Watching HFX Wanderers FC’s 2023 Canadian Premier League season is a bit like if every Saturday was a Father’s Day gift: No matter the presentation, the end result is a tie. On May 13, on the road for the soccer club’s second straight match, the Wanderers’ winless woes continued against an equally frustrated Calgary side […]
Martin Bauman
Martin Bauman is an award-winning journalist and interviewer, whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Capital Daily, and Waterloo Region Record, among other places. In 2020, he was named one of five “emergent” nonfiction writers by the RBC Taylor Prize. As host of the Story Untold Podcast, he has interviewed some of Canada's most notable figures, including Paralympian Rick Hansen, cave diver Jill Heinerth, and Juno Award-winner Shad. A passionate speaker and mental health advocate, Martin has been a youth panellist for the Canada-wide Spotlight on Invisible Disabilities Partnership and bicycled solo across Canada to raise funds for services in his hometown of Waterloo, Ont.
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Nova Scotia’s primary care waitlist tops 145,000
If there is a bright spot to be drawn from Nova Scotia Health’s latest update on reversing a provincewide primary care shortage, it is this: While a net of 2,741 more Nova Scotians joined the growing waitlist for a family doctor or nurse practitioner in April, the pace of that list’s growth—for one month, at […]
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A tight Halifax rental market is pushing Haligonians to the margins
There’s a long-running joke about Nova Scotia’s coastal counterpart: BC stands for “Bring Cash.” But a recent survey of rental rates in Canada’s priciest housing markets might soon turn NS into “Need Savings.” No, seriously. According to the latest Rentals.ca report, which compares asking prices of vacant units across Canada, Halifax is the most expensive […]
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The Wanderer Grounds podcast: Halifax stays undefeated, but also winless—which one is closer to the truth?
In this episode of The Wanderer Grounds, Coast reporters Matt Stickland and Martin Bauman are joined by Alex Sheppard—a HFX Wanderers FC fan, but also a part of local minor soccer organization Suburban FC. The three talk about the Wanderers’ game over the weekend (a nil-nil draw with Winnipeg’s Valour FC). After the recap, Alex […]
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An old USSR ship and a massive container ship arrive in Halifax Harbour this week
At times, truth is stranger than fiction. This week is no exception: Halifax Harbour’s ship arrivals include a one-time USSR ship built for tracking satellites, a car carrier operated by a company convicted of running a shipping cartel, another run by a company named in the Paradise Papers leak and a container ship so massive, […]
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Coastal Cafe blames HRM planning for its closure
Mark Giffin is not looking for a pity parade. Even as the owner and chef behind The Coastal Cafe prepares for his last service in just a few weeks—the building he’s fried thousands of eggs and poured several more thousands of coffees in over 16 years soon to be sold to the HRM to pave […]
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First look at Walter’s Snack Bar, downtown Halifax’s newest cocktail bar
Jacob Carey Paradis is polishing glasses, peeling oranges and stocking ice when The Coast swings by for a visit on a rainy May afternoon. Despite the gloomy weather, the mood is bright—Anderson .Paak’s Malibu floats over the bar stereo, and Carey Paradis is singing along. It’s been quite the week for the 26-year-old co-manager of […]
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Halifax Alehouse bouncers enter pre-trial hearing for assault case
Two Halifax Alehouse security staffers accused of attacking a patron while they were on shift last October are back in provincial court on Wednesday, May 3. Alexander Pishori Levy, 37, and Matthew Brenton Day, 33, will both undergo a pre-trial hearing after pleading not guilty to a pair of assault charges stemming from an incident […]
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More ship delays in Halifax Harbour this week
The ancient Greeks had a word, kairos, to denote time—specifically, “the opportune and decisive moment.” The North Atlantic Kairos chemical/oil products tanker was projected to arrive in Halifax as early as late Sunday afternoon, inbound from Come By Chance, Newfoundland, but instead—and indeed, by chance—reached Halifax Harbour at the inopportune hour of 11:15pm. That’s on […]
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Every term you’ve ever needed to know about ships in Halifax Harbour
When we started our Halifax Harbour traffic updates, none of us at The Coast could have predicted that we were birthing a kraken: A weekly feature that would not only prove instantly popular with Haligonians, but also prompt us to delve into far more shipping lingo than any of us thought we’d ever need. (Matt’s […]
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Wanderers draw home opener in front of sellout crowd
Three games into HFX Wanderers FC’s 2023 Canadian Premier League campaign, one theme has followed the professional soccer club: The team knows how to start a game, but hasn’t quite figured out how to finish one. On Saturday, April 29, in front of a sold-out crowd at Wanderers Grounds, the Halifax-based Wanderers drew visitors Vancouver […]
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Economic driver or eco-threat? The conundrum of Halifax’s cruise ships
It’s the Tuesday after the first two cruise ships of 2023 have arrived at Halifax’s Pier 20—and for a brief spell, the waterfront is quiet. Waves lap. A seagull drifts in the breeze above the Emigrant statue, a french fry’s toss from where nearly 3,700 cruise ship travellers aboard the Norwegian Dawn and Zaandam filtered […]