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[Image-1] To the kind, kind soul that pulled my beloved academic reference letters their roommate threw in the garbage then proceeded to deliver to my mailbox: I owe you so, so much. Your attention and effort is deeply appreciated. xo —Hopeful Dietetic Intern
[Image-1] To the jerk(s) who broke into my silver Cavalier on Saturday night: Please return the shit you know you can’t use or isn’t of value to you. Just call it into lost and found. Pretend it never happened. No big deal. You stole my wallet with zero cash and no credit cards or cards…
If I see one more disposable coffee cup tossed onto the ground or anywhere else but into a garbage can I’m going to scream! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! —So Friggin’ Tired of Litter
[Image-1] I can’t thank you enough for the card in the mail!!! You made me feel so very special and like I was on a commercial! lol I wish you all the best in your schooling and look forward to our next teller/customer chat 🙂 Thanks for making my day! —RP
On our first “date” two summers ago you borrowed $25 to buy YOURSELF a full pizza and ice cream bar (even though you knew dairy made me sick). I’ve mentioned several times that you owe me that money and you laugh it off. Then you proceed to underpay me significantly for the 11:40pm taxi cab…
[Image-1] I was heading back to work today after completing my daily lunchtime walk when three lovely young ladies approached me. They handed me a coffee from an expensive chain restaurant and said they’d purchased this for me as a “random act of kindness” that they’d been tasked to do by their school! I thanked and…
Your tan lines show…between your butt cheeks and on your boners. —It Looks Funny
[Image-1] To the asshole who threw snowballs at the lone girl walking home on Argyle on Friday night: FUCK YOU. Thanks for physically hitting me, glad it entertained you. But you see, to me it was not funny, it was just another sick and unwelcome episode of harassment which I encounter on a near weekly…
[Image-1] I didn’t have a lot left to shovel, maybe another 10 minutes and I would be able call it a day. What you couldn’t see was the tough week I had had. Or that I had spent several hours shoveling the night before, not just for myself, but my wonderful next door neighbours who…
[Image-1] The municipality’s strong financial health prompted Regional Council on Wednesday morning to consider $10 million for a new strategic infrastructure reserve to finance an additional $75 million in debt. “The economy is generally good on a go-forward basis,” fiscal and tax policy manager Bruce Fisher told council, noting that HRM’s debt is down “dramatically”…
Halifax soul-infused pop singer Reeny Smith just dropped a new video for the bangin’ single, “Last Call,” featuring some slick bar-tending by rapper Quake Matthews, and funk-R&B guitar and bass. The single, released a few months ago, was produced by Corey LeRue (Neon Dreams) with co-writing by Dylan Guthro and Laura Roy. Directed by GILL, the…
Two Saturday ago, that cold January 23 night, Hamilton rock band and multiple Juno Award winners Arkells played the Halifax Forum, and it rocked. The sold-out audience was warmed up with the jams of Halifax’s Adam Baldwin (the rockin’ roller who plays with Matt Mays) before Arkells got the place lit. Coast photographer Andrew Donovan…
Excuse me Black Range Rover, what make you above the laws of the road?! Is it because you drive a range rover, Or because you’re a high class business person? NO! Weaving in and out of traffic is one thing, but doing it without a blinker and cutting me off twice is another! Your kind…
[Image-1] I’m going to say this, because its relevant and meaningful. A woman has a right to stand up for herself, at all times. Trying to make a living should not stand in the way of achieving this very desire. Being an independent and opinionated woman in any context is not wrong. Standing up against…
Your rag sucks balls. I wrote my well-thought-out bitch only for it to be ignored. How dare you mofos? —Y U suck so hard?
