Where to start Employment Insurance is administered by the federal government. Visit canada.ca to start an application. Types of benefits If you’re applying because you yourself are sick with COVID-19 or quarantined, apply for sickness benefits. If your workplace is shut down or has laid you off, apply for regular benefits. New due to COVID-19 […]
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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Why is it so hard to find legal edibles?
In the last week of January, a month after edibles arrived at the NSLC, the Clyde Street store was mostly bare of them. No chocolates, no gummies. The cases of THC-infused beverages were empty. There were three flavours of CBD-infused tea bags from Everie (from High Park) in stock, as well as a number of […]
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Sneckdowns are doing the work so Halifax planners don’t have to
Although snowy roads can inconvenience and annoy drivers, they’re pretty exciting for John Kyle. Snow on the roads means within just a few hours, sneckdowns will appear. “I found out about sneckdowns a few years ago and thought that was a really cool idea to see how the streets are actually used, instead of how […]
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Nova Scotia is behind in shifting the cost of recycling onto companies
A new recycling model aims to make manufacturers responsible for processing products at end of life, rather than taxpayers. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) has already been put into legislation in five out of 10 provinces (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba), and has been used in Europe for over 30 years. But, Nova Scotia […]
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Hot winter daze at SENSEA Nordic Spa
On a 26-acre parcel of land outside the Nova Scotia coastal village of Chester is a spa unlike any other in the province. Instead of minimalistic white rooms with high ceilings, scented candles and in-ground hot tubs, you’ll find ice-cold waterfalls, Turkish hammams and cozy fireplaces. “Offering a pause, a break in your busy life, […]
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Winter is here, are HRM’s sidewalk clearing contractors ready for it?
S now has officially fallen on the streets of Halifax. Chances are a lot more of it is coming this winter. And with great snow comes great responsibility. That is—the responsibility of keeping sidewalks clear. This season, that responsibility falls on four companies that have been awarded new, four-year contracts by HRM. Excel Property Maintenance […]
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Board of Police Comissioner’s last meeting of 2019 gives update on street checks
At a Board of Police Commissioners meeting on Monday, both the HRP and RCMP Chiefs gave updates on how community engagement is going following the Wortley Report. The 186-page report from University of Toronto criminology professor Scot Wortley found that street checks overwhelmingly target people of colour. On average, from 2006 to 2017, Black people […]
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Seven free Christmas dinners in the HRM
December can be a lonely place if you don’t have anywhere to go. As people are gathering around the table for turkey this holiday season, local businesses, charities and churches are doing their best to make sure no one goes without some festive cheer—and food. In Dartmouth, Staggers Pub & Grub on Portland Street will […]
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The generous spirit of Winnie Bowden
Winifred Bowden is 91 years old. She’s the longest-term resident at Acadia Lodge North on Devonshire Avenue in Halifax—the only one who’s been there since it opened over 30 years ago. “When I moved in here, we were all like one big family. We had games, parties and we socialized together,” says Bowden, who goes […]
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Hold up on federal funding leaves Tawaak Housing Association residents waiting on repairs
Tammie Beazley doesn’t like to be reminded that she’s living in a mold-infested, dilapidated three-bedroom apartment with her three children. “We just don’t think about it anymore. Where else can we go? We can’t afford anything else,” she says. Beazley lives in an urban Indigenous housing unit on the Halifax peninsula, managed by Tawaak Housing […]
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Halifax’s accessibility advisory committee’s town hall dominated by talk of inadequate transportation.
A few dozen residents turned up for a Tuesday evening town hall discussion on accessibility in HRM at Cole Harbour Place. The Advisory Committee on Accessibility town hall panel included representatives from Halifax’s winter operations and recreation teams, 311 contact centres and more. Attendees made a point of discussing the state of Halifax’s accessible transit […]
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Halifax’s apartment buildings are a trash-sorting dumpster fire, residents say
L iving in an apartment building can have its benefits. There’s security, there are facilities and the buildings provide services for tenants. For every residential building with more than six units in HRM, one of those services is garbage collection. “Each apartment building is required to have five bins in the waste room in the […]
