We’ve been doing this for 29 years, The Coast and the people of Halifax working together to create the city’s biggest spotlight. The Coast has the easy job—hosting the Best of Halifax survey, counting the votes, having the honour of presenting the results. It’s you (or if not actually you, thousands and thousands of Coast […]
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Best of Halifax 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards results
Halifax is back! Not necessarily back to normal—if you can even remember, three years into the pandemic, what normal used to be. But as Nova Scotia ended mask mandates and gathering restrictions in 2022, Halifax got back to being itself. That unique sweet spot between small city and big town, with a great mix of […]
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Eat, Drink, and Experience Nova Scotia
Trying to figure out what’s on the menu for your next getaway or staycation? Let’s take all the guessing work out of planning your next culinary outing and leave it to the experts at Taste of Nova Scotia. They’ve spent over 30 years collecting members who bring the best of Nova Scotia to our plates […]
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“Ram Ranch” explained: the naked truth about the song trolling the convoysation
On a local Halifax level, it all started for me with the coverage of the protests here last Saturday, February 12. At a gathering of trucker convoy supporters, a counter-protester carried a small banner that simply said “Ram Ranch.” I’ve been a bit out-of-the-loop on the Canadian meme scene lately and did not know what […]
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Gaps in OBGYN care in Nova Scotia: “The medical system just isn’t structured to help”
It was midnight, about 12 hours into her visit to the emergency department at the QEII, and still 24-year-old Ariel McTavish hadn’t seen a doctor. She had contemplated leaving; the wait wasn’t just long, it was terribly uncomfortable. She was cold, wearing just a johnny shirt. She was vomiting into a bag. She was there […]
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Why Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s Son Of The House is helping us cope with COVID
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe’s debut novel might be called Son Of The House, but don’t let that fool you: Beneath its male heir title and its tension-packed kidnapping plot line, the 268-page piece of crackling prose is a celebration of women and their boundless endurance and strength. “It was indirectly inspired by growing up around the women […]
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Gambling with Nova Scotia’s future
1 A WHOLE NEW WORLD “Icome from a family of people that gamble,” John says. “I learned how to play poker from my grandfather when I was like three. I’ve always been kind of attracted to money.” This explains his Bachelor degree in business, his “early” Bitcoin investment and his steady, if unexciting, day job […]
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Best of Halifax 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards results
Halifax, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. Over 110 categories of local excellence have been awarded in The Coast’s 2021 Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Awards, voted on by 30,835 Haligonians—with 506,152 total votes cast. All that math adds up to one thing: A whole lotta love for this city by […]
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A look inside the 73 modular housing units rotting at a Halifax construction yard
In late September, Halifax announced its plan to purchase a total of 73 modular units that would be used for temporary housing. Coincidentally, there are exactly the same number of units, with pale grey siding, creaky unlocked doors and basic wooden furniture, currently sitting at a Halifax construction site. Mills Heavy Hauling in Goodwood is […]
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Despite “code red,” governments continue to support fossil fuels
What’s the best way to respond to a “code red” crisis? Recent research is testing us on that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”—the first part of its sixth assessment—confirms we’ll continue accelerating on a terrible trajectory if we don’t rein in greenhouse gas emissions and protect natural […]
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Halifax’s underground queer bar is going public
Mike Scaife has lived in Halifax’s north end for nine years, on a quiet, dead-end residential street with limited parking and lined with trees that give way to the mid-afternoon sun. His house is a pale colour, blending in with the neighbours’ two-storey homes, their yards scattered with children’s toys and fall-themed decorations. The only […]
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HRM says modular housing units will be here “before the snow flies”
For several months, unhoused people in HRM have been struggling to find a safe place to sleep. Residents “sleeping rough,” as the city has dubbed it, have had municipal workers threaten eviction, seen promises of shelter announced and then revoked and been the focal point of violent police action. Many houseless citizens eventually settled at […]