Looking for somewhere to commemorate Remembrance Day in the city this year? Here’s a guide to all of the official ceremonies happening in the Halifax Regional Municipality this Saturday, November 11. Remembrance Day at the Halifax Citadel Mark the holiday with Parks Canada at the Halifax Citadel starting at 11am. A 21-gun salute at the […]
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Nelly Furtado to host 2024 JUNO Awards in Halifax
From “Maneater” to the Maritimes: One of Canada’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, Nelly Furtado, will host and perform at the upcoming JUNO Awards in Halifax. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences unveiled the news at a special event at the Marquee Ballroom on Tuesday morning. Halifax will host Canada’s biggest night in music on […]
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First glimpse of snow greets last days of cruise season
A snow-blanketed Wednesday afternoon at Halifax’s South End Container Terminal made it harder to see a rather unusual sight: Not a single container ship was in the frequently busy port. And this was on the busiest day of the week in Halifax Harbour, to boot. If it feels like ship traffic is slowing in November, there’s […]
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USS ends with call for Canada to move towards reparatory justice
The four-day Universities Studying Slavery conference that took place in Halifax Oct. 18-21 produced a resolution calling on Canada to join the Caribbean Community and Common Market political and economic union—CARICOM—in fulfilling reparatory justice through creating a National Reparations Commission. The resolution was proposed by Dr. Sylvia D. Hamilton, filmmaker, writer and Inglis Professor Emeritus […]
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Emma Donoghue still believes in the power of writing—and of queer love stories, too
Emma Donoghue isn’t finished writing. Even now—15 novels, a dozen-odd plays, five short story collections, three screenplays, a Booker Prize shortlist and one Academy Award nomination under her belt—the Dublin-born, London, Ont.-based author can’t quell the storm of ideas that nag in the corners of her mind for a glimpse of a page, a chapter, […]
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USS day 3: Gospels of freedom, ecologies of resistance
It’s Friday, Oct. 20 in the ballroom at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel. Dr. Afua Cooper speaks to the international crowd at the Universities Studying Slavery conference after coffee, tea and eggs, and presents a poem written for this moment. Cooper is a distinguished historian and poet, Killam Research Chair in Black and African Diaspora […]
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USS day 2: Outside conference windows, the Atlantic Ocean is a symbol of loss
Day two of the Universities Studying Slavery conference in Halifax began with breakfast in view of the harbour at the Halifax Marriott Hotel. This Thursday Oct. 19 morning, the former president of Ghana, His Excellency John D. Mahama, spoke to a full ballroom about emotionally connecting Ghana to Nova Scotia through the waters of the […]
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USS day 1: King’s partners with Black Cultural Centre and former president of Ghana visits Africville
Day one of an international conference studying reparations, slavery and education began Wednesday, Oct. 18 in Cherry Brook—an historic African Nova Scotian community just outside of Halifax—at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. The Universities Studying Slavery conference is Oct. 18-21 in Halifax Get the full weekend program here Keynote speeches Thursday, Oct. 19 […]
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The secret to booking travel on a cargo ship? It’s tricky.
Let’s make this abundantly clear: I am not a travel agent. But, I do aim to please. And this week, like many weeks, I received an email from a lovely Coast reader who wondered how they could book a trip as a passenger aboard a cargo ship. “I want to find out all I can […]
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Late Wanderers push falls short against Pacific FC in home playoff debut
Sometimes, there isn’t much to say about fate and its cruelties beyond what Ray once said in Trailer Park Boys: “That’s the way she goes. Sometimes she goes; sometimes she doesn’t. She didn’t go.” At home in front of a sell-out crowd of 6,500 at the Wanderers Grounds, in a match where Halifax held 72% […]
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Everything you need to know about Nocturne 2023
One of the biggest weekends of the year in Halifax is here. Nocturne—the self-described “independent, free, contemporary art festival” that has brought Haligonians together under the night sky since its founding in 2008—is back for another year of public art installations and events. This year’s festival arrives jam-packed with exhibitions ranging from live artist panels […]
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The George Harrison of cargo ships arrives in Halifax Harbour this week
Most of The Beatles’ catalogue, at least as history remembers it today, started with what remains the most successful songwriting duo in all of popular music: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. So prolific were the two at their craft—and so symbiotic was their relationship—that even today, reciting their names rolls off the tongue like a […]