Michael Fleury

The Alliance Against Atlantica has been busy preparing for the Atlantica Conference, which runs for three days starting today (June 14-16). Not surprisingly, they aren’t rolling out the welcome mat. As reported in last week’s Coast (“Business displeasure,” June 7), Dave Ron and fellow members of the Alliance Against Atlantica aren’t pleased with the implications […]

You know what’s better than a ride on the ferry? A free ride on the ferry. And you know when you can get a free ride on the ferry? Right freakin’ now. It’s true. All you need is a bicycle and a smile. Although you may not have been aware of it, you’re now smack […]

Last Friday night, a crowd of people gathered on Cunard Street near Robie to gawk at the fallout after a sidewalk beating. The attack happened at roughly 1:15am; news tipper Francis Gerard lives in a building adjacent to the alley where the fight took place.”There’s a group that all live in a house across the street, they’re known as a rowdy bunch of people, they’ve threatened people before…this time things really got out of hand. The story goes there was them, partying, and then some other party happening up the street. Words were exchanged, and somehow the people from the

Last summer, Halifax saw it fit to rename a portion of Gerrish Street after local boxing hero and first black sergeant-at-arms, Buddy Daye, who passed away in 1995. Good move. Not only was Daye thoroughly deserving of the honour (Daye helped set up the Black Cultural Centre in Nova Scotia, and offered guidance and support […]

When travelling towards downtown Dartmouth via Wyse Road, one of first buildings to greet your eyes is the former Dartmouth heritage museum. And what a greeting it is. Basically, the building looks—and has looked, for quite some time—terrible. As Kyle Shaw outlined in a recent Coast editorial, there are boarded up windows, mould problems, thoughtless […]

Here’s the thing about widening Chebucto Road: Adding another lane and another strip of pavement to our city is not a progressive idea. Christ knows if anyone on Council is paying attention, but for the record: The 20th century was all about the car, the 21st is all about how to stop using them. The […]

When volume one, issue one, of Seek landed in our mailbox last week, we didn’t know exactly what we were looking at. But we were definitely curious. The three-page, double-sided fold-out bills itself as a Planning & Design Centre newsletter. There isn’t much on the front page to indicate exactly where it comes from, but […]

Welcome to Halifax, land of opportunity. This week, the year-old HRM by Design forums shifted into phase four of seven, and focused on four major opportunity sites in the downtown Halifax and Dartmouth areas: Quinpool, Gottingen, Dartmouth Cove and the Dartmouth Shopping Centre (roughly, downtown Dartmouth). If you happen to live in an “opportunity site,” […]

Halifax lost a local bicycle legend this past week with the passing of Jack Nauss. Nauss died of a heart attack on Friday at the age of 79. Nauss had owned and managed the Jack Nauss Bicycle Shop Ltd. on Agricola Street since 1969, and was a well known figure on the Halifax bicycle scene. […]