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Unravel Halifax Unravel is a magazine for a city that is rediscovering itself. Subscribe now. Unravel Halifax is published by Metro Guide Publishing, an Advocate Company.

Advocate Printing & Publishing was founded in 1891. Headquartered in Pictou, N.S., with locations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine, the company services the Atlantic Provinces, the state of Maine, the eastern seaboard, and companies across Canada. Metro Guide Publishing includes 25 trade and regional magazines catering to diverse market sectors. In addition, Advocate Printing & Publishing

includes four community newspapers, a flyer distribution company, commercial photography, and a creative design studio.

Meet the Haligonians from our cover story who are continuing to work to change our city for the better, undoing systemic...
27/11/2022

Meet the Haligonians from our cover story who are continuing to work to change our city for the better, undoing systemic racism, championing the environment, campaigning for mental health, and attacking poverty.

đź–ŠJanet Whiteman
📸Bruce Murray VisionFire Studios

Halifax’s rapid transformation continued in 2022 — meet the unheralded heroes reshaping our city

With enthusiasm and optimism, a Chinese immigrant builds a new life in Halifax. đź–ŠMarianne Simon
27/11/2022

With enthusiasm and optimism, a Chinese immigrant builds a new life in Halifax.

đź–ŠMarianne Simon

With enthusiasm and optimism, a Chinese immigrant builds a new life in Halifax

With 50 craft breweries, 20 wineries, and over a dozen craft distilleries and cideries, keeping your libation gifts 100-...
26/11/2022

With 50 craft breweries, 20 wineries, and over a dozen craft distilleries and cideries, keeping your libation gifts 100-per-cent local this holiday season is a no-brainer.

Read on to get ten local craft-drink ideas to keep everyone on your holiday list in good spirits.

đź–ŠColleen Thompson

With 50 craft breweries, 20 wineries, and over a dozen craft distilleries and cideries, keeping your libation gifts 100-per-cent local this holiday season is a no-brainer.

What has Halifax learned from a summer attempt to transform Spring Garden Road?đź–ŠPhilip Moscovitch
26/11/2022

What has Halifax learned from a summer attempt to transform Spring Garden Road?

đź–ŠPhilip Moscovitch

It’s a sunny, late morning on Spring Garden Road. Vehicles stopped at a red light clog up the narrow street. A car with hazard lights flashing is parked on the sidewalk, while a driver blows their horn at a pedestrian using a crosswalk.

As local store owners report a spike in shoplifting, experts recommend they talk with the people their policies most aff...
25/11/2022

As local store owners report a spike in shoplifting, experts recommend they talk with the people their policies most affect.

đź–ŠChris Benjamin

As local store owners report a spike in shoplifting, experts recommend they talk with the people their policies most affect

Symphony Nova Scotia gives fans an insider perspective on the arts. đź–ŠTrevor J. Adams
25/11/2022

Symphony Nova Scotia gives fans an insider perspective on the arts.

đź–ŠTrevor J. Adams

The Sound: Learning about music. Symphony Nova Scotia’s Enough Room podcast offers a unique and hyper-local perspective on the arts, giving fans a chance to eavesdrop on knowledgeable insider conversations to be learning about music.

Roundup: COVID kills 10 more, Desmond Inquiry report delayed, Pictou comedian returns home, Symphony Nova Scotia perform...
25/11/2022

Roundup: COVID kills 10 more, Desmond Inquiry report delayed, Pictou comedian returns home, Symphony Nova Scotia performs in Lunenburg, the truth about shoplifting. With files from Advocate Companies newspapers LighthouseNOW, The Reporter, and The Pictou Advocate.

Plus: Treat the problem, not the symptoms — the real solution to shoplifting

Rising interest rates have chilled demand, but experts say Halifax’s housing market continues to favour sellers.🖊Janet W...
24/11/2022

Rising interest rates have chilled demand, but experts say Halifax’s housing market continues to favour sellers.

