Dearest readers—we need you and your many opinions. And not in the comments section this time. As of today, it’s officially Best of Halifax season. You know, the other election everyone’s going to be talking about. For the 22nd year running we’re picking your brains to declare out the city’s favourite restaurants, shops, bands, people […]
Awards
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Meet the Atlantic artists longlisted for the 2016 Sobey Art Award
Update June 1, 2016: William Robinson was announced as the shortlisted artist from the Atlantic region. He joins the other finalists Brenda Draney (representing the Prairies & North region), Jeremy Shaw (West Coast & Yukon), Charles Stankievech (Ontario) and Harja Waheed (Quebec). The prize is awarded in November at Ottawa’s National Gallery. Since 2002, the […]
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Atlantic Book Awards nominees 2016: Read ’em and reap…
Nominees for the 2016 Atlantic Books Awards were announced today, and Nova Scotian authors were well represented. Locals Dean Jobb, Janet Maybee and Sarah Mian are the only writers on the list to be nominated in two different categories, and a new award has been created in honour of Cape Breton’s late literary legend Alistair […]
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Yarmouth is ready to play for Nova Scotia Music Week
Fill up a van with your closest friends, burn some CDs (people still do that, right?) and hit the road. This weekend, November 5-8, east coasters will roll into Yarmouth from all over for the annual Nova Scotia Music Week. The fest is two-fold: concerts and conferences neatly packaged into one big week of musical […]
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Monday’s 9 things you need to know
1 Don’t rain on our parade, weather. The weekend’s damp conditions cancelled Halifax Pride’s show-stopping Dykes vs. Divas softball game. It also caused the cancellation of the first ever heritage Gathering on Gottingen Street—a sponsor-free event designed to connect Pride a bit more with the community and its roots. Both events have been cancelled outright […]
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7 things you need to know Monday
1 If you missed it, NSCC photography instructor and bike enthusiast Ingram Barss took over The Coast’s Instagram account this weekend. Saturday didn’t provide the best weather to document the great things happening during Bike Week/Doors Open/100 in 1 Day, but Barss still ended up with some amazing shots (like the one above). If you […]
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Guess who does Canada’s most excellent journalism
The Canadian Journalism Foundation just announced the finalists of its 2015 Excellence in Journalism Award, and the news has Coast headquarters reeling. In a good way. As well as naming the short-listed outlets in the “large media” category—the Globe and Mail, Global TV, L’actualité, the Toronto Star and Winnipeg’s Free Press—the CJF announced the winner […]
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It’s raining Atlantic Journalism Awards
From Fort Mac to Ralph’s Place, Coast writers like to go the extra mile for you, and a batch of Coasties have just been recognized for their efforts. The short-list of nominations for the 2014 Atlantic Journalism Awards came out yesterday, with four Coast projects up for local journalism’s biggest prize—a plaque plus a year […]
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Halifax police conclude bungled stalker case review
The police review of a revenge porn and harassment investigation The Coast first wrote about on October 2 is finally complete. The “Always-on stalker” told the story of a Halifax woman, known as Nicole, who went to police in early 2013 alleging an ex-boyfriend in Florida was spreading explicit photos and video of her online […]
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You have to leave to live here
UPDATE March 31, 2015: The special online version of our story “Fort Mac to Halifax: Living with Canada’s worst commute” was nominated today for Best Multimedia Feature by the Atlantic Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all Coasties, and there were many, who worked on this project. Remember when Stephen Harper’s griping about lazy Atlantic Canadians? “There […]
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Police, province respond to Nicole and Kim
Readers are calling for change and the government is promising it following last week’s cover story investigation by The Coast into how public systems failed to respond to two women who are being relentlessly harassed online and off. The Coast has kept in touch with the two women, known in the story as Nicole and […]
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The always-on stalker
In the middle of the night on a quiet, residential street in Halifax, a 28-year-old man climbed the steps of a white house with a red door. In the apartment upstairs lived a 30-something woman he found on Craigslist a couple hours earlier. The ad said, “I need it.” He replied by email. He was […]
