Stairs are everywhere, but some stairs are more notice-worthy than others. Here are some staircases that made me stop and smile, or scratch my head. At the West End Mall, in Halifax, a remarkable staircase connects one parking lot to another parking lot. Not a good sign that there are mirrors so you can see…Read More

I was excited to notice that Nocturne, the annual arts festival in the streets of Halifax/Dartmouth, selected scaffolding as their muse this year. The curator, Tori Fleming says: Often, the structures designed to temporarily hold up the active assembly and disassembly of our infrastructure create a new version of our city - adding detours to…Read More

This is a good news story about something that feels important. I hope you agree. When walking in downtown Halifax it's likely you regularly pass, without paying too much attention, the cast iron fence that surrounds Saint Paul's church on the Grand Parade. Well, next time take notice, because last spring restoration started on the…Read More

In 1980 the Halifax waterfront we flock to today was still a big, vacant mess. To the south was the real working seaport, and even it felt a little run down around the edges. One afternoon in the fall of 1981 (probably), I visited the Seaport/Ocean Terminal and snapped some photos of what was going…Read More