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It’s been nearly a year since Ashdale’s little gem, Meander River Farm, expanded its brewhouse to make room for more cider and you can raise a glass of its latest one-off release—a tasty 5.5% blueberry cider—to celebrate. “With our expansion last year we were able to do more small lots with fresh ingredients from our…
Surprise! It’s a bank. It was announced today that RBC will dump $1 million over the next decade into Halifax’s Dartmouth four-pad arena. As a result, the facility will now be formally known as the RBC Centre. The bank purchased the right to stick its branding all over municipal property by offering up $100,000 per…
Urgent changes at an unprecedented level never before seen in human history are needed to save the planet from environmental collapse. Nova Scotia has responded to this clarion call from the world’s leading scientists by paying a company to burn old tires. The Department of Environment announced today it’s awarded industrial approval for Lafarge Canada…
News that Environment and Climate Change Canada is considering “priority threat management” to assess endangered species is troubling. The method is often used to inform a “triage” approach in which some species are abandoned to focus resources on others ranked higher priority. The federal government is legally required to oversee recovery of all species at…
Here’s a fun way to pretend you’re some kind of hacker man. The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation announced today how it’s going to keep recreational cannabis that’s sold online out of the hands of those under 19. An online access code will be required to visit and make purchases at the province’s new online cannabis…
Little did you and your friend in the black utility sport vehicle know that after you threw a ketchup pack at me, there was a red light awaiting you 200m away. Thanks for agreeing to roll down your window so I could ask you calmly, “Why did you throw it? Did I do something wrong?”.…
To the crybaby and his entourage out dining downtown during the recent convention: The server advised you twice about liquor laws that restrict your underage companion from being in the bar section after 9pm. They even suggested sitting in the main restaurant to you instead. So you had a hissy fit when 9pm rolled around…
To the person who stole my wallet from the bus instead of handing it in the the driver: I hope you read this. Not only was that my grocery money and registration money for my son to play basketball this year, but what you don’t get after you tried to make a fancy purchase with…
To the young man standing outside the barbershop, smoking a joint and coughing up several (seven actually) unique balls of gob from your throat and projecting them across the pavement toward the bus stop where I was standing tonight, I’d just like to let you know that you are not cool. In fact, you are…
I just wanted to say how impressed I was with the wait staff at this new café on Lake Banook. The customer ahead of me was obviously living with a significant mental health issue and the barista and cashier were super patient and respectful of this customer. They made sure he was well taken care…
It’s a shame the grocery cashiers here aren’t given chairs. I’ve travelled in Europe and Asia and most groceries have them. It would be easy to give them to the cashiers here. Even if they stood while dealing with customers, they could have a well deserved seat while waiting for the next customers. Help the…
It’s simple: The ability to admit your mistakes instead of belittling, demeaning and chastising others.—There is a breaking point for every human being
Yet another holiday has come upon us and my coworkers are talking about yet another social event that I haven’t been invited to. It is awkward as fuck to have people talk about plans in front of me like I don’t exist. I’m not even mad, rather I am confused and hurt. Team players? What…
Dear drivers of Halifax, Please remember these simple rules from the Nova Scotia Motor Vehicles Act—seeing as you agreed to follow them by getting a licence: 1. An intersection is any place that two or more roads meet. They may be marked or unmarked. 2. Every intersection is a crosswalk. 3. At any intersection PEDESTRIANS…
Did I miss a meeting about buses? Halifax has buses with slippery plastic seats, on buses that seem to have more acceleration and braking than their other buses. Plus, the drivers drive them like they are getting paid by the mile. To sit on the seats while the bus is stopped at a red light…
I’d been taking photos of models around Halifax all day. By the time we got to the Halifax Central Library, we’d been at it for seven hours and I was clearly getting forgetful. So forgetful, in fact, I set down one of my digital cameras outside the library and just walked away. But you, beautiful,…
Former Coast news editor Tim Bousquet joins us to talk about the day the sewage treatment plant failed and what lessons were learned at city hall. Then we get into HRM By Design and Tim’s early days live-tweeting council. Plus Paul McCartney comes to town for what’s sure to be a successful concert, chef Ray…
