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Halifax Pride announces festival and parade dates
And the radical self-empowerment of Shania Twain.
Alyssa Goulart
June 12, 2023
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Happy Monday Halifax!
It’s going to be beautiful in the city today. The temperature is going to hit 27C so make sure to break out that SPF and stay cool. It was recently planting day on Quinpool Road so it could be the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the weather and stroll down Quinpool to check out the new blooms!
Speaking of gardening, Halifax Seed recommends waiting until the first full moon in June to start your garden, which recently passed on the 3rd. Have you begun planting yet?
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FESTIVALS
Halifax Pride announces festival and parade dates
Is there even a Pride this year? For a while, it was murky: A publicly messy collection of Instagram posts that ran on Halifax Pride’s profile in early January gave an air of chaos, while the comment sections (when they were open) became a hotbed of allegations of volunteer mistreatment and vague calls from individuals demanding accountability and transparency.
The board changed. And changed again. There were public meetings—the latest on June 2—but many community members who tried to attend them were never sent the Zoom link (myself included). The whispers continued, with people now asking rhetorically if the festival would be a go this July, already assuming from the rumour mill that it wouldn’t or couldn’t be.
Need to know
☀️ Today's weather: Sunny with a high of 27C and a low of 13C. A UV index of 8.
🛣 This past weekend the Province announced the reopening of the side roads along Highway 103 and the majority of residents evacuated due to the wildfires were given the OK to head back to their properties.
🍓 Check your berries! The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recalled Alasko brand’s frozen IQF Whole Raspberries and frozen IQF Antioxidant Blend for possible norovirus contamination.
🔥 Here is the most recent provincial wildfire update.
🚗 Driving in the city today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.
🎭 Let’s Dance! The Musical, coming to Neptune Theatre Jul. 27-30. Use promo code TERRABRUCE25 to save 25% on all tickets to this fun, new musical.*
💻 In a new MOVEit data breach update, Nova Scotia announced that the personal information of thousands of teachers, students and potential Nova Scotia Health workers was compromised during the cyber security attack.
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SPONSORED BY CANADIAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION AT PIER 21
#HopeandHealingCanada, a live installation by Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers, is at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
The Museum is currently hosting Hamilton-based Métis installation artist Tracey-Mae Chambers and her exhibition #HopeandHealingCanada.
Chambers creates her live installations by stitching together intricate and complex designs with thousands of meters of red yarn, and the goal of starting a conversation about decolonization. The red yarn is reused at subsequent installation locations to act as a way of creating a visual and tangible image of connectivity. As her work makes its way across the country, each installation looks different depending on where it’s hosted, but the message of hope and healing remains the same.
Chambers' artwork will be on display at the Museum until August 29 and will then continue to tour throughout Canada.
Visit Pier21.ca/Hope-and-Healing-Canada for more information.
SPONSORED BY ATLANTIC NEWS
Father’s Day is just around the corner
Atlantic News has a card for that special man in your life. Just the other day a customer told staff “I love how I always find just the right card here.”
For 50 years the newsstand has been known for its large selection of magazines, and now is well-loved for their cards too!
In other news
🔥 A woman was fined almost $29,000 this weekend in Lantz for having an unsupervised fire that officers say was about 6 metres away from a forested area. The province recently upped the fine for breaking a burn ban due to the ongoing wildfires.
🩸 To mark the end of their high school careers, Halifax West High School’s 2023 graduating class (and their parents) decided to give back by donating blood. A total of 70 individuals are participating making it Halifax’s biggest group blood donation ever.
🦞 The Shelbourne County community took it upon themselves to make sure one American firefighter working on the recent wildfires had the 60th birthday celebration he deserved–lobster and all!
🚑 A pedestrian was sent to hospital on Saturday night with serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle at Dunbrack Street and Ruth Goldbloom Road.
🚨 The RCMP is investigating after Acadia University received a shooting threat.
⚽️ CBC spoke with Halifax soccer player, Ashley Thomas, who will be travelling to Berlin for the first Special Olympics World Games since before the pandemic.
🏒 The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League—the league the Halifax Mooseheads are in—recently announced new penalties. Find out what they are here.
🚂 In the 2023 federal budget the Liberal government put in a pilot project to start breaking up the Canadian rail monopoly. The two Canadian rail companies are lobbying hard against this change because it will likely cost them money in the short term due to their wildly unsafe but profitable practice of "precision scheduled railroading."
MUSIC & LOVE
The radical self-empowerment of Shania Twain
📸 Via Shania Twain Facebook
The skin was important. A diagonal line from collarbone to thigh. And to be braless underneath an open, semi-sheer black shirt. Then, the posture: confident, at ease. It’s symbolic, all of it. She wanted a visual that was self-empowering, something that depicted the vulnerability, the responsibility, the very statement of being comfortable in your own skin. After all: that’s what this was about.
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Sure things
Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:
🗓 Natalie MacLean’s Book Launch: Attend the Halifax book launch for author Natalie ManLean’s newest release, Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much, at the Halifax Central Library. Copies of the book will be on sale and MacLean will be available for autographs | June 12 | 7pm-9pm | Free.
🗓 Halifax OFF Art Map: Check out this year’s Halifax Art Map exhibition at the Teichert Gallery and find some new art to spruce up your space. The exhibit will feature over 30 artists and all works will be for sale | June 15-30 | All Day | Free admission.
🗓 Sips for Support: In support of wildfire relief efforts Halifax bartenders have organized Sips for Support. Head down to Lot Six Bar for a night of cocktails, food, music and auctions. All proceeds will be donated to the United Way Halifax Wildfire Recovery Fund | June 19 | 5pm-2am.
Find more Halifax events in The Coast listings
Shop talk
💐 Dartmouth’s newest flower shop, Flower Street (previously KoKo Mod), will be opening its doors on June 20 on Portland Street!
☕️ Bike and Bean in Upper Tantallon is now open for its regular summer hours, 8am-5pm.
Drink this
🍉 Lake City Cider has a new flavour for you! The Watermelon Cider is the taproom’s newest go-to summer drink for 2023. It’s also available for home delivery.
Shop this
🌝 Check out the vendor list for the upcoming Dartmouth at Dusk market happening at Alderney Landing on June 23.
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