Students from Dal and MSVU have released their own calls for divestment and disclosure Thursday, joining the student-led coalition with colleagues at King’s, SMU and NSCAD who have been camping on Dal’s front lawn since Sunday, May 12. They are calling for “Ceasefire Now,” “Free Palestine,” and to “Stop The War Machine.” Related Related On […]
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No start date for new child and youth advocate to review children in care
On Wednesday May 15, the Public Accounts Committee met to discuss the auditor general’s recent report released May 7, called the Health, Safety and Well-Being of Children Placed in Temporary Emergency Arrangements and Child and Youth Care Homes. Members of the opposition, the Liberals and the NDP, were given the morning to ask questions stemming […]
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Nova Scotia children staying in temporary emergency care increased exponentially over six years, finds audit
On Tuesday, the auditor general of Nova Scotia, Kim Adair, released a report on how well children are cared for when they’re at their most vulnerable: when they’re taken into temporary emergency arrangements or child and youth care homes. How does this happen? The provincial Children and Family Services Act determines when and how children at […]
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Student encampment at Dal begins Sunday following release of demands over the weekend
T Updated May 14 with *** below. ents are up in front of the Henry Hicks administration building on Dal’s Studley Campus, organized by a coalition of students across four Halifax universities–NSCAD, SMU, Dal and King’s–using the name “Students for the Liberation of Palestine.” They have renamed the space of campus lawn “Al-Zeitoun” University, written […]
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Four universities in Halifax release call to school administrators: divest and disclose funding ties to Israel
*Updated with clarification: NSCAD’s student union and the NSCAD Student Action Group are separate student organizations within the university. The 12 demands released below, calling for divestment and disclosure, are from the NSCAD Student Action Group, not from SUNSCAD*On Friday, May 10, student groups from four Halifax universities–NSCAD, Dal, King’s and SMU–formed a shared group […]
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From Broadway to Benedict
Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and we know you want to spoil the women and mother figures in your life who mean the most to you. Here are some offerings curated just for Mother’s Day that are as unique and special as she is. Salt + Ash Beach House Choose one of their Momma’s Smorgasbord […]
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“No Mow May” is a good start to rethinking bee health across our lawns
To mow or not to mow. That is the question. If you’re interested in helping spring pollinators adjust from winter hibernation into their busy flower season, you might have heard of the No Mow May campaign. It asks people to let the grass blades grow long and wild for a month, to help bees and […]
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Three Halifax schools dismiss students early on Tuesday following “unfounded” threats, while investigations into those responsible ongoing
Last updated: Thursday, May 2Students at Halifax West High near Clayton Park as well as Millwood High in Middle Sackville have been dismissed early for two days in a row this week in response to written threats of potential explosive devices, which police and RCMP are investigating. As of Tuesday afternoon, these investigations are ongoing. […]
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Are you happy?
If you could improve your overall happiness, wouldn’t you? What if it meant daily work? Probably still worth a shot. Based on that notion, five journalism students at the University of King’s College have created a podcast, called If It Makes You Happy. Over a three-episode series they ask volunteers to test out daily “happiness […]
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Best of Halifax 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards winners
We’ve been doing this for 29 years, The Coast and the people of Halifax working together to create the city’s biggest spotlight. The Coast has the easy job—hosting the Best of Halifax survey, counting the votes, having the honour of presenting the results. It’s you (or if not actually you, thousands and thousands of Coast […]
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Hannah Moscovitch leads a theatre revolution from Halifax
There was a time—before her Governor General win, before she’d co-write a musical that’d take New York by storm, before she was a known quantity even outside the sphere of Canadian theatre—that playwright Hannah Moscovitch would sit in an idle Halifax cafe, clattering away on a laptop while her copy of Cape Breton’s most famous […]
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Best of Halifax 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards results
Halifax is back! Not necessarily back to normal—if you can even remember, three years into the pandemic, what normal used to be. But as Nova Scotia ended mask mandates and gathering restrictions in 2022, Halifax got back to being itself. That unique sweet spot between small city and big town, with a great mix of […]
