Patrice Gheisar is pacing across the indoor BMO Soccer Centre pitch in Clayton Park, brow furrowed in concentration. For the better part of an hour, the 48-year-old HFX Wanderers FC head coach has been running his new charges through drills, 8v8 scrimmages and line sprints. The intensity seldom wavers. It’s day three of the Wanderers’ […]
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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Rapper Pat Stay’s family “shocked,” heartwarmed after weekend benefit event raises $200K
Malyssa Burns wasn’t sure how she would handle the emotions of being in Toronto for a weekend-long memorial held in honour of her late spouse, the celebrated Dartmouth rapper Pat Stay. She brought along his signature sunglasses for comfort—“that helped my crying eyes,” she tells The Coast—but nothing could have fully prepared her for the […]
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A long-awaited meteor and a Greek philosopher meet in Halifax Harbour this week
The last significant meteor showers to grace the Atlantic Canadian skies came at the end of 2022 with the Geminids, which peak annually in mid-December. The next sighting should be far easier to spot, if less spectacular: The 55,534-tonne NYK Meteor container ship arrived in Halifax from Caucedo, Dominican Republic at the start of the […]
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Cyclesmith ex-employees allege unfair treatment, culture of “mundane misogyny”
Antonia Chircop can pinpoint the moment her fears about how she was seen and treated by Cyclesmith’s management were confirmed: She was in a closed-door meeting with two of the north end bike shop’s senior managers. In the weeks leading up to the meeting, Chircop—a cycling enthusiast who’d joined the company as a sales associate […]
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Short-term rental regulations are coming to Halifax this fall. Here’s what you need to know.
Airbnbs and other short-term rental units will soon fall under more stringent regulations in Halifax. On Tuesday night, in the wake of a crowded public hearing, Halifax councillors voted 13-3 in favour of restricting how short-term rentals—homes, apartments or condos rented for 28 days or less at a time—can operate in the region going forward. […]
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A boatload of oil and one terrible name is bound for Halifax Harbour this week
Changing a thing’s name comes with one simple rule: No matter the domain—ships, stadiums, stage names, sports teams—you have to make sure that whatever new name you’ve chosen is better than the one that came before it. A name change can be good (think Washington or Cleveland’s sports teams ditching their racist mascots), kinda-confusing-but-cool (Prince […]
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Alehouse bouncers facing assault charges back in court Friday morning
Four months and two city blocks from where Halifax Alehouse bouncers Alexander Pishori Levy and Matthew Brenton Day are accused of assaulting a patron on an October night, the pair will appear at the Halifax provincial courthouse to enter their pleas on the morning of Friday, Feb. 17. Both Levy, 37, and Day, 33, face […]
Posted inFood + Drink
The Mid-East Food Centre is back in Halifax’s north end—and its owner says it’s here to stay
It’s an unusually balmy February afternoon in Halifax’s north end when Abdulsalam Mohammad (the junior, not the senior) greets a visitor, mid-delivery of another shipment of imported grocery products. The sight itself is a familiar, even expected one: For the past two weeks, it’s been a hive of activity at the corner of North and […]
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Nova Scotia’s primary care waitlist is growing (again). And the province is falling behind in its reporting.
When a heart issue sent Lunenburg’s Leanne Morin to the emergency department while visiting family in Hawaii, the ER staff recommended she follow up with her doctor in Nova Scotia. The only problem? She doesn’t have one. Leanne and her husband, Joel, have been on the province’s primary care waitlist ever since moving from Montreal […]
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A bullfighter and a politician meet in Halifax Harbour this week. Sort of.
One of Halifax’s greatest strange-but-true elements of local lore is that, somewhere at the bottom of the Bedford Basin, there are about 20 to 30 Volvos sitting on the harbour floor. There’s a lengthier story to be told about how they got there—one that Jalopnik’s Máté Petrány gets into here—but the short (and unconfirmed) version […]
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Coast readers: What’s so super about the Super Bowl?
Where were you when the dream died and reality closed in? Maybe it’s still alive for you, or maybe it never was, but I’ve been asking myself that question for a few years now. Maybe more than a few. I am not a football evangelist anymore, but I used to be. Time was, I could […]
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UPDATED: What we know—and don’t know—about the Christmas Eve homicide, so far
On the night Ryan Michael Sawyer was killed at the corner of Prince and Brunswick streets, he left his parents’ suburban Halifax home wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs hat and a black-and-white checkered flannel shirt, The Coast has learned. Sawyer ate dinner with family and friends downtown, then wandered over to the Scotiabank Arena with […]