In grief—in horror and shock and disgust and pain and death and murder and anguish and sadness and fear and being alone—in grief, “overwhelm is the primary starting place.” Roy Ellis, the bereavement coordinator for the central region of the Nova Scotia Health Authority, says grief is our response to loss and change. Over the […]
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Nova Scotia in mourning: What we know about the victims
Heidi Stevenson Stevenson was a wife to Dean, mother of two to 13-year-old Connor and 11-year-old Ava, and a former community liaison officer with Halifax District RCMP. Constable Stevenson had 23 years of experience in the force and colleague Commanding Officer Chris Leather called Stevenson “a true hero” who died in the line of duty on Sunday […]
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Quarantine smells like some old fashioned Jewish penicillin AKA chicken soup
The Coast is collecting and sharing dispatches from around the world about what life in the time of COVID-19 looks like, smells like and feels like. Some people are beyond the worst of it, some don’t know the worst yet. Most are just trying to keep afloat. Share your own story here. Who are you? […]
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The trouble with swallowing and more quickie answers to sex questions
QI am a super-queer-presenting female who recently accepted that I have desires for men. My partner of two years is bisexual and understands the desires, but has personally dealt with those desires via masturbation while my desires include acting. Her perspective is that the grass is greener where you water it and that my desire to act […]
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2,000,000 cases
Doctor by doctor, hospital by hospital, the COVID-19 patients are diagnosed. Town by town and city by city they add up. Collected in states, provinces, counties, territories, earldoms and duchies, the numbers just grow and grow and grow. Country to country, continent to continent until, literally, around the world—the coronavirus spreads its disease. The good […]
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Bring Halifax culture home with our social distance streaming guide
Wednesday, April 15 Giant Killer Shark: The Musical A sing-along livestream of the 2019 Fringe Fest hit play that’s a comedic reworking of Jaws. Read more about the play here and hit up tickethalifax.com for your (free) virtual ticket. Rudy Pacé plays The Carleton Singer-songwriter vibes from the Halifax Presents Facebook page to your sofa […]
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The Halifax Common: the grass is lava
The park closure saga is becoming Halifax’s smoking ban 2.0. For the most part, Nova Scotians have embraced the provincial orders that shut down parks and trails in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 via public interaction. “Stay the blazes home,” we scream with delight into the ether. But HRM and the province’s […]
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I miss all my people. I miss the people who aren’t my people.
Editor’s note: When lauded Halifax poet Sue Goyette—the Masterworks Award-winning author of seven books—offered to share what she, in an email, called “a strange diary I’ve been keeping,” we knew it’d be full of the sort of beauty and strangeness and jumping-off-the-screen aliveness needed in this time of stale air and cramped quarters. These days […]
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HRM’s tax deadline pushed to June 1
Halifax Regional Council voted to postpone the due date for tax bills from April 30 to June 1 as step one of its financial response to the unfolding Coronavirus crisis. The municipality’s Chief Financial Officer Jane Fraser fielded questions from councillors about how they can best help their voters with a calm assurance that was […]
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Emily Lawrence’s likeable feast
The world of Dartmouth-based artist Emily Lawrence feels like a pastel-filled, Betty Crocker spin on Willy Wonka’s factory: Her work is a visual feast (pun fully intended) as she makes portraits of people’s favourite desserts and lines gallery walls with tiny, climbing shrimp tails and petit-fours. With her, you never question that we eat first […]
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For those incarcerated with their babies, COVID-19 puts two generations in peril
Yesterday, we heard two prisoners at the Nova Institution federal prison for women in Truro were awaiting results on COVID-19 tests. Fortunately, by early afternoon, it appeared both were negative— spared for now from being added to a list that’s being compiled by Justin Piche at University of Ottawa. Piche is tracking positive coronavirus cases in […]
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Friday update: looking for hope on the holiday weekend
Key points as of the latest provincial news update: Our death toll is rising Waiting for Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 model The essential Easter Bunny Calling out Costco for real this time Our death toll is rising Nova Scotia’s second death from COVID-19 was announced at Thursday’s news briefing, in Halifax. The patient was a woman […]
