It’s been two years—730 bizarre days—since everything changed in Nova Scotia. When the province’s first presumptive cases of COVID-19 were announced on March 15, 2020, we collectively and immediately had to figure out isolation, masking and altering our lives to avoid an entirely new health risk. We were introduced to new anxieties, new losses and […]
Coast Readers
Coast forum: Your true bed-time stories
Give the details of your last one-night stand Elevator magic A friend of friends; I met him at Nocturne. We went out dancing, then left together. He fingerbanged me in the Scotia Square elevator, and then we went to his place to bang for real. Nipple stains He had freshly pierced nipples and they bled […]
Hey Halifax
953 people completed this year’s Sex and Dating Survey online, motivated only by promises of complete anonymity and kinky catharsis. In the world of polling, that’s what they’d call a huge sample size. The typical Haligonian opinion poll gets information from about 350 people, and is considered 95% accurate 19 times out of 20. If […]
My most memorable New Year’s Eve
We asked readers to share their NYE tales, with the promise that one participating reader would be picked in a random draw to win a beautiful bottle of Taittinger champagne graciously provided by Bishop’s Cellar. Whether it was the champagne prize or the natural urge to commiserate over plans gone wrong, loads of stories came […]

