Just in time for the holidays, we’re back for one last special episode of 26 for 25. Past audience favourites Stephanie Johns and Allison Saunders join Tara and Jacob for a boozy reflection on the year 2018 in the city of Halifax. Breach teen! Agaves! Smoking bans! Chelsea Peretti! Plus, a special Christmas-rewrite of Lady Gaga’s “Shallow.”
Thanks for listening over this past half-a-year to our indulgent little podcast experiment, everyone. If you’d like to hear more of us in the future, feel free to let our bosses know by emailing letters@thecoast.ca
And catch up on all our past episodes right here (perfect for binge-listening over Christmas).
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25 for 25: episode 2016
Tom Michael hits rewind on the legacy of Video Difference and Rebecca Thomas speaks truth about her time as poet laureate.
25 for 25: episode 2015
Cory Bowles looks back on #NSFilmJobs and Megan Leslie shares reflections from her political career.
25 for 25: episode 2014
It’s the Khyber, forever, with Emily Davidson, and comic superstar Kate Leth shares her strange adventures.
25 for 25: episode 2013
Graham Steele on the end of Nova Scotia’s NDP government and Selena Ross on the story of Rehtaeh.
25 for 25: episode 2012
Remembering Raymond Taavel with Barry Boyce and talking Halifax Locals with Sean MacGillivray.
25 for 25: episode 2011
Rich Aucoin goes behind the music for We’re All Dying To Live and Stephanie Johns prints a curse word on our cover.
25 for 25: episode 2010
Talking with Juanita Peters about Halifax’s Africville apology and more events from eight years ago.
25 for 25: episode 2009
Tim Bousquet talks about when the sewage treatment plant failed. Plus, Paul McCartney is in town, dead birds in the Public Gardens and, yes, Brindi.
25 for 25: episode 2008
Reminiscing with Joel Plaskett about his career, and reflections on covering suicides with journalist Matthieu Aikins.
25 for 25: episode 2007
Inside the Square with councillor Lindell Smith and Halifax’s slow road to better biking with Kelsey Lane.
25 for 25: episode 2006
Reuniting the (almost) original cast of Street Cents, AKA Jonathan Torrens, Jamie Bradley, Benita Ha and Brian Heighton.
25 for 25: episode 2005
Lezlie Lowe on public bathrooms! Erica Butler on HRM’s Regional Plan! Commonwealth Games! Stolen deer head sculptures! Bedford fast ferries!
25 for 25: episode 2004
Gloria McCluskey reflects on her storied political career and Condon MacLeod talks about the golden days of Halifax’s all-ages music scene.
25 for 25: episode 2003
Phonse Jessome talks Hells Angels, Kirk Johnson on his human rights win and Hurricane Juan devastates Halifax.
25 for 25: episode 2002
Stephanie Domet on censorship scandals at the Daily News, Mary Vingoe on the day the Arts Council was killed and Delvina Bernard on Black musicians fighting for recognition in Nova Scotia.
25 for 25: episode 2001
Talking 9/11 with Halifax airport president Joyce Carter, activist Michael Karanicolas and former Atlantic Film Festival director Lia Rinaldo.
25 for 25: episode 2000
Halifax’s urban forester John Simmons recounts tales from the brown spruce longhorn beetle wars.
25 for 25: episode 1999
Andrea Dorfman talks first features and Rick Conrad holds up his union sign at the Herald as the uncertainties of the year 2000 loom.
25 for 25: episode 1998
Stephen Kimber joins us to talk about Gerald Regan’s legacy, 20 years after the former Nova Scotian premier stood trial on multiple charges of sexual assault.
25 for 25: episode 1997
Mayor Mike Savage talks about his dad, Susan Dodd digs up the Westray Inquiry and we dive into craft beer culture with Brian Titus and Emily Tipton.
25 for 25: episode 1996
The iconic Jane Kansas visits to talk Halifax Pride and Glenn Walton tells tales from the set of Titanic.
25 for 25: episode 1995
Mike Campbell takes us back to when MuchMusic went MuchEast and Chris Parsons breaks down some classic labour hits from the ’90s and today.
The 25 for 25 podcast: 1994
El Jones and Todd McCallum join us to revisit free speech debates at Dalhousie, then Sharon Fraser talks Pandora’s feminist newspaper legacy.
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A look back at the year The Coast was born and Halifax was the next Seattle of music.
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2018.