Halifax's Ashleigh Myles considers a 250-kilometre day on the bicycle a “comfortable” distance—which is good news, if absurd, because her next two-wheeled trek is longer than anything she’s done before. And I wouldn't bet against her. New for @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

Weeks ago, I ventured down Quinpool and visited a company office that doesn’t exist. I was looking for a team of Halifax writers who, despite my best efforts to prove otherwise, don’t appear to exist either. And that's only the start. My latest for @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

Halifax's budget season had its last regular season meeting last week. Highlights include the city shooting the library in the foot, Andy Fillmore shooting the municipal budget in the foot and, and a good initiative from the city's legal department. All that and more in my latest for @thecoast.ca

For @thecoast.ca, I paid a visit to the Hydrostone this week -- where Top Chef Canada finalist Steph Ogilvie just opened her own restaurant as a tribute to her grandmother. www.thecoast.ca/food-drink/f...

Halifax Transit has a new boss, and old busses will get a new lease on life, but will Halifax's city council let Transit succeed? Take a deep dive into North American transportation planning to find out how council could save your household thousands of dollars a year. My latest for @thecoast.ca

The full list of nominees is here for the 2025 East Coast Music Awards, and Halifax is well-represented. Sixty-seven ECMA shortlist nods feature Halifax-based artists, engineers, managers and venues this year. www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/s...

Is Transportation planning in Halifax about to get better, starting this year? I think so! For more on the promise and perils facing public transportation in this city read my latest Halifax budget season story on @thecoast.ca

Why are Halifax Fire's response times getting slower? Is there anything to be done about it? Answers to these and more questions on my latest for @thecoast.ca

The easternmost annex of the former Bloomfield School—a site that has been in limbo for years, kicked between the HRM, the province and developers—is now gone. The rest of the building is still to follow. And after? A neighbourhood awaits answers. For @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

As @hfxwanderersfc.bsky.social enter their second week of the #CanPL preseason, I dove into 7 of the most pressing questions and points of intrigue surrounding the club. Latest for @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

For @thecoast.ca, I spoke with @aysanabee.bsky.social about his upcoming Halifax show and things that feel like more than coincidence. www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/a...

After five years of covering city hall, I think I finally figured out why nothing gets better in Halifax. City staff in the department of public works are usurping council's priorities. My latest for @thecoast.ca

Five months after a report laid the blame for Aug. 2021’s shambolic shelter siege at the feet of Halifax police and the HRM, the oversight board that’s supposed to police the former on behalf of the latter seems to want nothing to do with it. New for @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

Halifax's city council starts its budget debates today, and Halifaxs budget is the frontline in our impending trade war with the United States. How? I'm glad you asked. Here's my latest for @thecoast.ca

Amid all of Trump's political dick-swinging, there's one question on many Haligonians’ minds: How will we survive a trade war when our two biggest grocers have a history of being dicks as well? We've put together a map of local, independent grocers across the HRM. www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

COMMENT: Set aside the man-in-his-car staging of Andy Fillmore's latest video, posted after council voted against the mayor's Windsor Exchange wishes, and the optics are still odd: A mayor willing his followers to email his coworkers to tell them why he was right. www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

It's NSCAD president Peggy Shannon's last day on the job. Tomorrow, Jana Macalik will take over on an interim basis. As @lau-athletics.bsky.social reports, the change marks yet another shake-up at the university after 2020's ouster of Aoife Mac Namara. www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

Before the debate about the Windsor Street Exchange on Tuesday, we learned that Halifax's city staff are undermining the council, and that's why nothing is getting better. My latest for @thecoast.ca

In 76 days, the @hfxtidesfc.bsky.social season begins. And that moment means something different to each of the team’s players—from the vets returning for one last dance, to the homegrown kids who never dreamt they’d be playing in their backyard. For @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

Council kills the Windsor Exchange, and city staff reveal that they're not working on council’s strategic plans. My latest for @thecoast.ca

Long before Truro-born playwright Dane Stewart's show, Resurrection, claimed the top spot on Apple Podcasts’ Arts chart in Canada, he met a man at a bar in Montreal. The chance encounter would transform the next six years of his life. New for @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/t...

I went too deep on a few staff reports and figured out that the city of Halifax is slowly dying a very preventable death. My latest for @thecoast.ca

Fillmore's seat in parliament has been vacant since September. But Justin Trudeau’s retirement is complicating timing for the byelection to fill it. Here's how soon a Halifax byelection could happen—and just how long it could take, if there's no rush in Ottawa. www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

New for @thecoast.ca: Ahead of Julie Kim's show at Halifax's Bus Stop Theatre in March, the Vancouver-based comedian known for her acerbic wit on issues ranging from race, to parenthood, to gender differences chats about finding her voice as a comic. www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/c...

Two days after Halifax Water issued a boil-water advisory for roughly 200,000 residents, the utility says it’s safe to drink from the tap again. Meanwhile, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has called for an investigation into what went wrong. www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

10 women’s deaths in the province have been ruled as homicides in the 9 months since Nova Scotia's former justice minister said domestic violence wasn't an epidemic—and investigators have linked almost all to male relatives or partners. Latest for @thecoast.ca: www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

ICYMI: Last week agendas went online. This week Halifax’s Transportation Standing Committee will meet and staff are recommending more dangerous, more polluting streets thanks to a motion from councillor Patty Cuttell. Read all about it @thecoast.ca

New longread from @martinbauman.com: A recent report finds Halifax has lost eight days of freezing temperatures annually due to climate change in the last decade. What does that mean for us now and in the future? www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

If “Not Voting” was a candidate in the election this would’ve been its turnout. #halifax #novaacotia #nspoli #halisky

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