There’s an old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. My coastal colleague, Zoë Ducklow, has been following the offshore comings and goings of vessels near Victoria, BC in her twice-weekly Westshore newsletter for months. It’s a fun glimpse at what’s happening in the Pacific Northwest’s waters—and, well, I figured: Why not here, […]
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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Coast readers: How has inflation changed your grocery shopping habits?
The average Haligonian’s grocery bill rose by 10.5% in 2022, according to the latest Canada’s Food Price Report. That’s more than any year since the 1980s—and if food researchers’ forecasts are correct, we’re in for another 5-7% jump in 2023. Those figures come from a collaborative report by researchers at Dalhousie University, the University of […]
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DND comes under fire in public feedback session on proposed Hartlen Point warship testing site
If Tuesday night’s public forum on the Department of National Defense’s plans for the future of Hartlen Point established anything, it’s how wide the gulf remains between those determined to build a land-based warship testing site near Eastern Passage and those who want it moved anywhere else. For more than two and a half hours […]
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5 takeaways about Halifax’s rental housing picture, based on the CMHC’s latest report
It’s not often our Maritime city gets to claim a “first” in Canada, but here we are: The average price of a two-bedroom rental unit in Halifax climbed more over the past year than in any of Canada’s largest municipalities, according to the latest Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation rental market report. If you rented […]
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We received a video tip. Help us identify what’s in it.
The cellphone video snippet lasts four seconds and contains no sound. In it, a man in a blue Toronto Maple Leafs ball cap and a checkered flannel shirt struggles while he’s subdued by three people dressed head-to-toe in black. They’re on the Prince Street sidewalk, about half a block from where Prince meets Brunswick Street. […]
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Halifax’s road safety inaction is killing people
“Numbers never lie,” the Mexican-American novelist Luis Alberto Urrea wrote in The Devil’s Highway, “they simply tell different stories depending on the math of the tellers.” When Halifax premiered its Road Safety Dashboard in 2020, two years into a long-term plan to eliminate traffic-related injuries and deaths on the region’s streets, the intent was not […]
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Alehouse bouncers await February plea date for assault charges
Halifax Alehouse bouncers Alexander Pishori Levy, 37, and Matthew Brenton Day, 33, will wait until Feb. 17 to enter their pleas in connection to assault charges the two face stemming from an October incident at the pub. Both Levy and Day were scheduled to appear at the provincial courthouse on Spring Garden Road on Monday […]
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Renting in Halifax in 2023? Bring cash—and lots of it
Haligonians bemoaning the cost of housing in the HRM now have definitive proof: The average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in our small Atlantic city is higher than in Kelowna, Kitchener, Calgary, Ottawa and pretty much everywhere that’s not Greater Toronto, Vancouver or Victoria. Per the latest Rentals.ca report, a national overview of rental […]
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Nova Scotia’s government says it will spend “tens of millions” to fix emergency department woes. Will it work?
Nova Scotia’s health minister stopped short of describing the province’s latest health spending announcement as a “blank cheque,” but that might as well have been the message Wednesday as premier Tim Houston’s government shared its latest plans to “go like hell” in addressing a health-care system sorely in need of mending. On Jan. 18, health […]
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Nova Scotia’s emergency departments are facing a “complete unravelling”
If you visited a Nova Scotia emergency department for a health concern in December, your odds of leaving the hospital alive were the lowest they’ve been in the past six years. That’s according to Nova Scotia Health numbers recently obtained by the NS NDP through a Freedom of Information request. About one in 666 Nova […]
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First look at East Cup Cafe—Halifax’s newest coffee roastery
Ahmad Issa still remembers the smell of Turkish coffee wafting through his childhood home in Jordan’s capital, Amman. It was his father’s favourite. The aroma—earthy, nutty—lingered in Issa’s memory when he relocated to Halifax in the 1990s. It was that same indelible fragrance that started a lifelong love affair with the coffee beans that would […]
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The World Juniors brought Halifax money, crowds and a homicide case. Was it worth it?
One city block and 11 days apart, in the shadow of Citadel Hill, two scenes played out in Halifax’s downtown that will linger in the minds of Haligonians for years to come. The first scene, on Jan. 5, you’re likely to remember: Overtime. Canada vs. Czechia. A Dylan Guenther gold-medal-winning goal. Thousands cheering at Rogers […]