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The Giant Squid

Thursday, June 4, 2009

If you want to keep a giant squid as a pet, you need a very large tank. You might be better off visiting The Rooms, where a female giant squid, or Architeuthis, is preserved in an 800-gallon tank.

Brent Smith, co-owner of the Newfoundland Chocolate Company at the Made Right Here fair. Emilie Bourque gives away all the local business news. Nothing to truffle with The Newfoundland Chocolate Company, a new local artisan chocolate company, was launched officially on May 30th at the Manufactured Right Here exhibition by owners Brent Smith and Christina Dove. Smith, [...]

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

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Free stuff. The Giving Tree closes up shop. Emilie Bourque gives away all the local business news. Thrifted out of thrift shops So what’s happening to all the downtown thrift stores? The Giving Tree on Gower Street closed recently, putting its items out on the sidewalk, and the Salvation Army Thrift Store on Waldegrave Street will be closing [...]

It goes beyond speaking

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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Sarah Slean is a well-loved singer, but she’s also an accomplished pianist, poet, actor, painter, and photographer. Emilie Bourque spoke with her and asked her about her most recent album, The Baronness—released earlier this year—and about the road she’s taken to get to where she is right now. Most of your albums are unique in their [...]

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

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Kamelia Malakoff and Wendy Murray (L-R) of Deslava Spa Emilie Bourque thinks the spring business fever is catching. Hey there Scopefans! Let’s ignore those May flurries and just focus on the glorious sunny days we’ve been getting! It seems that spring includes businesses shifting around and preparing for the tourist season to hit, so here are a [...]

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Emilie Bourque can’t even make this stuff up. S’makeup The crowd at Tvål aren’t just all about soap. They also design, produce, and sell a line of mineral make-up called Smink (the Swedish word for makeup), and they’ve been busy in the back of their shop experimenting with pigments and formulas to provide new colours—the result [...]

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

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Whalens Pub & soon-to-be Grill Emilie Bourque schools you in local business news. Star of the Sea Wars It’s still up in the air what is ever going to become of downtown’s Star of the Sea Hall. Ken O’Brien, Manager of Planning and Information with the City, says the building is currently owned by Gary White, and although White [...]