Argyle Street will be the “fun street of Canada,” promises Halifax mayor Mike Savage. City council voted Tuesday for “routine non-special event” closures of Argyle Street this summer. The road will be closed off to vehicles between Prince and Blowers from noon on Friday to midnight on Sunday during July and August. The pilot project […]
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Nova Scotia offers $1.8-million rebate for innovative ice cream
Nova Scotia Business Inc. is giving Quebec dairy giant Agropur a $1,843,776 rebate to create an “innovative production line, novel to the national ice cream market in Canada.” The presumably bold and world-class ice cream will be produced at the former Scotsburn plant in Truro. Agropur purchased the Nova Scotian company two years ago to expand […]
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SIRT director says more resources needed to police the police
The province’s police watchdog is being stretched thin investigating cases across Atlantic Canada. Felix Cacchione, director of the Serious Incident Response Team, explained the problem Tuesday during a presentation to the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners. Last month, Nova Scotia witnessed its first police shooting death since SIRT was formed in 2012. The next morning, […]
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Richard Florizone leaving Dalhousie for quantum super-position
Richard Florizone is leaving Dalhousie for a “once in a lifetime” opportunity in quantum computing. The university president’s resignation was announced Monday in a memo from the school’s Board of Governors. Board chair Lawrence Stordy writes that the news comes “with mixed emotion.” “We have benefitted greatly from his leadership and vision these past five years,” […]
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The 25 for 25 podcast: 1994
Welcome to episode two of The Coast’s 25th-anniversary podcast. This week arts editor Tara Thorne and city editor Jacob Boon talk about Friends and Rita and Friends. We look back at Shakespeare by the Sea, watch as the city makes its first failed effort to make amends for Africville and discuss the practicalities of racing […]
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Two more ex-councillors speak up about discrimination inside HRM
Two former city councillors are joining with one of their past colleagues in demanding a public inquiry into racism within HRM’s workforce. Previous downtown and south end councillors Dawn Sloane and Sue Uteck, along with Equity Watch co-founders Jackie Barkhouse and Liane Tessier, held a press conference outside City Hall on Thursday afternoon to describe […]
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How Halifax failed Randy Symonds
Marie Symonds hates the bus. Growing up, her kids were told to always be careful taking transit. If anything happened, keep calm and call her. “You never know what’s going to happen when you get on the bus when you’re Black,” she says. About a year ago, her daughter Carole was taking a bus to […]
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Shipyard workers headed out on strike
The Halifax Shipyard’s 800 unionized workers are two days away from the picket line. Electricians, metal fabricators and other labourers with UNIFOR Marine Workers Local One have voted by 75 percent to reject a new contract from the Irving Shipyard. “Obviously our members have been frustrated,” said MWF business agent Adam Hersey in a news release sent […]
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Confidential hotline, external consultant promised to address racism in HRM’s workforce
Halifax’s chief administrative officer is trying to quell growing public outrage now that the racial discrimination inside city hall’s workforce has come to light. In a public update sent out Monday afternoon, CAO Jacques Dubé says a new confidential hotline will go live next month for employees to report abuses when they aren’t comfortable going […]
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We made a podcast! Here’s 25 for 25’s debut episode: 1993
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The Coast is dipping its toes in this whole podcast fad the youths are talking about. Welcome to 25 for 25, our new weekly podcast. It’s a year-by-year look back at the stories and people that have shaped Halifax over the past quarter century. Our first episode came out today […]
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Coast 25: 46 of the weirdest things we’ve ever published
The prophet in Clayton Park Bill Deagle says he knows things they don’t want you to know about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and other government secrets. Now he lives in suburban Halifax, with an internet radio broadcast and orders from god to get the truth out there. Celine Dion’s cancelled Halifax show After the […]
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Council wants Cogswell engagement, but only on its own terms
Public engagement’s great, but leave the big decisions to us. That seems to be the lesson from planning staff as the city moves forward with a once-in-a-lifetime redevelopment project. Halifax council voted Tuesday to proceed onto the next major steps in redeveloping the Cogswell Interchange, with an added amendment for some robust public engagement before […]
