From 1930 to 1967, Shubenacadie Residential School was the only one of its kind to exist in Atlantic Canada. Over the course of 37 years, more than 1,000 children are estimated to have been taken to the school—10 percent of the Mi’kmaw children in the province. While it was dubbed an “educational institution” by the […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Monday, May 31
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Halifax and Sydney schools are reopening, too Monday, May 31, 2021 New cases 17 New recoveries 74 New deaths 0 Active cases 448 Days in […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Sunday, May 30
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Map of cases in community health networks This infographic was created by The Coast using daily case data from Nova Scotia’s official COVID-19 dashboard. Our […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Saturday, May 29
New and active cases in the third wave visualized By popular demand, here’s our interactive graph charting daily new cases alongside that day’s active caseload. The dark line tracks the rise and fall of new infections reported by the province, which hit a Nova Scotian pandemic record high of 227 cases in a single day […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Friday, May 28
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Reopening is great, but don’t forget the daily case report Friday, May 28, 2021 New cases 40 New recoveries 92 New deaths 1 Active cases […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Sunday, May 23
Inside today’s numbers Sunday, May 23, 2021 New cases 74 New recoveries 103 New deaths 2 Active cases 943 Days in a row with cases 55 Total cases in Nova Scotia during pandemic 5,286 Total COVID deaths 79 Halifax’s lockdown 31 days Nova Scotia’s lockdown 26 days Sunday is the 31st day of the Halifax […]
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Bike Again gets to stay put
Halifax’s feel-good bike collective will get to stay in its Charles Street home for a while longer. The Coast reported in March about the potential sale of the property where the volunteer-run collective rents its bike repair garages. At that time, Raoul Tanyan, the volunteer coordinator with Bike Again, told The Coast: “as a collective, […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Wednesday, May 19
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. 5,000 cases?! Wednesday, May 19, 2021 New cases 83 New recoveries 164 New deaths 2 Active cases 1,262 Days in a row with cases 51 […]
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Record review: Century Egg’s Little Piece of Hair hits hard
In Century Egg’s world, fairy tales are a worldview, Tim Tam cookies are straws for milk and blending Mandarin pop with frayed-edge indie rock is a pairing so natural—so catchy—you’ll wonder why you haven’t heard it a million times before. But the thing that’ll lodge into your mind with even more tenacity than a chorus […]
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On witnessing the atrocities of war and colonialism in the digital age
This is the age of the smartphone and internet, the age of the civilian-journalist. Seven years ago I watched on YouTube as a barrel bomb was dropped on a Syrian neighbourhood, killing several civilians, one of them my ex-boyfriend. He and the others were at the site of a previous bombing, civilian rescuers attempting to […]
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10 jobs available in the fight against COVID-19
At this point in the pandemic, Nova Scotia has over 100 COVID patients in hospital, more than 1,000 people sick with the disease and thousands getting tested every day. To manage, Nova Scotia Health needs a lot of resources, from ICU beds to dozens of new employees. In early May, around the same time hospitalizations […]
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Q&A with activist-artist Arjun Lal
The personal has always been political for artist Arjun Lal. It’s an incidental truth woven through their works, which aim to celebrate themselves and other 2SLGBTQ+ people of colour who remain under-represented in art and media. From neon signs to latex fetish masks to the hulking LGBTQQIP2SAA+ Flag they designed that towers over the baggage […]
