Yesterday this truck drove down Marginal Road towards the container port. But unlike most of the trucks driving that route, which will unload their container cargo onto boats or trains for shipping around the world, this one is delivering the world to Halifax. Its cargo is a (literally) touring exhibition called “Together: An exhibition on […]
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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This issue has 22 years
[Image-1] This is a big week in The Coast’s world. On Wednesday, because of last year’s powerful feature “The always-on stalker,” the paper received an Excellence in Journalism award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation—a first not just for The Coast but for any media organization in Nova Scotia. Saturday, I’ll be speaking for The Coast […]
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1,000 issues of The Coast
[Image-1] This week’s print copy of our newspaper is a milestone: the 1,000th issue of The Coast. And whether you are a longtime reader or a newbie, you are part of this accomplishment. So thanks, and congratulations. Feel free to raise your voice in song to welcome The Coast’s millennium. One thousand issues ago, The […]
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From the Editor
Keeping track of all the money the film business brings into the province would be impossible. In 2001, K-19: The Widowmaker was shooting in Halifax, and one of my side gigs was doing occasional reporting for People magazine. When the celebrity rumour mill said Harrison Ford was up to something salacious, I got the call […]
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Guess who does Canada’s most excellent journalism
The Canadian Journalism Foundation just announced the finalists of its 2015 Excellence in Journalism Award, and the news has Coast headquarters reeling. In a good way. As well as naming the short-listed outlets in the “large media” category—the Globe and Mail, Global TV, L’actualité, the Toronto Star and Winnipeg’s Free Press—the CJF announced the winner […]
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It’s raining Atlantic Journalism Awards
From Fort Mac to Ralph’s Place, Coast writers like to go the extra mile for you, and a batch of Coasties have just been recognized for their efforts. The short-list of nominations for the 2014 Atlantic Journalism Awards came out yesterday, with four Coast projects up for local journalism’s biggest prize—a plaque plus a year […]
Posted inArts + Music
Beanyonce is crazy in love
What happens when filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, singer Jenn Grant and Coast celebrity canine Beans combine their talents? Best. Dog. Video. Ever. This is Beanyonce’s first starring role, and she couldn’t be happier than sharing it with her bestie Sophie. As you’ll see. Put it on heavy rotation for Valentine’s Day. No One's Gonna Love You […]
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Glatze, Franco, Sundance and Halifax
Vanity Fair‘s Monday report from the Sundance Film Festival has an unlikely Halifax connection. One of the movies VF’s Richard Lawson had to undure is I Am Michael, wherein James Franco and Zachary Quinto play a pair of Halifax magazine editors. The Halifax part isn’t what makes them Franco-worthy, it’s that after launching the publication […]
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The six Facebook posts that Dal suspended 13 students for
Lawyers for Ryan Millet, the dentistry student who blew the whistle on the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen,” held a press conference Wednesday morning to share the news that Dalhousie is still bungling this whole Facebook situation. Yeah, shocker. Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical […]
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Lost and found at The Oval
The beloved Oval is a great place to lose yourself—and your hat. Something about the soothing rhythm of gliding around and around and around may lull people into a forgetful state of bliss, or maybe it’s the stress of changing in and out of gear with thousands of other skaters. Either way, people manage to […]
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Do I need eight hours of sleep?
For my birthday I got a “wearable tech” gizmo, an UP bracelet that tracks both movement and sleep. Suddenly life was all about numbers: How many steps I walked that day, how much time I was active, how I was sleeping at night. I liked having daily goals—the 10,000 steps proving easier to get than […]
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Making a stand
“The fact that we have mobile devices doesn’t mean we’re mobile while using them,” says Sara Kirk, Canada Research Chair at Dal. She explores the links between chronic diseases and the built environment. Schools and offices, for example, are set up for prolonged sitting—and thus encourage diabetes, heart problems, obesity. “Sitting is bad,” says Kirk. […]