Saturday is always the busiest day of the week at Atlantic News, the venerable newsstand/temple of media, so it stands to reason Fridays aren’t exactly slow. And sure enough, this morning the shop was humming—staff at two cash registers, someone in the back room unpacking boxes of magazines, multiple phone lines ringing. But it was […]
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The Matter of Scaachi Koul
An evening with Scaachi Koul Sunday, October 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $20 “It was funny and sad.” That’s how Scaachi Koul’s mother reacted after reading Koul’s book, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Although short, it’s an accurate review. In this […]
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Amy Goodman isn’t giving up hope
Amy Goodman has been called “as close to the ideal of what it means to be a journalist as one can get in this business.” And for good reason. The host and executive producer of the acclaimed Democracy Now! news-hour has been lauded with dozens of prestigious journalism awards for her dogged reporting. Goodman has been […]
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Local Xpress spins-off into HalifaxToday
The Chronicle Herald’s newsroom strike may have laid the groundwork for the paper’s newest competitor. Ontario’s Village Media is looking to hire an online community editor for its new HalifaxToday website. “HalifaxToday.com is coming soon and Village Media is looking for a full-time community editor to help launch our latest online-only news site,” reads an […]
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Layoffs and wage cuts in tentative Chronicle Herald deal
The Chronicle Herald strike could soon be over, but not everyone is celebrating. Roughly half of the Halifax Typographical Union will see their jobs evaporate, even if members approve a tentative agreement that will increase work hours and cut wages. The deal in question was brokered by lawyer William Kaplan this past weekend, after two […]
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The making of Overburdened
Overburdened is the work of students in the investigative reporting workshop at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During February and March, a team of students interviewed more than 50 people in Nova Scotia and PEI, including many users of the mental health system, doctors, experts and others. A few of the […]
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What the fuck does Jesse Brown know about Atlantic Canada?
Jesse Brown, founder and host of CANADALAND, is an award-winning journalist and outspoken media critic. Parker Donham, publisher at Contrarian.ca, is also an award-winning journalist and fiercely opinionated about local media. In advance of Brown visiting Halifax this weekend for a live podcast recording with University of King’s College journalism professor Terra Tailleur and Halifax […]
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Striking Chronicle Herald workers file complaint to the Labour Board
Members of the Halifax Typographical Union say they are ready to meet with the Chronicle Herald “at any time,” but the feeling isn’t mutual. After almost 300 days on strike, the HTU officially filed a complaint this week with the Nova Scotia Labour Board accusing management of unfair bargaining practices. At a press conference on […]
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Going deeper into The Deep
You might have noticed Facebook posts or Coast ads about The Deep, “Atlantic Canada’s long-form magazine.” And you may have wondered, “Hey, what is that, anyway?” The Deep is a collaboration between The Coast and Matthew Halliday and Chelsea Murray, a couple of journalists (and a journalistic couple) who moved to Halifax from Toronto in […]
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Salvage, Stephen Maher’s South Shore murder mystery
When Stephen Maher was living in Halifax in 2003, he was perhaps best known to the public as an editor at the Chronicle Herald. But outside of work, Maher had another passion—sailing. In 2003, he bought his second sailboat: a battered fibreglass 1982 Tanzer, which briefly lived in Chester on the South Shore, and eventually […]
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Lezlie Lowe quits Chronicle Herald over refugee school story
Updated: See below. A week after it published that pathetic story about Chebucto Heights school, the fallout for the Chronicle Herald continues. Lezlie Lowe—the award-winning journalist, j-school professor and Coast contributing editor—used her column in today’s Herald to announce she is quitting the columnist job. Effective immediately. Because the Chebucto Heights story made her lose […]