I typically enjoy the Bitch section of The Coast as it provides a little peek into the concerns, values and morals of citizens of HRM. The original bitch and the comments that follow provide this insight and are often entertaining as much as they are educational. What baffles me is the inconsistent moderation of posts…
[Image-1] – These fuckin’ Canada Goose Jackets…Yeah, beautiful coats I know. But c’mon. Give it a fuckin’ cut. (Buuuuuh, look everyone I paid like, almost a thousand dollars for my jacket, duuh.)………..fuck off. – HRM’s friendly radio announcements for “stepping up parking enforcement”…..and 25$ per violation. It’s fukin’ absurd……… fuck off. -You motherfuckers, who walk…
My 17-year-old daughter works at the movie theatres. She came home from a very busy night on Tuesday (cheap night), and proceeded to tell me about an incident that makes me both sad and enraged at the abuse endured by those who work in the service industry. As she was frantically making pretzels to keep…
First awarded in 1970, the Juno Awards are the Canadian Grammys, a marker of musical achievement based on sales, radio play and popularity in national and international markets. Usually, the Junos represent the best in Canadian music. And this year, more than in the last decade, some of the largest artists in the whole damn world…
[Image-1] Mount Allison University’s women’s and gender studies program, already underfunded and over-enrolled, is effectively facing extinction due to secretive budget cuts. On Monday night, acting director of women’s and gender studies Lisa Dawn Hamilton emailed students to say the budget for next year’s program had been reduced to zero. Hamilton didn’t get back to…
[Image-1] I grew up in Halifax and always loved the Saturday market at the brewery. After six years of living away I have moved back. I was really looking forward to shopping at the market again but after making a stop there this past Saturday I have decided I will likely not go back. What…
Quebec just shot down plans for energy east to provide Atlantic refineries with Canadian oil. The merits of this decision may be good, may be bad. I do not give a damn. What baffles me is that Canada doesn’t already have an established nation wide corridor for traffic/utilities/energy/resources. WTF!!! After the railroads went from coast…
I’m already in your store, shopping for groceries, spending money, so just quit marketing to me over your PA system, with that smarmy pre-recorded radio disk jockey announcer voice that is so loud and so annoying, it feels like knitting needles are poinking my head. Just shut up already, I can’t believe you subject your…
[Image-1] It seems even lobsters need help with their branding. The province has issued a request for proposals for a new Nova Scotia seafood brand. The department of Fisheries and Aquaculture will use the winning logo in international markets and presumably to generate buzz with millennials. “Nova Scotia’s seafood sector needs geographical branding that gives…
Today for The Scene Blog, I’ve asked Justin McGrath (Walrus, The Age) to interview Kurt Inder, the frontman of the Halifax pop-noodle band of the same name. Indebted to the lo-fi jazz-jizz sounds of Mac DeMarco and beyond, I first saw Kurt Inder last summer at The Khyber, featuring one of our favourite drummers Bianca Palmer (Vulva Culture) and…
To celebrate African Heritage Month, three landmark films in black cinema will be screened at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (6101 University Avenue) in the next two weeks. Curated by filmmaker and film professor Ron Foley Macdonald, the series is free (!) and open to all. Tuesday, February 2 (5pm) She’s Gotta Have It (1986) Directed,…
What Oscars are to Leonardo DiCaprio, ferry naming contests are to Vince Coleman. Once again, the municipality is inviting residents to vote on the name of the newest Halifax Harbour ferry. This will be the third and final harbour vessel to be titled by the general public, and one last chance for heartbreak for all…
Fibromyalgia, Gluten Intolerance, Candida, Thyroid, ADHD… Just stop with all these fake diseases. Stop being a drama queen with your over-active imagination, looking for sympathy. Change your diet, lifestyle and get your lazy ass to work. —I call bullshit
So they want to replicate the smell of bread by installing a community pizza oven? WTF is a community pizza oven and how the hell is it going to smell like bread? Far too many developers have their heads so far up their own asses they think stupid shit like this should exist. —Blaine
[Image-1] I got you chocolates for valentines day, i wish i could give them to you, as a friend, but i don’t think you want to hang out. I wish we could though. —from a girl
[Image-1] Decent jobs in Nova Scotia are as scarce as hen’s teeth. Everything pays minimum wage! From burger joints, to call centres, to office work. I cannot pay my bills and rent on minimum wage. That’s why I invested several years and thousands of dollars on my secondary education. These job ads I see online…
[Image-1] Revana Pizza makes some good donairs and really good fish. I think the best in town!! Amazing! —finger lickin
[Image-1] This should go well. Starting immediately, the Nova Scotian public can share their thoughts with the Liberal government about this year’s provincial budget and how to shape future budgets, taking part in what will assuredly be a discussion marked by polite decorum. “I want Nova Scotians to share their ideas on how to restore…
Stefanie MacDonald is all about romance. She’s the artist behind Halifax Paper Hearts greeting cards, a pusher of letter-writing and a believer in fairy tales. Well, some of them. “There is something that doesn’t sit well with me about the way that fairy tales have always been told,” she says. “Boy meets girl, boy saves…
