Good morning!

Excuse my selfish self for not celebrating sooner (aka in yesterday’s newsletter), but Happy Pride Month!

As I’ve mentioned before, I work with a rural Pride organization. I’ve been fortunate to see first-hand the power of community and the impact it has on 2SLGTBQIA+ folks. The ability to share a part of yourself without judgement. The moments of connection through shared experiences. The joy of knowing there are others like you.

These feelings exist within all communities, but it’s increasingly important to recognize the moment we’re in as one where trans rights in particular are being questioned, both internationally and nationally.

Alberta in particular has committed itself to anti-trans legislation with Bill 9, which ascended in December 2025. Under the guise of protecting kids and women’s sports, it instituted several bans that are demonstrably harmful to trans youth: banning puberty blockers until 16, dead-naming, banning trans girls from playing in women’s sports.

Most of the issues the government targeted, might I add, were popularized by online right-wing grifters who get paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to push hateful agendas.

So while Pride Month is certainly a time of celebration, let’s also recognize how much work is left to be done to ensure the 2SLGTBQIA+ community is safe, secure, and can be themselves without judgement.

– B

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

If Nova Scotia were a child on the last day of school, its parents would be far from pleased.

Food Banks Canada released their Poverty Report Cards this week, scoring each province on how it's weathering the ongoing affordability crisis and the social programs implemented to help those most impacted.

Nova Scotia has scored a D, with a report card littered with F's and a couple C's and B's to drag up the average.

The Coast’s Brendyn Creamer goes over Nova Scotia’s poor grade and the reasoning behind it.

📹 Attacks against politicians have left some considering the benefits and detriments of streaming municipal council meetings, with Annapolis Royal ending its live stream due to harassment concerns—43 out of Nova Scotia’s 49 municipalities stream their meetings.

🏫 An administrative assistant who was stabbed by a student in a Bedford school in 2023 told CBC she has been in “survival mode” since the attack three years ago—the Halifax Regional Centre for Education has not contributed to her pension since she’s been off work and has not allowed for any wage increases.

🚨 A Lower Sackville man was arrested and charged with impaired driving after multiple calls over the weekend about his flat-tired Toyota Corolla driving on the wrong side of the road—the 24-year-old eventually struck a flatbed truck on the roadside, finding the man and the car on Sackville Drive.

🎵 Tonight at Scotia Festival: virtuosic quartets by John Cage and Béla Bartók, and majestic works for winds by Brahms and Beethoven. Tickets start at $25.*

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The Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival is where you can watch thirty of North America’s top plein air artists painting a showcase of Nova Scotia’s most astonishing land and seascapes. Join the adventure June 16-21. You just might fall in love and take one home.

🚗 According to Uber’s lost and found index, Halifax is within the top ten most forgetful cities in Canada—the report tracks common items lost in rides and the most unique left behind.

📜 A Cape Breton priest who made controversial comments about residential schools after receiving an honourary degree at Cape Breton University last week has since apologized—the university has acknowledged the priest’s harmful comments.

🎉 The Emera Oval is now open for the summer season, with the city planning a recreational programming day on June 6 from 11am to 2pm—this will include face painting, balloon animals, carnival games, and municipal program demonstrations.

Explore Nova Scotia wine country in comfort with guided wine tours, operating 7 days a week with pick-up from Halifax and Wolfville. Tours include transportation, all tastings, lunch, dinner or a cheese pairing experience. Sit back and enjoy a fun, stress-free day through the beautiful Annapolis Valley

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

🗓 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. | May 28 | 7:30PM | $15 |

🗓 STAGES Theatre Festival: A spring theatre festival bringing exciting works that are innovative and boundary-pushing to the Eastern Front Theatre. | June 3-7 |

🗓 Scotia Festival of Music 2026: Two weeks of amazing classical music from local legends and guest artists from across the continent. | May 25-June 7 |

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🚢➡️ The Mersey Venture factory fishing vessel arrived in Halifax from Dartmouth at 12am and departs for Dartmouth at 3pm.

🚢➡️ The Leeway Odyssey research vessel arrived in Halifax from Dartmouth at 12am and departs for Dartmouth at 3pm.

🚢 The Oceanex Sanderling container vessel arrives in Halifax from St. John’s at 7:20am

🚢 The Ocean Malou tanker arrives in Halifax from Antwerp at 10:45am

➡️ The Contship Cup container vessel departs Halifax for Kingston at 12pm.

➡️ The Algoma East Coast tanker departs Halifax for Saint John at 12pm.

➡️ The Tirranna vehicle carrier departs Halifax for New York at 4pm.

🚢 The CSL Tacoma container vessel arrives in Halifax from Baltimore at 4:51pm

🍟 Stubborn Goat is serving up some special loaded fries until June 7: the Chicago Dog. Made with house-cut fries with celery salt, lightly charred hot dogs, shredded cheddar cheese, diced tomato and onion, relish and a gherkin on the side, pickled hot peppers, mustard aioli, and poppy seeds.

🎂 A gluten-free coffee crunch ice cream cake is all you need to make your party a hit. Check out Churned’s new dessert, made with dirty chai ice cream (coffee with cinnamon and cardamom), a crunchy dark chocolate quinoa, and vanilla ice cream within a chocolate shell with Have Fun Coffee espresso beans.

📊 New polling from Abacus Data suggests Premier Tim Houston's PC Party has taken a dip in popularity following a contentious budget season. Meanwhile, the rising cost of living remains the biggest issue amongst voters. Surveying 610 adults within Nova Scotia, Houston's conservatives only picked up 38 percent of decided voters, 10 percent less than the last Abacus poll in January 2026. This would still make his party the ones to beat if an election were held today, but it shows just how much their popularity has tanked since announcing its $1.2-billion deficit budget in February. The Coast’s Brendyn Creamer goes over the new polling results from Abacus Data and what it says about the current state of Nova Scotia’s politics.

🕊️ A survivor of the mass casualty event that occurred in Nova Scotia in April 2020 has died by suicide—52-year-old Clinton Ellison hid from the gunman in the woods near Portapique after finding the body of his brother Corrie.

🌿 Halifax’s IWK says they are seeing more young people experiencing prolonged psychosis due to high-potency cannabis—a doctor with the IWK says cases of youth psychosis mirror the rise in THC concentration in cannabis products.

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