If Halifax Regional Police’s information organization skills were a desk, that desk would be piled high with mismatched papers and zero-context sticky notes. There’d be a bunch of mugs, each with a crusting ring of mold forming at different heights of abandonment, and three cell phones—one encrypted, one broken and one that primarily uses Facebook […]
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Nova Scotia’s vaccination effort needs a shot in the arm
The pandemic has been called a lot of things, but lately it’s come to be known as “a race against time.” Humanity is rushing to get COVID-19 vaccines into as many arms as possible before the current viral variants, or a new mutation, render the vaccine useless. This race is happening everywhere at once, with […]
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Roxane Gay knows the way
Roxane Gay at Afterwords Literary Festival Sunday Oct 4, 4pm Zoom; eventbrite.ca for tickets and details It’s early morning Halifax time when Roxane Gay answers her call from The Coast. The New York Times bestselling author and journalist has just finished self-isolating in Iceland, so she’s understandably keen for an efficient chat (after all, her first […]
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Make room for the chaos
In grief—in horror and shock and disgust and pain and death and murder and anguish and sadness and fear and being alone—in grief, “overwhelm is the primary starting place.” Roy Ellis, the bereavement coordinator for the central region of the Nova Scotia Health Authority, says grief is our response to loss and change. Over the […]
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How you can shoot your shot for a seat on Halifax regional council
Who can run? Anyone who is at least 18-years-old, a Canadian citizen and have been living in the wide expanse that is Halifax Regional Municipality for six months can run. What to do: 1. Get an official agent. Someone (could be you) who can handle your campaign finances and file some forms. Then, make an […]
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Less than a quarter of candidates vying for a seat on Halifax regional council have been women
Before Lisa Blackburn became deputy mayor of Halifax, she was elected as District 14 councillor on regional council. And before that, she was knocking on doors in Beaverbank, Upper Sackville, Middle Sackville and Lucasville, telling people the myriad reasons why they should elect her to represent them at Halifax’s decision-making table. Before that, she was […]
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Kicking the plastic habit
As a plant-based butchery, Gottingen Street’s Real Fake Meats is far from a typical butcher shop. But if there’s one tradition co-founder Lauren Marshall believes is worth preserving, it’s wrapping her products in old-fashioned butcher-shop paper, not plastic. It hasn’t always been that way: when the shop opened one year ago this month, most […]
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Angel Bat Dawid soars
Angel Bat Dawid w/NAT Chantel, New Hermitage Sat Jan 25, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20/PWYC When she was young, Angel Bat Dawid went with her father to watch the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus. It was there that everything clicked for her: she wanted to be a musician. “I remember sitting in […]
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First look: Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore
Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore Tue-Fri noon-5pm 2177 Gottingen Street Of all the doors lining Gottingen Street, only one is as bright yellow as a banana or sunflower petal. Only one is a secret portal to shelves lined with work by some of the city’s most exciting artists. Only one leads to Eyelevel Artist […]
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The Handmade Film Collective proves DIY does it better
Handmade Film Screening from Coast to Coast Tue Jan 28, 7-9pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street Free The Handmade Film Collective is partnering with the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative to organize a free screening celebrating the art of handmade, analogue film. The screening—a much-needed cure to the glut of CGI on view at the […]
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Sobering centres are “far more humane than the drunk tank”
Advocates say that HRM needs to make drastic changes to how it cares for people with substance-use problemsin our city. Harry Critchley, vice chair of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and Leah Genge, a physician with specialty in addiction who works at Mobile Outreach Street Health and Direction 180, urged the Board of Police […]
