When a former coworker told David Woods that her mother was a painter, it would've been totally normal for the Nova Scotian artist, curator and multi-hyphenate to brush it off as water-cooler talk ...

An inquest has been opened into the death of a retired painter and decorator in the city. James Whalen was born on July 19, 1940, in Manchester and died on October 30 last year. An investigation into ...