Modular units are here, but still so far away Despite the city’s promise back in October to provide dozens of modular housing units “before the snow flies,” the Dartmouth modulars are still not inhabited. But if you walk or drive by the corner of Alderney Drive and Flotilla Lane, you’ll see the narrow, grey-sided buildings […]
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 announces lineup for virtual NYE concert
Haligonians and Dartmouthians will be ringing in New Year’s Eve virtually this year thanks to the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising cases of the Omicron variant in Nova Scotia. On Wednesday, HRM staff released the lineup of local musicians that will appear in this year’s celebration, which will be broadcast on the […]
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Nova Scotia students will return to classrooms January 10
Nova Scotian students are headed back to school in person this January, but a week later than planned. Students will return to school Jan 10. “The strong commitment of Nova Scotians to follow public health guidelines and look out for each other has allowed us to keep our students in school, and experts agree the […]
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UPDATED: Emera Oval announces opening date of Dec 27
Halifax’s Emera Oval is was supposed to open for the 2021-22 season on Monday December 20, with the first official skate at 10am. However, due to “ice conditions,” the December 20 and 21 skates were cancelled on Monday, with the first official skate being rescheduled for Dec 22 at 10am. But now, thanks to a […]
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Modular units delayed…again
The saga of the HRM modular units first began in late September, when mayor Mike Savage announced that modulars would be acquired for 72 of the more than 400 unhoused people in Halifax. Over the following weeks, those modular units were promised “before the snow flies,” by Halifax’s housing and homelessness administrator Erica Fleck. The […]
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Continued calls for car calming after two pedestrian deaths in one week
The final week of November 2021 saw temperatures rise and fall in Nova Scotia. It brought snow, then rain, then wind. That week, the province opened youth vaccine registration and announced a few COVID cases. But contained in the span of those seven days were also two pedestrian deaths. “It’s really horrific, the last month […]
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Halifax’s first community fridge to combat food insecurity and stigma
Halifax has a smattering of food banks across the city. They’re well-funded, usually have plenty of food, and help hundreds—if not thousands—of Nova Scotians every year. But the current model has some gaps. Food banks are only open certain hours and not everyone feels comfortable going to one because of the deeply ingrained societal stigma of […]
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Province, aid groups get involved in MNFC shelter closing
Monday’s announcement that the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre’s shelter will soon close is making waves in the community. Since the news went public, other Halifax area shelters and aid organizations have spoken out about the need to prevent the loss. “We’re still reeling from news that the MNFC shelter will close its doors during the […]
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Workers say Friendship Centre execs closed shelter because of union drive
Twenty shelter case workers at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre didn’t know why they were being asked to gather Monday morning at the shelter on North Park Street. “We got an email from one of the big wigs at the Friendship Centre,” says Brent Cosgrove, who has been a case worker since the shelter first […]
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Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre shelter closing amid restructuring
The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre has long been a place for urban Indigenous people to find resources, community and even housing. But the centre’s shelter at 2029 North Park Street, the former home of the Taoist Tai Chi Society, has only existed since January of this year. There were 25 beds in the beginning, and […]
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Home for the Hali-days
It’s been more than two years since Sue White last saw her nephew. “I just want him here, I want to see him, I want to be able to interact with him,” she says of her sister’s son who lives in Ontario. “Me and my children have autoimmune diseases,” she says, so they can’t go […]
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How you can give a helping hand this holiday season
The gift of music “Music has been something to bring a lot of different cultures together in our centre,” says Bethany Tremblay, a program coordinator at the Open Arms Youth Centre located in Uniacke Square. Despite the disparate backgrounds and nationalities of the youth aged 5-17 she works with, “I think the most relatable thing […]