The Coast is very much into local people doing cool things, but it has a blind spot in relation to Halifax’s tech scene. That’s because tech firms don’t usually have an inviting retail presence like the stores and restaurants we obsess about in ShopTalk, and tech creators tend to be making things for consumption by […]
Kyle Shaw
Loving the arrival of this mysterious climate event people are calling "spring".
Kyle was a founding member of the newspaper in 1993 and was the paper’s first publisher. Kyle occasionally teaches creative nonfiction writing (think magazine-style #longreads) and copy editing at the University of King’s College School of Journalism.
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Gear worth getting: The $20 phone lifesaver
Two years ago they didn’t exist, now they’re the biggest thing in phone protection. Nic Merry has the stats to explain the rise of tempered glass screen protectors. Merry, who started the local chain of geebo Device Repair shops, has been fixing phones for a decade, and cracked screens are the most common problem he […]
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Harbr’s building momentum in the construction tech field
Some tech companies are started in dorm rooms. Harbr traces its roots to Dave Kim’s living room. Kim is a transplant from Australia to Nova Scotia. Long story short, while travelling in his 20s he became friendly with some Cape Bretoners in upstate New York, and decided to check out their home turf. Sure enough […]
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Women owning it
Women Taking Over The World With Tech is a Volta program that encourages and nurtures—you guessed it—females working in or wanting to get into the male-dominated technology sector. WTWT is also a rallying cry, an aspiration and a series of monthly events. But is a fact? Are women really a growing part of the tech […]
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5 tips for starting a tech company
“I planned to be a millionaire before my 30th birthday,” Katelyn Bourgoin writes on her website, describing the ambitions that lead her to launch a social networking company. But despite her intentions and the international press accolades she received as founder of the what looked like the next LinkedIn, the business fizzled. “Trying to build a […]
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How to get started with cannabis
Annie MacEachern is an advocate using her voice to help get medical weed patients heard in the din of recreational pot legalization. But she’s also an experienced cannabis user herself, and when we chatted about the medical cannabis fight she had some great tips for pot newbies. Here’s MacEachern’s advice on where to start, and […]
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Q&A: Coming out of the cannabis closet
WWhen she was 19, Annie MacEachern moved from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia, where—of course—she discovered the joys of cannabis. She remained a recreational weed user when she came back east to get her public relations degree at Mount Saint Vincent University, during work stints in the Alberta oil patch and through her eventual […]
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On the job
The Coast got a tip, many years ago, about a local restaurant that demanded its female staff endure regular weigh-in sessions at the restaurant, as part of pressure to be attractive on the job. We wanted to write about this sexism, but not only would nobody talk about it, women working there asked us keep […]
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What memory do you still masturbate to?
Circle jerks aren’t for everyone, but there’s a lot to love about a cycle of self-love. The idea of yesterday’s hot experience powering today’s sweet release sounds too good to be true, like turning lead into gold. However, the relationship alchemists who answered this question in the Sex + Dating survey reveal just how magical […]
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What was the last thing that turned you on?
Hearing about other people’s dreams is often annoying. Hearing about their turn-ons, on the other hand, can be compelling. Below are selected answers to the Sex + Dating survey question of “What was the last thing that turned you on?” These responses are anonymous but not generic. The specificity makes it both easy to relate—I […]
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All of Halifax’s sexual confessions
There’s something gratifying about the act of confessing. The person whose secret is unburdened feels relief, while the person who hears the confession feels the power of intimacy. So for everybody’s sake, we are honoured to share these sexual confessions selected from the 2018 Sex + Dating survey, where Haligonians come clean. “No clue if […]
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Weed mapped: what’s behind where the NSLC will sell legal cannabis
Weed users got a skimpy gram from Stephen McNeil’s government when the province’s legal cannabis retail locations were revealed this week. There will be exactly nine NSLC locations carrying chronic for all of Nova Scotia, justice minister Mark Furey announced, from Yarmouth to Sydney River. You can see them all in the map below. For […]