to have high speed access. Government officials admitted yesterday the project is ...

A 27-year-old Halifax woman has been charged with operating a bawdy house after police raided a home in Clayton Park on Tuesday. Halifax Regional Police spokesman Brian Palmeter said the HRP/RCMP Integrated Vice Unit conducted a search of a residence on Red Fern Terrace around 6 p.m. and arrested a man and a woman inside. Palmeter would not reveal what officers found within the home, but said ...

The quantity of shellfish caught off Nova Scotia dropped by more than half between 2003 and 2006 as water quality deteriorated, a new report says.

SYDNEY — Search-and-rescue teams are calling the recovery of James Delorey a successful search with a heartbreaking outcome.

SYDNEY — Cape Breton Regional Municipality mayor and councillors met with the firefighters’ union behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss the proposed amalgamation of three fire stations.

SYDNEY — Conservative MLA Cecil Clarke was the biggest spender among Cape Breton candidates in the June provincial election who have filed expenses with Elections Nova Scotia.

NEW?GLASGOW – Nearly half of Pictou County residents have been immunized against H1N1, but the Pictou County Health Authority wants to see even more protected against the flu.

STELLARTON – A developer interested in the former Heather Hotel property in Stellarton has agreed pay for any changes made in the town's roundabout plans to accommodate its development.

STELLARTON – The town has agreed to a proposal from its recreation director to allow a youth going through the John Howard Society's restorative justice program to do community service with the rec department.

NEW?GLASGOW – The number of people who have signed up to receive help from the Pictou County Christmas Fund is up this year, say organizers, but fewer people have honoured their pledges so far this month.

NEW?GLASGOW – A new project at Summer Street Industries is making extensive use of computer-based techniques to help its clients improve their skills.

Municipal politicians in Cumberland County are asking the Nova Scotia government for an independent assessment on the economic impact of cancelling the building of a new jail in their area.

Winter weather warnings for parts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have caused health officials in both provinces to cancel several H1N1 vaccination clinics.

As the provincial government faces criticism for it's Copenhagen climate change conference delegation, one businesswoman says more should be going. Lill McPherson, owner of Wooden Monkey restaurant in downtown Halifax is already on her way to Copenhagen.

Honda civic owners, beware. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says once again the two-door coupe is at the top of the list, of the most stolen cars in Canada.

The premier is maintaining a positive attitude despite the province's gloomy financial outlook. Premier Darrell Dexter gave his first state of the province address since becoming premier, and he gave the packed crowd a rosy picture.

After a two month investigation, Halifax Regional Police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old woman with operating a brothel in Clayton Park. Police are not releasing details about which house is under investigation.

Cape Breton Regional Police have disbanded their special 12-member arson team in the Northside region after a quiet month without any suspicious fires.

Police say victim was a 45-Year-old woman from Cole Harbour...

Mulgrave man will return to court Monday...

Committe member says once again something is awarded to the HRM...

Ban is in effect until mid-April...

A committee of Canadian Heritage has recommended reversing a cut to the Canadian Musical Diversity fund that was planned for April.

The town of Truro wants to put up a gate at the entrance of a favorite hookup spot for gay men. "I think it's absolutely ridiculous and I think it's the wrong way to go," says Al McNutt with the Northern Aid Connection Society.

X-Flux Environmental Technologies and Bill-Did-It move into final round of competition...

ENGLISHTOWN — The Torquil MacLean is now back in service. The Englishtown ferry had been out of service throughout the day Tuesday, due to engine problems.

What are your expectations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen?

Dalhousie professors Susan Bryson, Marie-Claude Gregoire and Brian Hall are honoured with Discovery Awards for Science and Technology.

Dalhousie professors Ian Hill and Michael Dunbar are given Dalhousie Innovation Awards.

SOUTH BAR — A Cape Breton boy who stole the hearts of an entire island has broken them after succumbing to hypothermia in hospital.

Wayne Groszko doesn't just talk about sustainability, he lives it.

Dalhousie student Sunisha Neupane is named Nova Scotia Volunteer of the Year by the nonprofit development agency CUSO-VSO.