🗞️ The best things in sports aren't free

Happy Friday the 13th Halifax 💀

Forget Jason and his chainsaw, the truly bone-chilling character on my mind this cursed day is Elon Musk. Truly, there is nobody spookier and he doesn’t even need a mask. 

Imagine you go on social media to let people know that you’re an educated person, making an educated decision and providing education to your 85M followers on how to register to vote and then BAM! Elon Musk tells you he’s going to impregnate you.

So much to unpack here. I mean, the overt sexual harassment is harrowing. But never forget his unhinged fixation on declining birth rates (he has sired at least 12 kids) that has made him big into the great replacement theory. So, there’s that. Plus, he’s insinuating that she needs a man to protect her and her felines from the migrants who want to eat them?! Bitch, please.

This horror movie is just a chaotic mash-up of Rosemary’s Baby (monster impregnation), Get Out (white supremacy) and Pet Sematary (cat horror).  I will fully and whole-heartedly pass.

Have a great day and restful weekend!

– Julie

PS: Best of Halifax nominations close this SUNDAY. Speak now or forever hold your peace!

🌡️ Traffic & Weather

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Next Day: ☀️ 23°

7-day forecast

🚗 Driving, biking or busing today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.

💨 Here is Halifax’s Air Quality Index and the smoke report.

NEWS + OPINION

The best things in university sports are no longer free

University sports are growing in Canada. They can be the reason students move across the country to study and compete, they can build exciting inner-and-outer provincial rivalries and they can allow families and fans of athletes to follow their journeys from afar—with the help of live streaming.

“Our student-athletes give everything they have for their sport, and it's great entertainment,” says Phillip Currie, president and CEO of Atlantic University Sport. AUS TV broadcasts live sports coverage of east coast schools throughout the regular and postseason. It used to be free. This season, it comes with a tiered price tag.

Now, fans and families of athletes will have to pay $7.99 for a single game, $39.99 for a single sports pass, or $99 to watch all AUS sports throughout the regular season. Post-season playoffs, games, and championship weekends will cost extra.

The introduction of paid subscriptions to watch university sports has been met with mixed reactions. The Coast’s Lauren Phillips has more.

🤔 Need To Know

🌁 The Macdonald Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic this weekend for maintenance work beginning Friday at 7pm and reopening Monday at 5:30am.

🏛️ Nova Scotia’s opposition NDPs have tabled legislation to declare domestic violence an epidemic in the province—Nova Scotia has the highest rates of intimate partner violence of any province in Canada.

🧑‍🌾 Don't miss it! Open Farm Day is this Sunday the 15th at participating farms across the province. Grab the family and check it out!*

🚨 Two men are facing charges related to weapons, drugs and stolen property after Halifax police recovered a long list of items, including a loaded sawed-off shotgun, an unloaded .22 rifle, drug paraphernalia, bikes, power tools, generators and cash.

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Last call for nominations

Nominations for Best of Halifax close THIS Sunday, September 15 and you don’t want to miss out!  Head to bestofhalifax.com to nominate the restaurants, shops and Haligonians that you love the most—and spread that love by telling everyone you know to do the same.

🎞️ Halifax International Film Festival

Day 3—PREVIEW

It’s another jam-packed day of curated features and shorts from the Atlantic International Film Festival. Today will see Canadian director Matthew Rankin share his latest film, Universal Language, on the big screen at the Park Lane Cineplex’s theatre seven with a start time of 6:45pm. This twisted tale sees children find their way through a hybrid of Winnipeg and 1980s Tehran, where, as the film’s synopsis puts it, “Tim Hortons serves tea from a samovar and Quebec is an independent Soviet nation-state.” This mind-bending dramedy will certainly leave an impression—as will the follow-up Q&A with Rankin himself.

Tickets can be purchased here. 

🍿 If you’re a Coast Insider, look out for our AIFF weekend picks, previews and trailers in your newsletter on Saturday morning.

🗞️ In Other News

⚖️ Profanities erupted in a Halifax courtroom as the family of a murder victim hurled insults at the convicted killer and voiced anger at the sentence he received—Justin Ronald Adams-Clarke smirked and extended both middle fingers at the family as he was led away.

💔 Counsellors will be at Stellarton schools this week to provide support to students after the death of a 15-year-old in an early morning crash—the teen was killed driving a car that collided with a power pole and a tree early Thursday.

🗳️ According to a new poll, a small majority of Canadians want opposition parties to work together with the Liberals rather than trigger an early election—despite persistent low approval for prime minister Justin Trudeau.

🎣 Four boxcars filled with concrete are sitting on the floor of the Bay of Fundy near Walton, where residents are worried the debris—abandoned by another failed tidal power project—has become a hazard to local fishers.

🧑‍✈️ Air Canada says that the federal government should be prepared to intervene to prevent a looming pilots' strike that the carrier said could cause disruption for weeks to come.

