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🗞️ Blast from the past
Plus, search continues for missing Pictou children, Halifax Water has applied to hike your bill and DeeDee Austin is using her golden buzzer moment to advocate for mental health.
Julie Lawrence
May 06, 2025
Hey Halifax,
As we continue to evolve our newsletter, I was thinking it would be fun to bring back some classic Coast content. I always remember looking forward to reading my favourite column each week and want to help us all recapture some of that nostalgia.
Please take second to let me know which classic Coast content you would like to see make a huge comeback.
What classic Coast content would you most like to see back on a weekly basis? |
Love and light out there!
– Julie
🌡️ Traffic & Weather
Today: 🌤️ 15°
Tomorrow: 🌧️ 15°
Next Day: 🌦️ 12°
🚗 Driving, biking or busing today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.
MUSIC
This golden superstar is living up to the buzz(er)
📸 Credit: Screen grab youtube
In a heartwarming moment that had the East Coast buzzing, DeeDee Austin received the prestigious golden buzzer on Canada's Got Talent last month—marking a milestone in the young artist's already impressive career.
With her soulful performance and powerful presence, Austin captured the attention of the judges, particularly Howie Mandel, who gave her the golden buzzer, sending her straight to the semi-finals and cementing her place in the competition.
🤔 Need To Know
🚨 The RCMP say a search for two young children believed to have wandered away from their home in Pictou County is continuing—searchers have yet to locate Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4.
💜 A woman who survived multiple attacks by her ex says when she tried to access financial support to leave her home, she was repeatedly denied the province’s housing benefit for survivors of gender-based violence because of program policies.
🔥 A larger fine for illegal burning that was brought in after the province’s destructive 2023 wildfires will be sticking around—the province set an interim fine of $25K for people who refused to follow daily burn restrictions.
🎞️ In True Colour: A Celebration of Black Canadian Animators offers a collection of short films that imagine new worlds and reflect creatively on this one.*
🍃 Ogilvie on the Park offers upgraded apartments, FREE laundry facilities, onsite available childcare, and is steps from Point Pleasant Park, campuses, and downtown — the ultimate South End living!*
🧑🎨 Are you ready for Something Sentimental? The 2025 Graduation Exhibition closes out NSCAD's MAYHEM Festival. Curated by Nina-Simone Kellman and Alice Shirtliffe, this showcase features over 80 works by graduating students.*
🪁 The 128th Pepsi Natal Day Parade is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Monday, August 4, 2025. Float registration is now open and applications will be accepted until Friday, July 18.*
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🗞️ In Other News
🚰 Halifax Water has applied to increase average residential bills over the next two fiscal years to address its “significant operating deficits”—if approved, average residential bills would increase by 16.2% in 2025-2026 and by 17.6% in 2026-2027.
🦞 The Nova Scotia government is trying to strengthen international trade partners in light of the United States’ tariffs—the premier and minister of fisheries and aquaculture are in Spain and then the United Kingdom for events around the seafood industry.
📱 Nova Scotia will soon roll out a new 911 system based on modern technology—the new 911 system will be digital and will allow for quicker and more accessible communication during emergencies.
📮 After negotiations between Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 of its workers ended in early March without a contract, both sides resumed talks last week amid a looming strike deadline.
🎓 New legislation affecting post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia drew the ire from members of the Canadian Association of University teachers at meetings over the weekend in Ottawa.
🧠 A pioneering Nova Scotia program that provides patients with basic psychiatric diagnoses is winning praise for slashing wait times for some people struggling to get help.
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Get ready Halifax!
Open City is taking place Saturday, May 10, at businesses across the Halifax peninsula and downtown Dartmouth.
Get out and support local during this annual event that celebrates entrepreneurs and the small shop that make our communities so welcoming.
See all the participating businesses on our website and stay up to date on Instagram with @opencityhfx.
🗓️ Things To Do
Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:
🗓 Patrizia Berdkan - Upside Down & Inside Out: The show plays with the familiar—a house, a tree, a landscape—but bends the rules. These abstract, colourful paintings turn tradition on its head, sometimes quite literally. Homes float, shift, and defy gravity, their bold forms infused with the energy of mid-century modern design and the neon glow of the ‘80s. Some pieces pulse with electric colour, while others invite quiet curiosity. And since the works can be flipped, every perspective is the right one. | May 6-27 |
🗓 Halifax ComedyFest: With stages around the city featuring comedians from across North America, Halifax ComedyFest is the funniest 4 days of the year! Shows vary from the free Laugh at Lunch event at Halifax Central Library to our hilarious pub shows to our laughter-filled galas! | May 7-10 |
🗓 The East Pointers: JUNO Award-winning PEI folk band The East Pointers are musical trailblazers, known for their energetic, eclectic blend of traditional Celtic music with modern folk, pop, and dance. Now, they make their orchestral debut with Symphony Nova Scotia in an innovative fusion of rich vocal harmonies, furious energy and groundbreaking orchestral arrangements. | May 9 and 10 | 7:30pm | From $74 |
Have an event to share? Let us know at [email protected].
⚓️ What’s In The Harbour
➡️ The One Madrid container ship leaves Halifax for New York at 3am.
🚢➡️ The Atlantic Sail container ship arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 5:20am and leaves for New York at 4pm.
🚢 The One Manhattan container ship arrives in Halifax from New York at 5:45am.
➡️ The Acadian oil tanker leaves Halifax for Saint John at 6am.
🚢 The Algoma Integrity container ship arrives in Halifax from Portsmouth, UK at 6:21am.
🚢 The Marti Cloud container ship arrives in Halifax from New York at 3:20pm.
➡️ The Algoberta oil tanker leaves Halifax for Sarnia, BC at 6pm.
🍴 Where To Eat & Drink
🐟 Experience fresh catch, cooked to perfection with the Pan Seared Atlantic Salmon at A Frite: smoked chickpea puree, baby potatoes, charred tomato and stew green beans, fennel pickled black rice.
🐔There’s a new flatbread on the menu at Stardust and it’s…BBQ Chicken! Freshly made dough topped with house-made BBQ sauce, 3-cheese blend, roasted chicken breast, red onions, bell peppers, fresh cilantro.
👀 In Case You Missed It
🎫 Temperatures are rising, the sun is shining and the shows coming to Halifax in May are hot! From ’90s divas, to big name comedians, to provocative Canadian theatre, there’s something for everyone this month. As always, The Coast has you covered with everything that’s happening in the city this month.
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