Nova Scotia Community College NSCC has three campuses in metro Halifax.Among all their NS campuses there are professional supports. From dedicated advisors for each program, cultural supports for Black, Indigenous and international students, learning strategists (disability supports) and registered personal and career counsellors that can be accessed through the student services office at each campus. […]
Caora McKenna
Caora was City Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from city hall to police and housing issues. She started with The Coast in 2017, when she was the publication’s Copy Editor.
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Six places to lend a hand in Halifax
Halifax North Memorial Library Pair up with a little kiddo as children’s reading support and relive all of your favourite childhood books, from Robert Munsch to the adventures of earnest Franklin once a week. French tutors are also welcome. Fill out the application on the Library’s website and drop it off in person to Lana […]
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Halifax drink specials friendly to student budgets
$4 drinks and half-price apps after 8pm East Side Mario’s, 5287 Prince Street Go for the free bread and salad, stay for the cheap drinks and appetizers. You’ll never leave. Craft beer Sundays Your Father’s Moustache, 5686 Spring Garden Road Take a break from slugging Vitamin O (Oland’s) and Keith’s on Sundays and taste your […]
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Dalhousie nursing students are learning about Naloxone
T his year during orientation week, some Dalhousie nursing students, faculty and staff will be learning about Naloxone—a temporary antidote to opioid overdose—in a special workshop and training on September 5. The program is led by Martha Paynter and Brianna Richardson, both PhD nursing students at Dalhousie, in partnership with Direction 180—a community-based methadone clinic […]
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Halifax is asking us (and our dogs) to stop pooping in the water
Summer: a blissful time to load the kids and the dog in the car, drive a mere 20 minutes to the beach, unload the kids, hastily apply sun screen, and watch the two- and four-legged freaks fling themselves into the water. Moments later, a mischievous smile from your child and—unnoticed but likely still happening—a second […]
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How did we get here on housing affordability in Halifax?
When it comes to affordable housing in Nova Scotia—or a lack of it—definitions are fast and loose, and who needs help often gets lost among departments and jurisdictions. HRM planner Jillian MacLellan says it’s “such a big issue that trying to find the best place to start or where you’re going to be most effective […]
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The results of The Coast’s first Halifax Renters’ Survey
Over 500 readers took our inaugural renters’ survey to tell us what life is like as a renter in Halifax. The results were grim, with housing affordability out for reach for over half of respondents, people paying more than initially budgeted and spending more than eight weeks looking for new apartments. Here’s the results:
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John Perkins says he’ll see Atlantic Gold, RCMP in court
John Perkins has filed a lawsuit against Atlantic Gold Corporation and the RCMP after his hasty caught-on-video arrest at a public information session on mining in Sherbrooke this past May. The information meeting was hosted by Atlantic Gold, whose plans to construct three gold mines in Nova Scotia put them at the forefront of this […]
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Eighty percent of Halifax’s top-earned dollars go to men
T he glass ceiling of income inequality is alive and well, even for Halifax’s top-earning municipal employees. Analysis of the city’s sunshine list—published compensation data which includes the names, departments, positions and compensation for municipal employees earning over $100,000 a year—shows big gaps between the big bucks men and women are earning. The data shows […]
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Burning thoughts about renting in Halifax from the Haligonians in the trenches
We asked readers to share their thoughts about renting in Halifax, and they had a lot to say. (This isn’t all of it.) Who the heck are these million-dollar condos for? Location isn’t everything if the place looks like you’d need a tetanus shot to live there. It’s expensive compared to salaries. Bedbugs should be […]
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Autism Nova Scotia’s healthy relationships and sexuality program could help us all
Love is hard. Sex is complicated. Consent is mandatory but not always given and sex-ed curriculums don’t necessarily tick all the boxes. These things get even more complicated for teens and adults on the autism spectrum. Autism Nova Scotia’s Healthy Relationships, Sexuality and Autism program fills in some of these gaps by supporting teens and […]
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Regional council approves changes to update taxi industry rules
Halifax Regional Council passed the first reading of by-law 1003 and administrative order 39 which moves the process for long-overdue updates to the rules and regulations in HRM’s taxi industry forward. Among the changes is making debit or credit machines mandatory, getting rid of the Halifax, Dartmouth and County zones to make one mega zone, […]
