🗞️ Honk if you hate Elon

Happy Monday,

At a time when we seem to be able to agree on almost nothing, I do believe the one thing we can come together on is that Elon Musk plainly sucks. 

Nazi salute, anti-Canadian rhetoric and delusions of grandeur aside, what he’s trying to do to the U.S. government is just…wrong. He’s applying the exact strategy he implemented when he took over Twitter—go in, fire 75% of the workforce, then fill a few of the gaps—to a government state.

The problem is that if that approach doesn’t work with a social media company, you’ll have millions of annoyed users, but life will go on with no real suffering. If it doesn’t work in a federal government, people get hurt. And not just the employees that get laid off, but the people that depended on—and benefited from—the work those people did.

His mismanagement of government is but one of the myriad reasons why hundreds of protests took place around the world on Saturday. The event—dubbed the Tesla Takedown’s Global Day of Action—is the latest demonstration by those who object to the role Tesla CEO Elon Musk has played in Trump’s administration.

About a dozen people gathered outside the Tesla showroom in Dartmouth Saturday as part of an international protest. They held signs reading “Boycott Musk!” and “Stop Musk!” as cars drove by honking horns. 

This all made me feel great! You know I love nothing more than sticking it to the man. But then I stumbled across this and now I think I’m just going to crawl back into bed for the next four years.

@galacticgossip

Thank you Elon Musk by Ale & the Austin Industrials #elonmusk #tesla

Take care of yourself and each other out there!

– Julie

📷 @editorjulesl

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ARTS + CULTURE

Every big show happening in Halifax in April 2025

Hot sh*t! Nelly is coming to Halifax. But what would be Nelly without Ja Rule? 

As the days get longer and the calendar (finally) flips from March to April, there’s a brand-new lineup of shows coming to Halifax. From throw back hip-hip, to controversial comedians, to ground-breaking Canadian theatre, there’s something for everyone this month on the city’s stages.

The Coast’s Julie Lawrence has you covered with a run-down of all the can’t miss shows.

🤔 Need To Know

👀 Police are asking for information and video footage from the public after a stranger approached a 10-year-old child in Clayton Park on Thursday—the child was waiting at a school bus stop on Langbrae Drive when the driver pulled up and said he was an Uber driver ordered by the child’s parents.

⚒️ Mi’kmaq chiefs in Nova Scotia say they are considering legal action against newly passed provincial legislation that opens the door to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas—adding the government is making decisions on unceded and traditional Mi’kmaq territory without properly consulting them.

🛴 Anyone in Halifax will be able to grab an electric bicycle or scooter this spring as part of the city's first regulated micromobility pilot project—featuring new technology to prevent users from riding on the sidewalk.

🍁 Supporting Canadian matters! Jordan's Home Furnishings, is an Independently owned and operated Nova Scotian family business, dedicated to quality & service you can trust! On site decorators make finding Canadian furniture a flawless experience.*

📽️ Don't miss out on this exclusive FREE film screening of We Will Be Brave. In partnership with Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival, Story Money Impact.*

🎭 Live Art Dance presents, Kira Arts, Altération. Choreographed by Aly Keita. Altération, depicts a humanity that oscillates, between stability and uncertainty, change and resistance, renewal and repetition. Breaking Circus, May 3 and 4.*

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🗞️ In Other News

🛩️ Two small airplanes landed on Petpeswick Lake in the HRM Sunday after one plane experienced complications while flying.

🇨🇦 The federal Liberals are emerging as frontrunners in a tightly-contested election with a five-point lead over the Conservatives—who have maintained steady support as both parties are locked in a two-horse race.

🎣 Nova Scotia’s lucrative seafood industry is bracing for market upheaval as it deals with the effects of tariffs imposed by China and awaits an identical 25% duty from the United States—China’s tariffs took effect March 20 and the U.S. duties are expected Wednesday.

🛏️ As political tensions escalate between Canada and the U.S., inns across Nova Scotia say the province is getting some special attention from Americans looking to make the move north.

🦠 Two weeks after March break, Nova Scotia's health authority says there still hasn't been any sign of measles in the province this year—health officials had anticipated cases of the highly contagious illness over the weeklong holiday after spikes in parts of Canada and the U.S.

👶🏻 The province’s official opposition and child-care advocates are renewing their calls for the provincial government to implement a centralized daycare waitlist—a strategy that's been adopted by the other Atlantic provinces.

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The Bubble…

Housing?! Covid!? Tariffs??

No, the bubble I’m talking about today is a concept about an invisible popularity bubble around HRM, and how you could use this to your advantage.

🗓️ Things To Do

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

🗓 The Music Room Chamber Players Series Presents The Complete Chopin Nocturnes: Frédéric Chopin made the Nocturne his own, with 21 masterpieces in the genre. They result from his unique discoveries in piano technique, but would not have been possible without the influence of the bel canto operatic singing he heard during his years in Paris. Here is an unprecedented chance to hear all 21 of Chopin's Nocturnes in two evenings, performed by seven Nova Scotia pianists. | April 2 and 3 | 7:30pm | $35 |

🗓 Imbibe - A Cocktail Event: Imbibe has brought together over twenty of Nova Scotia's best mixologists for one night only to create an evening filled with perfectly crafted, sample size cocktails made just for you. Over 20 restaurants/bars and the NSLC will be shaking up their best cocktail for your entertainment. Snacks and DJ included! | April 2 | 7:00pm | $75.70 |

🗓 Broadway Legends: Broadway mega hits. Star vocalists. Enjoy the best of American theatre through the enduring songs of legendary composers like Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Relive your favourite onstage moments with music from The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita, West Side Story, Company, and much more. | April 4-6 | $42 |

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

⚓️ What’s In The Harbour

🚢➡️ The Atlantic Sail container ship arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 5:20pm and leaves for New York at 5pm.

🚢➡️ The Tropic Hope container ship arrives in Halifax from Philipsburg, St. Maarten at 6:15am and leaves for West Palm Beach, FL at 8:30pm.

🚢➡️ The Atlantic Star container ship arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 8:20am and leaves for New York at 6pm.

🚢 The CMA CGM Zephyr container ship arrives in Halifax from Colombo, Sri Lanka at 9:15am.

➡️ The Atlantic Sea container ship leaves Halifax for Liverpool at 11:30am.

🍴 Where To Eat & Drink

🍄 Stop what you’re doing and head to 2 Doors Down for a meal you won’t soon forget, the Scallop and Panko Crusted Oyster Mushroom Gnocchi: caramelized Digby scallops, bacon lardons, fried sage, roasted squash, Maria’s pantry gnocchi.

🍆 Experience bold flavours in every bite with the Shells alla Norma at Peacock Wine Bar: pork confit, roasted eggplant, Acres tomatoes, Thai basil.

👀 In Case You Missed It

🖊️ There’s a new mentorship program for writers and it’s accepting submissions until April 8. If you’re an emerging Black writer in Nova Scotia working on a project but aren’t sure how to publish it, or want to talk to writers who have been there and get advice on what comes next, then the Ink Collective is likely for you. The Coast’s Lauren Phillips sat down with award-winning author and Ink Collective creator, Andre Fenton, to talk through the program’s details and why mentorship is so important in writing.

💜 We are in the midst of an emergency. The second annual Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Summit, hosted by the Leeside Society and Be the Peace Institute, sold out in record time—because people know we are at a breaking point. But selling out a summit is not a victory. The real measure of progress is lives saved, harm prevented, and systems changed. And right now, we are failing. This is not a future problem—it is a crisis happening now. We can no longer wait. Gender-based violence advocate and activist Liz LeClair has more on the crisis, the summit and what you can do to help.

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