If you were looking for an exclamation point for Halifax’s year in sports, you could do worse than Aug. 20, 2022. On a gorgeous summer day, if just for a moment, you could close your eyes and dream of a city of champions. Thousands gathered, cell phones outstretched, for a glimpse of the Stanley Cup. […]
Year in Review 2022
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What the hell is that? 2022’s breakout star, Pearl the Oyster
Reflecting on the unexpected viral hit, Pearl the Halifax Oyster Festival mascot
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Making sense of this nonsensical COVID year
Thinking back, way back through the thick mists of pandemic time, at the start of 2022 everything about COVID made sense. Nova Scotia was in the middle of a tidal wave of omicron cases—there were more infections reported in the first week and a half of January (8,996) than in the first year and a […]
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The top 10 most popular Coast stories of 2022 according to Google Analytics
1 Mattea Roach talks drag, hate comments and weed By Kaija Jussinoja May 17 The most-read Coast story of the year is a recap of Halifax-raised Jeopardy! Champion Mattea Roach’s Reddit “ask me anything” session, done shortly after Roach’s record-setting time on the show ended. One thing we learned is that Roach didn’t study much […]
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Halifax’s year in food was a whole smorgasbord
Call it anything you want, but Halifax’s year of cafe, bar and restaurant openings, closings, re-openings and industry gossip certainly wasn’t boring. The year 2022 brought our fine Atlantic city a chef’s plateful of new waterfront restaurants, a weeklong war over pizza, an ownership change to a north end institution and a labour shortage (or […]