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Victoria Walton
Victoria was a full-time reporter with The Coast from April 2020 until mid-2022, when the CBC lured her away. During her Coast tenure, she covering everything from COVID-19 to small business to politics and social justice. Originally from the Annapolis Valley, she graduated from the University of King’s College School of Journalism in 2017.
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An ode to 25+ Halifax businesses that closed in 2020
It’s been a tough year for us all. A year with fewer outings and more take-out. You haven’t put on real pants since at least October (since July, if you’re being more honest). You haven’t met up with your friends for brunch since the summer, and you probably didn’t hit up Argyle Street and waterfront […]
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Moon Light brings Moroccan market to the Maritimes
In February 2020, Hani Fagousse and his then business partner opened a restaurant on the Bedford Highway, specializing in Syrian and Iraqi cuisine. It got off to a great start, but as no one could have predicted, March brought with it the biggest challenge since the 2008 recession. “The first two weeks was amazing and […]
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Churches re-open but arts groups and restaurants remain shuttered
On Wednesday, the Nova Scotia government introduced a complicated new set of regulations that will apply in the province from December 21 through January 10. “We know the holidays are traditionally a time for a lot of socializing with family and friends, but we also know that gatherings can allow the virus to spread rapidly,” […]
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Everything you need to know about Nova Scotia’s Pfizer vaccine rollout
The Pfizer vaccine arrived in Nova Scotia on December 15, one day after it arrived in Canada from its production facility in Michigan, and the day before the first vaccine is set to be given in the province. Gary O’Toole, senior director of population and public health with the NSHA told reporters that there’s already […]
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Bottling a solution
Halifax’s bustling beer industry is stereotypically full of skinny white dudes with a beanie, Blundstones and a beard. And while that image may be based in some truth, there are groups working to change the fact that young white men are the presumptive craft brewers. “We saw that the brewing industry was so whitewashed and […]
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Halifax’s Christmas tree lots busier, earlier this year
Harrington’s Tree lot has been selling Christmas trees for more than two decades at the bottom of Kearney Lake Road where it meets the Bedford Highway. “It’s a three-generation business here, and we’ve been here for 25 years,” says Chris Harrington, son of Keith and Marie Harrington, who started the lot in the 1990s. Typically, […]
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Nova Scotia schools plan for extended winter break, poultry farm shutdown, vaccines en route
On December 11, the Nova Scotia government announced nine new cases of COVID-19 in the province. Two of those new cases are tied to Eden Valley Poultry, a poultry farm in Berwick in the Annapolis Valley. In total, four cases have been detected at the factory now, enough for premier Stephen McNeil and chief medical […]
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Watch this livestreamed cocktail class to help raise $25K for Feed NS
Christmas Cheers! with Shane the Bartender Presented by Nova Scotia Spirit Co. Facebook live and Instagram live Dec 11 and 18 starting at 8pm, free For the second time since March, Nova Scotia’s bars, pubs and restaurants are closed to the public indefinitely. Whether you have a favourite Friday night spot or rarely hit the […]
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Nova Scotia gets a cool new COVID-19 vaccine freezer
On Tuesday, the provincial government announced that Nova Scotia is set to receive its first batch of 1,950 COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday, December 15. “We want everyone to be vaccinated as quickly as possible, but we have to accept that the rollout will be gradual based on vaccine supply and we all want to make […]
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Charging shooter’s ex-partner causing ‘rise in misogyny and victim-blaming’
On December 4, Nova Scotia RCMP released an out-of-the-blue update on what they are still calling Operation H-Strong, more commonly known as the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, which began in Portapique on April 18, 2020. In the release, RCMP say they have charged three people with supplying ammunition to the gunman in advance […]