A Dalhousie University ocean research scientist says that the organization tagging and tracking sharks these past several weeks in Nova Scotian waters is posing a danger to both sharks and swimmers. The American non-profit Ocearch has been on an expedition to study sharks off the coast of Nova Scotia since mid-September. The group finds and…
Well, at least we tried. Gus, the Museum of Natural History’s gopher tortoise, Halifax’s beloved mascot, living monument of history, multi-generational icon, will not be receiving an Order of Nova Scotia award this year. As announced today by lieutenant governor Arthur LeBlanc, five other extraordinary Nova Scotians and also John Bragg have been awarded the…
A megawatt, more-stuffed-than-a-turkey Thanksgiving weekend awaits as shiny Sure Things like a local celebration of India’s Festival of Lights, a brilliant show by acclaimed singer-songwriter Rae Spoon and a screening of award-winning flick Let The Sunshine In descend upon your calendar. International Fashion Week Nova Scotia Saturday A full day of high-fashion energy arrives at…
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s the way of the future. Mayor Mike Savage tells the newspapers “it’s the way the world is moving.” Deputy mayor Waye Mason says in a radio interview that Halifax can’t call itself a high-tech city without it. A recent survey from Corporate Research Associates found over two-thirds of…
A chartered accountant in Halifax with experience in the finances of religious institutions sees cause for concern in the latest financial update from Shambhala Global Services to its membership The late-September financial report is “not saying the barn is on fire and the fire is getting worse every minute,” says Andrew Murphy. “But there is…
A Civilized conversation with Chelsea Handler Sunday, October 7, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Ave $63-$98 Willie Nelson—now more of a white-haired stranger—laughs as he passes Chelsea Handler a blunt. “Pot is like sex,” he chuckles. “Some is better than others, but it’s all good.” This is the fourth Episode of Handler’s 2016 Netflix…
Dear Rouge w/Modern Space, Natalie Lynn Friday, October 5, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 adv/$29 door If there’s one constant in life, it’s that nothing stays the same—something Drew and Danielle McTaggart of Canadian duo Dear Rouge know all too well. The electronic rock group’s sophomore release Phases arrived earlier this year…
Rae Spoon w/Holy Crow and respectfulchild Saturday, October 6, 7pm RadStorm, 2177 Gottingen Street $13 adv/$15 door In a word, you could say that Rae Spoon’s new album bodiesofwater is about nature. But as fans of the prolific singer-songwriter have learned across their decades-spanning career, a Rae Spoon record is rarely superficial: Their magic exists…
Pests and Park Vic We read with interest your article about Park Victoria in The Coast today (“Tenants organize against Park Victoria’s pest problem,” The City story by Sandra C. Hannebohm, September 27). It is unfortunate that you were unable to get our comments prior to your article being published, as we are extremely active…
Q Is it even possible for a couple that stopped having sex to start back up again? My girlfriend and I (we’re both women) have been together for four years, and we haven’t had sex for two. I thought the sex was good before it stopped, but apparently she was going through the motions. She’s…
Braden Lam & The Driftwood People w/Eric Stephen Martin and Emily Stuart Thursday, October 4, 9pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $6 Braden Lam & The Driftwood people spent the summer in Halifax recording the band’s sophomore album Driftwood People, a collection of “upbeat anthems worthy of long drives and high-fives,” says Lam, where he…
Christopher Porter, Urbania Part 1 October 5-15 (opening reception Oct 5, 7pm) Lunenburg School of the Arts, 6 Prince Street, Lunenburg The current exhibition at the Lunenburg School of the Arts showcases the long-lost work of photographer Christopher Porter: 20 years ago tens of thousands of Porter’s photographs, negatives and other belongings were stolen from…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA (September 23-October 22) Libran astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson offers this observation: “When you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. [But] the most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture…
Renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson says to protect nature, people must regain their innate love for it. That means spending time in nature. While the concepts in Wilson’s book Biophilia have gained widespread acceptance since its publication more than 30 years ago, we’re still facing serious problems based on a lack of understanding of and…
October 17 is a date looming large in our calendars for lots of wild, wonderful reasons—it’s the first day of the Halifax Pop Explosion AND the first day of legalized cannabis—but now the countdown is about to be even more epic: HPX announced today that it’s getting the party started a little earlier with a…
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