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Women and girls soccer players share Canada’s women’s national team 2-0 win against Brazil

When Dal Tigers coach Cindy Tye started playing soccer in Nova Scotia, she had to join a boys’ team. There was no league for girls. Fast forward through decades of playing and coaching elite-level soccer, and Tye is watching six U-20 players she’s coached win 2-0 against Brazil for Canada’s women’s national soccer team—in Halifax, on Halloween.

What Tuesday’s international “friendly” game made abundantly clear to Tye, her players in attendance and everyone else in the sold-out grandstand—the game sold out in a record-breaking 20 minutes—is that there’s a built-in fan base for elite women’s soccer.

Now, it’s about whether the momentum of Canada’s win and their remaining run of games on the road to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will be enough to propel investors and sports media networks to give the fans what they want: a women’s professional soccer league in Canada and a team in Halifax.

Read the full story at The Coast.

Need to know

📱 Halifax Transit has officially launched its new app, HFXGO, which will allow transit users to pay for fares digitally.

🎁 If you need assistance this holiday season, registration is open for The Salvation Army’s Christmas Assistance program. The deadline to apply for the program is December 4.

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There’s always room for one more on your To Be Read pile, right? Find your next fave this weekend in Halifax. Tonight, hear Alicia Elliott, Sean Michaels and Amy Jones read from their latest books and talk about what pushes them to the page. Saturday night at St Matt’s United on Barrington Street, it’s Mona Awad and Zoe Whittall, for fans of gothic fairy tales and con artist stories. Then Sunday night, slide into story with Michelle Porter and Amanda Peters, who’ll talk about family ties and family secrets, and then the great Emma Donoghue talks about the teenaged lesbian romance that fuels her latest book, Learned by Heart. eEe them all at AfterWords this weekend! Get your tickets now.

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Holiday magic with Symphony Nova Scotia

Check out these seasonal treats! Jazz sensation Holly Cole joins SNS Dec 1-2. The Nutcracker runs Dec 8-17 and Handel's Messiah Dec 21-22. Get your tickets!

In other news

🪲 A new pilot project is looking at using a type of beetle to combat the hemlock woolly adelgid—an invasive species killing hemlock trees.

🧑‍⚖️ Aaron Daniel Crawley, the man allegedly responsible for the recent Cole Harbour hit and run that killed a Dartmouth woman, made his first court appearance on Wednesday. The appearance revealed Crawley had been arrested multiple times earlier this year for attacks on his victim.

🛏️ The province has signed a lease for a new 50-bed HRM shelter, but has yet to reveal its location.

💊 As Nova Scotia faces an increase in drug overdoses, CBC takes a look at what we can learn from British Columbia’s drug-checking services.

🥍 With the recent news that lacrosse will be included at the 2028 Olympic Games, one Halifax athlete hopes this is finally the opportunity for the sport to increase in popularity across the province.

🚔 Police have arrested a woman in connection to the 2022 killing of Chauntel Lizette MacIntyre, who was found with stab wounds in the area of Sylvia Avenue and Herring Cove Road.

🧯 An investigation is underway following an apartment fire on Portland Street in Dartmouth that left a man dead.

🚚 A pedestrian was struck by a delivery truck early yesterday morning on Farmers Dairy Lane in Bedford. The 60-year-old man was brought to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

🛩️ Direct flights to Iceland have returned to Halifax Stanfield with Icelandair airline.

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8 things to see and do in Halifax this weekend

The first November chill hasn’t slowed a hot weekend for Halifax happenings. Around the HRM, you’ll find a Halloween pillowcase’s worth of tricks and treats to get up to—from back-to-back evenings of Mooseheads hockey to library jam sessions to a night with one of Canada’s biggest names in country music.

Allow The Coast to be your weekend guide with these eight to-dos.