W elcome to the 30th annual Best of Halifax Readers' Choice Awards. Yes, 30 years of The Coast's awesome readers voting for their favourite people, places and things about our great city. To mark this ...

Canada’s nonprofit sector is watching the U.S. civil society implode and acting like it couldn’t happen here. But it already ...

Situated at the southern tip of the Halifax Peninsula, Point Pleasant Park offers a tranquil setting with wooded trails and ...

“Awful but not unlawful”: White nationalism is on the rise in Nova Scotia—and we need to talk about it. From online harassment to fascist photo ops, white supremacy is becoming more emboldened. Here's ...

Restaurant reviews and ratings for Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring articles about the best new downtown Halifax and Dartmouth NS restaurants, fine dining, pubs, seafood, local bars, chefs, beer, ...

Martin Bauman is an award-winning journalist and interviewer, whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Capital Daily, and Waterloo Region Record, among other places. In 2020, he ...

T his Tuesday marks the third-annual Emancipation Day in Nova Scotia, an anniversary of the historic end to slavery across the British Empire. So-called Canada has a 200-year history of slavery—and ...

You’ll notice a lot of jockeying for position as the chart progresses over time. When doctor Strang talked about the race in April, for example, Nova Scotia had been dead last for months, with the ...

Matt spent 10 years in the Navy where he deployed to Libya with HMCS Charlottetown and then became a submariner until ‘retiring’ in 2018. In 2019 he completed his Bachelor of Journalism from the ...

Every big show happening in Halifax in June 2025 It’s time to party like it’s 2010! June in Halifax is a full throwback, from Jessie Cruickshank’s comedy special to Nickleback, to The Killers—the ...

T he omicron variant arrived in Nova Scotia at the end of 2021—Dec. 8 by the province's official count—making 2022 the first full year of the omicron COVID pandemic. 2023 will be the second, unless ...

Martin Bauman is an award-winning journalist and interviewer, whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Capital Daily, and Waterloo Region Record, among other places. In 2020, he ...