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To all those who are trying to build something beautiful out of nothing or who are trying to keep something precious from falling apart, thank you. Even if it is a smile at a worried-looking someone on the street or a passionate defence of something to believe in—it is work but it is worth it.…
“We’re not going to get off fossil fuels overnight!” How many times have you heard that? Over the decades I’ve been hearing it, we’ve increased exploration and development, continued to build infrastructure that locks us in to fossil fuels for years to come, increased greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, and failed to conserve energy and…
The Jamaican Cultural Association of Nova Scotia wants an official apology on the floor of the Legislature from Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin. A press release from the not-for-profit says JCANS representatives recently met with the Cumberland North MLA about her comments that legalizing cannabis could make Nova Scotia unproductive like Jamaica. During a debate on Nova Scotia’s…
The market’s not even open for business yet and the province is already expanding its territory. There will be three more NSLC stores selling cannabis this fall, bringing the total number of legal weed retail outlets in Nova Scotia to 12. “Since we announced the first nine stores that would sell cannabis, NSLC has been…
The province will have to wait a little while longer for an independent review of its forestry practices. The hotly anticipated report from University of Kings College president Bill Lahey—which will advise the government on environmental and economic improvements in forest management—is nearly complete but in need of some additional input. The province announced Monday via…
In addition to a Halifax teenager’s computer, eleven other IP addresses downloaded 900 public-facing documents containing private information from the province’s Freedom of Information web portal this past March. The additional leaks were disclosed Monday as part of an overall update on the FOI privacy nightmare that’s engulfing the department of Internal Services. The Freedom of…
You rolled your eyes at me and my friend while we talked/paid up. You did the same thing again as I accepted my change but opted to put none of it in your tip jar. I am all for tipping for good/friendly service, but you didn’t make the cut. —Who Pissed In Your Cornflakes?
Wind is the mountain you cannot see. At least that’s what it feels like as a cyclist going against it. You’re pedaling non-stop all day, no coasting. Better to just accept this fate and choose a low gear so that you’re at least making progress and holding that endurance up as long as you need…
Last night at a show in Halifax, a young woman was called up on to the stage by the vocalist for some mid-show banter and an invitation to crowd surf. It was a nice moment—until a total jackass decided to yell FHRITP. To that fucking jackass—you’re not cool, you’re not funny, and I wish someone…
Thanks for the straight dope about the “consent” workshop. I trucked all the way downtown only to find that I needed to register and pay $20. Who’s got an extra $20? I sure don’t. But how could I know the workshop was for rich people when you didn’t put all the details in your paper?…
The Stillwell Open celebrates Nova Scotia Craft Beer Week with 16 new suds, Mocean Dance marks International Dance Day with a new show, WHOOP-Szo brings its activist-indie rock to town, plus we’ve got even more awesome to add to your weekend. The 2018 Stillwell Open Sunday Stillwell’s fourth annual Open celebrates Nova Scotia Craft Beer…
It was much ado about everything for Halifax theatre company Shakespeare By The Sea, whose season launch last night also marked its 25th anniversary. The event was one steeped in celebration and fond reminiscing from alumni who shared their favourite memories of the theatre company. Emceed by co-artistic directors Jesse MacLean and Elizabeth Murphy, the…
We no longer have a monoculture. The viral videos of late aughts were the last vestiges of ubiquitous shared experience. Even the biggest pop stars of today can be overlooked by large numbers of the population because of our highly specialized subscribe culture. So our water-cooler conversations now are left as a series of recommendations…
These Versions of Us April 26-28, 8pm Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue $20-$30 For the final production of its season, Mocean Dance is turning dance inside out. From April 26-28, the company will present These Versions of Us, a new work by Toronto-based choreographer Heidi Strauss that forwent fixed steps and was instead…
The Child Remains Opens Friday, April 27 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road The Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester operated from the 1920s through the 1940s, offering babies for sale and housing the unwed women who bore them. If the babies weren’t white and healthy—”unsaleable”—they were starved or buried alive in the surrounding…
Lean On Pete Opens Friday, April 27 The titular character in Lean On Pete is a horse, but make no mistake: This film is no Flicka. It’s no Secretariat. If you want an unequivocally happy ending for both horse and human, you won’t find it here. But the story has other things to offer. Writer…
We’re used to being thought of as customers—that the money we spend comes with certain entitlements, and that we should wield influence over those we spend it with. In the sense of expenditures on regular goods and services, this is largely true—justly or unjustly. Those of us who’ve worked in a service profession have no…
Comedy Brew Ha!Ha! Friday April 27, 8pm Brewsters Bar & Grill, 961 Bedford Hwy $20 halifaxcomedyfest.ca When Martha Chaves first got into comedy, she was worried she wouldn’t make it in the stand-up scene because of her accent. She was wrong. “I had to learn how to accept myself that way and not be shy…
It’s mid-morning on a Monday when Brandon Levesque and Lauren Marshall, co-founders of Real Fake Meats, Halifax’s first plant-based butcher, answer the phone for this interview, sitting down to a cup of coffee with almond milk creamer. The duo—friends for about a year—are both food-obsessed vegans: Marshall having helmed the kitchen at EnVie for two…
Lazy thinking Just read Jacob Boon’s story about Progressive Conservative MLAs debating the Cannabis Control Act, with Cumberland North representative Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin talking about “a completely different work ethic and very low productivity in Jamaica” (“Tory leadership candidate worries weed will make Nova Scotians lazy like Jamaicans,” Reality Bites story, posted at thecoast.ca April 18).…
Q I’m a straight male in my 30s. I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I have had several affairs. Not one-night-stand scenarios, but longer-term connections. I didn’t pursue any of these relationships. Instead, women who knew I was in an “exclusive” relationship have approached me. These have included what turned into a one-year…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Taurus (Apr 20-May 20) The Simpsons is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of…
