The Coast

The Coast is a no-cost weekly newspaper based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Each week, it circulates 24,000 copies across the Halifax Regional Municipality. The publication is owned by Coast Publishing Limited. Established in 1993, The Coast typically embraces a left-leaning editorial stance. It emphasizes local topics, particularly highlighting individuals and groups striving to create positive change in the community.

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Calling all Black writers in Nova Scotia

4 weeks ago | thecoast.ca | Lauren Phillips

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School workers’ new deal includes wins for wages, school safety

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Lauren Phillips

Over 5,000 education workers in Nova Scotia have signed a new two-year deal with the province, after nearly a year of bargaining. In a member update Sunday night, the council of eight local union presidents told members they were “proud of what we have achieved” and that getting this deal “showed us what we can do when we work together. “Unity in council and solidarity across all eight locals is what got us this deal,” wrote members.
Hark! A Kate Beaton

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Lauren Phillips

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The students are not alright-with Bill 12

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Lauren Phillips

There’s really something for everyone in this week’s Public Bills committee meetings–from farmers speaking about protecting water over profits in Nova Scotia, veteran public servants standing against threats to workers’ jobs, teachers warning against threats to academic freedom and ordinary people asking why their access to public information is being limited. If you missed Monday’s meeting, watch part 1 here and part 2 here. Then, prepare for another day.
Trump threatened this trans comic’s visa-now she’s coming to Halifax

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Martin Bauman

Ava Val has heard enough performative allyship since coming out as a trans woman in her thirties. “If I get one more ‘Yasss Queen!’ while I’m picking a wedgie in a park, I’m detransitioning,” the Toronto comedian jokes in So Brave, her gut-busting debut comedy special.
Things aren’t looking good for our Halifax byelection

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Kyle Shaw

Mark Carney is under a microscope. (Yes, that would be a Markroscope, but let’s not make the term a habit.) Since his landslide victory in the Liberal Party’s race to replace Justin Trudeau on the weekend, Canada’s attention has turned to Carney to lead us into a trade war and/or general election. But there is an orderly process to follow when transferring power from old prime minister to new.
Groundbreaking disability lecture series isn’t over yet

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Lauren Phillips

A popular lecture series that began in January will soon conclude. Called "Representations of Disability in Historical, Scientific and Artistic Perspectives,” this original series of public talks at the University of King’s College has brought together leading disability scholars, researchers, writers and artists to examine how ideas of “disability” and “normality” are represented in art, science, philosophy and activism. It began in January, and there is one talk left.
Halifax cyclist eyes record-setting ride from Alaska to Argentina

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Martin Bauman

Ashleigh Myles is not fazed by long hours in the bicycle saddle. The Halifax-based bike technician co-created the Tip 2 Tip Nova Scotia endurance race, a 1,000-kilometre haul from The Hawk Beach on Cape Sable Island to Cape Breton’s Meat Cove, in 2020.
Driven to drink by Trump? Start here.

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Kyle Shaw

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Auditor General blasts “arbitrary” and "unrestricted" university funding

1 month ago | thecoast.ca | Lauren Phillips

On Tuesday, the province’s top watchdog, Auditor General Kim Adair, released her report on government funding to universities. It looked at how the Department of Advanced Education monitored the $2.5 billion it gave to Nova Scotia’s 10 universities over the past five years.