Just how awesome is the new Discovery Centre? We’re about to find out. After five years of planning, fundraising and building, the giant $20-plus million waterfront science showcase opens this Sunday, February 12. (Check the slideshow below.) “We are delighted to finally open our doors to the public,” says Discovery Centre president/CEO Dov Bercovici via […]
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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Discover the new Discovery Centre
Halifax’s new-and-improved Discovery Centre opens Sunday, February 12, in its big harbourside space at 1215 Lower Water Street.
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Phoenix marks 30 years of helping youth across HRM
The idea actually started in 1984, with a meeting to discuss the problem of homeless youth, but the Phoenix organization considers its founding as happening three years later. Those early years were a gestation period, time for a small group of committed people to coalesce around a concern and put a plan into action, rallying […]
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Titanic’s song of fire and ice
New Year’s Day brought the world a fresh look at the sinking of the Titanic, and it has nothing to do with the claim the boat that sank off Newfoundland was actually Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic. In Titanic: The New Evidence, a documentary aired January 1 on England’s Channel 4, modern animation techniques are […]
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Making America hate again
Two words that should never be spoken in polite company are now the planet’s nightmare: president Trump. Is that extreme? I hope so. Although like they say, hope for the best, plan not to visit the States for a while. At its greatest, America as a country was an inspiration for the rest of the […]
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How to hit play like The Hitman
Bret “The Hitman” Hart, the Alberta-born pro wrestler and survivor of a major stroke, is a big fan of the March of Dimes charity. So much that he became the face of MoD’s Stroke Recovery Canada program, or as we like to call it, the Hart & Stroke Foundation. The Hitman is in Halifax for […]
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Going deeper into The Deep
You might have noticed Facebook posts or Coast ads about The Deep, “Atlantic Canada’s long-form magazine.” And you may have wondered, “Hey, what is that, anyway?” The Deep is a collaboration between The Coast and Matthew Halliday and Chelsea Murray, a couple of journalists (and a journalistic couple) who moved to Halifax from Toronto in […]
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Your stake in the US election
If you’re anything like everyone, you’ve been paying attention to the American presidential election. You may even be thinking about it more than the municipal campaign that is currently peaking in Halifax, where official voting day is, as you almost totally definitely know, this Saturday, October 15. Technically it’s not good to care about another […]
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Sidestory encourages honest, meaningful storytelling
Gavin Uhma is a bit of a legend in the local tech community. He’s the Halifax-via-Cape Breton guy who invented GoInstant, “co-browsing” software so good that it was bought in 2012 by the giant Salesforce.com, for a reported $70 million. After a stint with Salesforce that ended last October, his new business Sidestory just launched […]
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Pokemon Go out and discover this city
[Image-1] If you’re not careful, you’ll spend the whole school year living in a bubble. A good campus—and Halifax is loaded with ’em—is a socially fluid haven. There are places to eat, work out, even sleep if you go the dorm route (or have a sleeping bag stuffed in that backpack). Schools hope you never […]
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Fringe Sampler! is the best fest test
Fringe Sampler! Thursday, September 1 7pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street free Going into its 26th year, the Atlantic Fringe Festival is anything but fringe. What was once a deliberately marginal theatrical celebration is not just a big theatre festival—it’s now a major Halifax festival, period. More than 50 productions over 150 performances, spanning 15 […]