October 21-25, 2026Bouchercon World Mystery ConventionTelus Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta. Panelist, Atlantic Spotlight panel, Thursday, October 22, 3 pm.Moderating panel: “As Real as it Gets: What’s Harder to Write, Fiction or True Crime?…

It is the summer of 1940 in Halifax, Canada, the North American city closest to the shooting, bombing war in Europe. The nine-year-old daughter of a local Royal Navy commander has just been murdered. Her father is missing, probably the murderer, possibly dead. Her mother is missing, too, maybe in Boston, but maybe dead as well.

The ‘elbows up’ rhetoric rings false in the face of American aggression

June 4, 2026 ... A feature of the evening was the presentation of the 2026 Atlantic Legacy Award to Stephen Kimber. Dean Jobb, one of the multiple

Blood-stained floor at Copacabana following the explosion. September 4, 1997. HavanaSeptember 4, 199710:30 a.m. “Bucanero.” The olive-skinned

Rana Zaman’s criticisms of Israeli policy and actions in Gaza are not, in any way, an indication of antisemitism, and certainly not a reason to rescind the Peace Award she deserves.

Rana Zaman speaks at a protest on Sept. 12, 2025. Credit: Madiha Mughees To Brian Posavad,President and CEO,YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth I am writ

HMS EMERALD (FL 5381) At anchor at Portsmouth. Copyright: © IWM. It was code-named Operation Fish, an audacious, top-secret World War II scheme to spirit B

Bill Mont, who died on October 28, 2025, at the age of 96, was one of Halifax’s legendary characters. He would become best known as Nova Scotia’s “Fl

In the 1990s, I wrote a weekly series for the Halifax Daily News, profiling interesting individuals in the community. In May 1995, I wrote this profile of

I first met Harry Bruce one morning in 1971 in the offices of The 4th Estate newspaper. Harry had recently moved to Halifax from Toronto and stopped in to say hello to its editor, Nick Fillmore. I was a young freelancer who’d just dropped off an…

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by Stephen Kimber will be released on June 6, 2024, by Barlow Books. It is now available for pre-order. Award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber takes readers behind the scenes of an epic family feud inside the Phelan clan—one of Canada’s wealthiest…

The citation: As the author of two novels and eleven non-fiction works, Stephen Kimber is a distinguished writer, journalist and educator. In the academic realm, he served as Professor of Journalism for more than thirty years, during which time he…

Introduction Legacy news media everywhere are in decline. Mostly this is due to the loss of advertising revenue as advertisers move to online platforms that better target specific demographics, but there are other factors at play as well — a demand…

For more than 40 years, I’ve been writing about the Halifax Chronicle Herald, its predecessors and successors—including its oddly-named and ill-fated recent owner, Saltwire. In 1981, in the aftermath of a failed attempt to unionize the newsroom, I…

Our columnist says he’s had a great run, and some days he wants to continue doing this forever. But it’s time. For more years than I care to count, I have been professionally — and often personally — “shocked and appalled” on a regular basis about…

For more years than I care to count, I have been professionally — and often personally — “shocked and appalled” on a regular basis about the goings on going on in our world. Luckily, I’ve had the opportunity to vent my anger with words on paper,…

An internal working group of bureaucrats who benefit from “a culture of disregard for access and privacy laws” are reviewing Nova Scotia’s freedom of information system. What can go wrong? Tricia Ralph is Nova Scotia’s Information and Privacy…