The Coast is collecting and sharing dispatches from around the world about what life in the time of COVID-19 looks like, smells like and feels like. Some people are beyond the worst of it, some don’t know the worst yet. Most are just trying to keep afloat. Share your own story here. Who are you? […]
COVID-19
News updates and questions answered what you need to know about coronavirus COVID-19 virus pandemic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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How to do karaoke at home with your friends like you’re at the Lion’s Head with Laurie The Guy
Step 1 Download Zoom. Step 2 Get someone to make a Zoom meeting. Share the link with your friends. Step 3 Go to watch2gether.com and make a room. Step 4 Invite your friends to the room. Step 5 Once you’re on a Zoom call and in the room with your friends search in the bar at […]
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“The weather has been very nice these past few days (a big deal over here)”
The Coast is collecting and sharing dispatches from around the world about what life in the time of COVID-19 looks like, smells like and feels like. Some people are beyond the worst of it, some don’t know the worst yet. Most are just trying to keep afloat. Share your own story here. Who are you? […]
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“You worry when you hear that an elderly life is worth less than a 50-year-old’s”
The Coast is collecting and sharing dispatches from around the world about what life in the time of COVID-19 looks like, smells like and feels like. Some people are beyond the worst of it, some don’t know the worst yet. Most are just trying to keep afloat. Share your own story here. Who are you? […]
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2,000,000 cases
Doctor by doctor, hospital by hospital, the COVID-19 patients are diagnosed. Town by town and city by city they add up. Collected in states, provinces, counties, territories, earldoms and duchies, the numbers just grow and grow and grow. Country to country, continent to continent until, literally, around the world—the coronavirus spreads its disease. The good […]
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Federal government updates the CERB to help seasonal and casual workers
The Federal government is planning to extend the Canada Emergency Response Benefit to cover some of the people who were left out of the first draft of the plan. When the CERB was first announced it didn’t apply to seasonal workers whose jobs disappeared due to COVID or who had run out of EI while […]
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Because we still need art to live, the Sobey Art Award’s long list just dropped
While every April the Sobey Art Award (the biggest prize in Canadian art) crowns new royalty with the release of its long list, 2020 feels a little different: This year, the jury behind the prize is forgoing its usual five-artist shortlist and corresponding exhibition. Instead, for the first time ever, everyone on the jury-selected long […]
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Bring Halifax culture home with our social distance streaming guide
Wednesday, April 15 Giant Killer Shark: The Musical A sing-along livestream of the 2019 Fringe Fest hit play that’s a comedic reworking of Jaws. Read more about the play here and hit up tickethalifax.com for your (free) virtual ticket. Rudy Pacé plays The Carleton Singer-songwriter vibes from the Halifax Presents Facebook page to your sofa […]
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The premier’s new haircut
Over the long weekend Stephen McNeil freshened up his look. The change was subtle, but Robert Strang noticed. “The premier got an Easter haircut,” Strang said at the first provincial news briefing after the holiday. “You’re looking good, premier.” McNeil laughed and thanked the chief medical officer of health. And then they were just a […]
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The Halifax Common: the grass is lava
The park closure saga is becoming Halifax’s smoking ban 2.0. For the most part, Nova Scotians have embraced the provincial orders that shut down parks and trails in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 via public interaction. “Stay the blazes home,” we scream with delight into the ether. But HRM and the province’s […]
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I miss all my people. I miss the people who aren’t my people.
Editor’s note: When lauded Halifax poet Sue Goyette—the Masterworks Award-winning author of seven books—offered to share what she, in an email, called “a strange diary I’ve been keeping,” we knew it’d be full of the sort of beauty and strangeness and jumping-off-the-screen aliveness needed in this time of stale air and cramped quarters. These days […]
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HRM’s tax deadline pushed to June 1
Halifax Regional Council voted to postpone the due date for tax bills from April 30 to June 1 as step one of its financial response to the unfolding Coronavirus crisis. The municipality’s Chief Financial Officer Jane Fraser fielded questions from councillors about how they can best help their voters with a calm assurance that was […]
