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This weekend I saw people peacefully showing support for the protests in Hong Kong. Opposite them, and outnumbering significantly, were international students trying to drown them out with patriotic Chinese songs/chants, distributing Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and physically blocking the HK supporters with Chinese flags and their bodies. I don’t know what the conversion rate…
Never did I think I would be a certified Halifax Angry Bike Person complaining to The Coast, but here I am. To whoever thought it would be good idea to extend the bus stop sidewalk four feet into the street on South Park Street, I sincerely wish you had not suggested this. Not only did…
I just wanted to thank all of the wonderful people who stopped to help me after I flipped over the handlebars of my motorbike driving down the Bedford Highway earlier this week. A huge thank-you to the off-duty firefighter and two nurses who stopped to help, to the guy who called 911, to the guy…
I had to get an abortion here in NS a few months ago, and as a young individual who absolutely could not tell my parents, I was understandably terrified. However, what I found was that Nova Scotia has a GREAT abortion set up. It’s super-easy to self-refer to the Women’s Choice Clinic, and set up…
You think that it’s OK to hold children from someone who has done nothing, just because you feel like it. You hurt a five-year-old in the process by taking his brothers away just because you feel like it, and you didn’t fix your child’s teeth instead you went to Europe. I hate you. I wish…
Poly-ticks. Sigh. So another election is approaching, and again there will be endless rhetoric about poor voter turnout. There will also be the “if you don’t vote…” guilt trips: If you don’t vote you don’t get to complain. If you don’t vote you’re disrespecting the people who gave their lives for our freedom. If you…
Nice sunny day, sitting outside a cafe on Spring Garden, was relaxing until a panhandler decided to stand in front of me and tell everyone to “have a nice day.” It’s like listening to a parrot. He couldn’t care less if you have a nice day, he just wants your change. If people would just…
Looking for a sweet-looking guy who gave me a quick smile on the #2 bus to Mumford 18/08/19. He had long hair in a low pony, a septum piercing, metal tee, green shorts and grey backpack. I sat across from him (you) and was chatting excitedly with my sis. This seems crazy to even me,…
Land and agriculture are critical components in the climate crisis. According to a new Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change report, land use—including agriculture and forestry—accounts for 23 percent of human greenhouse gas emissions, while “natural land processes absorb carbon dioxide equivalent to almost a third of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry.”…
With a practice that encompasses photography, performance and building virtual reality realms, Séamus Gallagher is on the experimental edge of art in both form and content. (Their work is informed by their generation’s climate anxiety and the need to “create personal spaces” as a non-binary person). Weeks after gracing the cover of The Coast for…
From the overflowing talent at DCAF to a new Africville retrospective to the torn-up punk tunes of Like A Motorcycle, here’s what you should be texting the squad about this weekend. Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Saturday, Sunday Grab a hot cup of DCAF as the two-day celebration of comics, cartoonists and crafts returns to Alderney…
J ournalism thrives off change—variations to the current state of affairs being the “new” in news. Yet some big changes behind the scenes at The Coast have happened recently with barely a mention, and I’d like to fix that now. First off, longtime city editor Jacob Boon and longest-time editorial fixture Tara Thorne left the…
RuPaul continues to build a guided, tea-spilling empire like no other, with the mother of modern drag launching a new edition of the beloved reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race in the UK later this year. The first series promises the same format as the US edition we know and love—and features a former Haligonian in…
When I moved to Halifax in 2007, the first apartment I went to see was a $750 bachelor in the south end with no windows. The landlord told me he could put a window in “if I really needed one.” My friends and I joked about that experience for ages; it seemed ludicrous at the…
Cortaditos, Mexican hot chocolate, empanadas, arepas, tostones, tacos and churros are all among the colourful menu items at the little north end wonder, Cafe Aroma Latino (5780 North Street). Ten years after opening (its anniversary was in June), owner and chef Claudia Pinto reflects on why she wanted to share her love for Latin American…
Who he is Before he spent his days making ice cream, the frozen dessert was a rare treat for Samer Aljokhadar. “I loved ice cream as a child, but we were from a poor family,” he says. “We couldn’t have it all the time.” As a young adult, Aljokhadar worked for an ice cream factory…
When it comes to affordable housing in Nova Scotia—or a lack of it—definitions are fast and loose, and who needs help often gets lost among departments and jurisdictions. HRM planner Jillian MacLellan says it’s “such a big issue that trying to find the best place to start or where you’re going to be most effective…
A Tribe Called Red w/Sweet Lew, Shevy Price Wed, Aug 21, 9:30pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $27.99/$32.99 ATribe Called Red won’t be offended if you melt into the dance floor at its upcoming show. In fact, it’s encouraged. The powwow-dubstep duo is set to play at the Marquee Ballroom on August 21, and…
Aug 16-17, 9pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $10/$12 We asked Toronto-based, Canadian Comedy Award-winning laugh-bringer Tom Hearn to tell us a good one before he brings his travelling solo sketch comedy show Slang to Menz & Mollyz this weekend. Hearn mentions the show sees Halifax drag queens Shayla Shenanigans, Brooke Rivers and…
Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Aug 17-18, 11am-5pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street If you want to check the pulse of the international comic book scene, hitting up the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival has always been a surefire bet. The fest, held at Alderney Landing, routinely brings in top-of-their-field cartoonists and comic creators. For example, this…
The Centre for Art Tapes’ 40th Birthday Aug 15, 7-10pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street, free Tori Fleming works in the thick of it. Unlike many programming directors holed up far away from the art they help bring into the world, her office is in the heart of the Centre For Art Tapes—and…
Hopelessly Devoted To You Wed-Sat 12-5pm, to Aug 24 Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street If you’ve ever imagined the end of the world—or wondered if it’s happening right now—the Khyber’s latest exhibition (titled Hopelessly Devoted To You) is for you. The group show is at the intersection of contemporary consumer capitalism, Olivia Newton-John…
Wellington Street (Case 20774) In July, regional council voted to let a bunch of developments go ahead despite the looming Centre Plan. This is one of the more controversial projects, an application by Lydon Lynch Architects, on behalf of owner BANC Developments, for an eight-storey structure on Wellington Street in Halifax’s south end. The development…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO (July 23 – August 22) Moray eels have two sets of jaws. The front set does their chewing. The second set, normally located behind the first, can be launched forward to snag prey they want to eat. In invoking this aggressive strategy to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming…
Q I’m an otherwise healthy male of 54. When I was a teen, my cock measured about six and a half inches. Not small, not huge, pretty average. I never kept track of the situation down south, but suddenly I find my junk reports in at just over four inches. WTF? Is this normal? Do…
Building on greed Angela Capobianco’s comments on development and preservation in the HRM are astute and germane (“Dear Halifax developers: be more creative,” Voice of The City, August 1). But it’s also relevant to recognize the mechanism by which projects (for example, 27-storey towers in the south end) are spawned. It does not begin with…
Over 500 readers took our inaugural renters’ survey to tell us what life is like as a renter in Halifax. The results were grim, with housing affordability out for reach for over half of respondents, people paying more than initially budgeted and spending more than eight weeks looking for new apartments. Here’s the results:
In a little while it will be over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. –Louis Riel To love our neighbour as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.–John Locke This is an open…
We asked readers to share their thoughts about renting in Halifax, and they had a lot to say. (This isn’t all of it.) Who the heck are these million-dollar condos for? Location isn’t everything if the place looks like you’d need a tetanus shot to live there. It’s expensive compared to salaries. Bedbugs should be…
