“An agile, natural athlete and rarified salt, fully possessed of his sea legs from the beginning, Erik would make his way from scantling to fiddley grate to bilge, deck to deck, stem to stern with a diligence unrivalled. His career legacy is one of service to ship and company that was, quite simply, flawless.” So […]
Jacob Boon
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Halifax’s feral cat crisis
Forget greedy developers and overpaid politicians, the most powerful force running around HRM’s streets is its feral cat population. Think about it for a minute: A research paper published in Nature Communications found that as many as 3.7 billion birds and 21 billion small mammals are killed each year by cats, and that’s just in […]
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The age of aquariums
See that fish tank in your dentist’s waiting room? Chances are Justin Wheeler has had his hands in it. The owner of aquarium maintenance company Something Fishy tends to dozens of fish tanks all over the city. Although Wheeler was literally up to his elbows when first contacted by The Coast, we eventually got ahold […]
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Wet Nose has an eye for phodography
Cassie Latta-Johnson is living the dream: using her sharp-shootin’ photography skills to snap gorgeous portraits of Halifax’s canine companions. For the last three years Latta-Johnson’s company, Wet Nose Images, has been building a pup-folio of dandy doggos; filling up its heckin’ cute Instagram with great photos of the city’s best good boys. Latta-Johnson recently spoke […]
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David Hendsbee surprised Halifax didn’t use a red tarp to cover Cornwallis statue
Days after calling Indigenous protestors “hotheads on the warpath,” Halifax Regional councillor David Hendsbee privately joked with his council colleagues about smoking a “peace pipe” and expressed surprise that the tarp the municipality used to cover the statue of Cornwallis wasn’t red. The comments were made this past summer after hundreds of protesters gathered in […]
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Halifax’s Amazon bid to be repackaged for other potential investors
The municipality’s pitch for Amazon’s second headquarters will be used to influence other potential investors—and even Haligonians themselves—should the bid prove unsuccessful. But the details of what’s in that offer aren’t being released to the public. A glimpse into that submission was released Friday in the form of a declassified council report. The in-camera document broadly […]
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Halifax councillor calls for municipal lobbyist registry
At the next meeting of Regional Council, councillor Shawn Cleary will ask for a staff report on the creation and maintenance of a municipal lobbyist registry to keep track of the people and businesses trying to influence HRM. Currently, there’s no record of the consultants, business owners, property developers or special interest groups who bend […]
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Cloudy sales for Solar City
The sun isn’t shining as brightly on Solar City these days. Phase two of Halifax’s solar energy financing project has a budget of $13 million for the next three years, but in its first six months has only managed to spend $311,257. It’s not as bad as it seems, though, cautions HRM manager Shannon Miedema. […]
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Pain and no gain: HRM looks to write-off nearly $300,000 in gym fees
Changing banks was easier than cancelling a Sackville Sports Stadium gym membership, and that could end up costing HRM over a quarter of a million dollars. A report headed to Wednesday’s Audit and Finance committee is asking city council to write-off slightly over $295,000 in outstanding accounts from the Lower Sackville fitness centre. The lost […]
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Watch this: Dalhousie students riot during homecoming
Close to two dozen people were arrested Saturday afternoon as police responded to several off-campus parties being held by Dalhousie students. Halifax Regional Police estimate up to 1,500 people were a part of the unsanctioned homecoming events, which took place off-campus in the area of Jennings and Larch streets. Videos of the disturbance uploaded by those […]
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Cornwallis panel needs to proceed slowly, cautions HRM councillors
It’s been over a week since Halifax Regional Council voted for an expert panel to examine how the city commemorates its problematic founder, but there’s still no word on who will take part. Officially, HRM has four names selected. Those individuals are being contacted by city staff for confirmation. Another four names will be selected […]
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Dealer’s choice: Nova Scotia launches public cannabis consultation
Nova Scotia’s government wants the blunt truth. The province has unveiled an online survey seeking public input on proposed rules and regulations for recreational cannabis. “As the federal government moves toward legalizing cannabis, our top priority is to protect the health and safety of Nova Scotians,” claims Justice minister Mark Furey in a press release. “We want […]
