[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] “It’s a frustration,” allows Peter Kelly. Throughout a half-hour interview in his City Hall office, Kelly seems genuinely pained by the course of events related to Halifax’s failed sewage treatment […]
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Who is premier Darrell Dexter?
Darrell Dexter has a complex family background, a complex educational and career history and—if, as expected, the NDP wins Tuesday’s provincial election—a perhaps impossibly complex governing task ahead. photos by Scott Munn
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Bear Restaurant wins Best New Restaurant in Best of Food 2009
[Editor’s note: This story is one of a package of three of Andy Murdoch’s articles selected for Honourable Mention in the Food Writing category of the Association of Alternative Newsweekies’ 2010 awards. See all three here.] 3:30pm An hour and a half before Halifax’s Best New Restaurant opens, server Sarah Guthman walks in. She and […]
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AJA Silver: David Harper’s Wild things
Five bearskin rugs lie cushioned in layers of plastic bags, under a utility table in David Harper’s Almon Street studio. Only their heads are visible, stacked in a semi-circle chorus—count two tan, one brown, one white, one black. Their jaws are open and wet, shiny with vampirish fangs and pale pink tongues. What makes these […]
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Matt Aikins wins Atlantic Journalism Award for enterprising reporting
Coast contributing writer Matthieu Aikins won the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting in print tonight, for his piece “Unembedded in Afghanistan.” Aikins won for Adam’s Fall, his investigation of suicides from the Macdonald Bridge. Related Stories
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Boat Harbour: On toxic pond
Rodney MacDonald’s government isn’t the first to say it will clean up the mess the province made of Boat Harbour. And it’s not the first to use public money to keep the polluting pulp mill running. An investigation by a group of University of King’s College journalism students finds over four decades of murky water and broken promises.
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Bone Cage up for Savage award
Back in October 2007, Catherine Banks’ play, Bone Cage, had its original and only run on stage. Produced at Neptune Studio, there were some 10 performances over eight days, a series the playwright herself describes as “short.” The play was presented by Forerunner Playwrights Theatre, which, by its nature, involves the playwright as co-producer, with […]
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Shoptalk-lets
A delicious incentive to gently thaw from now until the end of March at Hamachi House (5190 Morris, 425-7711) is the winter warm-up special, a complementary miso soup with the purchase of any menu item during lunch (11:30am-2:30pm). And speaking of all things Hamachi, congratulations to the Hamachi Group for winning the 2009 Gold Award […]
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Offally good
[Editor’s note: This story is one of a package of three of Andy Murdoch’s articles selected for Honourable Mention in the Food Writing category of the Association of Alternative Newsweekies’ 2010 awards. See all three here.] Blame Robert Burns. He couldn’t resist cracking wise about haggis when he tried to extoll its virtues and lauded […]
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Crappy sewage plant
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] </big Last week, the brand new Halifax sewage plant—-the largest and most important component of the $330 million Halifax Solutions project—-crapped out. Evidently, a power outage led to some as […]
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Adam’s fall
Editor’s note This story was honoured with two journalism awards in 2009: The Canadian Association of Journalists gave a CAJ award for best investigative piece by a community newspaper, and it won a gold Atlantic Journalism Award for enterprise reporting. More importantly, the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission has decided to install suicide barriers along the entire […]
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The prophet in Clayton Park
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a family doctor named Bill Deagle was driving his two older sons—Matthew, 16, and Stephen, 14—to Chatfield, their charter high school in Littleton, Colorado, a couple of miles from their home, when he heard the first confused, confusing, stuttering reports on the radio. A plane has crashed into […]