Jan 4-10, 2018

Vol. 25, No. 32

Welcome to 2018, Canada’s year of legal weed. Soon recreational cannabis will be free like beer, but the pot private sector isn’t waiting around. This week we explore the Halifax grey market that’s sprung up in the dying days of prohibition.

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City

Waiting to exhale

Canada’s brave new world of legal pot is almost here, even if nobody knows what it looks like. Are you ready for it?

By Kyle Shaw
Jan 4, 2018
City

SCIENCE MATTERS: Consumer society no longer serves our needs

By David Suzuki
Jan 10, 2018
News

Halifax shelters scramble to keep people warm during winter storm

Emergency Management Office opens up 11 comfort centres across the city.

By Jacob Boon
Jan 4, 2018
News

Province says HRM can dump plastics in Nova Scotian landfill

Temporary reprieve of recycling rules lets HRM offload its mountain of trash bags in West Hants, instead of shipping them across Canada.

By Jacob Boon
Jan 5, 2018
News

You up? It’s time for The Coast’s Sex+Dating survey

Our annual anonymous survey on HRM’s sexual fantasies and emotional baggage needs your input.

By Jacob Boon
Jan 8, 2018
News

Regional Main Streets plan pitched for HRM's suburban and rural growth

Everyone deserves a good main street, says coalition of community groups behind calls for an “outside-the-centre plan”

By Jacob Boon
Jan 9, 2018
Shoptalk

Seam Work coming soon to downtown Dartmouth

Quilter brings a sewing workshop to Queen Street

By Allison Saunders
Jan 5, 2018
Shoptalk

Riot Snack Bar has closed

By Allison Saunders
Jan 5, 2018
Shoptalk

Lily Pad Cat Lounge is opening
in Dartmouth

All resident cats are adoptable from the NS SPCA.

By Rebecca Dingwell
Jan 9, 2018
Shoptalk

Bedford's The Jumping Bean is now The Nook Espresso Bar

Another location for the community-focused north end cafe

By Allison Saunders
Jan 10, 2018
Opinion

Letters to the editor, January 4, 2018

These are the letters and comments from the print edition.

Jan 4, 2018

Arts & Culture

Everyone’s Famous and the viral payday

Everybody wants their 15 internet minutes in the second season of this Halifax-made web series.

By Tara Thorne
Jan 4, 2018
Music

The shape of Open Waters

The Open Waters Festival returns for another slate of singular performances that take risks from all sides.

By Tara Thorne
Jan 4, 2018
Music

Ten cool as ice weekend picks

Yeah, winter's here, but so are cool cyborg operas, Wes Anderson screenings and Daft Punk tributes worth braving the cold for.

By Morgan Mullin
Jan 4, 2018
Music

The War on Drugs play Jazz Fest 2018

Daniel Caesar also on tap; tix on sale Friday

By Tara Thorne
Jan 8, 2018
Comics

Art Brat Comics

By Mollie Cronin
Jan 4, 2018

Food

Nova Scotia’s grape growth mindset

The province wants to help more people grow grapes, but is it excluding small-scale farmers?

By Moira Peters
Jan 4, 2018

Free Will Astrology

Free Will Astrology

Let your freak flag fly, Aquarius

By Rob Brezsny
Jan 4, 2018
Savage Love

The ex hex

Is harmless flirtation with my ex-husband disrespectful to my current partner? Plus: Get rid of that inconsiderate Dominant.

Jan 4, 2018
Cannabis

America just doubled down on the war on drugs

Stephen Colbert thinks it’s related to Donald Trump’s war on Black people.

By Kyle Shaw
Jan 5, 2018
Health

Six ways to stay warm and chill out this winter

Turn up, wind down, bliss out.

By Allison Saunders
Jan 11, 2018
Health

The neuroscience of ritual

The key to your everyday badassery could be in seemingly simple repetitive actions.

By Jessie Harrold
Jan 11, 2018
Health

What I learned from living a bigger life in a smaller space

Less is best.

By Jessie Harrold
Jan 11, 2018
Health

Noon Hoops is anyone's game

Herb Gamberg’s been hosting Noon Hoops—a sweaty, social, four-on-four tournament—every weekday for 47 years.

By Jonathan Briggins
Jan 11, 2018

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