It’s a special kind of person who squints at the first rays of dawn glimmering through their bedroom window as a cue to get the day started. The bakers, baristas and dog walkers of the world, who are up and out the door before most have finished their last REM cycle, get the crank turning […]
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10 unique Halifax Rec programs to try this summer
Wednesday, June 9 at 10am, registration for summer programming with Halifax Regional Municipality opens to all age levels. In the coming weeks, summer camps will open registration on June 21 and 22, and pool and beach programming will open June 23. To give you an idea of what’s available from the city’s recreation department, […]
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On Pride, the library and Irreversible Damage done
There are over one million books in the Halifax Public Libraries holdings, but this week it seems like the city only cares about one: Irreversible Damage, written by journalist and notorious trans-exclusionary radical feminist Abigail Shrier. “I did go and put it on hold the other day, because if they’re gonna keep it I’m gonna […]
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10 top takes from the patio on day one of reopening in Halifax
How was your Thursday, the day after the day lockdown started to end? For those who enjoyed a nice patio dinner or coffee on the sunny start of the unlocking, you may have woken up more energized after a nice dose of vitamin D. For anyone who partook in some patio drinking…well, hopefully you paced […]
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Are Halifax cops any less racist since the street check report came out?
More than two years after a landmark report analyzed data to prove that Halifax’s police services discriminated against Black people when performing street checks, no one can prove that discrimination has ended in other police stops. In his report that analyzed 142,456 street checks that occurred in Halifax between 2006 and 2017, University of Toronto […]
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Rankin sends HRM and Sydney kids back to school
On Monday, premier Iain Rankin made an announcement that seemed to come out of the blue—Halifax and Sydney area schools will reopen. They’ll be opening a day later than the rest of the province’s schools, with students back in class on Thursday, June 3 instead of Wednesday, June 2. But they will be opening. Rankin […]
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What does “defund the police” mean to you?
Three hundred and sixty-five day ago, George Floyd was murdered by police officers in Minneapolis. Floyd’s death brought momentum and weight to a conversation about police brutality that Black and Indigenous Haligonians had been trying to have in our city for years. After thousands kneeled in silence, hundreds marched, and many more protested in person […]
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Halifax passes long-awaited accessibility strategy
When the province passed the Act Respecting Accessibility in Nova Scotia in 2017, it told municipalities to do two things: Set up an accessibility advisory committee and build an accessibility strategy. Halifax, quite chuffed about having an accessibility advisory committee since 1997, got to work pulling together all the pieces that would make up its […]
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Your Victoria Day holiday long weekend survival guide
Wednesday afternoon’s COVID briefing was a lot. While we recognize that the lockdown is working, and that keeping this circuit breaker going is the right thing to do, it doesn’t make it any easier to stomach the news that our cheek-impressed couches will only be further cemented to meteorite proportions as we saddle up for […]
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Bike Again gets to stay put
Halifax’s feel-good bike collective will get to stay in its Charles Street home for a while longer. The Coast reported in March about the potential sale of the property where the volunteer-run collective rents its bike repair garages. At that time, Raoul Tanyan, the volunteer coordinator with Bike Again, told The Coast: “as a collective, […]
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What’s coming to regional council tomorrow
After wrapping up budget deliberations for the 2021/22 fiscal year at its last meeting, Halifax Regional Council will be getting back to work tomorrow with a regular all-councillor meeting. Here’s a preview of what’ll be discussed and voted on at the Tuesday, May 18 meeting. HRM’s accessibility strategy The strategy includes 31 recommendations slated to […]
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10 things in Halifax’s 2021/22 budget to be hopeful about
This week, after months of presentations and debate, Halifax Regional Council unanimously passed its budget for the 2021/22 fiscal year. The grand gesture of the budget process exists to increase transparency around how Halifax spends its money. All told, HRM is gonna spend $833 million on services and programs; $178 million on building new stuff […]