Handy with a camera? Wicked on your smartphone? You can now submit your smartphone film until March 9th for the Halifax Smartphone Film Festival (SPFF) via The Coast’s SPFF site, where videos (5 mins max) will have a chance to win cash and prizes including a new Eastlink phone! Entries will be shown at the SPFF Screening &…
[Image-1] A Department of Energy communications director who became a lobbyist for the Alton Gas project just four-and-a-half months after leaving her public employer says the career move isn’t a conflict of interest. Karen White was communications director for Nova Scotia’s Department of Energy until April of 2015. She left that job and took a…
[Image-1] Rod Wilson calls the building “our Sea King.” The executive director of the North End Community Health Centre says the centre’s home on Gottingen Street is still flying—like the malfunctioning Canadian helicopters—but at the end of its days. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a crash. Two years ago a major roof…
Without a media launch, formal announcement or much fanfare at all, the long-awaited $5-million inquiry into past abuse at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children has begun. But Nova Scotians hoping to find out how a disturbing chapter in the province’s child-welfare history was able to unfold as it did will have to be…
[Image-1] The restorative model of the long-sought public inquiry into decades of abuse at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is designed to answer questions about what went wrong and help with healing for Tony Smith and others who lived at the home. The Coast: What are you hoping to get out of the…
[Image-1] I was struck last week by Nova Scotia’s new environment minister Margaret Miller’s response to Coast editor Jacob Boon’s question about the legacy of environmental racism in this province and how Nova Scotia can better protect marginalized communities. Her response that the province does not have to “look at any segment or any part…
Kyle Alden Martens is standing in front of me in his studio, holding up a short sleeve turtleneck that’s covered in tiny pockets. Each pocket contains a miniature blue teddy bear—the kind you’d get from a coin-operated machine in an arcade when you were a kid. “I’m loosely referencing Operation, the game where you take…
“I like to go into nature and hike with my camera, and shoot nature as it is,” says photographer Frankie Macaulay (BFA 2015). “On the other end of the spectrum, I like to shoot urban environments and manipulate what we see through composite images and digital collage work, to create a fiction.” For the last…
“In 2013, I realized that I loved sculpture and I started looking at my close relationship with my grandfather, who was a woodworker and welder. He was also a residential school survivor, and I started developing a narrative around that,” says Anishnaabe artist Aylan Couchie, from Nipissing First Nation in Northern Ontario. “Around then, the…
Growing up on a flower farm in North Rustico, PEI, Laura Jean Forrester’s family would sell harvested dahlias, lilies, sunflowers and other native flora at the Charlottetown farmers’ market while Forrester took pottery lessons. But it wasn’t until 2014, as a sculpture student at NSCAD, that her current art practice really bloomed. “I was fortunate…
As far as movie franchises go, you can do much worse than Kung Fu Panda, which stars Jack Black as a panda destined to be a great martial artist. The voice cast is big-time and wonderful: Dustin Hoffman as the tiny sensei Shifu, Angelina Jolie as the stoic Tigress, Seth Rogen as Mantis, Lucy Liu as Viper and David…
“I left Lebanon being very distant from Arabic culture,” says 20-year-old filmmaker Raghed (Ray) Charabaty, who moved to Halifax from the mountains outside of Beirut to study film and art at NSCAD in 2012. “I wanted to focus on this new person I could be. “Until I realized that you need to go back to…
Weddings are meant to be a celebration of love, but all too often this sentiment gets hijacked by the pressures of delivering a “perfect day.” Neptune Theatre’s winter comedy Stag & Doe explores in a humorous and affectionate way the perils of losing focus on what really matters. The play opens in a community…
“My mother calls it the gender frick show,” says local drag performer and Gender F_ck co-founder Rhett Slutler. Slutler’s saucy alter ego, Billie Coquette, will perform a “queerlesque” number at this Saturday’s Gender F_ck show at Menz and Mollyz Bar. The show also marks the infamous gay bar’s 11th anniversary. “I love burlesque but I’ve never…
Q Down to business: Christmas came and went, and every present I bought for my extraordinary husband could be opened in front of our children. He deserves better, and I have a particular gift in mind for Valentine’s Day. My husband has expressed an interest in sounding, something we’ve attempted only with my little finger.…
Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) “It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good…
Sushi Jet has managed to do the unthinkable and survive the Crown Diner Curse of 5171 Salter Street and crawl its way up to the bright lights of Spring Garden Road. Late last year, it traded places with its sister restaurant, In Spring, which is still holding down the Metro Park location. It’s barely past…
Snow justice Dear mayor Mike Savage, Last March I sent you a letter—to which I received no response—regarding the city’s failure to clear snow. This year I would like to remind you that your salary is paid by the citizens of this city, and that your office has an obligation to respond to complaints made…
Name: David Idemudia Age: 18 Occupation: First-year Dalhousie engineering student Spotted: South Park Street Wearing: Jacket from ASOS, beanie from H&M, Herschel backpack, pants from Bluenotes, boots from Aldo What kinds of things do you consider when putting an outfit together in the morning? I try to balance between wearing something comfortable, warm enough for the…
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