💬 More than 100 people attended the first of two public engagement sessions to share feedback on development plans for the site of the Halifax Exhibition Centre—the plan submitted by developer Fathom Studio involves a mixed-use development.

🗓️ Things To Do This Weekend

Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:

🗓 Festa Italiana Halifax—A Taste of Italy in NS: Don't miss out on this opportunity to experience the best of Italian culture right here in Halifax. Come for the food, stay for the fun—and maybe even take home a prize. | Sep 13-14 | $2

🗓 SHINDIG Music Festival: SHINDIG is a brand-new music festival taking place on the Garrison Grounds, featuring The Chainsmokers, Lil Tecca, Loud Luxury, Nle Choppa and Polo G. Time to turn up the volume and soak in the last bits of summer. | Sep 13-14 | $109

🗓ZORKA: Dive into the captivating realm of ZORKA, the extraordinary 10th creation by FUSION Productions. The show unfolds seamlessly in a captivating sequence of story and dynamic artistic expressions, encompassing dance, singing, gymnastics, live music, acrobatics and various other live performances. | Sep 14 | 8pm | $45  

🗓 Level UP! Retro Games Night: Halifax, get down with the classics and Level UP your Saturday night plans at Discovery Centre. Play retro games, including Nintendo, Genesis, Playstation, Xbox and more, provided by Game Over, Cancer. | Sep 14 | 9pm | $34.50

🗓The Great Halifax Clothing Swap and Fair Fashion Festival: Threading Change is proud to host the inaugural Fair Fashion Festival in Halifax in collaboration with The Great Halifax Clothing Swap. It’s an epic interdisciplinary event where you will meet industry leaders and experts in the sustainable fashion space, learn about the industry's social and environmental hidden costs, and swap your gently-used clothing, shoes and accessories for new-to-you gems! | Sep 14 | 10am | $17.31

🗓 Halifax Wanderers Home Game: Come cheer on the home team as they take on Forge FC in professional soccer action at the Wanderers Grounds. | Sep 14 |  3pm | From $29

🗓 Halifax Terry Fox Community Run: Let's come together as a community to walk, run and roll for cancer research. Invite your associates, colleagues, friends and family to participate or start a team for a good cause. Everyone is welcome. | Sep 15 |  10am | Donation

Have an event to share? Let us know at [email protected].

⚓️ What’s In The Harbour

➡️ The MSC Ela container ship leaves Halifax for Montreal at 4am.

➡️ The Algoscotia oil tanker leaves Halifax for Corner Brook at 8am.

🛳️ The Silver Shadow cruise ship arrives in Halifax from Canadian seas at 11am.

🛳️ The Contship Leo container ship arrives in Halifax from New York at 3:50pm.

🛳️➡️ The NYK Romulus container ship arrives in Halifax from Colombo at 5:20am and leaves for New York at 4pm.

➡️ The Oceanex Sanderling container ship leaves Halifax for St. John’s at 6pm.

🛳️➡️ The Nolhan Ava container ship arrives in Halifax from St. Pierre at 8:15am and leaves for Argentia at 6pm.

🛳️➡️ The Emerald Princess cruise ship arrives in Halifax at 8:55am and leaves for Canadian seas at 6pm.

🛳️➡️ The APL Paris container ship arrives in Halifax from Colombo at 5:45am and leaves for New York at 6pm.

🛳️➡️ The Volendam cruise ship arrives in Halifax at 8am and leaves for Canadian seas at 6pm.

🛳️➡️ The Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship arrives in Halifax at 10am and leaves for Canadian seas at 10pm.

🍴 Where To Eat & Drink

🍨🍩 It’s the crossover event of the century! Deedee’s Ice Cream and Total Donut Solutions have teamed up on some sweet treats. We suggest the Life is Pain…Au Chocolat: flaky croissants chopped up into bite-sized pieces and mixed into a classic vanilla with shaved chocolate bits. Plus, 50 cents from each scoop will be donated to Feed Nova Scotia. It’s the ultimate win-win.

👀 In Case You Missed It

🏘️ Tim Houston’s government announced law changes to the Residential Tenancies Act last week that will benefit landlords and make it easier for tenants to lose their homes. New regulations give landlords more flexibility and power in evicting tenants, proposing a shorter timeline for filing an eviction notice for late rent and giving landlords more reasons for why they can evict tenants. The Coast’s Brendyn Creamer breaks down the proposed changes and how they leave renters in the dust while benefiting landlords.

🚓 Tuesday’s council meeting really had it all. The main debates were about Halifax’s ongoing efforts at police reform. Council gave first reading to an amendment to bylaw P-100, formally known as the Police Board By-law. This amendment will add the position of Commissioner of Public Safety, a person to act as a liaison between the HRM, the Halifax Regional Police and the Board of Police Commissioners. This should result in someone watching out for the public’s interest in the relationship between the Board and the Police, which has typically worked to advance the interests of police in the HRM.  The Coast’s Matt Stickland has everything you need to know about what happened this week at Halifax Council.

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