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Frustrated with the rental situation in this town. You’re limited to apartments meant for students to share, or overpriced, soulless condos. Everything in the middle is being used for Airbnbs and nothing is left for the people that live here. Patiently waiting for the city to step in and regulate this shit. —Air Bnbitch
Dear men, Women on the bus don’t want to talk to you. Or more accurately, they don’t want you to talk at them. Does she have headphones on? Is she reading? Or is she employing these strategies just to signal to you (because yes, this is about you) that she doesn’t want you to talk…
This has been a long couple of months of not speaking to you. I thought it would be easier seeing how it ended with you physically assaulting me. I could see all the stress eating away my body and self-worth. At times I get so angry at your behaviour when we were together and other…
A big shout out to Dale and Aaron at the Lost and Found at the Metro Transit Bridge Terminal. I lost my wallet on one bus going to the bridge terminal from Dartmouth, and my cell phone on the bus going across the bridge to Halifax. I got the number for lost and found at…
We bicker, we disagree, but at the end of the day, I love you and you love me. —(Naïve) Best Friend
Before the years ends, I want to send out this thank-you from a warmer time of year. I was walking my wiener dogs around the Forum and stopped to talk to new neighbours and their pup. When we walked away one of one mine started shrieking in pain and fell to the ground. You saw…
To the asshole who jaywalked into the intersection on Dresden, so that I had to brake sharply to avoid them, and then SMACKED MY CAR as I drove through: a) the concrete barrier on the east side doesn’t allow me to see the full intersection until I’m close to it, b) learn how to safely…
At a Board of Police Commissioners meeting on Monday, both the HRP and RCMP Chiefs gave updates on how community engagement is going following the Wortley Report. The 186-page report from University of Toronto criminology professor Scot Wortley found that street checks overwhelmingly target people of colour. On average, from 2006 to 2017, Black people…
She knew from the start. She said that something about him made her uneasy, like she wasn’t really wanted. His words said one thing, but his actions or lack thereof said quite another. But all the nice little things made her overlook the warning signs. He never asked her to be his therapist, but like…
Dear Valued Customer: When I ask how your day is going and you snap “just looking,” it takes every thread of self control not to punch you in the throat. News flash: I don’t actually care whether your mom died five minutes ago or you’re getting married tomorrow. I’m just doing my job. If you…
If you genuinely want to create and spread love, just show up and be loving. It needs no public announcement or heralding on high to make you feel good about yourself. — A Humble Heart
Thank you for my bottle of wine! It is greatly appreciated, especially after the day I endured today. I don’t know which one of you it was from, but thank you. —A Grateful Colleague
I would love to share my general joy with the good people of Halifax, and my ultra-special joyous delight with the good hearted, kind, nice, fair, decent, moral people of the city’s taxi commission. I would love to see their faces when Uber and Lyft are in the city, rendering the existence of their office of extortion…
I have a small suggestion for retail stores about people shopping with a backpack. First of all my backstory: My physiotherapist has suggested I use a backpack instead of a purse, as I fell last winter twice and my back is still recovering. It’s easier than a purse and doesn’t put as much strain on…
It’s been a good week for movie-makers across the province, as two of the most hyped-about recent local productions—that’d be Stage Mother and Spinster—debuted on the film fest circuit this week. Stage Mother, Thom Fitzgerlad’s latest, follows a religious choir member as she inherits a drag club from her estranged son. It had its world…
Just over a year after 88 percent of survey respondents told HRM they wanted services like Uber and Lyft in the municipality, the transportation standing committee took the first step toward making it a reality. Halifax Regional Municipality’s Transit Standing Committee saw staff’s first draft of the by-law changes this week that will allow Transportation…
When Matt Mays takes the stage on November 16 for the final show of his Howl At The Night Tour—which saw his eight-piece band play 19 Canadian dates in less than a month—he spends a second that isn’t long, but is very deep, in silence. With his back to the audience, ensconced in a cone…
1Stollen, Gingerbread Haus Bakery Fruitcake is a bit of a punchline. But this sweet, cakey fruit bread is no joke. From the melt-in-your-mouth icing sugar coating to the tangy citrus peel pieces inside, this traditional German treat will delight the foodies in your life. Visit the fine folks at Gingerbread House (1138 Queen Street) to…
Stadium bias All this talk of building a football stadium really doesn’t sit well with me. I don’t care for football—I’m a huge Formula Racing fan. I remember when council said it was too expensive for Halifax to host car races again, after the Moosehead Grand Prix of the early ’90s. But now, after council’s…
The only secure treatment facility in Nova Scotia for youth in care is once again the spotlight this week, as a court of appeal hearing examined how youth are sent to the facility—and whether the care they receive there can be truly expected to meet their needs. Wood Street Secure Care is where youth in…
December can be a lonely place if you don’t have anywhere to go. As people are gathering around the table for turkey this holiday season, local businesses, charities and churches are doing their best to make sure no one goes without some festive cheer—and food. In Dartmouth, Staggers Pub & Grub on Portland Street will…
Boney M. Dec 18, 7:30pm Scotiabank Centre, 1800 Argyle Street $61.75-$73.50 Boney M. is not a perfect cult disco group. It is perfect, period. The foursome—including original lead vocalist Liz Mitchell—will scorch the Scotiabank Centre on December 18. Dig out your damn body glitter. Founded in 1974, Boney M. was always too out-there to be…
Kids Losing Sleep EP release show w/Sundae Girl, Social Smokers Club Dec 13 , The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm-2am, $12 The four BFFs in Kids Losing Sleep wanna set the record straight: Though they stan Katy Perry and were raised on bands like Sum 41, they’re not just another pop-punk band. “We’re emo…
Q My husband and I (straight male/bi female couple) have been married 15 years. When we met, he was inexperienced and crippled by shame from having grown up in a sex-negative atmosphere. I was happy to get him involved in some more adventurous stuff—but he quickly became obsessed with kink and shows no sign of…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) How did humans figure out that a luxurious fabric could be made from the cocoons of insect larvae? Ancient Chinese sage Confucius told the following story. One day in 2460 B.C., 14-year-old Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree, sipping tea. A silk worm’s…
A Halifax woman will not stop fighting until people seeking abortions in Nova Scotia are protected from protesters. Megan Boudreau, a third-year psychology student at SMU, is urging the government of Nova Scotia to implement a bubble zone law around healthcare facilities that provide abortion services. The law would block protesters from demonstrating within a…
T he only non-hospital based surgical abortion clinic in the Maritimes is in financial trouble. Unlike other provinces and territories, New Brunswick has a clause in its provincial Medical Services Payment Act (Regulation 84-20, Schedule 2 a. 1) specifically prohibiting public payment for abortion “unless the abortion is performed in a hospital facility.” Ten thousand…
We’re all familiar with tourist tchotchkes—those mass printed trinkets you suspect have the city names swapped out all over the eastern seaboard, lobster beer cozies, “Grandma went to [insert town here] and all I got was this t-shirt” t-shirts. These staples will always have their place, of course. But for a truly unforgettable piece of…
Editor’s note: In order to protect patient privacy, names and ages have been changed in the scenes Andrew Bethune witnessed while on the job, and times, places and other details have also been obscured. Names, quotes and details from news stories have not been changed. Three in the morning. The glare from the late-night pizza…
D eja vu—is that you? It is. In the fall of 2011 Halifax Regional Council OK’d a possible $20 million contribution to a rumoured $60 million stadium. At that time The Coast reported that the money was contingent on a slew of factors (the factors did not come to fruition, the moulah was never spent,…
