SAINT JOHN - When thinking about heritage buildings we generally think of when they were built and by whom -  their social significance etc - all too often we forget about the geoscientific heritage of our buildings.   On  Tuesday June 1st, the New Brunswick Museum invites you to engage with  the geology of the  heritage buildings of Saint John. The Uptown Geo Walk will tour the various buildings  featured in the guide Rebuilt in Stone: Geology and the Stone Buildings of Saint John, New Brunswick with its authors, ...

HALIFAX -  Community members of the Prospect Road area have been waiting for over 20 years to see a facility built that would fit their needs, and now at long last their wait is over.  This June, the doors of the Prospect Road Community Centre will be opened for the first time.  Within those doors there will be a full sized gym, a  multi-purpose space, a weight and fitness room, a meeting and activity  space for local clubs and organizations and an "indoor community street"! Celebrate this new facility with ...

HALIFAX - Spring has sprung, the town's in full bloom and its time to head to the field — Bloomfield that is.  In fitting with this season of new  beginnings, the Imagine Bloomfield society will be holding their Annual General Meeting this evening at the Bloomfield Centre. Birthed out of the need to maintain a community centre in the North End of Halifax that can serve the diverse needs of citizens, Imagine Bloomfield is a non-profit society working to preserve and enhance the Bloomfield Centre.  They imagine Bloomfield  as a ...

HALIFAX - Dalhousie's third annual Green Week is coming to an end tomorrow after four (ecology) action packed days.  Organized by the Student Union Sustainability Office, the week has provided such earth-friendly events as a Bicycle Tune Up Bonanza!!, a green job fair and  a residence waste challenge. Here at Spacing Atlantic we are a coastal people, and it is with this in mind that we encourage you to make your way to the Dalhousie Student Union Building tomorrow at noon.  ...

HALIFAX - If cosmopolitanism is understood as a "willingness to engage with the other", is it an essential ingredient of Canada's multi-ethnic, immigrant-receiving cities? Can only the jet-setting elite be cosmopolitan, or can we conceive of street-corner cosmopolitans too? These are some of the questions being asked and addressed by Dr. Martha Radice this Friday at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Sponsored by the Atlantic Metropolis Centre (AMC) and the Dalhousie Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dr. Radice's presentation of her ethnographical ...

Spaces and faces are much the same - both have names that, when used properly, can get you places.  Knowing someone’s name is really half the battle in getting to know them, it gives you a little insight into their character, gets you thinking about what their parents are all about and most importantly allows you to get their attention from far away. In much the same way, knowing the name of a street is the first step in getting to understand the city you live in.  Once you know the name of a street you can call a cab to it, write a letter to it but most importantly you can start musing about who gave it that name and why. Every Tuesday this past summer I would walk a herd of 4-6 year olds from the George Dixon Centre to the Needham Recreation Centre to go swimming.  On this walk I was always puzzled that after the intersection at Young Street, the name of Gottingen Street changed to Novalea Drive.  I found this to be a bit bizarre as there is no perceptible change in the road, direction or otherwise.  Upon further investigation I have found that these street names share a complex past.