As a purpose-driven organization, Atlantic Lottery is committed to putting Atlantic Canadians first and living their corporate values every day. While the organization continues to adapt with the ever-changing gaming industry in order to deliver on both player expectations and their mandate to make a positive contribution to the Atlantic region, their social purpose stays […]
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Educating players to provide a space for healthy play: Atlantic Lottery
Promoting healthy play and ensuring that gambling remains fun and for entertainment is a core value at Atlantic Lottery. The company was created nearly 50 years ago by the four Atlantic provincial governments to provide responsible, regulated games to Atlantic Canadians while returning 100 percent of profit back to the region. Now, in this increasingly […]
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Halifax stoner institution MaryJanes Smoke Shop reaches end of the roll
Call it a blunt ending, if you will: Longtime Halifax cannabis accessory store MaryJanes Smoke Shop is no more. As of April 13, the mural-adorned bud bazaar of Pizza Corner (1549 Grafton Street) has displayed a “For Rent” sign in its front window, and both the business’s website and telephone number are no longer active. […]
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Digital love: Halifax talks sex and dating in the age of the internet
Decades from now, when historians look back at life in the early aughts, 2010s and 2020s, there’ll be a heck of a story to tell about the internet and the ways it changed how we look for love. (Or if not love, then, y’know… at least a little fun.) From the earliest chat rooms (remember […]
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Can you help us find Halifax’s independent grocers?
We here at The Coast are hard at work on a series of stories about Nova Scotia’s food insecurity. Journalism that only highlights problems without offering solutions is not very helpful. So, as a part of this food series we will also be creating a guide to help you defeat two of the final bosses […]
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Haligonians spill the tea on their worst dates
Dating can be difficult at the best of times: Where else are you thrust into conversation with a near-stranger while both of you are trying to decide, in real time, whether you want to hook up, get married and have kids, or never see each other again? It’s a miracle that any one of us […]
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Your definitive guide to a successful first date in Halifax
Anyone who dates in Halifax knows just how small this city is. Looking for love in the HRM requires patience, openness and the ability to throw your dignity right out the window. It’s humbling and often demoralizing, especially the first date. But good things don’t happen unless you try, and and first dates are a […]
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Go ahead and confess a sexual secret you’ve never told anyone
The prompt on the Sex + Dating Survey is simple: “Confess a sexual secret that you’ve never told anyone else.” The responses are a kaleidoscope of Halifax’s passions and fears, brags and wishes. Maybe it’s because the survey is a truly safe space, anonymous and judgment-free, that people are willing to bare their sexual souls. […]
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Coming attractions: What Halifax wants to try next in sex
If you want to try having sex with multiple partners at the same time, you’re not alone. Or maybe you are alone, because it’s something you’d like to do, not what you’ve already done. Whatever. Let’s just say that lots of people would be up for getting down with lots of people. The top 100 […]
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Talk dirty to me: The results of The Coast’s 2023 Sex + Dating Survey
If there’s one thing Haligonians love more than sex, it might well be talking about it. And just as Halloween means candy and a Nor’easter means a cupboard full of storm chips, Valentine’s Week in Halifax can only mean one thing: It’s time for the results of The Coast’s annual Sex + Dating Survey. More […]
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Haligonians share the most cringe-worthy things they’ve said—and heard—during sex
Love is a language in itself, but sometimes that other language—the spoken word—fails us in our most intimate moments: With our pants around our ankles. Haligonians are a witty bunch (or we like to think so, anyway), but even the quickest of wits isn’t immune to the occasional bedroom blunder. Sometimes even a major one. […]
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Haligonians share their most awkward run-ins with exes
The Halifax peninsula is a small, small place: You never know who you’ll bump into when you’re fighting over fresh tomatoes at the Seaport Farmers Market or scarfing down a 2am poutine on Pizza Corner. More times than not, that compact coziness is a good thing—walkability! friends! chats with your neighbours!—until the moment it abso-friggin’-lutely […]
