Getting high in a new place is similar to taking your first bong rip: You’ll get stoned in some capacity, but most of that time will be wasted choking for air—or in this case, searching for a cannabis community. If you’re green to the province or just looking to take the stress out of your […]
Isabel Buckmaster
Isabel has been a freelance reporter with The Coast since 2020, covering a variety of topics including the environment, development, and other social issues. Before the Coast, Isabel worked at the Dalhousie Gazette as opinions editor and is going into their fourth year in journalism at the University of King’s College School.
Posted inArts + Music
Hear’s to you, Halifax
After a year without concerts, it’s essential to pad your playlists with the local groups you’ll chase to the pub after class. Listed below is some of the immense amount of local talent Halifax calls its own—so let your imagination go beyond the stereotype of tartan-clad Celts (though, yes, there are local acts that do […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Stealing homecoming
Homecoming at Dalhousie University is designed to be a combination reunion, school-spirit celebration and community-building exercise—HoCo 2017 was no different. “Homecoming is all about the people,” says Dal’s webpage promoting the 2017 weekend. “Alumni can reconnect with former classmates and make new friends.” Activities are clearly pitched at getting older, established Dal grads to come […]
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Free Halifax
Float your boat (or paddleboard) The sea is calling, and at this price you have no excuse but to accept. Every weekend until the end of September, St. Mary’s Boat Club sinks the cost for renting some of its fleet. Get into a canoe for nothing, or if boats aren’t your thing, take advantage of […]
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How the city created a crisis Wednesday with a shelter siege
In mid-July, when eviction notices were posted on several Halifax Mutual Aid-built shelters across Halifax, HRM councillor Shawn Cleary assured Haligonians that the removal of unhoused residents’ tents, wooden shelters and belongings would happen without violence. “If someone is dragged out of one of these shelters by a police officer I’ll be down there with […]
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Halifax decides time’s up for crisis shelter residents
Early Tuesday morning, several shelter residents in downtown Halifax awoke to learn that this provincial election day may also double as their eviction date. Thirty-four days after the city’s original July 13 deadline for shelter removal, police and bylaw officers have begun to serve eviction notices to several people living in crisis shelters and tents […]
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Halifax Regional Councillors share their biggest concerns for the provincial election
Wondering where your would-be, could-be, provincial elected official of choice falls on the big issues? How their potential win could affect you? Since Nova Scotia’s political structure means many changes at a city level require a provincial sign-off, the impact of an MLA can be significant. As the August 17 election day approaches, we asked […]
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New mapping effort pinpoints housing opportunities
The next time you’re wandering Halifax and come across an abandoned building or empty piece of land, put a pin in that thought: With your help that property could become an affordable place for people to live. This should be housing is a brand-new collaborative mapping project that invites residents of the HRM to create […]
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You can help a park reach its dreams tonight
There’s a good chance you know Cogswell Park, even if you don’t know it as Cogswell Park. It’s the small patch of grass and trees located close to where Windsor Street meets Quinpool Road. Not the large open field on Quinpool next door to the Superstore, but the triangular bit of green space across Windsor […]
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Agricola Street sinkhole caused by human activity
If you followed the line of cement trucks down Agricola Street this morning, you would have found yourself looking down into a gaping sinkhole in the asphalt. Photos of the sinkhole began to circulate on social media at around 7am Monday, but construction crews did not arrive at the scene—just south of Sarah Street, near […]
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Black entrepreneurs ready for Taking BLK Gottingen
Building on the success of last year’s debut, over 50 Black-owned businesses and vendors are back this Saturday for Takin’ BLK Gottingen. Vendors will transform streets and businesses along and around Gottingen Street with an assortment of food, clothing, art and performances in celebration of African Nova Scotian entrepreneurs and the north end. The market […]
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Crisis shelters safe as removal deadline passes
Halifax’s crisis shelters have survived to see another day, but the length and security of that stay is still anyone’s game. “We’re not going to move in and force people out,” said mayor Mike Savage Tuesday, the day of the city’s deadline for the shelters to be removed. “Our goal is to treat people like […]