Tag: Nova
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A Toronto lawyer quit his job to refurbish this Nova Scotia inn
[ad_1] Avram Spatz grew up visiting the Evangeline, a historical inn in the Annapolis Valley (Photography by Matt McMullen) In 2020, Avram Spatz was an associate at a Toronto-based boutique litigation firm when he felt the entrepreneurial itch. Business runs in the family: his older brother, Josh, co-owns Toronto’s North of Brooklyn Pizzeria, and his…
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An old drug re-emerges in Nova Scotia overdose deaths
[ad_1] An illegal drug that’s been around for decades has quietly become implicated in a growing number of overdose deaths in Nova Scotia, according to data that suggests the public discussion around drug fatalities needs to broaden beyond the focus on potent opioids. Overdose deaths in the province linked to cocaine have risen significantly in recent…
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This Nova Scotia co-housing community is creating connections—and more affordable homes
[ad_1] “I’m proud of what we’ve built—for a group of amateurs, it’s quite an accomplishment” Cate de Vreede and her family. (Photography by Meghan Tansey Whitton.) For more than a decade, Cate de Vreede dreamed of living in a co-housing community—a village where residents have private homes but share common areas and amenities. De Vreede, an environmental…
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The Move: Two die-hard digital nomads finally settle at a former parsonage in Nova Scotia
[ad_1] The buyers: Dalene Heck, who’s 47, and her husband, Pete, who’s 46. They co-own a digital marketing company. The budget: $400,000 The backstory: Dalene and Pete were digital nomads long before it was cool. Back in 2007, the couple were living in a 2,100-square-foot detached house in Okotoks, Alberta. Every day, they commuted an…
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Hurricane Lee tracker update: Motorist killed as storm makes Nova Scotia landfall leaving thousands without power
[ad_1] Hurricane Lee advances towards US as warnings issued for New England Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Storm Lee made landfall at around 4pm in far western Nova Scotia, with winds whipping at 70mph, which killed one person and left…
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Lee Makes Landfall in Western Nova Scotia
[ad_1] Lee made landfall in Nova Scotia on Saturday afternoon as a post-tropical cyclone after transitioning from a hurricane and slightly weakening earlier in the day. The storm produced winds near hurricane-force as it reached shore, forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said, and it was causing tropical storm conditions along the province and coastal…
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This couple moved from a downtown Toronto condo to a sprawling Nova Scotia B&B
[ad_1] Photographs by Darren Calabrese The buyers Stefan Palios, a 31-year-old sales and marketing consultant for tech start-ups, and Marty Butler, a 31-year-old registered nurse and organ-donation coordinator The backstory After two years of dating, Marty moved into Stefan’s one-bedroom, 450-square-foot apartment in downtown Toronto in May of 2019. The place was small but a…
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This charming Nova Scotia home was built by a Victorian-era sea captain
[ad_1] Homeowners Kate Inglis and Nick Bakker went great lengths to preserve their house’s character and history “We resisted the urge to fill all the space with stuff and tried to fill it with experiences instead.” (Photography by Meghan Tansey Whitton) In 2016, when the author Kate Inglis and her husband, Nick Bakker, bought their…
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Habitat: This sustainable Nova Scotia home is a coastal refuge
[ad_1] “It came to us perfect. We’ve grown so attached to it that we never want to leave.” (Photography by Meghan Tansey Whitton) Teri Appleby and Nova Tayona met in 1995 while waitressing together as students at Dalhousie University. In late 2012, they caught up over coffee in Halifax. Tayona was an architect, and Appleby…
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In Nova Scotia, grief buses drive residents back to their burned-down homes
[ad_1] Mary Younger and her husband, Jason ({photograph} by Meghan Tansey Whitton) Ever because the wildfires tore by means of the Halifax space, close by municipalities have been loading displaced residents onto buses and taking them on excursions by means of their ravaged neighbourhoods. Known as “grief buses,” these automobiles give residents the chance to…