Is Halifax heading headfirst into an identity crisis? The rapid clip at which the city’s been changing—we are the second-fastest growing urban area in the country, according to the most recent Statistic Canada numbers—makes fact of the fast-shifting sand beneath our feet. It’s been accompanied by the feeling that there’s a new building sprouting on […]
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Talk dirty to me: The results of The Coast’s 2023 Sex + Dating Survey
If there’s one thing Haligonians love more than sex, it might well be talking about it. And just as Halloween means candy and a Nor’easter means a cupboard full of storm chips, Valentine’s Week in Halifax can only mean one thing: It’s time for the results of The Coast’s annual Sex + Dating Survey. More […]
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Hannah Moscovitch leads a theatre revolution from Halifax
There was a time—before her Governor General win, before she’d co-write a musical that’d take New York by storm, before she was a known quantity even outside the sphere of Canadian theatre—that playwright Hannah Moscovitch would sit in an idle Halifax cafe, clattering away on a laptop while her copy of Cape Breton’s most famous […]
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A giant load of cars and one big friggin’ ship is coming to Halifax Harbour
There’s an old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. My coastal colleague, Zoë Ducklow, has been following the offshore comings and goings of vessels near Victoria, BC in her twice-weekly Westshore newsletter for months. It’s a fun glimpse at what’s happening in the Pacific Northwest’s waters—and, well, I figured: Why not here, […]
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This week in Halifax
The days are slowly getting longer and Halifax’s calendar of events is filling up with all kinds of must-see, must-do fun, from new plays showing at Neptune Theatre to free film screenings. Here’s where to go and what to do to get your week off to a fun start. Catch the African Heritage Month screening […]
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A Groundhog Day to remember
It was a dramatic day for the prognosticating rodents of Canada. Shubenacadie Sam, Nova Scotia’s most famous groundhog, saw her shadow at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park on the morning of Feb. 2, signalling another six weeks of winter. Meanwhile, Ontario’s Wiarton Willie’s shadow, or lack thereof, stands in stark opposition to Sam’s prophecy. Thus splitting […]
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5 takeaways about Halifax’s rental housing picture, based on the CMHC’s latest report
It’s not often our Maritime city gets to claim a “first” in Canada, but here we are: The average price of a two-bedroom rental unit in Halifax climbed more over the past year than in any of Canada’s largest municipalities, according to the latest Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation rental market report. If you rented […]
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Fiscal peril looms as HRM passes capital budget
Editor’s note: During the budget process, each of the HRM’s business units (libraries, police, transit, etc.) will present their budgets and will (likely) ask for more money. When council approves each of these individual department budgets, they are only approved in principle pending the final vote on the budget as a whole. Unless otherwise stated, […]
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Nova Scotia’s emergency departments are facing a “complete unravelling”
If you visited a Nova Scotia emergency department for a health concern in December, your odds of leaving the hospital alive were the lowest they’ve been in the past six years. That’s according to Nova Scotia Health numbers recently obtained by the NS NDP through a Freedom of Information request. About one in 666 Nova […]
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The World Juniors brought Halifax money, crowds and a homicide case. Was it worth it?
One city block and 11 days apart, in the shadow of Citadel Hill, two scenes played out in Halifax’s downtown that will linger in the minds of Haligonians for years to come. The first scene, on Jan. 5, you’re likely to remember: Overtime. Canada vs. Czechia. A Dylan Guenther gold-medal-winning goal. Thousands cheering at Rogers […]
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The best resolution for 2023? Making plans to see friends—and keeping them
It was mid-November when I got the text, the final in a small flurry of life updates that read something like “I miss you! Let’s try for 2023?” My friend, the sender, meant it when they said they wanted to catch up. During COVID, our bond deepend a lot and we toggle between sending each […]
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Halifax’s short-term rental dilemma
Bill Stewart remembers The Hydrostone before the short-term rentals arrived. He and his partner, Mary Reardon, have called the north end Halifax neighbourhood home since the late 1990s. It’s always had its charm, he says: English-style row homes open onto wide, treed boulevards of Norway maples and European lindens. Gardens teem with flowers; conversation spills […]