OK, kids, it’s gonna be one wild week on the waterfront: The Tall Ships are back for the first time since 2012, and this port city is ready to welcome them in full force. Here’s what you need to know to make your Tall Ships weekend all smooth sailing: The ships will be arriving throughout […]
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South House offers alternative Pride event
South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre has officially announced its boycott of Halifax Pride in solidarity with Queer Arabs of Halifax (QAH). In doing so, the centre is also providing a drop-in event on the day of the parade. “We thought it was really important to offer an alternative to Pride for folks who […]
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Watch this: Cornwallis protester disrupts council, records video
Instead of a press conference and symbolic tarp, members of the public who repeatedly disrupted Tuesday’s meeting of Regional Council were escorted out of council chambers by security. Trish MacIntyre, a Métis activist with Halifax Anonymous and one of the organizers of last weekend’s protest at Cornwallis Park, was at City Hall to watch mayor […]
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Trudeau pinkwashing Pride parade
The most watched person at this year’s Halifax Pride parade will be a straight white man with a penchant for rainbow socks. It was announced Monday that Justin Trudeau will be marching this weekend in Halifax, becoming the first sitting prime minister to take part in a local Pride parade. But some members of the […]
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Cornwallis tarp already removed
Only a few hours after being covered up, the statue of Edward Cornwallis has already been unveiled. Municipal workers, under orders from mayor Mike Savage, draped the controversial monument with a black tarp during a protest early Saturday afternoon. It was a compromise from municipal officials hoping to keep the peace as nearly 300 people […]
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Daniel Paul on protest to topple Cornwallis statue: “If it goes, it goes”
The man who for decades has led the charge to bring Edward Cornwallis down from his pedestal isn’t opposed to a little civil disobedience. Organizers of a divisive protest happening this Saturday are hoping to topple the bronze, south-end statue, which they say “for too long has been representing genocide in M’ikma’ki.” Mayor Mike Savage […]
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All-access pass for accessibility at Jazz Fest
For the first time in its 30-year history, the Halifax Jazz Festival’s venues will be 100 percent accessible, thanks in part to the work of local activist and former professional bassist Paul Vienneau. For Vienneau, who has been using a wheelchair since 1991, these changes have been years in the making. Vienneau performed at the […]
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World Tea House fighting for survival on Argyle Street
Argyle is open for business, but you wouldn’t know it from the look of the place, and that’s causing problems for the street’s storefronts. “PLEASE help us survive,” the World Tea House screamed on Tuesday into the void of Twitter. The business is currently treading water on week six of the much-feared Argyle Street beautification […]
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This is Halifax now
This Tall Ships ad is the new and better Halifax and that is indisputable. For many years, this photo was Halifax. Boring. Sometimes it would be this photo, and for many people, it was this. What defined all of these cities was a severe and unimaginative lack of Photoshop. All of that is about to […]
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Overrun with rabbits
Tammy MacDonald-Flatt is pleading: Don’t abandon your pet rabbits. “I’d take out a billboard if I had the money. Please stop dumping them outside.” MacDonald-Flatt, president of 10,000 Carrots Rabbit Rescue, says the issue is rampant. Bunnies are being ditched in parks or wooded subdivisions when they’re no longer wanted, without the means or the […]
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Halifax Pride announces new speakers series
Thanks @lukefontana & @tyleroakley. A post shared by Dylan Marron (@dylanmarron) on Jun 24, 2017 at 9:09am PDT Pride is back this July 20-30 with a lineup that goes heavy on drag and dance music. While a lot of longtime favourite events are returning (here’s looking at you, Dykes & Divas softball game), the biggest […]
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Rear admiral apologizes for Proud Boys’ behaviour
The Proud Boys have shamed Canada’s military. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, rear admiral John Newton apologized for the behaviour of Armed Forces members who disrupted an Indigenous protest on Canada Day. “I’ll stand here in front of you and apologize to the Aboriginal community, to anybody, the entire public community,” Newton said. “We can […]