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I celebrated my first Halloween at 22. And since this is now in print, I have to publicly apologize to my God-fearing parents. Sorry, mom and dad, but I am still a good boy. Growing up Baptist in Jamaica, Halloween wasn’t really a big deal. In fact, it was rebuked. As the end of October…
The local food movement has exploded in Nova Scotia over the past decade. More than ever, farmers are bringing sustainably sourced product directly to markets and meeting a need in the agricultural industry. In 2014, a glaring space in the food market was evident to Hana Nelson. She observed consumers having trouble finding access to…
World premiere of Six Primrose Devour! A Food Film Festival Friday, October 26, 3pm Al Whittle Theatre, 450 Main Street Wolfville, NS $15, devourfest.com Six Primrose, a documentary about human connection at the Dartmouth North Community Food Centre, premieres this weekend at Devour! The Food Film Fest. The film begins with a quote from French…
The U.S. president may think global warming is a hoax perpetrated by China, but his administration has concluded Earth’s average temperature will rise 4 C over pre-industrial levels by 2100 if we fail to address the causes. Overwhelming scientific evidence concludes that such a rise would be catastrophic for humanity and many other animals and…
I can still hear you knockin’, but the devil has no sympathy for me. You can’t always get what you want, but perhaps I got what I need? I can only hope that time is on my side, and one day we’ll get our satisfaction. I miss you. In the meantime, paint it black, heart.—Your…
To all the smokes who are upset over the smoking ban: Get over it! No one wants to smell your stank breath or tobacco smoke. You are getting butt-hurt over nothing. You can’t walk down the street and drink a beer, so why be allowed to smoke a smoke? Maybe take it as a clue:…
…for the incredible 25 for 25 podcasts! I’ve been flying a lot this year and cannot tell you how much I appreciate their wit and wisdom. As a Coast reader from the very beginning, they’ve been a brilliant time capsule of the good, the bad and the ugly but I wouldn’t trade living here for…
…while talking to me on the phone today, and everyone like him: Whining and crying and saying shit like “fantastic fucking service” just makes you sound like a child. Sorry (not sorry) you couldn’t get exactly what you wanted and were VERY SLIGHTLY inconvenienced by something but that’s life. Grow up.—Boo hoo
I obviously don’t believe in ownership over people, but I never thought I would fall for you so hard. Even though you didn’t pick up when I quoted “True Romance”, you mentioned it later without realizing and it made me laugh. Ugh, we are such dorks and this is super cute. I hope this lasts.—Just…
To the man at Alteregos on Saturday with the beanie, forearm tattoo & beard: Wow. I don’t know if you’re a Halifax Pop Explosion artist just passing through or a longtime Hali resident, but you are one handsome dude. If you’re looking for a broke uni chick who likes coffee, I’m your girl.—I’d rather study…
This is gonna make sound like a whiny old lady, but what the fuck is wrong with teenagers now? At my workplace, we’ve hired almost a dozen 16-18 year olds since the beginning of the school year and more than half of them got interviewed, came to orientation, got put on the schedule, and just…
I don’t give a fuck what religion you are or what your dietary preferences are, but I am getting fucking sick of the “no-bacons” coming to the restaurant where I work and not shutting the fuck up about it. We get it. You don’t eat bacon. You only need to say it ONCE! You don’t…
You are a handsome guy (about my height) who works out at Dalplex in the mornings. Sunday you left at 10:45 am wearing black Blundstone boots after we locked eyes a couple of times downstairs. I’m new to the city, very shy and inexperienced. Maybe I’ll see you there around the same time on Sunday…
If you ask for a double burger, that means one burger with two patties. It does not mean two seperate burgers. I don’t know why this has become such a thing, but people need to stop asking for double burgers when they actually want two singles. It pisses you off to get the wrong order,…
Please stop harassing women who don’t want to date you. No means no. Please leave this city. We have to avoid the North End because of you. We will continue to tell every woman not to date you. You make us feel unsafe and scared and we don’t want your obsessive stalking behavior to make…
