“The message that I got was I should be content that I wasn’t killed,” says Stewart Rand. The Haligonian was hit by a car on the morning of September 30 while riding his bike on the Bedford Highway near Nelsons Landing Boulevard. He says he was thrown into the air by a vehicle that didn’t […]
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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Halifax: The biggest small town you’ll ever live in
It happens to all of us sooner or later: After a few years of living in HRM, you realize everyone knows everyone and this city of 400,000 starts to feel awfully small. (Small-town-Halifax syndrome extends to journalism as well, so this is the requisite disclaimer that I’m previously acquainted with some of the following interview […]
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Dalhousie learns its lesson from homecoming mayhem
Last year’s Dalhousie University homecoming event had an unusually large amount of attendees: 2,500 partygoers on the streets of Halifax’s south end. The Saturday morning gathering saw 22 people arrested for public intoxication and open-alcohol law violations during homecoming weekend. Sheila Blair-Reid, Dal’s assistant vice-president of alumni engagement, says that because the popular Dalhousie football […]
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Pets and pints: Navigating the grey area around bringing your dog to the patio
Beer and dogs go together like summer and patios. But technically, Fido isn’t allowed to frequent your watering hole with you. “Pet dogs (and other pets) are not able to be present on restaurant patios under our food safety regulations,” says Chrissy Matheson, in an email on behalf of the Nova Scotia Department of Environment. […]
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Many hands make light work at the Mobile Food Market
“I found I was getting sick quite often, and I just wasn’t eating any fruits or vegetables. It was just rice and protein, that’s really all I was eating.” That’s how Adam Savory was eating before Halifax’s Mobile Food Market came to Spryfield. These days, he gets his veggies in by ordering one of the market’s […]
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Wheels in motion at the Halifax Cycling Coalition
Over the last decade, the Halifax Cycling Coalition has helped shape this city’s streets. The citizen advocacy group has fought—quite literally block-by-block—for better, safer cycling infrastructure in HRM. Its biggest win came just recently, with the approval of the Integrated Mobility Plan and designs for a connected bike lane grid across Halifax and Dartmouth by […]
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Friendly Divas wants to buy 500 Diva Cups before 2018
For low-income women in HRM, paying bills often takes priority. Rent, heat and groceries take precedence over hygiene products like shampoo, razors and menstrual products. It’s not ideal, but it’s necessary. When Haligonians donate to community groups, they often don’t think of those items either. “We buy the soup, and the boxed mac and cheese, […]
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Wanderers stadium might not be game-ready until 2019
The kick-off for a soccer stadium on the Halifax Common won’t be happening as early as organizers had hoped. This past spring, Regional Council approved by unanimous vote a proposal for a new “temporary” sports stadium on the Wanderers Grounds. The tentative timeline marked this past September as the opening month for test events, but […]
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Course evaluations underused by students
Every school is different. At Dalhousie, they’re SRIs—Student Ratings of Instruction. At Saint Mary’s, they’re ICEs—Instructor/Course Evaluations. Mount Saint Vincent is still old-school, using paper and pencil, while Dal switched to an online system six years ago (saving a million sheets of paper annually). But each university has the same goal: To get student feedback […]
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The 9 habits of highly effective professors
1. Simplify those lessonsAs a chemistry and mathematics student at Dalhousie, Connor Lamont’s classes are often very theory-heavy and difficult to grasp. So he likes professors who can simplify those lessons. “If a professor is able to liken it to a very understandable thing, then that makes it a lot easier to grasp the concepts,” […]
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10 urban gardens you need to know
Urban gardens have been sprouting up all around the city in the last several years, as Haligonians become more concerned about where their food comes from and the ethics behind it. Each garden faces its own challenges: Some have long waitlists, some are lacking volunteers and some are struggling with theft. Despite setbacks they’re all […]
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Air traffic control for the water
It happens “all the time.” That’s what Dawn Gaudet says of boating incidents in the harbour. Gaudet has worked at the Canadian Coast Guard as a marine communications and traffic services officer for over 25 years. This means she responds to everything from a cruise ship collision to a motorboat out of gas. But the […]