The Halifax Hurricanes lost a harrowing game 105-94 in overtime Wednesday night after a last-minute scoring push by the Cape Breton Highlanders. The National Basketball League playoff series now stands at two games apiece. The tie will be broken Saturday night, the winner advancing to the Atlantic division finals. Tickets at the Scotiabank Centre went […]
Reality Bites
Posted inNews + Opinion
Welcoming tourists with a snow storm
Cruise ship season in Halifax started a few weeks earlier than usual–hours ahead of a late spring #NSstorm. Over 1,200 passengers, aboard the Oceania Cruises’ vessel Marina, docked Monday morning for a crisp, maritime spring day. The first cruise ship of the season arrives in #Halifax while the municipality is under a snowfall warning #Sprinter […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
April brings Godzilla, traffic delays
West end Halifax commuters found themselves at the receiving end of what seems like a bad April Fool’s prank: the first day of a four-month-long repair work project on the Quinpool Road CN Rail bridge. With traffic backing up on Herring Cove Road and Chebucto Road, this morning’s rush hour on the Armdale Roundabout was […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Mark Butler announces resignation from Ecology Action Centre
After 23 years with the Ecology Action Centre, policy director Mark Butler is resigning. In an email to members Butler says he’ll be finishing up in October 2019. “This is an incredible place to work there’s amazing people here…There’s lots of energy in the organization. This is a good time for me to leave,” says […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Council says no to spending surplus money on parking lot expenses
After much debate, Halifax Regional Council voted against using the $20 million surplus reserve to keep residential and commercial tax rates down. The rate will go to a final vote at council at 2.3 percent, meaning a $43.83 increase on the average home tax bill of $1,979. Mayor Mike Savage recommended taking $900,000 from last […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
NSCAD faculty strike ends, classes resume
N SCAD’s 95 faculty and librarians ended their strike on Tuesday after just over a week on the picket line. This came as a great relief of the university’s MFA students who staged a sit-in demanding the administration agree to negotiating an to end the strike. The strike meant that faculty supervisors of three MFA […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Introducing The Coast Cannabis Sessions
The Coast always likes raising awareness around things people consume for fun, whether that’s in print—the annual Beer Guide comes out this week—or IRL with events like Burger Week, Halifax Oyster Festival and the Drink Atlantic cocktail festival. And now that recreational weed is officially on the menu, we are continuing our tradition of enjoyable […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
NSCAD faculty and librarians on strike
After 18 meetings and five days of sessions with the university’s administration, NSCAD faculty and librarians are on strike. Almost 100 students, faculty and community supporters attended a rally in support of the strike on Friday at the university’s Granville campus. The striking workers are asking for improved job security for the 56 part-time teachers […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Common Roots Urban Farm awaits approval of their new home
It’s up to city council to decide on recommendations for Common Roots Urban Farm’s relocation plans passed by the community planning and economic development standing committee. If passed, the community garden, which has called the land outside the QEII Health Sciences Centre Emergency Department home since 2012 will be broken up, with 110 of the 200 […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Halifax activists get face-to-face apology from Trudeau
Halifax leaders who spoke up about a racist incident at Parliament this month got their apology in a big way yesterday. Prime minister Justin Trudeau met with Halifax activists Trayvone Clayton and Kate Macdonald in a closed-door meeting at the Black Cultural Centre in Dartmouth yesterday. Clayton, a Saint Mary’s University student in Halifax, spoke […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Taxi changes aim to fix gender disparity and safety issues
Council moved Halifax’s taxi reform on to the next stage this week by passing all recommendations put forward by staff in the Vehicle for Hire Licensing Program Review. Sweeping “housekeeping changes” from making GPS units mandatory, increasing language testing requirements, tightening the rules around talking on the phone while driving passengers and making credit and […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Halifax activists speak out against racism in Ottawa
A coalition of Black, human rights, labour and youth organizations held a press conference at the George Dixon Community Centre in Uniacke Square, Halifax today. Kate Macdonald, Marcus James and Trayvone Clayton spoke to their community and media about an incident of racial profiling that happened on Parliament Hill this past week. Macdonald and Clayton […]
