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Companies connected with Nova Scotia Business, Inc board member James Kehoe to receive $585,688 in rebates approved by NSBI.

editor@thecoast.ca (Tim Bousquet) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 -0300

by Tim Bousquet In March, while James Kehoe was a board member at Nova Scotia Business, Inc., the province's business development agency, that board approved over a half million dollars in payroll rebates for companies associated with Kehoe. Those payroll rebates were approved by the Dexter government on July 27.…

Bawdy crimes

editor@thecoast.ca (Lizzy Hill) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 -0300

By redefining sex work as organized crime, the Conservatives are endangering workers. by Lizzy Hill �I'm an organized criminal,� mutters Valerie Scott in utter disbelief. Scott, a sex worker and executive director of the Toronto-based activist group Sex Professionals of Canada, doesn't see herself as your typical organized criminal.…

Blow job

editor@thecoast.ca (Bruce Wark) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:00 -0300

Wind power is sold as the answer to Nova Scotia�s quest for renewable energy, but we�re overlooking the health effects on people who live near windmills, and some serious questions about whether wind can really solve our electrical problems. by Bruce Wark There are ironies everywhere if you notice them. Like the Dutch windmills on June MacDonald's yellow tablecloth.…

The accidental activist

editor@thecoast.ca (Lezlie Lowe) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

In the 1970s, in a dress shop on Barrington Street, a straight salesperson provides professional and helpful service to Halifax�s emerging drag queen population. Is she a gay crusader, or just a decent person? Or are they the same thing? by Lezlie Lowe This is a story about a size 12 seafoam green evening gown, hanging on a rack, in 1979. And here's how Marie Rigby, 88, starts the tale: "One day these two fellas come in and they wanted to know if we had any gowns."…

Boylesque thrills

editor@thecoast.ca (Lizzy Hill) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

Behind this week's cover with Rouge Fatale. by Lizzy Hill She's voluptuous, bursting out of a skintight leopard print dress, as her tiara jiggles in a nest of bleach blonde hair, bigger than Dolly Parton's. She scrunches her ruby red lips, shooting audience members furtive glances.…

We are all anal-sexers!

editor@thecoast.ca (Anna Duckworth) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

What, what, in the butt. by Anna Duckworth In the Halifax of the '90s, not long after The Coast brought Dan Savage and a generally queer-friendly outlook to public discussion, another newspaper columnist invented a homophobic insult. Harry Flemming of the Daily News used the term "anal-sexers" whenever he wanted to complain about something the gays had done.…

A parade of city pride

editor@thecoast.ca (Tim Bousquet) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

We're on a float! by Tim Bousquet Everyone loves a parade, and this year's Pride parade promises to be the biggest and best Halifax has seen. There are over 150 entries confirmed to walk/drive/float for Saturday's event.…

Watch the Pride parade slideshow

editor@thecoast.ca (Kyle Shaw) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

Everybody loves a Prideshow! by Kyle Shaw Saturday's Pride parade was a gay old time, indeed. It featured a beautiful sunny afternoon, thousands of people lining downtown streets to watch and around 200 floats—including a Coast/Hillcrest Volkswagen team effort that featured Windom Earle playing for nearly 2 hours on the back of a flatbed truck.…

How to build a local food system

editor@thecoast.ca (Chris Benjamin) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

The global food system has worked so well that Nova Scotia farms are disappearing, but with oil getting scarce, the days of food travelling over 8,000 km before finding a mouth are numbered. by Chris Benjamin Food. It's one of the first things we think of when we wake up.…

Catch your share of sustainable fish

editor@thecoast.ca (Lizzy Hill) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

Off the Hook is the first community supported fishery in Atlantic Canada. by Lizzy Hill Finding fresh seafood is no easy feat in our province, despite being almost entirely surrounded by water. We export over 75 percent of our seafood, and seafood in grocery stores locally has switched hands so many times that it might have been dead for a week by the time it lands on your plate.…

Sable Island�s cod killer?

editor@thecoast.ca (Linda Pannozzo) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:00:00 -0300

The new plan to slaughter seals blames seals for the cod fishery collapse, but a large seal population might just be the cod�s best hope. by Linda Pannozzo One morning in early April 2003, the villagers of Smith Sound, Newfoundland, awoke to a glimpse of what it might have been like to live there 500 years earlier. The sound was brimming with cod, as far as the eye could see.…

Welcome to Fleet Week

editor@thecoast.ca (Anna Duckworth) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0300

What International Fleet Review Week means to Halifax, and for a sagging Canadian navy. by Anna Duckworth Friday, June 25, begins a week of Naval festivities here in Halifax as the harbour plays host to visiting war ships from around the world. It's International Fleet Review Week---the first in 25 years.…

How to pick up, or put off, a sailor

editor@thecoast.ca (Lizzy Hill) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0300

Tips from exotic dancers and a female sailor on dealing with horny seamen by Lizzy Hill Lock up your sons and daughters! Having been cooped for months at sea, the thousands of sailors in port this week will most assuredly be on the prowl, and who could blame them?…

Meeting Queen Elizabeth

editor@thecoast.ca (Sue Carter Flinn) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0300

If it happens, it'll be quick, so use this advice to make the most of your royal audience by Sue Carter Flinn You only have a few seconds to impress Queen Elizabeth on Monday, June 28, when she walks Garrison Grounds (3:40-3:50pm) and the Common (4:15-4:25pm), then Tuesday on the wharf behind the Maritime Museum (4:45 pm). But if you want to play with the Queen, you have to roll like a king.…

How to get on a boat

editor@thecoast.ca (Charlene Davis) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0300

You can tour dozens of ships in town, but be careful what you bring aboard by Charlene Davis Halifax International Fleet Review means more navy ships will be coming into the harbour than the average person can keep track of. The event's website (see tinyurl.com/ShipsGalore) has a list of all the ships, detailing a short biographical history and statistics for each vessel, including what kind of weaponry the ships carry.…

Firefighter says Halifax Fire Department inventory list is inaccurate

editor@thecoast.ca (Tim Bousquet) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:27:00 -0300

Gear issued to firefighters was never received, says Blair Cromwell. by Tim Bousquet Updated below. The master inventory list at the Halifax Fire Department includes fire gear recorded as being issued to firefighters but which was never received by them, says a formal complaint filed with the city’s auditor general.…