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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#TheCoastWrapped 2021
In the style of the annual viral marketing campaign of a certain popular audio streaming platform that starts with Spot- and ends with -ify, here’s a look back at the most popular stories on The Coast in 2021 and the videos that received the most views. Let’s dive in! Best of Halifax 2021 Readers’ Choice […]
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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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Gambling with Nova Scotia’s future
1 A WHOLE NEW WORLD “Icome from a family of people that gamble,” John says. “I learned how to play poker from my grandfather when I was like three. I’ve always been kind of attracted to money.” This explains his Bachelor degree in business, his “early” Bitcoin investment and his steady, if unexciting, day job […]
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UPDATE: Halifax modular units heading to Centennial Pool parking lot
Update: On Friday, Halifax released an update confirming the site for the Halifax modular units will be in the parking lot adjacent Centennial Pool. It’s been over two months since Halifax first announced modular units were in the works as winter shelter for unhoused locals. In mid-November, the location for the Dartmouth units was announced […]
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Shelter siege protesters going back to court Wednesday
Twenty-four Haligonians are heading back to court for charges stemming from the August 18 shelter siege. That’s when protesters at the old Spring Garden Road library site were arrested after police showed up to pepper spray and disperse the crowd, which had gathered against the eviction of unhoused people living at the site. The charges […]
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Dartmouth community meeting about modular housing brings out the NIMBYs
Last night at the Zatzman Sportsplex, community members from downtown Dartmouth gathered to air their complaints to, and ask questions of, Halifax officials about 24 modular housing units, the location of which had recently been announced as just off Alderney Drive. The community meeting kicked off in the Nantucket room just after 7pm, with more […]
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Catholic archdiocese building up to 20 tiny shelters on church land this winter
Last fall, when Roman Catholic archbishop Brian Dunn moved into his position, replacing longtime archbishop Anthony Mancini, he wrote a pastoral letter outlining four priorities for his sphere of influence, the Halifax-Yarmouth archdiocese. Three of those are very specific to church affairs, including the religious teaching called catechesis. The other priority is homelessness. “It was […]