When the 2,300-passenger Norwegian Dawn cruise ship docks at Pier 20 this weekend, it will mark the return of cruises to Halifax for the second full, eight-month season after a two-year hiatus brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Signs of the season’s imminence are already visible along the Halifax Waterfront: Tourist shops are back […]
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Nova Scotia’s primary care waitlist surpasses 140,000 mark
More than six years since Nova Scotia Health began reporting on improving patient access to primary care, the number of Nova Scotians who say they’re in need of a family doctor or nurse practitioner has more than quintupled. As of the latest Need a Family Practice Registry report, released on April 14, there are now […]
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HFX Wanderers FC is ready to make you believe again
Wanderers head coach Patrice Gheisar is never still for long. The 48-year-old Etobicoke, Ontario native is bouncing in his chair as he sits to meet with The Coast in Dalhousie’s Studley Gymnasium, mere days before his Canadian Premier League club will travel nearly 1,000 kilometres to play defending regular season champions Atletico Ottawa in the […]
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What’s the story behind the French naval ship in Halifax’s waters?
If you took a stroll along the waterfront near the foot of Morris Street on Monday morning, you’d have walked right past it: A 40-metre patrol vessel painted Navy grey, flying French and Canadian flags and docked within a skip and a jump of the Bicycle Thief. Ordinarily stationed out of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, […]
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Halifax Curling Club draws lawsuit over noise complaints
Nancy Shea is showing The Coast through her Brussels Street home on an April morning when the noise begins. It starts with a muffled clatter, filters through the walls of the 1940s-era two-storey clapboard with a low-register hum and lasts for the rest of the 40-minute visit. With the windows closed, it sounds like a […]
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UPDATED: Alehouse bouncers plead not guilty in assault case
Halifax Alehouse bouncers Alexander Pishori Levy and Matthew Brenton Day are pleading not guilty to a pair of assault charges after claims they attacked a pub patron while on their shift last October. The defense lawyer representing Levy, 37, and Day, 33, entered their pleas before Halifax provincial court judge Kelly Serbu on Friday, March […]
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Nova Scotia’s worst shipwreck sets the tone for Halifax Harbour this week
This week gets off to an unusually quiet start in the harbour. But that’s a fitting way to honour the weekend’s anniversary of a massive shipwreck in the North Atlantic. The doomed vessel was a proud steamship of the White Star Line, sailing from England to New York, and when it went down taking hundreds […]
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Here’s what an environmental report says about the DND’s Hartlen Point plans
For months, Canada’s Department of National Defence has promised Haligonians it would share the results of four third-party environmental studies of a controversial Canadian naval testing facility soon to be built at the edge of Eastern Passage. Last week, for the first time, the DND made those full-length reports public on its Trident newspaper website. […]
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What’s up with all the ships bypassing Halifax Harbour?
In normal circumstances, the 39,938-tonne Vayenga Maersk container ship would stop in Halifax on its cross-Atlantic voyage from Montreal to Bremerhaven, Germany—only this week, it’s skipping Nova Scotia altogether. That it’s doing so isn’t altogether unusual—from time to time, shipping lines omit port calls to make up for delays or scrap stops if demand dwindles—but […]
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Tim Houston and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad budget
Politicians don’t like to say what they mean anymore. It’s an annoying habit they’ve picked up over the years, but it’s one that helps them avoid accountability. Which, in turn, increases the odds they can screw up in office and still get re-elected. Being able to deflect questions is an important skill where avoiding accountability […]
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Can you identify the Boxing Rock beer bandits?
Boxing Rock Brewing Co. taproom manager Linnea Swinimer had just settled in with her morning tea on Wednesday when a text message from her neighbour at the Local Source Market gave her the news: Thieves had broken into their Windsor Street storage locker overnight and made off with a whole lot of beer. Her first […]
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Inflation is slowing, but not at the grocery stores—and food banks are bearing the brunt
Last summer, for the first time in her career as program and outreach coordinator at Halifax’s Brunswick Street Mission, Cassie Sinyerd and her colleagues did something they wish they never had to: They started capping how many people their food bank program served every week. Nestled between Proctor and Nora Bernard Streets, the Mission has […]