Cruise ships meet delayed car carriers in Halifax Harbour this week

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Cruise ships meet delayed car carriers in Halifax Harbour this week

When the 1,430-passenger Zaandam cruise ship arrives in Halifax this morning, it will mark the Holland America Line-operated ship’s seventh stop in Nova Scotia’s capital so far in 2023—more than any other cruise ship.

Rounding out the biggest arrivals this week are a pair of vehicle carriers running late from Germany, along with a whack of container ships coming from as far afield as Colombia, Morocco and Vietnam.

This week’s harbour roundup from Coast reporter Martin Bauman has all that and more—including detours into The Simpsons and the night sky.

Read the full report at The Coast.

Need to know

☀️ Today's weather: Partly cloudy with a 30% chance of showers in the morning. A high of 15C and a low of 8C. A UV index of 7.

💨 Halifax’s Air Quality Air Index and smoke forecast.

🔥 Here is the most recent provincial wildfire update.

🍳 Brunch it up this weekend in Downtown Halifax! Whether it’s eggs benny or just a coffee and croissant, there’s plenty of options to choose from. Find out more at DowntownHalifax.ca/Brunch.*

🚗 Driving in the city today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.

*Sponsored Post

SPONSORED BY CANADIAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION AT PIER 21

#HopeAndHealingCanada, a live installation by Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers

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.

On The Coast

SPONSORED BY 2023 NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS GAMES

The games are coming

Atlantic Canada’s largest celebration of sport and culture is almost here. Experience the 2023 North American Indigenous Games July 15-23 as over 5,000 athletes from across North America arrive in Kjipuktuk to compete in 16 sporting competitions across the HRM and beyond. All sport and culture events are open to the public, so let’s show them some of that East Coast hospitality!

Learn more at NAIG2023.com.

In other news

⛑ Nova Scotia is matching all donations made to the Canadian Red Cross Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada Fires Appeal.

🦌 Meet some of Hope for Wildlife’s newest residents. The animal rehab centre is intaking more animals due to the wildfires.

🪧 Halifax’s school support staff with CUPE Local 5047 have been on strike for 30 days now and calls on the province to return to the bargaining table are growing. CBC has the story.

🗣 Global News spoke to Waegwoltic Club CEO, David Greaves, about what’s next for the club following last week’s catastrophic fire.

💻 Experts discuss the latest cybersecurity breach that affected 100,000 Nova Scotians.

🛢 Irving Oil will soon be undergoing a “strategic review” that could bring big changes to the company.

📈 The Bank of Canada has raised the interest rate to 4.75%.

BOOKS

Atlantic Book Awards 2023

Last night’s Atlantic Book Awards gala—held at the Halifax Central Library—is bound to make your to-read pile grow: Halifax transplant K. R. Byggdin was arguably the star of the evening, taking home the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for their buzzy coming-of-age novel Wonder World (in which an unmoored 27-year-old protagonist has traded small town prairie life for Halifax’s queer community—only to find himself pulled back home and reconsidering where he comes from). It is Byggdin’s first novel.

Other winners include:

• Elaine McCluskey, who won the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction for her 17-story collection Rafael Has Pretty Eyes

• Nanci Lee’s Hsin received the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award

• Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis was awarded the Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing for her Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations.

Better make some room on your bookshelf now!

🗓 Things to do

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

Thursday, June 8

• The Awed Couple: Catch The Bus Stop Theatre’s new showing, The Awed Couple, that tells the story of two neighbours with little in common who form an unlikely friendship during mutual hardships | 8pm | $20.50.

• Scotia Festival of Music: It’s your last chance to check out some chamber and classical music at this year’s Scotia Festival of Music featuring a star-studded roster of musicians | Festival passes and ticket bundles vary.

• Geographies of Solitude: Immerse yourself into Sable Island’s landscape and catch a screening of local filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills’ Geographies of Solitude at the Halifax Central Library | 6:30pm | Free.

Friday, June 9

• Wildfire Recovery Concert: Join Matt Mays, Neon Dreams, Jenn Grant, Classified, Joel Plaskett Emergency and more at the Scotiabank Centre and help raise money for the United Way Wildfire Recovery Appeal | 7pm | $20-$200.

• STAGES Theatre Festival: Celebrate theatre in all its forms at STAGES. A musical about Frenchy’s, everyone’s favourite thrift shop? A standing-room-only performance by indie pop icon Vivek Shraya of her newest album? Yup, there’s lots to see at STAGES | $50.

• St. George’s Plant Sale: Spruce up your space or your garden with some perennials, annuals and house plants from the Saint George Round Church’s annual plant sale | June 9, 3pm-6pm & June 10, 9am-noon | Free admission.

Saturday, June 10

• Kellie Loder: Catch Juno nominee artist Kellie Loder at her almost sold-out Carleton show | 2pm | $34.50.

• The Mellotones: Catch one of the Maritimes’ most popular dance bands, The Mellotones, at the Shore Club for their first show of the summer | 9:30pm | $15.

• Steve Dylan: Laugh the night away with comedian Steve Dylan at his Yuk Yuk’s stand-up show this weekend | 8pm | $22.50.

Sunday, June 11

• Wildfire Benefit Concert: Monte’s Showbar Grill is holding a benefit concert for wildfire victims featuring award-winning Nova Scotian artists. All funds will be donated to the Red Cross Wildfire Relief Fund | 2pm | Free.

• Billie Elliot: The Musical: Grab tickets while you still can and follow Billy Elliot as he defies all odds to fulfill his dreams at Neptune Theatre | 2pm & 7:30pm | $47.30-$119.90.

Find more Halifax events in The Coast listings.

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