Good morning.

On Sunday, yet another person was found dead in a tent in Halifax.

The person was in Fort Needham Memorial Park in the city’s North End, with police receiving notice that he was unconscious around 1pm. They say it is not suspicious, though the Medical Examiner Service is doing an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

As the city continues to shift away from tent encampments to deal with homelessness, I’m reminded that there were many people who voiced their concern with these encampments, not by targeting government officials who continually fail to deliver timely and adequate solutions—relying on nonprofits and certain religious organizations—nor a rental market that has priced so many people out of their homes. Instead, more than a few folks cried fowl over a tent being set up in their local park.

People have a terrible habit of blaming homeless people for being homeless, and not focusing on the systems that make homelessness a real issue. We need more public housing. We need better rent controls. We need to ditch fixed-term leases. We need to stop prioritizing millionaire landlords in our legislation and instead focus on folks who are only asking for a roof over their head.

That is the only way we can eliminate needless deaths.

– B

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

The last three weeks have been some of the most demoralizing — and also some of the most galvanizing — of my career in the nonprofit sector.

When the Houston government tabled its provincial budget, it did so without consulting the communities it was gutting. Indigenous communities, Black and African Nova Scotian communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ groups, and disability-serving nonprofits did not receive a phone call, a meeting, or even a warning. They opened their emails one morning and discovered that their operational grants had been cut by anywhere from five to 40 percent. Some programs disappeared overnight.

That is not fiscal responsibility. That is contempt.

Columnist Liz LeClair discusses how the nonprofit sector will be impacted by the provincial budget.

🪧 NSCAD employees are back to work after striking for over two weeks—the union calls the strike a success as they fought for higher wages, job security and improved hiring practices.

📈 Halifax is one of six Atlantic Canadian cities listed in a report from the Atlantic Economic Council which identified an average population growth of 1.7 percent between all the region’s population centres from July 2024 to July 2025—this is less than it was the previous year, in part to the country scaling back immigration.

🪙 RCMP say a hacker was trying to extort bitcoin from MLA Rick Burns, who was the victim of a blackmail attempt which saw the release of private photos of him and his wife—police are unsure whether or not the hacker was an international or domestic actor.

🎉 Watch DHBC’s 10-Year Anniversary video series celebrating the Gritty to Pretty placemaking program and see how it has helped transform Downtown Halifax since 2015.*

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✈️ A judge will rule in June on an $18-million settlement for a class-action lawsuit regarding Air Canada Flight 624—in March 2015, the plane struck power lines as it was landing during a snowstorm at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, causing the plane to miss the runway by 200 metres, injuring 25 of its 133 passengers.

⛴️ The Naval Museum will be closing on April 2 until spring 2028 as it undergoes renovations—the Canadian Armed Forces, who operate the museum, say it will also be making investments into its core exhibitions.

💉 Spring doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are now available to people at high-risk within Nova Scotia—bookings for shots opened Tuesday.

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

🗓 Comedy! Featuring some of the stars of 22 Minutes: Some of the stars of This Hour Has 22 Minutes have some on-stage fun in this stand-up and sketch comedy show. Happening at the Bus Stop Theatre. | March 25 | 8PM | $22.63 |

🗓 Better Times Comedy at Good Robot Brewing: This weekly comedy show features regulars like Clare Belford, Dan Hendricken, Travis Lindsay, Adam Myatt, and a rotating cast of local and visiting comics. | March 26 | 7:30PM | $15 |

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

➡️ The One Stork container vessel departed Halifax for New York at 2am.

🚢➡️ The Atlantic Sail container vessel arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 5:20am and departs for New York at 4pm.

➡️ The Algosolis tanker departs Halifax for Montreal at 1pm.

🚢 The CMA CGM Ambition container vessel arrives in Halifax from Algeciras at 3:15pm.

🚢 The Oceanex Sanderling container vessel arrives in Halifax from St. John’s at 6:20pm.

➡️ The Gotland general cargo vessel departs Halifax for Villagarcia at 10pm.

🥪 Larry’s Sandwiches has a new Sandwich of the Week: the Mushroom Panini. Sautéed shiitake and button mushrooms, spinach artichoke spread, agrodolced onions, and provolone cheese on a pressed and toasted homemade sub bun.

🥦 2 Doors Down Dartmouth is serving a delicious vegetarian, gluten-free meal—Buffalo Cauliflower, made with cauliflower, buffalo sauce, blue cheese ranch, and pickled celery and carrots.

📺 As the first season of Canada Shore comes to a close, cast members say life after the show feels both familiar and entirely different. The reality series, which streams on Paramount+, follows 10 young Canadians living together in Kelowna, B.C., capturing their party-driven lifestyle and interpersonal drama. Ryleigh Gregory, originally from Bridgewater, N.S., and now living in Halifax, says the experience has amplified a lifestyle she was already living. “It’s basically our lives before, but in such a different way with all the eyes on us,” says Gregory. The Coast’s Warren D’Silva speaks with two cast members from Canada Shore about their experience on the show.

🚓 Last Wednesday, RCMP officers posed as panhandlers in Cole Harbour and Lower Sackville in an attempt to catch traffic offenders—46 tickets were issued during this sting operation and allegedly didn’t take money from anyone who stopped to give them change.

✈️ Two Air Canada pilots are dead after a collision at New York’s LaGuardia airport as their passenger plane struck a fire truck on the runway—41 people were sent to hospital as a result of the crash, which occurred Sunday night.

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