This week on the podcast, all-around awesome person Rich Aucoin (one of the tallest people Tara knows) is with us talking about his triumphant year in 2011; headlining the Pop Explosion and releasing his long-awaited album, We’re All Dying To Live. Then, arts editor Stephanie Johns is back with stories of outrage from the one…
Liz Feltham was my Snuffleupagus. Though unlike Big Bird, I was the person who didn’t get to see her. I was sad to learn that she died, succumbing to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis on Monday, October 15. She was living in Victoria with her husband, Mike, and had been blogging about the disease as it progressed.…
It’s an explosive weekend as the Halifax Pop Explosion continues its city-wide takeover, Atlantic Fashion Week delivers designer duds for its 12th season and Boston singer-songwriter Bryan McPherson plays two Halifax shows! If cannabis’ first legal weekend has you looking for a good time, scroll on. Unpacking The Living Room performance: “WORK OUT I WORK…
Joining the list of things that used to be illegal and aren’t anymore—featuring margarine, Sunday shopping, alcohol and the right to vote for anyone who isn’t a white male—is cannabis. After almost a century of prohibition, Canada’s path to legalization has not been clear-cut. And of all the groups considered in the long, costly task…
An anonymous photo-booth cutout of John A. MacDonald was drilled down into the Halifax waterfront during Nocturne last Saturday night, standing for a brief period in opposition to the art festival’s anti-colonialism theme. The cutout was a defence of John A. MacDonald and his relations with Indigenous peoples. It featured an “I’m OK with John…
Reflecting on past experiences and applying them to her teaching method is one of Kate Morrison’s tricks of the tutoring trade. Every teacher builds their own style; for her, being aware of her own teaching practice is the challenge. “I had to reflect on my own practice and performance in the classroom,” says Morrison. “As…
In the same way that world economies once ran on gold and oil, Dinesh Kumar Govindaraj explains that data has become the most valuable resource of the Information Age. “Data science, computing power and artificial intelligence turn raw data into valuable insights that modern organizations need,” says Govindaraj about the reason he decided to undertake…
“It was one of those happenstance moments,” David McQuaid says about running into Ray Frizzell in Toronto. They started talking about furniture and products, and their own vision for a new boutique furniture store in Halifax. As it turned out, they were on the exact same page. Ray and David imagined a place where shopping…
When Jennifer Fox moved to Nova Scotia in 2015, she, like many other Nova Scotians, requested to be put on a waiting list for a family doctor. In the meantime, she got pregnant. “That actually was the only way I was able to get a family doctor, because in the hospital given that you have…
“Once you live by the ocean, you will always miss it when you leave.” Born and raised in Alberta, Jill Ejdrygiewicz had never heard truer words. Ejdrygiewicz had returned west after already living in Nova Scotia during her Marine Biology studies at Dalhousie University. The thought of moving back to NS felt like home, and…
John Aspin had always been interested in the arts. But because he was passionate about a career in medicine, his interest in art became more of an external affair: buying art, visiting galleries and exhibitions. He enjoyed his experience in junior high in the UK, sculpting and painting in the school’s art department, but still…
There’s a simple answer for why Kim Curlett entered the Master of Divinity program: God. After discerning a call to become an ordained minister in the church, the divinity program was the clear next step for Curlett. As an active member of the United Church of Canada, she knew most of the people in ministry…
[image1] Zaki Ibrahim w/Yohvn Black Saturday, October 20, 9:30pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street. $15 adv/$20 door Telepathy, time travel and sci-fi futurism aren’t themes you’d expect from an R&B album, but when it comes to Zaki Ibrahim’s latest, The Secret Life Of Planets, the subject matter is as limitless as she is. Born in…
Stuart Clow will say yes to any opportunity at school. His mentality is to take advantage of everything that his Master of Business Administration at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University offers. “As busy as it seems, taking an hour to attend a talk or a networking event is almost always worthwhile…
16-year-old Grace Hall never would have given a second thought to working in construction. But that was before her experience working with Roscoe Construction Ltd. Hall had heard about the co-operative education opportunity through Michelle Peters, the Building Futures for Youth lead for the Canadian Construction Association of Nova Scotia, or CANS. Building Futures for…
