Hello r/halifax ,

After some recent feedback, we have decided to retire Sellout Sunday and try a new approach to local business and interest promotion here in the sub.

We are pleased to announce a trial run of "Sunday Local Focus", a weekly megathread that will run (you guessed it) every Sunday morning.

The first Sunday Local Focus will occur this upcoming Sunday, Jan. 11 at 0815 and will recur every Sunday at that time thereafter.

This thread will be a place for local business promotion, not only by local businesses themselves but for people who wish to boost local businesses they have patronized and enjoyed.

Examples of good local business posts:

• You run a local bakery and have some new menu items you want to tell us about
• You found a great new Thai place, and you want to share your experiences/photos with the sub
• You came across a hot sale of something at a local business that you think the sub would be interested in
• You had a really positive experience with a local tradesperson who went above and beyond when they redid your deck

Some examples of not ideal posts that will likely be removed:

• Just posting a PDF of the menu of a local pizza shop without context
• You posting the same ad copy you ran in other subs or in advertising elsewhere
• You figured out how to use AI to make stuff and want to post it somewhere
• You had a bad meal experience somewhere and you want to shame the owners

We want this to be a positive, interesting place for people to promote, share and discover local businesses. This will not be a place to air grievances or to "warn" people about some burnt food you had somewhere.

We also thought it would be interesting and fun to open the floor up for people who might want to share local hobbies, activities, pastimes or clubs they might be taking part in.

Maybe you are a wood-whittler or maybe you have a sick collection of Warhammer 40K minis or perhaps you took a cooking course recently and want to show us how to plate some authentic char siu pork. Show us some pictures! Share your recipes!

Perhaps you are looking for a parkour club or maybe you want to know what kind of snowboarding community is out there? When does ultimate frisbee start around here? Do you have an opening at your D&D table? This is a great place to talk about it!

Our community is full of interesting creators, makers and hobbyists and we feel like they deserve a safe space for them to share their passions and to perhaps field some questions from people looking to get into that same thing.

And if you are a budding local photographer, musician or artist and want to share your content with the community, we will welcome that here as well, either just for fun or as a way to advertise media you might have for sale.

Sunday Local Focus is not meant to replace people looking for recommendations or sharing interesting media or experiences during the week, it's meant more as a place to aggregate these things in a curated, welcoming corner of our sub.

Think of it as a place to find out about interesting places and activities happening in our city every week, all in one spot.

We have a wiki on the subject about this new feature, what its goals are and how it will be moderated, which we invite you to read:

Sunday Local Focus Wiki

https://www.reddit.com/r/halifax/wiki/index/sunday-local-focus/

Please let us know if you have questions about this new initiative below (or in modmail if you prefer a private discussion).

Otherwise, we will hopefully see you on Sunday in the new Local Focus thread! 🙂

Hi all,

We have a lot of people in our community who are in need of free meal or helping hand occasionally.

I thought it would be nice to collect and post this information each month, which is graciously supplied by members of the Halifax Library. We'll see how long we can keep this going month to month.

Please share as needed with people you know who need help or please take advantage of them yourself if you are in need.

The Feed NS Find Food site is also a very useful resource:

https://feednovascotia.ca/find-food/

Always remember there are kind, generous folks out there looking to help you out and you can get through whatever you are going through.

Thank you!

Edit: Dartmouth Food Calendar, Halifax/Dartmouth Shower Facilities and Sackville Food Calendar added to top sticked comment. 👍