At this week’s regular Tuesday meeting of city council, multiple councillors wore purple shirts to bring attention to epilepsy. Purple Shirt Day was started in 2009 by a Nova Scotian named Cas...
Twenty-five years on from his debut record, the Canadian troubadour beautifully marches on—and into Halifax for an Apr. 6 show. Hawksley Workman was strung out. It was the early 2000s, and the...
https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/the-many-faces-of-hawksley-workman-32588367
“People don't know how to talk about it. Everyone's scared. Everyone's scared of alienating and being alienated.” On Thursday evening, Mar. 21, three University of King’s College students ...
Why can’t city staffer Dave Reage get people on his buses? We’re still in the Budget Season doldrums, the weeks between the end of city council’s regular season of budget debates and the s...
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/halifax-transit-planning-for-a-ridership-decrease-32582978
The Halifax theatre company brings David French’s groundbreaking play to the HRM for the first time in more than 50 years. Jake Planinc has been dreaming of this moment for 10 years. Ever sinc...
There are roughly 10,000 teachers in Nova Scotia taking a vote on April 11 on whether or not to strike. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union is negotiating a new collective agreement with their employ...
One-on-one with all your favourite artists. Plus, everything you didn’t need to know from behind the scenes. On second thought, the double-helping of afternoon coffee might’ve been a bad ide...
The Wanderers’ 2024 roster is arguably the deepest, most experienced in franchise history. But with rivals forming super teams, will it be enough? Pre-season in sports is a strange and wonderf...
Getting back into the swing of routine business Halifax’s budget season is in the break between the normal budget debates and the budget playoffs (the Budget Adjustment List debates), so coun...
The “NoCase Showcase” runs Thursday, Mar. 21 at the Seahorse Tavern. All ticket proceeds support Mobile Outreach Street Health. Owen Harris and his bandmates knew they wanted to do something...
From the big stage to the smaller showcases, here’s a look at what’s happening in the lead-up to Mar. 24. When Nelly Furtado steps onto the Scotiabank Centre stage to host the 2024 JUNO Awar...
https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/the-coasts-guide-to-all-the-juno-week-events-in-halifax-32550393
New mandatory course at King's teaches decolonizing journalism On your way up the staircase towards the journalism school, on the third floor at the University of King’s College, you pass a po...
Commutes through Downtown Dartmouth to be largely unchanged. The roads of Downtown Dartmouth just got official recognition that they’re a bit safer for everyone than the HRM’s standard stree...
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/a-new-speed-limit-exposes-design-failures-32546509
The Sandy Lake First Nation singer-songwriter escaped death before he went full-time into music. And now he’s everywhere, all at once. Aysanabee was snowshoeing across a river in below-40-degr...
https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/aysanabees-long-winding-and-wild-road-to-the-junos-32540307
Six panelists who made 'firsts talk smashing through glass and concrete ceilings in Nova Scotia On Wednesday evening, the Black Cultural Centre was filled with buffet tables of food and rows of ...
Read the opener to the Coast reporter’s newly-released book that won 2023’s Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Writers and alt-weeklies, it goes without saying, have a bit of a co-d...
While the province claims there are enough indoor spaces available for everyone, some advocates say too many hoops and barriers remain. Update: In a statement released on Thursday, Mar. 14, the ...
The superstar of classics translation brings ancient Greek poetry to TikTok Emily Wilson is bowing her upper body to the sea goddess Thetis, mother of the greatest Greek warrior, Achilles. Facin...
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/emily-wilson-wants-you-to-read-homer-32503189
The Mount Uniacke artist returns to the stage for a stripped-back solo set this Monday, Mar. 18. Alana Yorke ran out of air. Years before the Mount Uniacke musician debuted the art-pop Dream Mag...
The strike is over, but there are still issues between the faculty union and the university administration. Students returned to class at Mount Saint Vincent University on Thursday, Mar. 7 afte...
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/back-to-school-at-msvu-32480992
An ever-updated list of concerts, comedy shows, live performance, theatre and events in Nova Scotia. There's a solid crop of major shows—music, theatre, comedy and events like last October's v...
https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/every-big-show-coming-to-halifax-and-beyond-in-2024-31867198
A tiny invasive insect called the wooly adelgid deserves some—but not all—of the blame. Halifax’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee had a sobering meeting on Thursday, Mar....
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/nova-scotias-forests-actually-generate-carbon-now-32502483
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Documentarian Stephanie Joline’s Women of This Land comes out on International Women's Day. Growing up in Yarmouth, Stephanie Joline was always aware of her Indigenous ancestry. The daughter o...
Two local non-profits lead the way with a model of affordable, environmentally responsible housing. As housing providers in Halifax look for ways to meet the city’s housing crisis, some are tu...
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/building-for-the-future-in-halifax-32477110