Families are struggling to access child care in Nova Scotia. In 2021, one in two young children in Nova Scotia were living without adequate access to care, in what’s known as child care deserts. So, another 9,500 child care spots by March 2026 may sound like a lot—that’s what Nova Scotia and Ottawa promised to […]
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Pillow talk: The results of The Coast’s 2024 Sex + Dating Survey
Just as February means three-foot snowbanks and a Tim Houston scrum leads to unfortunate soundbites, Valentine’s Week in Halifax can only mean one thing: The Coast’s annual Sex + Dating Survey results are here—and as usual, the responses more than deliver. Hundreds of you took the time to spill your saucy (and 100% anonymous) secrets […]
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Halifax will have a new mayor in October
In a press conference just after noon on Feb 13, Halifax Regional Municipality mayor Mike Savage has announced he will not be seeking re-election this October. Savage has been Halifax’s mayor for the past 12 years, having first been elected to the job in 2012. Even though he said it was the best job he […]
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Let’s have a look at Tim Houston’s worst verbal blunders as premier, shall we?
Never mess with a Cape Bretoner. That memo seemed to have missed Tim Houston’s office last week, when the Nova Scotia premier publicly pondered whether Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s choice to declare a state of emergency—one the region issued in the wake of historic snowfall that, quite literally, blocked some residents into their homes—was “just […]
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Universities have to fix their housing issues or lose millions, says province
Nova Scotia’s universities are scrambling to grasp the implications of a new provincial funding agreement, announced last week. On Friday Feb. 2, the Department of Advanced Education presented their replacement plan for the current memorandum of understanding—or MoU—signed by Nova Scotia and all 10 provincial universities in 2019. That five-year MoU will expire on Mar. […]
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Canada’s cap on international student visas just scapegoats students, says CBU student
Navy Nguyen is a fifth-year student at Cape Breton University outside of Sydney, NS. When they moved here from Viet Nam at the end of 2018, Sydney was a lot smaller than they’d been led to believe: “I was disappointed by how bad the transit system was already back then, and it’s just gotten worse […]
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PHOTOS: Here’s a look at Halifax after the first nor’easter of 2024
Kelly Cormier’s work day started earlier than usual on Monday. Instead of brewing coffee or prepping the Ardmore Tea Room’s kitchen for the usual morning rush of patrons hungry for hash browns and scrambled eggs, the Quinpool Road diner’s co-owner was out shovelling snow so she could open on schedule at 8am. There was plenty […]
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The missing Grade 9 problem
In 2020, voters elected Jeff Arsenault to the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial–CSAP, the province’s French school board–as one of three representatives for Halifax. The CSAP has 18 elected members province-wide, who are responsible for a school system of 23 Acadian and French-language schools that served 6,170 students in Nova Scotia last year. Halifax has over […]
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In fenced-off Meagher Park, one renegade poem keeps surviving its removal
Look beyond the chain-link fence at the corner of Chebucto Road and Dublin Street, and a story emerges. It’s there, scrawled in permanent marker, on a plywood board that would be easy to miss, if not for the fact that it keeps disappearing—then coming back again, albeit in different forms. One day, it’s a pamphlet; […]
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NSCAD sends message to students: keep us out of it!
On Oct. 18, NSCAD’s president Peggy Shannon emailed all students and faculty a statement against hate: “In the midst of a horrific escalation of violence in the Middle East that has resulted in many civilian deaths, I want to unequivocally condemn all forms of hate and discrimination.” The email went on to describe NSCAD as […]
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7 new Halifax restaurants to get you excited for 2024
If last year’s haul of industry awards is anything to go by, Halifax’s food and drink scene continues to put our coastal city on the map. That doesn’t show any signs of slowing in 2024, even as the region reels from the loss of several beloved haunts in 2023. The good news? More palate-pleasing options […]
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Meet the Halifax couple who kayaked 400 kms from the city’s north end to Cape Breton
Four words have been etched in marker on a whiteboard in Noah Booth’s Halifax basement for years: Kayak the Eastern Shore. The words were there, scrawled in black, long before the 32-year-old geologist ever tried sea kayaking—never mind a 15-day ocean voyage. They were there longer still before Booth and his partner, Rachyl MacPhail, started […]