Turkey & all the fixin’s The Esquire Restaurant You don’t have to wait for the holidays—roast turkey is on the menu all year long. Full plate with sides for $16. esquirerestaurant.ca Kitchen Door Catering A two-person meal with turkey or ham, sides of potatoes, green beans, carrots and cranberry bread pudding, with apple crisp or […]
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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How to have the best virtual cocktail party of the year
1 Plan ahead First, pick a platform. By now you probably know about Zoom, Facetime and Google Hangouts. As host, consider upgrading to a paid account to allow for extra time and more features. Plan your date and time, accounting for the time zones of everyone you want to invite. Then send out an invitation […]
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Environmental racism bill goes to second reading in House of Commons
Lenore Zann crossed the floor in 2019 from the NDP to the Liberals, and made the jump from provincial politics to federal. But despite the changes in her political career over the past few years, there’s been one issue Zann has kept pushing for. “I feel that environmental racism is something that has been ignored […]
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The art of charcuterie
When Andrea Thomson was growing up, way before “charcuterie” became the photo-ready social media phenomenon it is now, Friday night charcuterie was a regular thing in her household. “It wasn’t always fancy cheeses and meats, but every Friday we’d always have raw fruits and vegetables and different deli meats and pepperoni,” she tells The Coast. […]
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Shop the city
Over 50 local gift ideas for anyone on your list, at any budget. With online shopping and curbside pickup, you never even have to leave the house. $20 & Under (Left to Right, Top to Bottom) Card $6 Duly Noted Stationery 5431 Doyle Street dulynoted.ca Bird matches $8 Bellissimo Living 2743 Agricola Street bellissimoliving.com Cat ornament $20 Thornbloom […]
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What the pandemic means for a soup kitchen’s holiday meal
Over the past nine months, food banks and shelters have adapted to pandemic regulations. Limited capacity and take-out meals have become the norm. And the holiday season won’t change that. “At first we were quite disappointed, and we really batted around, ‘what do we do?’ But then we thought ‘OK, well if they can’t come […]
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The anti-Amazon in Dartmouth
Amanda Cluett always had a feeling that entrepreneurship was her path. After working years in a government job and raising her three children, she thought, “if I don’t do this, when am I ever going to do it?” and opened Black Bow Gift Co. in June 2019. The company first started out selling pre-made gift […]
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Syrian cheese in the north end
Marwan Ramadan came to Halifax in 2016, bringing his expertise in Middle Eastern cheese with him. “My family made the cheese of all the world,” he says. “I can make about 10 or 15. The same but a little bit different.” Originally from Homs, Syria, Ramadan grew up watching his mother make cheese before getting […]
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Halifax’s bubble gets smaller
Remember the days of MySpace—where you picked your top friends to list on your profile page? Now it’s real life, except instead of your profile, you have to pick your personal COVID-19 bubble. For “western HRM,” once the clock strikes 12:01 on Monday, November 23, a resident’s bubble—the people you don’t have to socially distance […]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like holiday market season
Christmas at the Forum Editor’s Note: As of November 26, Christmas at the Forum will be closed for the remainder of the season, with the option of a ticket refund or donating ticket proceeds to Feed Nova Scotia. What may be the largest seasonal shopping event in the city will still go on this year, […]
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We love how Halifax answers the door with a smile
Eric Daponte spent the past eight months on the road in HRM. Four, sometimes five days a week, he’s behind the wheel, bringing a pandemic necessity to people’s doors. “Everyone is really stoked when you show up with beer,” Daponte says. “When people ring their doorbell they’re usually like, ‘Who the hell is this at […]
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We love that Halifax got baked
In the early days of the pandemic, Halifax was uncertain about lockdowns, scared of new cases and worried about job security. But one thing it could count on? Carbs. Bakers (and would-be bakers) trekked to the grocery store to snap up the last packets of yeast and flour from near-bare shelves. They waited for loaves […]