I’d like to think I don’t bitch a lot but I’ve just gotta get this one out. I’ve noticed this winter during a storm, at night, on the highway, a lot of drivers going cautiously slowly with their four-way flashers on. Meanwhile everyone else is driving cautiously slow. Because it’s a storm. And all those […]
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Under the bus
You threw me, your assistant and several others the past few years under the bus and you think we don’t know and you still pretend to be our friend? Staff laughs at you and calls you their entertainment. Lose our numbers we don’t want to hear from you ever again. Everyone quits to get away […]
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Toxic
You wanted to live in my house and drive my car. You wanted my husband. I gave him to you and thank you for that! You also tried to take my kids. We all know you have a serious girl crush on me but you can’t be me. You got the two-cent millionaire and I […]
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The vegan struggle
I’m a vegan and feel the burden of being vegan in Halifax. I waste time shopping at many grocery stores sense not one can provide all the items I want. My favourite vegan snack is usually restocked a month later after I buy them all causing me to have to shop at nearly 10 grocery […]
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Catch Bird Flu—our Blue Jays playoff podcast
We gathered The Coast’s die-hard fans and bandwagon-jumpers to talk baseball highlights—beer can baby, showboating, the bat flip and tonight’s game.
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TGIFinally Friday’s 10 knowledge-pockets for you
1 William Michael Sandeson has been charged in with 1st-degree murder in the death of his fellow Dalhousie student Taylor Samson. Court documents from police claim Samson had been selling marijuana for extra cash, and was supposed to meet a new customer with a large order when he disappeared on Saturday. Samson’s friend, the same […]
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Wednesday’s 10 things you need to know
1 “I’m willing to let go of what I have so I can grow something that I don’t quite have yet.” That’s what Fred Connors told us yesterday upon announcing that after 11 years on Agricola and North Streets, FRED. would be moving out of its current salon-cafe location at the end of September. Don’t […]
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9 things you need to know Tuesday
1 Because nothing is real unless there’s a parody Twitter account for it, someone with too much time has created “MoronsOf PeggysCove.” The account presumably is to increase public safety awareness (provided tourists are checking local tweets) by shaming people through snide jabs about Darwinism. For more on Ricky Gervais’ comedy, click here. 2 Nova […]
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Friday’s 9 things you have to read
1 More on the closure of the Quinpool Road Second Cup from the Herald’s Remo Zaccagna; it appears property owner Christina Kioussis is owed over $40,000 in unpaid rent from the last year-and-a-half. Zaccagna also digs up an unfair labour board grievance filed late last year that claims franchise owner Kathy Attis never paid the […]
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Thursday’s 7 things to get a read on
[Image-1] 1 The PEACE EAST festival is six years old this weekend, and organizers Chris Enns and Sherri Reeve-Enns are hoping you’ll check it out. The medical marijuana activists have been fighting the government and the courts since their businesses and home were twice raided by police over the last two years. City editor Jacob […]
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Wednesday’s 9 things to read while everyone else is on vacation
[Image-1] 1 A consortium of Halifax business owners and entrepreneurs will back the Rainmen’s replacement. Jonathan Briggins reports that the city’s new basketball team should be announced next week. The Halifax Wooden Monkeys? The Halifax Freds? Only time will tell. 2 The number of prison deaths in Nova Scotia are “disturbing” says Canada’s corrections watchdog. […]
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Tuesday’s 7 things you have to read
[Image-1] 1 Did you know The Coast’s homepage won’t accept swear words in headlines? We didn’t until trying to publish this Voice of the City by “asshole with a shovel” Paul Vienneau. The photographer and ice-destroyer was one of several voices whose input was sought, then ignored by the consultant report on what went wrong […]
