We were pumped to finally see Twitter catch the fire that is Pearl, our Halifax Oyster Festival mascot. On Sunday, local Amy Langdon, @alandon17, tweeted “This is the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival and I’m absolutely terrified of it.” And as of the time we scheduled this post, that statement was liked more than […]
Christine Oreskovich
Christine was one of the founding members of the newspaper in 1993 and has spent her whole career publishing for a Halifax readership.
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Canada’s Online News Act must be transparent, fair and include news innovators
Publisher note from Christine Oreskovich
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A note to our readers from the founders of The Coast
Today we are very excited to share our news that The Coast has been acquired by the Overstory Media Group. Since we founded The Coast with four other friends in 1993, we have seen so much change in our industry. With a feisty and committed team, we have been able to persevere and push through […]
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Press Forward is plotting a strong future for Canadian journalism
The Coast has been part of many different trade organizations over the years, but most important in the early days was the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. We found nerds like us at AAN, journalists and entrepreneurs who loved putting out a free, feisty weekly newspaper for their city. We were welcomed by and shared knowledge […]
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How to get your farmers’ market fix during the lockdown
Whether you’re a Saturday regular at one of the city’s farmers’ markets or a local veggie ingenue, there are a lot of options coming online when it comes to Nova Scotia produce. Recently the provincial government announced it was providing $30,000 to Farmers’ Markets of Nova Scotia to help various markets make the transition to […]
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Pause the presses
The Coast has never experienced anything like this. COVID-19 has turned things upside down for our readers, our staff, our city, our world. The base of local businesses whose advertising helps support The Coast—a base that tilts towards bars, restaurants and events—has been shut down. That shut-down extends to our ticketing service and the events […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Pressing concerns
The printing press is a strange, wonderful machine. You take a roll of blank paper called a web—which is sort like a toilet paper roll, only made of newsprint and so big it’s moved around by forklift—and feed the leading edge into the press to begin an elaborate journey. With the unspooling roll trailing along […]
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Coast 25: Ahead by a quarter-century
Media has always been sensitive to technological advances. The printing press changed things. The telegraph changed things. Television changed things. The internet seems to be changing everything. When we started The Coast, in pre-internet June 1993, we were six friends from the University of King’s College—the two of us, plus Andy Lamey, Andy Pedersen, Aran […]
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Letter from the Founders
In the beginning, we were part of a team of six friends at university, most of us working together on the school paper, all facing a post-graduation world—like today’s—of dim job prospects. So when esteemed journalist and professor Stephen Kimber planted (or didn’t, see page 5) the idea of a new publication for Halifax, we […]