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In 2017, I wrote a poem called “What Good Canadians Do” for the Canada 150 events that were held on the Halifax Common. It was a part of my official duties as the city’s poet laureate. I was tasked with writing something celebratory about a country that was built on the removal and eradication of…
Jaana Kujala knows a lot about putting your best face forward. After starting a career in film makeup at 19, she made the shift from prosthetics to esthetics and fell in love with skin health and wellness. As a holistic skin therapist, she studied skin nutrition and the clean, natural ingredients that jive best with…
Average traffic speeds on Gottingen remain the same, and are even a tiny bit slower, now that HRM has installed the street’s much-discussed bus lane. According to the city’s own internal numbers, north-bound traffic from Uniacke to North Street is moving on average at 52 kilometres per hour. It’s the exact same speed that HRM…
A large neon sign of a plump pig greets customers as they browse the seitan bacon and cashew mozzarella on display at Real Fake Meats. It’s the new nook for those craving donairs, grilled cheeses and other comfort food classics—minus the whole meat and cheese part. As Halifax’s first plant-based butcher, owner Lauren Marshall wanted…
Our readers’ choice for Best Pasta and Best Italian food is going into hibernation for a quick minute. Bertossi Group fave Ristorante aMano (1475 Lower Water Street) rung in the new year by kicking off a renovation of its longtime Bishop’s Landing space, expanding its square footage and re-vamping the decor from floor to ceiling.…
On Christmas morning I sat down to read the Coast as the household settled in to their routines, and found their spots to settle for the unwrapping. I didn’t know Willard, and I don’t know Lewis, but this memorial was so well-written and so touching. It has me in tears. The camaraderie, the friendship, the…
Hooray for holiday break but why in my negative 20 travels have I not seen one high school kid wearing anything less than than clothes for gym class? I am dressed for a tour of the Arctic tundra to walk to the corner store for fuck sakes. Put a fucking hat on.—Not really a bitch…
To the couple sitting near myself and my friend at a certain North End restaurant on Dec. 27th: Although you may not have anything better to talk about amongst yourselves on your date night, I would recommend against targeting the unassuming queer sitting in your sight range and ear shot. While you had fun, for…
As a car driver, I am dismayed at the cost of cutting up our roadways for these stupid bike lanes that are more of a traffic hazard than anything. I pay huge gas taxes to pay for paved roads, and you pay NOTHING. You don’t even have to license your bike. It’ about time they…
Weather wonks: There are many meanings of the much-used word “messy.” Must we include it in the shrill description of a snowstorm or its aftermath? This is Canada. And it’s winter. Is garbage falling from the sky? Nope. They’re small, light flakes formed by ice crystals. Being in the snow in the city – walking,…
There’s nothing I hate more. Every fucking holiday, I get woken up out of a dead sleep by the loudest noise ever! Did a war break out? Gunshots outside my bedroom window? No, it’s the lame fucking fireworks again, ruining our environment with black clouds of smoke and disturbing the peace. This is midnight -…
To the cute guy who sat three seats down from me at Vice this afternoon at MicMac Mall. You had longish hair and glasses, I had red hair and a big sweater. I meant to smile back and you but was momentarily too shy.—Boxing Day bold
Ah, the holidays. Finally, the time of year when you can participate in that long-standing Halifax Christmas tradition of having your entire social circle head to Ontario while you’re here by yourself. Great! The yuletide season can be festive, delightful and frustrating all at once. From terrible Secret Santas (really, hand sanitizer?) to over-indulging in…
Robin Stewart doesn’t want to raise rents on his north-end properties, but he says city hall is leaving him little choice if it takes away street parking. The “Haliflats” landlord has been one of the loudest critics of HRM’s proposal to create a new north-end bikeway, which will have the potential side effect of reducing…
In October, the McNeil government announced Nova Scotia’s Motor Vehicle Act would be updated with changes that aim to better protect street and highway workers (including police officers and other emergency personnel), cyclists and pedestrians. But road users better be patient. Transportation Minister Lloyd Hines said it’ll take about two years before new regulations are…
The new neighbourhood set to replace the Cogswell Interchange is the conclusion of a slum removal strategy that started in the early 1900s, says a Concordia University planning professor, and now threatens affordable housing in the surrounding area. Ted Rutland, the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power and Race in 20th Century Halifax, says every…
Q I’m a kinky single woman who keeps attracting the wrong men for me—specifically, submissive guys into face-sitting. I’m submissive myself, and face-sitting is not a turn-on for me. But the vast majority of men who hit on me have this fetish. I think it’s a size-related issue—a my-size-related issue. I’m a full-figured/curvy woman with…
It’s another story of workplace unrest in a year of renewed labour focus on the local service industry. Two longtime employees at Freak Lunchbox are no longer with the popular candy store, with one telling The Coast she was fired without cause after organizing staff to voice their concerns. Tegan Macfarlane, 24, was dismissed from…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21) Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office. There were exceptions. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became…
Patches of cruelty Every year the cold weather comes, and every year I see the Canada Goose shoulder patches come out. I’m an animal rights activist, and just generally a socially conscious person. There are many wrongs out there that are difficult and complex to solve, and there are ones that aren’t. Status-conscious people are…
Blindspotting Daveed Diggs co-wrote and stars as Collin, freshly out on probation and returned to the Bay Area of California, which like most urban centres has seen a lot of its poorer citizens—people of colour, mostly—priced out. His friendship with Miles (Rafael Casal) is breezy but dangerous; the latter is white and quick to be…
We know it’s early, but this is the time of year that party animals and early birds are equally on-the-ball, so we’re here to help you plan the most epic New Year’s Eve ever. From country star Brett Kissel at the casino to Neon Dreams’ Dome party to fam-focused time at The Oval, here are…
