It’s January 2024 and my sneakers are wet. The rubber soles gave up months ago, meaning the three inches of mud and puddle water underfoot is seeping right into my socks as I clomp toward Susies Lake on a blue-grey morning that feels like it could be April. My feet, I imagine, have already taken […]
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Day three of the Halifax Fringe Festival is stacked with shows
Welcome to day three of the Halifax Fringe Festival! The weekend ramps up with more shows, which means more amazing, locally-produced art for you to enjoy. The Fringe is a time to celebrate all that Halifax has to offer in terms of arts and culture. Theatre plays, musical performances, circus acts and comedy routines […]
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What you need to know about Habitat for Humanity’s Huge House Party
The second annual Habitat for Humanity Huge House Party is scheduled to go down on Friday, Sep. 20, and there’s plenty to be excited about. The event raises money for Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia, which is currently in the process of constructing two homes and has several other projects planned for next year. […]
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What’s happening on day two of the Halifax Fringe Festival
It’s officially day two of the Halifax Fringe Festival, a celebration of art that brings over 60 events across six different venues every year. The Fringe is a time to celebrate all that Halifax has to offer in terms of arts and culture. Theatre plays, musical performances, circus acts and comedy routines come together […]
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Halifax Fringe Festival kicks off today—here’s what’s going on
Artists and art lovers all over the city will be busy as the Halifax Fringe Festival starts today. The festival will present over 60 shows at six different venues, with some creatives even bringing their own. The Fringe is a time to celebrate all that Halifax has to offer in terms of arts and […]
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Shared trauma bonds two hockey players in this Halifax Fringe Fest play
One is a Canadian hockey player trying to make it big, in part to win the attention of his alcoholic father. The other is a Ukrainian hockey player, who wishes to bring his father to Canada and away from the war. Both junior A players have the same goal: to make the NHL draft. […]
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Credit union giving away cash prizes to help students with tuition
Every little bit counts when helping students pay college or university tuition fees. According to a Statistics Canada table on tuition fees, Nova Scotia undergraduate students from Canada paid the highest tuition fees in the country in 2023/24, at an average cost of $10,548. That’s nearly 50% more than the national average. Since 2018, the […]
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Your guide to all the shows at the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival
If you want to see art that’s deliberately expressive, interesting or just downright weird, the Halifax Fringe Festival is for you. Unrestrained from any means of censorship, the Fringe Festival stages are a place where artists can put on whatever they’ve been working on, no matter the content. Over 11 days, Wednesday Aug. 28 […]
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Dal’s orientation is nearly upon us
Orientation week, dubbed O-Week, starts for incoming Dalhousie University students this Thursday, Aug. 29. It’s a jam-packed week deserving of its own website. Last year’s O-Week saw over 2,000 students attend its larger events, the vice president of student life for the Dal Student Union, Ana Patton, tells The Coast. “This year, we’d like to […]
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Families on assistance getting payment for back-to-school supplies
Nova Scotia families who receive income assistance will automatically receive an increase to their Aug. 29 payment, meant to help with the cost of school supplies for their children. As the Department of Community Services announced on Aug. 6, the increase will extend to families with kids starting in Pre-Primary this fall. According to the […]
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City needs help to punish delinquent developers
The regularly scheduled Halifax Regional Council meeting of Tuesday, August 20 was dominated by wildfire. In the Committee of the Whole section of the meeting, councillors got a report about last year’s Upper Tantallon fire from the Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency Department. The report is the result of HRFE’s internal after-action policies, which they […]
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Angry property owner taking public land hostage? Dartmouth Cove isn’t the first time
Months after Transportation Canada said it would rescind its approval of a pyrite infilling project in Dartmouth Cove, Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd. installed barriers blocking the nearby trails on Wednesday—a threat that ARCP will start work despite a lack of approval. It began with ARCP installing a safety fence. Later on Wednesday, […]