When Université Sainte-Anne’s recruiter visited Allison Dykeman’s high school, Dykeman clearly remembers leaning over to her friend and whispering “Hey, let’s all go here!” What started out as a joke became something Dykeman thought about through the rest of Grade 11, and for the majority of Grade 12. The more she thought about it, the…
Sofia Lowenstein had been in a French Immersion program since the sixth grade, but still she had a suspicion that she wasn’t good at French. That is, until she got into the Explore program at Université Sainte-Anne. Lowenstein realized that class sizes had been impeding her learning. Many of her previous teachers had large classrooms,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22) “There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” wrote Libran author Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; For the question often arrives a long time after the answer.” That’s the weird…
Katie Murray had heard about the program at the Nova Scotia College of Early Childhood Education (NSCECE) years before she attended. At that time, she had a full-time job and wasn’t ready to take the plunge into school. But a few years later, Murry was looking forward to her journey into a new career. “I’ve…
All work and no play makes for an unsuccessful job hunt. Sure, staying at the office a few extra hours will help get the current work done, but how are you planning on moving up within your work space? Or how do you expect to meet other prospective employers? Staple and stamp the work you’ve…
Sharkwater Extinction Opens Friday, October 19 Late in Sharkwater Extinction is a scene that has nothing to do with sharks, one you’ve known is coming the whole movie, that gives the title a sombre double meaning: The death of its director and star, Rob Stewart. Stewart’s debut documentary, 2006’s Sharkwater, was instrumental in the banning…
Even before enrolling in the JD/MBA Program at Dalhousie University, Michael Coady was an acknowledged community leader. The Magna Cumme Laude grad of Saint Mary’s University had always played a key role in his community by volunteering with the Strongest Families Institute, Independent Living Nova Scotia, Easter Seals Inc. and the Conflict Resolution Society. But…
Angela Simmonds’ path to law school wasn’t a conventional one. When she arrived at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law in 2014, she was 38, married, the mother of three children and working part-time. That summer, the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society hired her to carry out a community-based research project on North and East Preston…
Art d’Ecco w/Sportsfan, Future Peers, Sorrey Friday, October 19, 1:30pm The Local, 2037 Gottingen Street, free Every year Halifax Pop Explosion brings in many talented artists from all around, but this year it’s got one of the most interesting and promising new Canadian artists going: Meet Art d’Ecco, a west coast-based, wig-sporting, lipstick-wearing, glam-rock musician…
Nathan Ells had just finished his kinesiology degree when he needed to decide what his next step should be. He was tossing around physiotherapy, occupational therapy, personal training…his list went on. He was intrigued by massage therapy, enough that he’d considered it even before he had gone off to university. Now it was still stuck…
Hua Li w/DJ Shub, Cadence Weapon, Jayd Ink, Fat Tony, Blakdenim Saturday, October 20, 9pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street, $25 adv/$33 door “Part of why I started rapping is because I wanted to be the hook girl. I would write these rinky-dink raps as placeholders and sing a really cool hook,” says Hua Li,…
For the thirteenth consecutive year, Saint Mary’s University students have proudly represented their respective provinces and countries of origin as active and engaged participants in the Northern Ireland Peace Education Program—a long-standing collaboration between Saint Mary’s University and Peaceful Schools International. The latest contingent of program participants is Saint Mary’s largest to date. There are…
“The dream” used to be: graduate, get the job, work at it for 30+ years, then retire. But just like everything else, dreams get updated, and statistics say this particular working dream is a little out of date. After surveying 4,000 Canadians, Workopolis found that only 6 percent of people have held just a single…
