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[Image-1] It’s opening day, so I can forgive the crowds and the live band. But not the lack of reading rooms (not a sofa, not some weird pod, not a single table in a glass rectangle). Of course, you would have to actually go to a library to know that the READING ROOM is the…
Hey you, in the trendy, overpriced, goose down-stuffed jacket; you look like an asshole with that fox tail around your neck when you’re buying yoga swings and om symbols and shit. It’s dead, figure it out. Namaste. —Disgruntled retail girl
So today is December 11. At 4pm in front of Park Victoria, I am sitting in a car in a line of traffic northbound, and then, like a mirage, you zoom by my right side on your sport bike in the bike lane. Yes the freaking Bike lane! Your leathers are red, white and black…
It’s the world’s greatest departure lounge. That must be why I wanted to leave after ten minutes. —Not liking some architect’s wet dream.
Stop walking around in your high heels all day! —Living in the north end colorful condos
[Image-1] In the history of this city has there ever been a construction project that was welcomed with open arms? I mean seriously, though every project I see or read about is facing opposition either from a loud handful of citizens or a city councillor. We have how many empty lots and derelict buildings that…
[Image-1] Rehtaeh Parsons has her name back. An unjust and impractical publication ban has, for all practical purposes, been struck down today. Lena Metlege Diab, the Attorney General and Justice Minister, has announced that almost all breaches of the publication ban will not be prosecuted. Issued to the Public Prosecution Service, the directive says no…
[Image-1] Now people, it is the silly season. But you don’t have to run around like irrational impatient people looking at stores for things that they don’t have anymore. After all, it’s only two weeks till Christmas, and stores don’t have manufacturing warehouses out behind them. The clerk or the salesperson working in the stores…
I can’t believe how much bitching there is about working in Fort Mac. If you don’t like it, go live on EI. —East coaster
[Image-1] The ceaseless cascade of gross inhumanity that is 2014 just won’t let up. Dalhousie University’s school of dentistry is facing a lot of questions today after CBC broke the story of a misogynistic Facebook group of students. At least a dozen male students belonged to the now-defunct Class of DDS 2015 Gentleman group, according…
[Image-1] Actually, a couple of things….concerning a certain website that offers free online classifieds: 1: If you sold something, you really don’t need to tell us…just take the ad down. 2: If you sold something and it is no longer available, see #1. 3: Pictures….I find it hard to believe that you can’t post a…
What is the big deal with selfies? Like for frig sakes every time i talk to someone new they want selfies. I’m not one to take lots of pics of myself to start with and i don’t like to. I feel like screaming when asked for one. Its become a sad world when ppl need…
[Image-1] -Stores that crank the AC in the summer when you have no coat with you to keep warm YET blast the heat in the winter when you are roasting in your warm coat. -Those creepy decapitated store mannequins. -Cheap overpriced crap that falls apart/doesn’t work the first time you use it. —Feel free to…
Wednesday doesn’t exist for April Feener and Ben Smith’s family. It’s fly day. For the past three years, Smith’s been working 14 days on, seven days off in Fort McMurray, flying to and from Halifax on Wednesdays while his two young kids wave to “daddy’s plane.” It’s a lifestyle that he recognizes isn’t for everyone,…
[Image-1] Born and raised in the Wood Buffalo region, drag queen Iceis Rain (AKA Massey Whiteknife) is an award-winning performer, business tycoon and youth advocate. Rain took some time to tell The Coast about McMurray’s LGBT scene, the best spots to meet new people and why our perceptions of life out west aren’t really accurate.…
[Image-1] It’s harsh work. High pay for long hours in sometimes torturous environments. Every year more husbands, wives, sons and daughters head out toil away in the oil sands. They may end up trading their health for a chance at a decent career—if they survive. Workplace fatalities in Alberta have hovered around 50 for the…
[Image-1] The tar sands may be 4,600 kilometres away, but they’ll feel a lot closer should the proposed Energy East pipeline finally get built. The proposed TransCanada artery can carry over a million barrels of crude oil a day from the prairies to eastern Canada. But the cost may be too high. TransCanada formally applied…
[Image-1] “One year, I remember being away for eight months. “That’s the year the duffel bag never left the foot of the bed. Any conversations I had with my wife boiled down to grunts and money. I’d come home, we’d have a honeymoon for three days, then one day we’d wake up and we were…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) Harper Lee was born and raised in Alabama. At the age of 23, she relocated to New York City with hopes of becoming a writer. It was a struggle. To support herself, she worked as a ticket agent for airline companies. Finding the time to develop her craft was…
UPDATE March 31, 2015: The special online version of our story “Fort Mac to Halifax: Living with Canada’s worst commute” was nominated today for Best Multimedia Feature by the Atlantic Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all Coasties, and there were many, who worked on this project. Remember when Stephen Harper’s griping about lazy Atlantic Canadians? “There…
The Nutcracker is a holiday classic, yet this is the first time I’ve ever experienced it. Presented by Symphony Nova Scotia, Mermaid Theatre and Halifax Dance for nearly 25 years, I hope to make it a seasonal tradition. Seated in the front row, at the lip of the orchestra, led by maestro Bernhard Gueller, I…
You’re at a party at Cam Smith’s house, and it’s one for the books. There are crushes, belly laughs, Roots is on TV and some of the most innovative artists in the city are hanging out and eating Tostitos. Cannon is heavily narrated throughout track transitions under this premise, making this album vaguely conceptual. It’s…
Q You may not be the right person to answer this, but your commenters might be able to help. I love and support my friends who are transgender, but I don’t understand all the 18- to 21-year-olds among my friends who are declaring themselves “gender-neutral.” I am a bit older and have always been interested…
Fort McMurray artist Lucas Seaward began painting with bitumen after 10 years of traditional visual art. It was a slow shift that marked a deepening of his connection to the natural world, and despite his move to Fort McMurray being a reluctant one, Seaward found the location was a front-row seat to the environmental impact…
“I’ve been slightly intoxicated and requested ‘Barrett’s Privateers’ before,” says Cape Breton-born Fort McMurray transplant Carman MacDonald. “What can I say? It happens.” That’s not to say it happens often. For MacDonald, waves of homesickness aren’t as common as you’d think. An amateur bodybuilder, metal vocalist for the band Montauk and plumber who has made…
1. Supreme Pizza & Donair “You have to cater to your demographic,” says Supreme’s owner, Moe Akkad, an Ottawa native who calls Halifax’s donair a national dish. “This whole place is mostly modelled from the east coast.” That means he uses only Mr. Donair-certified meat and sauce—claiming others make their own mayo concoction—and Chris Brothers…
When councillor Brad Johns decided to spend $25,000 of the city’s money on an 18-foot-tall robotic Christmas tree, some of us had questions. Why? And, how? The how at least, is that Johns used his district discretionary funds for the purchase. Each fiscal year councillors receive $94,000 in district capital funds, and about $4,000 in…
