Vol. 29, No. 32
Why hiring more people costs the city less
Halifax’s Budget Committee uses money magic to fight the trend toward using contractors.
By Matt Stickland
How Jeff Bezos gets your Halifax tax dollars
The library is right to want more money for audio books, even if that means dealing with the Amazon monopoly.
Everything you need to know about HRM council’s Feb. 6 meeting
Halifax is both food insecure and coming to realize that you can’t eat the suburbs.
Halifax city council starts the process of police reform
Board of Police Commissioners dropped the ball, again
Did Halifax just blow $113 million?
Conflicting priorities at the Department of Public Works make for a department that doesn’t work very well.
Halifax will have a new mayor in October
Mike Savage will not run in 2024 municipal election.
Who will be Halifax's next mayor?
So far the all-but-confirmed candidates are Andy Fillmore, Pamela Lovelace and Waye Mason.
Breaking out of the suburban trap
The planning department’s budget promises a lot of action in Halifax’s future.
Good Goverance is making a comeback in Halifax
Integrating strategic plans into decision making three years early
Halifax councillors ponder Parks and Recreation cuts
Feb. 14 Budget Committee meeting learns that higher wages means fewer complaints for HRM.
“I never dreamt it would be possible”: Atlantic Lottery players are winning every day, and you could be next
It’s not just about winning—100% of lottery profits go right back to Atlantic Canadian communities
Content by Atlantic Lottery
7 burning questions as Halifax Wanderers approach soccer pre-season
Stadium campaigns, broadcast disputes and a promising Wanderers core with championship aspirations: Can the club reach new heights amid challenges in 2024?
By Martin Bauman
Weekend snowstorm hammers Halifax, rest of Nova Scotia
Expect more flurries through Monday, with winds gusting to 50 kilometres per hour as a cut-off low sits above the HRM.
Hartlen Point dispute between DND, environmental activists enters House of Commons
Calls for an independent impact assessment of the DND’s plans to build a military testing site are now part of a Parliamentary petition
The Grand Parade podcast: HRM still not learning its lessons about road safety
By Martin Bauman and Matt Stickland
Let’s have a look at Tim Houston’s worst verbal blunders as premier, shall we?
Nova Scotia’s premier has a politician’s knack for soundbites—just not always ones that work in his favour.
By Team Coast
We asked: How would you solve journalism in Canada?
Coast readers weigh in on moving toward sustainable media we can trust
An Atlantic Canada first: new Masters of nursing in mental health and addictions coming to Dal
Admissions are open for the first round of 22 students to start this fall
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Universities have to fix their housing issues or lose millions, says province
One-year bilateral agreement that begins April 1 comes with strings attached to provincial coffers.
MSVU faculty on strike after weekend-long bargaining fails to reach agreement
Students hold sit-in of president's office in solidarity with faculty, who are picketing as of noon Monday
MSVU prof links Black studies with animal studies, as researcher at Cambridge
El Jones is researching police dogs in Canada while teaching an MSVU animal studies course online–when not on strike
Province and city need to work together to solve child care crisis in HRM, says daycare director
Canada’s longest-running all-Black comedy tour visits Halifax—and it’s a must-see
Halifax’s Travis Lindsay joins the Underground Comedy Railroad Tour as it stops in Halifax on Saturday, Feb. 10.
Halifax filmmaker shines spotlight on Indigenous women across Atlantic Canada
Documentarian Stephanie Joline’s Women of This Land comes out on International Women's Day.
6 things to do in Halifax this weekend (Feb. 2-4, 2024)
From comedy nights to Hobbits in Halifax, here’s your guide to weekend fun.
Here are all your Halifax nominees for the 2024 JUNO Awards
Reggae singer Jah’Mila lands first JUNO nod, while electro-maestro Rich Aucoin picks up another nomination with Synthetic Season 2.
How City and Colour’s new album helped Dallas Green process unimaginable grief
The band’s matured sound takes centre stage in The Love Still Held Me Near.
By Raynee Novak
How a trip to Antarctica offered the perfect studio space for Rich Aucoin’s next album
The celebrated producer talks the third instalment in his Synthetic series and earning a 2024 JUNO nod.
Halifax Jazz Festival’s new boss wants to make the music fest a year-round fixture
How Tenille Goodspeed plans to make her mark as the HJF’s new executive director
Pillow talk: The results of The Coast’s 2024 Sex + Dating Survey
From cheating to threesomes to first-date nightmares, Haligonians hold nothing back.
Thinking ahead: What Halifax wants to try next in sex
It's a wide range, from orgies to never having sex again.
Naked truth: confess a sexual secret you’ve never told anyone
Free you mind, your ass will follow.
Bedroom blunders: Haligonians dish on the most cringe-worthy things they’ve said—and heard—during sex
All of the dirty talk you wish you’d never heard, as told by readers in The Coast’s 2024 Sex + Dating Survey.
Catfished: Halifax talks sex and dating on the internet
From porn habits to DM slides to Tinder white lies, The Coast’s readers dish in our 2024 Halifax Sex + Dating Survey.
From Broadway to Benedict
By Julie Lawrence
NS teachers council talks upcoming presidential election, new tentative agreement and bringing back school boards
Jenn Grant, Morgan Toney win big at 2024 East Coast Music Awards
“No Mow May” is a good start to rethinking bee health across our lawns
