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CITY HALL

Everything you need to know about council’s latest meeting

Big news to start off last Tuesday’s city council meeting: John Lohr is the new mayor of Halifax! Okay, this is an abbreviation of the civics lesson required to bring everyone up to speed about the change to today’s agenda: The addition of agenda item 18, Information Item 6 - Memorandum from the Chief Administrative Officer dated October 16, 2023, re: Legislative Update - 2023 Fall Sitting and Bill No. 329 [PDF]. But like the provincial government is likely to do, we will ignore this report for the time being.

Read Matt Stickland’s full council recap at The Coast.

Need to know

🚔 Police arrested Darren Trevor Jackson on Friday morning after a province-wide arrest warrant was issued for him in connection to a Brookfield motel shooting.

💉 Nova Scotians can now book appointments to receive their standard-dose influenza vaccine.

📚 Check out Dr. James Morrison's presentation about the educational campaigner who taught labourers to read and founded Frontier College.*

🎥 Portland Street from Prince Street to Alderney Drive will be closed today from 9am-4pm and 6pm-8pm for a film shoot.

🚨 Police are investigating after a weekend shooting on Gottingen Street sent two people to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

🤝 Atlantic Lottery has existed for almost 50 years now and 100% of profits have always been returned to the region. "Every penny is reinvested in our communities."*

⚽️ Canadian soccer legend Christine Sinclair is officially retiring.

*Sponsored Post

SPONSORED BY CRAFT NOVA SCOTIA

Designer Craft Show 2023

Craft Nova Scotia’s annual Designer Craft Show returns this November to Pavilion 22 on the Halifax Waterfront. Welcoming over 80 of our maker members from across the Maritimes—featuring ceramics, textiles, woodwork, visual art, jewelry, leather, craft spirits, body care, treats and more. Enjoy artist demonstrations while connecting with local makers and finding unique one-of-a-kind gifts for this holiday season.

Running annually since 1977, with a forced break during the pandemic, Craft Nova Scotia is excited to be building back this holiday tradition.

On The Coast

SPONSORED BY DEVOUR! THE FOOD FILM FEST

Devour! The Food Film Fest kicks off!

A French, Acadian, Québecois, Cajun and Creole food, film and music feast kicks off today in Wolfville. Check out the 45+ films, live music at the Audi stage including a Zydeco Party, Chowder Smackdown, and Le Marché de Blomidon, an open Québec food market and more.

In other news

😲 A new invasive species, red swamp crayfish, was discovered near Lower Sackville in Three Mile Lake last week.

🍎 Dalhousie professor Sylvain Charlebois will provide Ottawa with recommendations on how to lower food costs nationwide.

🛩️ Halifax Stanfield is currently seeing 85% of pre-pandemic travel numbers, lower than most other cities in the country.

🎓 A new Dalhousie scholarship, the African Nova Scotian trailblazer Senator Don Oliver Scholarship, will offer financial aid to Black Nova Scotian students.

👍 Nova Scotia health administrative workers voted 77% in favour of a new tentative agreement.

🌊 Disaster kits will be distributed to Nova Scotia museums and archives to help preserve historical documents from potential natural disasters.

USS DAY 3

Gospels of freedom, ecologies of resistant

It's Friday, Oct. 20 in the ballroom at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel. Dr. Afua Cooper speaks to the international crowd at the Universities Studying Slavery conference after coffee, tea and eggs, and presents a poem written for this moment. Cooper, pictured above, is a distinguished historian and poet, Killam Research Chair in Black and African Diaspora Studies at Dalhousie University and the principle investigator of the project A Black People's History of Canada. Cooper was also chair and lead author of the Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race.

In “Nova Scotia and slavery,” one of two morning breakout sessions, three panelists presented their varied research into historical resistance and documentation of enslaved Black people in what would become Atlantic Canada—emphasizing how tenuous and mutable categories of "free" and "enslaved" were to those lives could be violently interrupted by re-enslavement.

The three presenters were Alfonso F. Saville from Princeton University, Eleanor Bird from Lancaster University in the UK and Tony N. VanWinkle from Guilford College in North Carolina.

Read the full Day 3 recap at The Coast.

Sure things

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

🗓 Trick R Treat: Hey horror fans! Terror Vision is hosting a screening of Michael Dougherty’s Halloween hit, Trick R Treat, at Cineplex Cinema Lower Sackville this week. Don’t forget your costumes! | Oct. 25 | 6pm | $15.

🗓 Hallowheel: Meet at Argyle Street between Prince and Sackville Streets later this week for an ultimate collab between Halifax Critical Mass and Bike Party. It’ll be an evening of dancing, cycling and costume contests. | Oct. 27 | 6pm | Free.

🗓 Eugene Ripper: The “godfather of Canadian punk folk” is in town this week to not only release his new single, Folk Song 3000, but to kick off his world tour at Gus’ Pub | Oct. 26 | 8pm | $10.50.

Find more Halifax events in The Coast listings

Shop talk

🍇 Nova Scotia winery Noble Grape is celebrating 30 years! 

Drink this

🍺 Propeller Brewing’s porter beer is back on shelves. Dark and chocolatey, it’s nice for fall days and is also available for local delivery and Canada-wide shipping.

Shop this

👀 Tatamagouche Brewing Co. has stocked up on new toques. In a craft brewing coincidence, they are also dark, chocolatey and nice for fall days.