đź–ŠJanet Whitman

Halifax has a housing shortage. Rising interest rates have chilled demand, but experts say Halifax’s housing market continues to favour sellers

The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was supposed to be a gleaming temple to provincial culture. Now the government has sh...
24/11/2022

The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was supposed to be a gleaming temple to provincial culture. Now the government has shelved it — what happens next?

đź–ŠAlec Bruce

A question of priorities. The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was supposed to be a gleaming temple to provincial culture. Now the government has shelved it — what happens next?

Roundup: Para Hockey Cup returns to Bridgewater,  Antigonish awaits consolidation approval, SPCA offers help to pet owne...
24/11/2022

Roundup: Para Hockey Cup returns to Bridgewater, Antigonish awaits consolidation approval, SPCA offers help to pet owners, COVID counts climb, looking ahead to a brighter 2023. With files From Advocate Companies newspapers LighthouseNOW, The Reporter, and The Pictou Advocate.

Plus: The year of living dangerously — looking back at a tumultuous 2022 and ahead to a brighter 2023

Top 6: Our favourite Nov/Dec events. Art, music, theatre, and more — discover the season's can’t-miss Halifax events.
23/11/2022

Top 6: Our favourite Nov/Dec events. Art, music, theatre, and more — discover the season's can’t-miss Halifax events.

Top 6: Our favourite Nov/Dec Halifax events. Art, music, theatre, and more — discover the season's can’t-miss events.

Confronting hockey's dark side: The day after Christmas, one of the most highly anticipated events on the international ...
23/11/2022

Confronting hockey's dark side: The day after Christmas, one of the most highly anticipated events on the international hockey circuit returns to Halifax.

đź–ŠAmeeta Vohra

The day after Christmas, one of the most highly anticipated events on the international hockey circuit returns to Halifax.

Roundup: Helping boys develop healthy masculinity, police say missing man was murdered, COVID update, restaurateurs batt...
23/11/2022

Roundup: Helping boys develop healthy masculinity, police say missing man was murdered, COVID update, restaurateurs battle soaring food prices, local-drink gift ideas. With files from Advocate Companies newspapers Advocate Companies, The Reporter, and The Pictou Advocate.

Plus: Local craft-drink ideas to keep everyone on your holiday list in good spirits

Local History: A chowder to remember. In August 1996, filmmaker James Cameron and his crew were in Halifax shooting scen...
22/11/2022

Local History: A chowder to remember. In August 1996, filmmaker James Cameron and his crew were in Halifax shooting scenes for the soon-to-be blockbuster movie Titanic, when a strange setback hit the project.

đź–ŠDorothy Grant

A drugged meal sent the cast and crew of Titanic into turbulent waters

The chickens come home to roost: Enjoying a rush of primal self-sufficiency, growing numbers of Haligonians are emulatin...
22/11/2022

The chickens come home to roost: Enjoying a rush of primal self-sufficiency, growing numbers of Haligonians are emulating their forebearers and raising fowl

đź–ŠJanet Whitman

Enjoying a rush of primal self-sufficiency, growing numbers of Haligonians are emulating their forebearers and raising fowl

The pandemic changed the way many customers tip — and now it’s time for employers to pay fairly and discard tipping enti...
21/11/2022

The pandemic changed the way many customers tip — and now it’s time for employers to pay fairly and discard tipping entirely.

đź–ŠPauline Dakin

The pandemic changed the way many customers tip — and now it’s time for employers to pay fairly and discard tipping entirely

When artist and self-described history scholar Lynette Richards moved to Terence Bay from Ontario 10 years ago, what she...
21/11/2022

When artist and self-described history scholar Lynette Richards moved to Terence Bay from Ontario 10 years ago, what she found at the end of her road astounded her. It was a little museum and two mass graves, memorializing the SS Atlantic tragedy that happened on April 1, 1873. On that day, the passenger ship hit rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing 535 people.

đź–ŠAmeeta Vohra

Amid the tragedy of the SS Atlantic, Lynette Richards discovers the story of a remarkable young sailor who wasn't at all what they seemed

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