Last week, when Halifax Regional Municipality staff gave councillors an update on how the city’s key priorities are progressing (short answer: poorly), they did so rather subtly: Not with a presentation, where councillors could ask pointed questions about the city’s lack of progress toward its goals, but instead in the form of an information item […]
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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Every woman killed since Brad Johns said domestic violence wasn’t an epidemic in Nova Scotia
In the nine months since former Nova Scotia justice minister Brad Johns told a pool of reporters that he didn’t consider domestic violence to be an epidemic, 10 women have been killed in the province. In nine of those deaths, the accused killers are the women’s husbands, boyfriends or sons. Last week’s grisly discovery of […]
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The cold truth about warmer Halifax winters
It’s January 2024 and my sneakers are wet. The rubber soles gave up months ago, meaning the three inches of mud and puddle water underfoot is seeping right into my socks as I clomp toward Susies Lake on a blue-grey morning that feels like it could be April. My feet, I imagine, have already taken […]
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Customer Service channel Sloan in newest music video
It was days before Christmas, and Customer Service’s Owen Harris and Matt Cheverie were watching old music videos from the nineties. Although they weren’t around for the Halifax Pop Explosion, an appreciation of that era and its legacy had been one of the bonding forces for the Halifax emo/punk band when they formed as high-schoolers […]
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Meet the Halifax startup that’s making compostable period products
Rashmi Prakash has no time for small thinking. As a young girl growing up in Wales and southern Ontario, the Indian-born Prakash dreamt of genetically engineering “green dragons” that would fly over the planet and convert greenhouse gases into oxygen. “I do consider myself delusionally optimistic,” she told The Coast in 2023. “‘Be realistic’ is, […]
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Jeremy Hotz is still miserable—and as funny as ever
Jeremy Hotz is having a bad day. There’s a rat in his kitchen and it’s decided to take up residence. It started with a crash the other day. Hotz came downstairs to find his newly-bought hot dog buns knocked off the counter and on the floor. “The whole bag, for fuck’s sakes!” he laughs, speaking […]
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7 new Halifax restaurants, cafes and breweries to get you excited for 2025—plus, more on the move
There’s never a dull moment in Halifax’s food scene. The year 2024 brought more than its share of dining headlines to our coastal city, from a trawler’s haul of new waterfront restaurants to the closures of Salty’s, El Chino and Birch & Anchor, to a Haligonian (once again) reaching the final of Top Chef Canada. […]
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Halifax authors delve into the craft of writing on King’s podcast
Years before Aaron Williams and RC Shaw became published authors, each with a pair of books under their belt, the friends and former University of King’s College classmates had a fever-induced idea one night. It was the winter of 2017. The two were rooming together in New York City for a weeklong authors’ residency. Williams […]
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Did a homicide kill the Alehouse?
Two years ago, when downtown Halifax was getting ready to host the men’s World Junior Hockey Championship, Ryan Sawyer left his parents’ Fall River home to watch a pre-tournament game with his brother. He never returned. Police found him “unresponsive” outside the Halifax Alehouse in the early morning hours of Dec 24, his body near […]
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First look at Tribute, Halifax’s new waterfront fine-dining gem
Colin Bebbington is a bubbling pot of stories. Ask him to expound on the subtleties of Bolognese pasta or the kitchens he’s worked in from London to Chicago to Napa, and he’ll happily hold court for long enough to fully, undeniably convince you: The man is obsessed with food. Loves everything about it, from brioche […]
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Here are your Best of Halifax 2024 winners for Food + Drink
It’s an historic year in The Coast’s annual Best of Halifax Awards: Six Food + Drink winners are joining the rarefied air of the BOH Hall of Fame after some truly impressive runs of dominance. Longtime food truck favourite Bud the Spud (Best Fries), Pizza Corner staple Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers (Best Poutine, […]
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10 albums and EPs from Halifax artists you need to listen to this year
In this streaming era of music, it’s hard to keep tabs on everything. When 100,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify, YouTube and other platforms every day, how can anyone find the must-listen amid the mediocre? The truly stellar among the stale? The original among the old news? Count yourself lucky in two respects: As ever, […]