Halifax Examiner
👤 Halifax Examiner Inc
📍 NS
Jun 18, 2026
· 22 min read
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A daily dose of distraction: The puzzle boom
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ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.257 · RIGHT
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0.129 · CENTER
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A daily dose of distraction: The puzzle boom
Also: Heritage and culture cuts; Canadian book of the week: Care and Feeding of Your Little Banned Bookshop; Halifax council votes to pause demolition of Memorial Library; Andy Fillmore pitches his own motion for site; ‘You can never underestimate the power of the mining industry’: Q and A with former Liberal MP John McKay; Advocate says more supportive housing needed to address crisis in Nova Scotia; homelessness doubles in Halifax.
BY PHILIP MOSCOVITCH
JUNE 18, 2026
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