For months, fiances Ian Macleod and Matt Packman were at a standstill. Their wedding was planned for September 25, 2021. A large portion of their 120 guests, Packman’s family, would be coming from PEI, but travel was still restricted. They didn’t even know if that many people would be allowed to gather at the Halifax […]
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Your horoscope for the week August 5-11
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Lil MacPherson, Seamus Dalton, Haley Clarke, Bethany Stout, Allison Saunders, Gabriella Clive, Morgan Sheppard, Rochelle Locke, Farrell Shaw, Cohen Docker, Hillary Dennis and Kathleen Martin. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra pisces […]
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Mom and dad and their threesome with my boyfriend
Q I’m a 24-year-old gay man with a 31-year-old bi boyfriend. I’ve known since we got together that he’s a lot more sexually experienced than I am, but it’s never been a big deal before now. This weekend, he met my parents for what we thought would be the first time. But it turns out […]
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Your horoscope for the week July 29-August 4
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Kyle DeYoung, Jessie Bee, Deanna Bowlby, John Odenthal, Mike Belyea, Baillie Saunders, Graeme Stewart, Tanya DavisNeil Fraser, Teresa Orser and Alexandra Wilson. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer […]
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Crabs!
QI’m a gay male in my forties and I’ve been married to my husband for nine years. There was some mild infidelity on his part (exchanging photos and flirting via text with another guy) early in our relationship. I confronted him at the time, and he lied to me. I decided to let it go, […]
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Your horoscope for the week July 22-28
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Francis Blois, Paulette Cable, Carsten Knox, Simone Abbass, Bruce MacAulay, Laurie the Guy and Shayla Howell. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra pisces sagittarius scorpio […]
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In the straights
QMy wife got drunk at a vacation house we rented with a bunch of friends, and cheated on me with my best friend in the hot tub. They didn’t have sex but they did other things. I wasn’t there but there were eight other people in the hot tub and the jets were on so no […]
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Your horoscope for the week July 15-21
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Dale Wilson, Mike Vavra, Jessica Raven, Kate Inglis, Richard MacLean and Robert Plowman. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra pisces sagittarius scorpio taurus […]
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Emotional arsonists
QI’m a 19-year-old girl who was dumped few months ago. My partner found out he didn’t like my body when we were having sex for the first time, and he told me right after. We were actually still in bed naked when he told me. He kept cuddling me to make me feel a bit […]
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Halifax’s restaurant scene is cooking up a comeback
With vaccine optimism high and COVID case counts low, it’s time to think outside the takeout box. To whet your appetite for dining with strangers, here’s a selection of 25 restaurants, bars and cafes that opened or refreshed in the last year. Dear Friend – In downtown Dartmouth, the illustrious cocktail garden at Dear Friend […]
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Shailene Garnett dreams of a Halifax sunset
When Shailene Garnett takes The Coast’s call to talk about her ideal summer day, it’s the sort of daydreaming fun she needs: She’s been on the set of Diggstown—the Halifax-set, Dartmouth-shot CBC legal drama where she plays the brash-but-loveable Iris Beals—since early that grey morning, so planning a perfect July day is perfect fodder for […]
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Six seltzers for summer
Hard seltzer is having its moment. And why shouldn’t it? On a hot summer’s day, it feels like a no-brainer to crack open a can of fruity, spiked, bubbly water. But before you reach for a case of White Claw at the NSLC, consider one of these local options instead. 1 Luna Hard Seltzer – Located […]