NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. For a smaller, mobile-friendly version of The Coast’s Nova Scotia COVID-19 case graph, click here. Editor’s note: The Coast has never aimed […]
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It’s quite easy to get RCMP and HRP memorabilia online
Nova Scotia’s most recent massacre was committed by a man who has been described to have an “obsession” with policing. Across social media, there are many more with the same obsession who fit a similar profile: middle-aged, white men with conservative values. On Facebook, you can search “police collectors” and come across dozens of groups […]
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Aquakultre’s feast of a lifetime
It’s clear from the very first guitar strum that opens Legacy—the long-awaited debut LP from neo-soul superstar-in-the-making Aquakultre—that the table is set. The CBC Searchlight winner’s record asks upon entry that you taste its opulence. There are pomegranates strewn on the linen; deep bowls of cold-skinned grapes; flaky sea salt swimming atop combs of honey. […]
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Halifax’s police state of emergency
When Nova Scotia announced it would be enacting a state of emergency—giving police officers new powers to enforce social distancing rules—the first thing Kate Macdonald did was try to learn as much as she could, as fast as she could, about the new rules. “How does community keep community safe in these times? Because it’s […]
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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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Week 3 recap: Blazing mad
The biggest news of Nova Scotia’s third week living under COVID-19, March 27 to April 3 Provincial briefing hijinks—and tie-jinks Case numbers keep hitting milestones McNeil’s meme-making mic drop Community spread arrives Reaching seniors where they live When every school is a home school Ringing in the new fiscal year Provincial briefing hijinks—and tie-jinks Three […]
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A guided mediation to help you get through today
The birds are back. The flowers are starting to climb skywards. Something I can’t stop thinking about these days, as I gaze out my window more than I ever have before, is this weird duality of nature waking up and stepping out as I cocoon myself inside more and more. It feels like poetry. A […]
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Name that iconic duo: Stephen McNeil and Robert Strang
Premier Stephen McNeil and chief medical officer of health doctor Robert Strang have been addressing the province with direction and discipline—and even a bit of delight—every day since March 13. And because of the severity of the subject of their addresses (coronavirus) many Nova Scotians have been stuck at home, and actually paying attention. As […]
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Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card
Arthur said it first. We’re saying it second. Get yourself a library card and unlock a world of learning and imagination that you can engage with from the (dis)comfort of your living room couch. Halifax Public Libraries announced yesterday that Haligonians can sign up for a library card online. Since then, over 200 people have […]
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Coming clean about cosmetics with Toxic Beauty
Filmmaker Phyllis Ellis hopes to send you scrambling to the shower to search out labels on your soap and shampoo. After all, her eye-opening documentary Toxic Beauty (trailer below; streaming now on CBC Gem) not only follows the class-action suit against Johnson & Johnson—and the company’s cancer-linked baby powder—but Ellis also uncovers an unregulated amalgam […]
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Where people have sex outdoors all over Halifax
The things that make Halifax is a great place for getting outdoors—all the trees and lakes and parks—also make Halifax a great place for getting busy outdoors. In the 2020 Sex + Dating survey we asked people where they’ve had sex in public. The answers were all over the map, literally. So for purely scientific […]
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Pinball’s bumper year
P inball wizards (and would-be wizards) are invited to Propeller Brewing Company‘s Propeller Arcade Room (2015 Gottingen Street) beginning at 4pm on Friday, January 31, for the arcade’s first birthday party, featuring balloons, $5 beers, $10 t-shirts and lots of ball-flipping action. Since opening last January with a modest collection of pinball and video games […]