Juice Girls w/Jon McKiel, Steve Lambke Friday, October 19, 10:30pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street, $15 The long-distance band relationship of Juice Girls continues to thrive and bear sweet treats. The mostly Halifax-based dream-pop band just released its self-titled album on Monday night, ahead of Halifax Pop Explosion. With vocalist and songwriter Michelle Moraitis in…
QI have a secret: For the past three months, I’ve been attending a local Jacks club (a men-only masturbation event). As someone recovering from sexual abuse, I find the party to be safe, therapeutic and just sexy fun. I feel like I need this! Unfortunately, I spotted one of my employees at last week’s event.…
Praises w/Mon Doux Saigneur, Blaze Velluto, Tallies Thursday, October 18, 9:15pm The T-Room, 1360 Barrington Street, free Toronto musician Jesse Crowe keeps busy with multiple bands on the go, but her solo project Praises is a constant she keeps coming back to. “Praises to me is kind of like the project that will always exist,”…
Sitting at your family dinner, you’ve probably heard the old “Well, what kind of a job is that?” or “You’re still in school?” And don’t forget this classic: “There are jobs out there, you’re just not looking.” The odds are, you rushed into your first degree or are about to choose to attend college because…
Rayannah w/Cartel Madras, Jon Bryant, Beach Body Friday, October 19, 5:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street, $15 From the airy opening flourishes of “Best of You,” Rayannah’s latest single, it’s clear that the Franco-Manitoban’s twist on electronic music isn’t what comes to mind when thinking of the genre: “In general, my stuff is pretty dense…
Halifax vs Toronto Sorry, Andrew Murphy, but you need to get your facts straight (“Turn the ship around and come back to Nova Scotia,” Voice of the City, October 11). In your article, your claims around home ownership and affordability are off the mark. CMHC does not mandate a maximum of 30 percent of income…
So, that makes two straight days that bus #4 left over five minutes late from the Lacewood terminal despite the bus, and its driver, having been at the terminal 10 minutes early? How’s that work you ask? Extended coffee break I would gather. This has happened a lot lately. While we’re on the subject of…
Guess what? If somebody has successfully filed an application with Immigration Canada—whether it’s an application for permanent residence, refugee status, a work visa, or citizenship—they are not here ‘illegally’ or doing anything ‘illegal’ by being here. They are going through or have gone through the legitimate legal channels they’re supposed to go through to be…
Until now, I thought it was reserved for childhood sweethearts about to say a 70-year goodbye. I thought it took that long to accumulate this emotion—but I’m happily wrong. Nothing more or less matters because I just need her. It’s plain and perfect.—Gunner’s Pa
After reading “somehow still single,” I wonder where women like her are. I enjoy bringing women candy and flowers, being well groomed and enjoying good company. I’ve been told Im good looking and in good shape and guess what? Single.—Somehow still single
I love the smell of your butt hole (seriously, what’s up with that?) and that you treat me like a princess even though I cry all the time (princesses are allowed to cry, right?) and that I don’t care if the world burns in carbon hell as long as we are together. You and that…
Yeah, we get it, your kid is cute and it is an extension of you to put all your failed dreams into or whatever. But how would you feel if every moment of your life, from your ultra sound to losing your first tooth, was put on social media? I feel like there needs to…
Girlfriend, you seriously need to pressure wash your area. It smells as if someone left an open bottle of porter and a half-eaten donair on the sidewalk for a week. In August. That may pass muster when welcoming the vernal equinox, but since it is, as you are so fond of saying “Getting, rather than…
It occurred to me around two years ago that I was never going to get any closure from our “relationship”. I tried so hard to make you happy and show you that I cared, but you only seemed to have any real interest in me when I had given up and decided to move on.…
Thank you for the thanks! My niece and I were having a day out and stumbled across the Canon. She was so stoked (and so I am I honestly) to see your thanks online! You made a 13-year-old feel like a superstar. It was the best teachable moment I can recall in a while!—Thank you!
To the beautiful young lady with glasses on the number 80 a couple weeks back, the one in the military green jacket: We exchanged silent nervous glasses and I regret not introducing myself. Maybe it was on account of a mutual timidness or perhaps I was awe-struck by your soft features. Whatever the case I’m…
