A highly shareable, highly misleading post making the social media rounds in Halifax would have you believe that the downtown bar scene is under attack from a sophisticated tactical squad of people on a mission to grab women off the street. The post first appeared in early September. “Friends in the HRM!” it begins. “My […]
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Coast 25: 46 of the weirdest things we’ve ever published
The prophet in Clayton Park Bill Deagle says he knows things they don’t want you to know about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and other government secrets. Now he lives in suburban Halifax, with an internet radio broadcast and orders from god to get the truth out there. Celine Dion’s cancelled Halifax show After the […]
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Misinformation mine: Facebook shuts down Halifax man’s pro-Trump trade
For the past three years, Nicholas Kingsland has made his income sharing hyper-partisan news stories about American politics on social media. His livelihood involves spreading polarizing content across multiple Facebook pages to an easily riled, mostly right-wing audience—generating revenue by sharing links and driving high volumes of traffic to other websites. But Kingsland isn’t mining this […]
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Shubenacadie sham!
The legend of Shubenacadie Sam is built on a wildlife park of lies. Officially the government maintains its beloved prognosticating groundhog is “ageless,” but a year-long The Coast investigation has learned several different rodents have been given the identity over the decades. The animal predicting spring’s arrival this week will be the fourth “Sam” since […]
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Yes Men prank Canada
They had me going for a couple minutes. I got a press release this morning that was supposedly from Environment Canada, but it was a fake. It was convincing in its tone, but its content was too good to be true. The press release announced a new Canadian climate agenda with reductions targets of 40 […]