🗞️ Halifax cracking down on litterbugs

Happy Monday Halifax!

Some of you may have noticed a block full of Latin in Friday’s newsletter. If you did, congratulations! That was a test and you passed! I kid, I kid. It was obviously a mistake and for that, I apologize and admit that I am, in fact, not AI after all. 

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Enjoy your day!

– Julie

🌡️ Traffic & Weather

Today: 🌧️ 11°

Tomorrow: 🌤️ 19°

Next Day: 🌤️ 17°

7-day forecast

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

CITY HALL

Halifax plans to crack down on litterbugs

The Environment and Sustainability committee wants the city to beef up its littering bylaws and recommended council do just that. 

Since 2021 the city’s solid waste staff have been beefing up education while enforcing municipal dumping bylaws. As part of the education campaign the city has also been doing some learning.

The city’s old bylaw said that the person whose garbage it is, is responsible for getting rid of it. But staff have learned that sometimes people will hire a company to get rid of some garbage and the hired company gets rid of that garbage by doing illegal dumping. One of the changes being recommended is holding the person who did the dumping responsible, as opposed to the person who initially owned the garbage.

The Coast’s Matt Stickland reports on all the changes recommended to address the city’s litter problem.

🤔 Need To Know

🚙 All drivers in the HRM who get pulled over by the RCMP this month will be required to take a breathalyzer to determine if they're driving under the influence.

🗳️ Nova Scotia NDP leader Claudia Chender said the party is ready for an election in a speech at their annual convention as she laid out a plan to address the housing crisis.

🏆 NSCAD MAYHEM year-end festival: Buy tickets for the Student Art Award Gala on May 9 to meet our top emerging artists. See all MAYHEM Festival events.*

🎆 Registration for the 127th Pepsi Natal Day Parade is now open! The parade starts at 10 a.m. on Monday, August 5. Registration closes July 19.*

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SPONSORED BY MAYWORKS KJIPUKTUK / HALIFAX

Justice Never Looked So Good

Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax is in full-swing. Our lineup of labour-focused arts and community events programming is the joyful shot in the arm we all need during these stressful times. With an almost entirely pay-what-you-can program this year, the only reason you have to stay home is if you can’t find a babysitter. 

But your pal Mayworks has you covered - just register in advance for childcare at select events and we’ll offer it at no cost to you. Perfect for a Mother’s Day out to celebrate all the work mom does, there’s never been a better time to celebrate the struggles and joys of being workers, and we’ve made it easier than ever. Click here for details.

MUSIC

Mother Mother announce Halifax show in 2025

Twenty years on from their origins in Heriot Bay, BC, indie rockers Mother Mother are still packing a punch. Back in February, the five-member band fronted by siblings Ryan and Molly Guldemond dropped their ninth album, Grief Chapter—and to mark the occasion, they’re embarking on a worldwide tour that stops in Halifax next March.

It’s been a while since the Vancouver-based band—known for their high-energy shows—made it out to Nova Scotia. The last time, they joined The Arkells at the Scotiabank Centre for Halifax Pop Explosion in 2019. Since then, they became TikTok famous—with songs from 2008’s O My Heart racking up millions of streams from a new generation of listeners.

Catch up on all the news about the show.

🗞️ In Other News

🚨 A man is in custody after a weapons-related incident at a Halifax hotel on Sunday. Halifax police say no one was injured.

🗳️ Halifax-area councillor Pam Lovelace is the first high-profile candidate to announce they will run for mayor. If elected, she would become the first female mayor since the mid-’90s.

🗳️ Two political newcomers—Clay Bowser and Nolan Greenough—have joined the Halifax mayoral race. They say they’ve been driven to run by their experiences with affordability and housing.

🏒 Halifax Mooseheads forward Mathieu Cataford is the QMJHL’s most valuable player of the regular season.

🎤 Halifax-based alt-pop duo Neon Dreams won Album of the Year for Love Child Baby Dolphin at the East Coast Music Awards held in Charlottetown.

🐝 Bide Awhile has added a second beehive to its property near the Trio Memorial Gardens to raise money for the animal shelter.

SPONSORED BY ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIA

Public Art Walk and Book Launch

Join AGNS & ACI for the launch of Halifax: Art & Artists this Wednesday, May 8, 7pm at Halifax Central Library.

This event presents stories of the city's creators from craftspeople and portrait painters to filmmakers and multidisciplinary makers from time immemorial to the present. 

Featuring a panel discussion with Ray Cronin, Ann Kitz, and Sarah Moore Fillmore.

🗓️ Things To Do

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

🗓 Book Launch for Halifax Art & Artists - An Illustrated History: Join author Ray Cronin and other artists as they discuss this new book that presents the stories of the city’s creators from craftspeople and portrait painters to filmmakers and multidisciplinary makers. | May 8 | 7pm | Free

🗓 Sarah in Paradise Stand-up Comedy Show: Sarah Bennett is joined by Halifax comics Luba Magnus, Clare Belford, and Amanda Rose for an epic random fun-loving night full of smiles at Good Robot Brewing. | May 8 | 8pm | $17.31

🗓 Crafters Resistance: Community Quilting Project Final Presentation & Meal: Think of the Worst Theatre has been inviting Haligonians to join a communal quilting project for the past six weeks, sewing squares to form three large quilts that “resemble local buildings that should be affordable housing.” On Wednesday, Every One Every Day will host a community meal and showcase the final designs. | May 8 | 3-8pm | Free

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

⚓️ What’s In The Harbour

➡️ The Great Eastern tanker leaves Halifax for Saint John at 1pm.

➡️ The HMCS Summerside leaves Halifax for Canadian waters  at 2pm.

➡️ The Atlantic Sun container ship leaves Halifax for New York at 3pm.

➡️ The Tropic Lissette container ship leaves Halifax for West Palm Beach, FL at 10pm.

🍴 Where To Eat & Drink

🥪 Back by popular demand! The In-N-Out Chopped Cheese at Rinaldo’s: sautéed beef, caramelized onions, American cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and animal sauce on a freshly baked hero roll.

🍺 Get that summer feeling with the new Dos Cuervos Lime at 2 Crows Brewing Co.

👀 In Case You Missed It

🏫 A slew of bomb threats this week in HRM schools garnering police attention has many wondering what’s really going on. NDP leader Claudia Chender says the dissolution of school boards might be to blame. 

🔈 In the latest episode of The Grand Parade podcast, Coast reporters Matt Stickland and Martin Bauman chat with economist Deny Sullivan about Halifax’s HAF blunders and why a labour shortage isn’t to blame for the city’s housing crisis. Plus, they delve into Halifax’s deferred plans to abandon its Strategic Road Safety Framework in favour of a new plan that is worse than the old one.

🔈 The Halifax Wanderers are down bad right now. The winless Wanderers are left searching for answers after losing a CanChamp stunner to semi-pro CS Saint-Laurent. Martin and Matt break it all down in the latest episode of The Wanderer Grounds podcast.

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