Today, The Coast kicked off the 2022 Halifax Burger Bash, a 10-day event where patties take over the peninsula and beyond. The Coast is now in its tenth year of running a burger event for HRM, and this year is bigger than ever before with 138 participating restaurants! Almost all of those restaurants are donating […]
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A note to our readers from the founders of The Coast
Today we are very excited to share our news that The Coast has been acquired by the Overstory Media Group. Since we founded The Coast with four other friends in 1993, we have seen so much change in our industry. With a feisty and committed team, we have been able to persevere and push through […]
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Zizmorcore is the fashion trend taking over a reopened Halifax
For every think-piece that promised COVID would kill fashion, either at an industry or individual level, (and boy, was there a lot of them) those of us who love clothes knew that dressing as a mode of self-expression wouldn’t linger long in sweatsuit purgatory. Comfortcore, with its crocs and elastic waistbands, was the pandemic aesthetic—but […]
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NS government announces 22,600 new homes, and 373 of them will be affordable
On Friday, March 25, the Nova Scotia government designated nine new “special planning areas” in HRM. Appearing alongside HRM mayor Mike Savage, provincial housing minister John Lohr said this means development proposals will be fast-tracked and up to 22,600 units of new housing will be built. “As we all know, the housing issue has reached […]
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Nova Scotia’s $1.5 billion+ capital plan
Nova Scotia’s PC government rolled out its first capital spending plan yesterday, and it comes with a $1.58 billion price tag. Yes, that’s billion with a bee, the highest in provincial history. The plan includes ramped-up spending on health facilities and hospital infrastructure. Missing from the list of major infrastructure projects for 2022-2023 is affordable […]
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Nova Scotia now has almost no COVID rules, but masks are still mandatory in schools
At one minute after midnight this morning, Monday, March 21, Nova Scotia removed almost all of its COVID-19 restrictions. Yesterday, it was illegal for more than 25 people to hang out together indoors; today there is no gathering limit. Last week, people in line at the grocery store had to stand two metres apart; today […]
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Is it good if a bad man dies?
DISCLAIMER: Victoria Walton attended the University of King’s College from 2013-2017; she attended lectures given by Wayne Hankey as part of the first-year Foundation Year Program. Wayne Hankey was once a well-respected scholar. An esteemed academic. An Anglican priest. The big man on campus at the University of King’s College, in Halifax. But when the […]
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Immigrants in Halifax share the struggles to become permanent residents in Canada
Nova Scotia’s population reached 1,000,000 in 2021, which was “a significant moment in our province’s history,” as premier Tim Houston says. Helping fuel this growth was the record-breaking number of 9,020 permanent residents who were welcomed to Nova Scotia in 2021. But those who have gone through the process of applying for a permanent resident […]
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Nova Scotia’s infertility emergency
When Aimee MacDonald and her wife Allison MacLennan were going through the years-long process of getting pregnant with assisted reproductive therapy, they decided to keep it quiet. “This was a journey that we took alone, no one really knew we were doing this,” MacDonald says. There were a number of reasons for keeping the experience […]
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Over 200 people gather in Halifax to support Ukraine
On Saturday, a large crowd gathered at Grand Parade to show support to Ukraine after the country’s sovereignty was attacked by Russian military forces last week. People carried umbrellas in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag, with messages for NATO to act now or to shut the sky. Others had banners calling […]
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3 event ideas to make Valentine’s Day 2022 special
As a meteorologist whose weather clip went viral this week puts it, February is “an honest month: a month that doesn’t hold up life as any better than it is…something great happened here but it’s over with, and that’s the way February is.” So, no, you’re not the only one in a rut. And while […]
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What’s the best way to help the houseless—shelter now or housing later?
Friday is a storm day in Halifax. The buses have stopped running. Schools are shuttered. Coffee shops have locked their doors and even Halifax Central Library is closed. In an early morning press release, HRM directs unhoused people to the Hfx Warming Centre. The warming centre’s entrance to it isn’t particularly easy to find. The […]