Nova Scotians are preparing to welcome over 300 Ukrainian refugees to the province Thursday evening, when a flight chartered by the federal government will land at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Host families from across the province who have offered up space in their homes to Ukrainians will be at the airport to greet the new […]
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Stop signs and crosswalks arrive early in north end neighbourhood
It’s been an eventful few weeks for Steve MacKay, the “raccoon” who helped slow down traffic on a stretch of Robie Street plagued by car crashes. In May, the city announced it would install new all-way stop signs and painted crosswalks at the Robie/Stairs, Robie/Stanley and Robie/Columbus intersections, after years of being pestered. And MacKay, […]
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Publisher note from Christine Oreskovich
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Halifax will repaint Black Lives Matter murals again in 2022
Two years ago this week, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. He wasn’t the first person of colour to be killed by police, and he wasn’t the last. But something about Floyd’s death was different—it gave a visible push to the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement, one that made waves […]
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On the final day of cop Nicole Green’s hearing, race enters the discussion
Friday was the last day of the Nova Scotia Police Review Board convened for Nicole Green, the Halifax Regional Police constable who tasered a man on Quinpool Road in December 2019. The three-day hearing was for both sides to present evidence about whether or not Green was justified in tasering a man The Coast is […]
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The ongoing fight for suicide prevention on Halifax’s MacKay Bridge
Amanda Dodsworth doesn’t drive across the MacKay Bridge anymore. Not since last spring. “I cry a lot when I do,” she says. In late March 2021, one of her closest childhood friends died by suicide, jumping from the bridge that looms 55 metres over the northern end of Halifax Harbour. Two bridges have spanned the […]
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Cop tasers innocent man, gets lightly punished, appeals to erase that punishment
At a Best Western hotel this morning in Dartmouth, after some tech delays, a panel of three white adjudicators listened to two white lawyers argue about whether or not a white cop, Halifax Regional Police constable Nicole Green, was justified in her tasering of an unarmed Black man. The HRP had already decided Green was […]
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Canadian Championship soccer comes to Halifax as the Wanderers face Toronto
Growing up in Halifax there wasn’t much soccer on TV, says Christian Oxner, one of the goalkeeps for the HFX Wanderers FC. The English Premier League and the Italian Serie A on Score sometimes were the only games in town. Oxner’s experience isn’t unique in Canada: there just aren’t many options to watch the beautiful […]
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The raccoon that helped save Robie Street
In Steve MacKay’s neighbourhood, car crashes are so common that he and his neighbours have a routine every time an accident happens. They check to see if anyone is injured and confirm someone has called 911. They bring out deck chairs and glasses of water for the drivers and passengers. “Within a minute, there’ll be […]
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It looks like No Mow May on the Halifax Common, but city hall says that’s an accident
The Halifax Common is a sea of yellow dandelions swaying in the breeze, and city council just passed a budget funding an ambitious climate plan, so you might think the city is participating in No Mow May. But no, HRM isn’t (deliberately) participating in the growing movement to discourage people from mowing their lawns at […]
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Mattea Roach talks drag, hate comments and weed
This spring shall go down in history as the era of Mattea Roach. We’ll fondly remember this period as the time Halifax tuned in to watch the Jeopardy! superchamp sweep the competition night after night; fought with Torontonians over who gets to claim her as their own; and groaned when the New York Times called […]
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Know Your Rights campaign against racist police street checks stalled by bureaucracy
After Monday’s meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners, it’s clear Halifax will need to wait longer for one of the recommendations from the Wortley Report on police street checks to become a reality. The recommendation from the report (4.10 for the nerds) reads in part, “it is recommended that the HRP and RCMP develop […]