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HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's district health authorities weren't ordered to co-ordinate their approach to bargaining with unions, Premier Darrell Dexter said Thursday.

Is Halifax's Sloan the real thing or the product of an A&R scramble to find Nirvana II? Everyone, including the band itself, admits their timing and luck couldn't have been better and it would be hard to imagine Sloan being the most talked about Can-indie band in any but the post-Nirvana age.

Dave Carroll, a member of the Halifax band Sons of Maxwell, became famous for penning a song about a broken guitar after a negative experience he had with United Airlines.

The man who drives the ice resurfacing machine at Halifax's skating Oval is so enthusiastic about his job that he sings as he works.

Party Up In Hair brings No Flyers Please, Chad Hatcher and one of Halifaxs hip-hop favourites together for the Cancer Society. by Allison Saunders What's in a name? A whole lot if you're Halifax hip-hop party band Something Good.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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The Fall of Rising Waters (independent) by Andrew Chase The latest from Halifax based gloom rockers takes a stand right from go, as soon as Powerless hits the speakers. One quickly gets a feel of post-apocalyptical longing, from the many references to the extinction of the human experiment, which continue on Asteroids, which seems to beg for an end to the world, greed and insensitivity.… [ Read ...

Theres a digital world in our own backyard, so if you want to buy local, theres an app for that. Here are the companies manufacturing games and software in Nova Scotia, bringing our tech touch to the global market. by Colin Chisholm Halifax is over 6,000 kilometres away from the Mecca of the technology world, Silicon Valley--- found near San Jose, California. But that doesn't mean we don't ...

Fans of Pink Floyd can get comfortably numb in Halifax on March 5.Brit Floyd, a Pink Floyd cover band, will play Halifax’s Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on March 5.The cover band — billing itself as the world’s greatest Pink Floyd show — will perform a selection of the British band’s greatest hits.Tickets cost $49, and are available at the Rebecca Cohn box office.

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