On the bright side of another crappy year, the local patriarchy had a bad time. Powerful men who abused that power were called to account, and from the margins came heroes. The Coast’s editorial team has come together for our Year in Review to highlight 25 local stories (in no particular order) that we couldn’t […]
2018
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Glitter Bean’s labour of love
The workers at the Smiling Goat’s Spring Garden Road location weren’t given much warning the day their cafe closed last April. The building’s landlords—Just Us! Coffee Roasters, which sold its two unionized HRM cafes to Smiling Goat’s scorned owner Kit Singh in September 2017—changed the locks just a few hours after letting the staff know […]
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Halifax council got burned by cannabis legalization
The drug cartel machinations that make for such great binge-watching played out in real life around the legalization of cannabis. Kingpin Justin Trudeau, a glamorous jet-setter protected by armed guards, issues the game-changing orders: Weed is legal now, and for my tribute, I’m taking a dollar-per-gram “excise tax” kickback. On a rung below him, the provinces […]
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City hall’s equity watchdogs
It’s been a year since Liane Tessier got her apology. A lot has changed since then, but not much is different. For 12 years, the former firefighter battled city hall looking for justice. Her human rights case was finally settled last December with a muddled sorry-not-sorry from chief Ken Stuebing. Tessier experienced systemic gender discrimination, […]
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What’s your biggest question about sex, dating and love?
It would be nice if we had all the answers, wouldn’t it? The game of love (and Tinder) is full of so many frustrating unknowns so we popped this loaded question to the heart-on-sleeve Sex + Dating survey respondents. Turns out we’re all just a people wishing we could read minds. “How do I know […]
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How do you show love for yourself?
Treat yo’ self means a lot of different things to a lot of different people but it turns out those of you who took this year’s anonymous Sex + Dating survey actually have a ton in common (you all just looooove jacking off). Regardless, we’ve rounded up some of the best responses to the question, “How do […]