The Halifax peninsula is a small, small place: You never know who you’ll bump into when you’re fighting over fresh tomatoes at the Seaport Farmers Market or scarfing down a 2am poutine on Pizza Corner. More times than not, that compact coziness is a good thing—walkability! friends! chats with your neighbours!—until the moment it abso-friggin’-lutely […]
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Risking it all: This is how far Haligonians have gone for a hook-up
Love is in the air this month—and so, it seems, is pulling out all the stops to getting laid, according to Haligonians’ replies to our 2023 Sex + Dating Survey. More than 1,200 Coast readers took part in this year’s 15th annual survey—and dear God, some of you people are thirsty. Not, er, that there’s […]
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HRM council denies asking province to intervene after Dal HoCo fiasco
Halifax councillor Waye Mason is pouring cold water on reports that he’s considering appealing to the Nova Scotia government to step in after students celebrating Dalhousie University’s annual Homecoming lit a bonfire in the middle of Larch Street and sparked a standoff with Halifax Regional Police. Police estimate as many as 4,000 people gathered in […]
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Burger Bash begins
Today, The Coast kicked off the 2022 Halifax Burger Bash, a 10-day event where patties take over the peninsula and beyond. The Coast is now in its tenth year of running a burger event for HRM, and this year is bigger than ever before with 138 participating restaurants! Almost all of those restaurants are donating […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia the week Feb 21-27
Like the province, The Coast is admitting to omicron overwhelm. We are switching to bare-bones daily reports, while aiming to maintain the vital infographics that give the best picture of the current situation: NS COVID deaths Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia the week Feb 14-20
Like the province, The Coast is admitting to omicron overwhelm. We are switching to bare-bones daily reports, while aiming to maintain the vital infographics that give the best picture of the current situation: NS COVID deaths Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia the week Feb 7-13
Like the province, The Coast is admitting to omicron overwhelm. We are switching to bare-bones daily reports, while aiming to maintain the vital infographics that give the best picture of the current situation: NS COVID deaths Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia the week Jan 31-Feb 6
Like the province, The Coast is admitting to omicron overwhelm. We are switching to bare-bones daily reports, while aiming to maintain the vital infographics that give the best picture of the current situation: NS COVID deaths Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia the week Jan 24-30
Like the province, The Coast is admitting to omicron overwhelm. We are switching to bare-bones daily reports, while aiming to maintain the vital infographics that give the best picture of the current situation: NS COVID deaths Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia over the January 22-23 weekend
Omicron’s arrival means Nova Scotia is overwhelmed by COVID and its data-dissemination abilities are severely compromised. For the time being, these are the only infographics we can share with any confidence of accuracy: Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave Sunday is steady for […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia on Friday, Jan 21
Omicron’s arrival means Nova Scotia is overwhelmed by COVID and its data-dissemination abilities are severely compromised. For the time being, these are the only infographics we can share with any confidence of accuracy: Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave A reprieve from deaths […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia on Thursday, Jan 20
Omicron’s arrival means Nova Scotia is overwhelmed by COVID and its data-dissemination abilities are severely compromised. For the time being, these are the only infographics we can share with any confidence of accuracy: Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave 3 more deaths Yesterday […]