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People sometimes get bugged by insects, but we need them. They play essential roles in pollination, combatting unwanted agricultural pests, recycling organic matter, feeding fish, birds and bats, and much more. They’re the most numerous and diverse animals on Earth and form the base of many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Our admiration for these critters…
Dartmouth’s roaster is breaking some Halifax hearts on Valentine’s Day. Anchored Coffee announced today via Instagram that it would be focusing “100% of our energy on the coffee roastery” and closing its tiny espresso counter at 6451 Quinpool Road after service on February 14. Anchored’s Zane Kelsall (also of TIBS) and Dean Petty (also of Yeah Yeahs Pizza) opened the…
So they won to have it removed because it was offensive due to Cornwallis infamous proclamation, never mind nobody mentioned the Mi’kmaq took scalps first. But that’s ancient history. Now will the city council have the guts to remove all statues and references on Remembrance Day to the RCAF who bombed millions of innocent women…
Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy will stop by this spring with a show at Acadia’s Convocation Hall in Wolfville on Sunday, April 15. Tix are $56.50 and go on sale at noon via Sonic Concerts or by calling the box office at 1-800-452-8425.
While waiting for our breakfast, you noticed how our two-year-old swiped the lone blackberry off my incoming plate before it even hit the table. He gobbled it down in two seconds—we all had a laugh. Then, you received your plates and proceeded to offer my son your blackberries. He was so pleased. Thank you for…
Thank you to the considerate and generous person who came out in the cold to the Dartmouth Crossing Cineplex to give away soon-to-be-expired coupons for two movie passes, a popcorn, and two drinks. I could see myself in your situation thinking, “I should give these away.” But I wouldn’t have managed to actually do it,…
To the lovely lady who stopped me from falling on my face outside of Scotia Square…thank you! I was wearing heels in the middle of a day full of interviews and started falling towards the huge pile of slush. You caught my arm and helped me up and then proceeded to walk across the street…
PSA TO HALIFAX DRIVERS (more specifically to Halifax drivers who regularly turn right from Chebucto onto Mumford): That little human-like-figure you see blinking at you–the one that is down and to the right of the stop lights you can’t seem to look past – means THAT PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY. Which–and this is…
Weed users got a skimpy gram from Stephen McNeil’s government when the province’s legal cannabis retail locations were revealed this week. There will be exactly nine NSLC locations carrying chronic for all of Nova Scotia, justice minister Mark Furey announced, from Yarmouth to Sydney River. You can see them all in the map below. For…
Sadie Beaton is exploring the meaning of environmental justice—but she didn’t want to do it through an academic paper. Beaton, who has been part of The Ecology Action Centre team for 14 years, started a broadcast interview series under the title Shades of Green in 2016. Shades of Green launched its second season on February…
You want to read an issue of The Coast where the number of Loves outstrips the number of Bitches. You submit Love messages often, just trying to balance scales. Halifax is lucky to have people like you, who are fighting the good fight, and repping for Team Love. I hope this message helps. Maybe later…
Family day is coming…but I don’t get paid for it. It is a provincial holiday and even though I’ve lived in this province all my life, and my employer was founded in this province, they don’t have to pay me. And therefore they won’t pay me Why? It is some lame-ass excuse that they are…
We’ve redesigned our weekly roundup of Sure Things and are pretty excited about it—and we hope you’ll be, too. Imbibe: A Cocktail Event Thursday Top Nova Scotia mixologists shake it off with over 30 delicious sample-sized cocktails for your swilling pleasure at the Lord Nelson Hotel. more deets Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Friday…
To the female bus driver of the #1: You greeted each passenger as they got on and made small talk with everyone while you had a great big smile on your face, and that was just lovely! Thank you so much for being so chipper and keeping a happy face even while you’re driving in…
That’s was the sign says, and that is what I do when it is just you and me. But when I’m doing 30km/h more than the right hand lane and the right hand lane is busy as hell? Nope, sorry, no offence but you can go fuck yourself. —One Thirty Guy
The town of Hillsburn is a tiny dot on the Bay of Fundy, outside Annapolis Royal, between two coves, Parkers and Delaps. Paul Aarntzen calls it “a little stretch of road” and it’s where he lived, “by myself with my dog for three years with no furniture,” after a wandering stretch in the US, living…
The legend of Shubenacadie Sam is built on a wildlife park of lies. Officially the government maintains its beloved prognosticating groundhog is “ageless,” but a year-long The Coast investigation has learned several different rodents have been given the identity over the decades. The animal predicting spring’s arrival this week will be the fourth “Sam” since…
As a person living with cerebral palsy, the concern of accessibility is always on my mind. I take the time to map out my routes and watch the weather, hoping that I will be able to take a bus and make that commitment I planned weeks ago. When winter arrives, I brace myself. It still…
“We won!” exclaimed the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, regarding the BC Supreme Court ruling January 17 against sections of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act that allow for indefinite solitary confinement. In the frustrating, protracted, and so-often disappointing battle for prison justice in this country, it is, of course, a win, and to be…
Flashback Film Fest February 2-8 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road See cineplex.com for times This week, Cineplex’s Flashback Film Fest—once known as the Great Digital Film Festival—returns with its usual dose of 1980s favourites: Tarantino, Coen brothers and the like. Anything with a robot, monster, alien, time-travelling DeLorean or a rug that really…
Antojo Tacos + Tequila 1667 Argyle Street Daily 11am-late “C an you call back?” Luis López says. He is cut off by a few shouts from the kitchen and shouts a few quick responses back before finishing his sentence. “Call back in an hour.” When he picks up the phone an hour later, smack in…
Elijah Will 3am release party w/Universal Soul, DJ IV and OKAY TK Friday, February 2, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street Elijah Will was discovered at a songwriting camp, but it turned out his mentor lived right up the road. Born Elijah Wohlmuth, four years ago the young R&B singer from Enfield attended Gordie…
The Reversal of Peter Dawson February 2-4 Alderney Landing Theatre 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth $15 ticketpro.ca “It’s a great opportunity for these women,” says Wanda Taylor, the executive director of Stepping Stone Nova Scotia, an organization supporting marginalized populations currently and formerly involved in the sex trade. Since the beginning of the new year, Taylor…
Your fragile rights Pay attention. Pay very close attention. Not to me, to your rights (“Nova Scotia government closing the book on school boards,” Reality Bites story by Jacob Boon, posted January 24 at thecoast.ca). When you went to work Wednesday morning you had five votes. Provided you were a Canadian citizen, there were five…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) When I was in my early 20s, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use,…
Q I am a 38-year-old lesbian, very femme, very out. I have a coworker I can’t figure out. We’ve worked together for a year and gotten close. We are each other’s confidants at work. We stare at each other across the office, we text until late at night and we go for weekend dog walks.…
