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Toxic callout culture mob mentality “warriors”—are you ready to drop your pitchforks yet? Callout culture is ending, and everyone now notices how every time your group disagrees with people or has conflict, they’re cancelled. YOU are scarier to people in the community than the people you cancel, but people are too afraid of your social…
Responsible polyamory is NOT: Agreeing to be “open” and then not seeing or speaking to your partner for weeks, only to show up at her birthday party while she’s trying to run things and casually mention, “hey love you lots I’m feeling frisky again I’m available for that now” and in the same breath, “oh…
Just another Tuesday evening, laughing with a friend on the #1. We probably looked like fools. But still, some of you accepted the memes we airdropped, and the laughter grew from just us two, to a community of passengers on transit as a whole. Some of you even airdropped memes back. We were all strangers,…
Thanks again for being the right kind of weirdo! I’ve had the most emotionally draining week, and you made everything seem a little less bitter. If I weren’t happily coupled I would have gladly let you hit on me. Perhaps in another dimension my doppleganger gave you a ride home and her number. In this…
Here in Nova Scotia our populace is still small enough that we extend courtesy to those around us, especially on the sidewalks. I understand if you come from a place where this is not the case, but if you are a guest here, please leave your disregard for others at the door. —Neighbourhood Watcher
Phone zombie! Why do you walk around crowded busy streets staring at your phone? Phone Zombie! You are a hazard to yourself and the general public at large. And you not only look like an insecure fool, you are an embarrassment to the human race at large. Perhaps stopping and moving out of the way…
As I stroll through our Dorian-defiled city, streets and parks chock-full of emergency workers, city employees, volunteers and scattered debris, amongst all of the people doing anything they can to help and others trying to salvage and repair what they can from the mess that’s been made, there is you, having friends take your photo…
To the #7 bus driver on Tuesday afternoon: Sorry I jumped in to ask you if you could call transit dispatch and report a bus with serious mechanical problems. It was leaking a lot of smoking fluid all over Gottingen Street, and I kinda panicked and must have seemed intense with urgency. You seemed worried,…
At this week’s board of police comissioners meeting Halifax police chief Dan Kinsella said HRP is keeping its plan from June 2019 to purge all data and metadata regarding street checks in December 2020. In March 2019 the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and Scot Wortley released their report on street checks which reported on…
Hey Mr. Postman: We stopped and talked two summers in a row on the steps to the beach. You had lots of time to spend there because of an injury. How about meeting again on Monday, September 23, rain or shine around 4pm? —Missed Chance Maybe
Most of the medications they’ve given me don’t work, and most of their other treatments like CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) don’t work either, and I think that’s mostly because I was misdiagnosed. All that most of the medications do to me is make me stupid or sedate me—other than that, no benefits. The doctors even…
Ruck yeah! The Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation announced the full reinstatement of rugby in Nova Scotia high schools after numerous conversations, a vote over player safety and proper training for coaches. With the start of a new school year, Nova Scotia high school students were wondering if they would have the chance to hit…
This story originally appeared in The Guardian. It is republished here as part of The Coast’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The climate crisis is making people sicker–worsening illnesses ranging from seasonal allergies to heart and lung disease. Children,…
From the out-to-please-nobody energy of staying-in anthem “I Need To Go Home” to the brute squall that is “You’re Not 23 Anymore”, Mobina Galore doesn’t give a fuck what you think. What do drummer Marcia Hanson and guitarist Jenna Priestner care about? Crafting punched-up rock songs they describe as “vocally aggressive power chord punk.” The result…
The National Citizens Alliance of Canada returned to Halifax as part of a pre-election tour Thursday September 12 at Cornwallis Park. NCA leader Stephen Garvey is running for MP in the Cumberland-Colchester riding in Nova Scotia. Close to 100 counter-demonstrators organized by Halifax Against Hate showed up early to disrupt the event. More than a…
Candidates for the Halifax riding met at the Spatz Theatre on Thursday for the first debate of the federal election campaign since the writ dropped—official Canadian politics slang for the kick-off of a federal election campaign—on Wednesday September 10. Jo-Ann Roberts of the Green Party, Christine Saulnier of the NDP, Bruce Holland for the Conservative…
Get into feast mode at the return of Italian Weekend, rock out with the hardcore punk of Mobina Galore and pass the popcorn at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival’s opening weekend. Who Let The Dogs Out screening Friday Over 120 movies will be shown at this year’s FIN Atlantic International Film Festival—and while they are…
The polar bear has become the poster child for climate change impacts in the Arctic. Sea ice, which the bears depend on for hunting, is melting at an ever-expanding rate. For other species, climate impacts are not as direct. The 2019 State of Canada’s Birds report found aerial insectivores populations of birds like swifts, swallows and nightjars…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote, “Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.” I hope that in the last nine months, Virgo, you have resolved which of those three options is…
Q My roommate is a gay man who is into getting fisted. A lot. We were FWBs until he moved into my place, when we agreed it would be better to not have sex anymore. It’s worked out fine. He’s been here for a year. Here’s the problem: About two years ago, he got into…
In September 2017 I gave birth to my son. In October #metoo went viral and was all over social media feeds and news reports after a decade in the making—since Tarana Burke, a Bronx-based civil rights activist, coined the phrase in 2006. It made for a difficult October. I was postpartum, breastfeeding around the clock…
This years’ edition of FIN Atlantic International Film Festival offers audiences a heady mix of timely topics, fresh faces, big ideas and big names. With 120 films screening over eight days, it’s impossible to get to all of them—so, here are a handful not-be-missed flicks we’re extra-amped for. Get ready to binge! Murmur The fest’s…
Who Let the Dogs Out Fri, Sep 13, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $13.50-$15, finfestival.ca For the amount of time it’s been living in our heads rent-free, each and every one of us should have made a documentary about “Who Let the Dogs Out” by now. And yet, it took one obsessive…
FIN AIFF Opening Night Gala: Murmur Thu Sep 12, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $50 The opposite of a silver-set Hollywood dream, Heather Young’s films have both feet firmly planted in reality. She wants to make movies about “a real person, that feels like someone I could meet in my real life—that both…
A conference being held by Saint Mary’s University’s criminology department on September 14 promises to bring fresh perspectives to the topic of sexual exploitation in Nova Scotia and beyond. Organized by human trafficking abolitionist and survivor of sexual exploitation Cheyenne Jones, the Buyer Beware panel aims to bring awareness to what Jones considers the origin…
A ccording to HRM, residents disposed of an average of 380 kg of waste in 2017-18. That’s like 380 bags of flour per person. This includes everything from clear bag garbage to recycling and compost. The reported national average for Canadians is almost double that number, at just over 700 kg, according to Statistics Canada.…
There’s Something In the Water Sat, Sep 14, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $18.50, finfestival.ca Nearly a year after publishing a book on environmental racism, the story has taken on a new life. There’s Something In the Water by Dalhousie professor Ingrid Waldron is now a 70-minute documentary co-produced by Ellen Page,…
Trudeau and TB There is growing fear in the development community that after years of advocating for full international funding to support the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, the Trudeau Liberals are planning to abandon it. This is deeply concerning because Canada has long been at the bottom of spending out of all…
In Superman’s origin story, his father is Jor-El, the greatest scientist on the planet Krypton. Through his research, Jor-El comes to believe Krypton is doomed, but the other scientists laugh at his prediction and refuse to take action to save the citizens. Only baby Superman is spared, thanks to his parents sending him away in…
