Halifax's Family Magazine
The pressure to travel is gone, setting the stage for a return to the simple pleasures of a week away from school By Crystal Murray Lots of people are saying lately that they can’t recall the last time they had to pack a suitcase. I actually can remember, but it’s the anticlimactic unpacking that stands […]
Serving up healthy attitudes for our children By Crystal Murray Recently I talked with a couple friends about a diet plan one of them was following. One had lost a few pounds and said she really didn’t have trouble keeping to the plan. There were lots of recipes, she never felt hungry, and she liked […]
Mother and son dig into a vegan lifestyle together By Crystal Murray Sinjin Moser makes a mean vegan mac n’ cheese. The 15-year-old, who attends Auburn High School in Cole Harbour, went vegan a little over three years ago when his mother Nichole decided to embrace a plant-based life style. The change in his diet […]
This favourite comfort food casserole will warm up even the most confirmed carnivore By Crystal Murray We’ve long associated mealtime, especially dinner, with an animal protein as the core of the meal. Ask a vegetarian or vegan what they are having for dinner and the answer generally involves more creativity. But plant-based meals don’t have […]
A new school year brings challenges like no other—Our Children is here to help as we learn together By Crystal Murray On the morning of the first day of school, I stopped at an intersection as a school bus passed by. Dozens of little masked faces peered out the windows. I could see the curiosity […]
WE Schools @ Home complements curriculum and helps parents,teachers, and kids connect and stay socially engaged By Crystal Murray Open almost any publication or news site and you’ll see the physical impacts of COVID-19 quantified into understandable units. Infection rates, cases resolved and death toll. The numbers and the evidence are updated hourly but other […]