🗞️ Resilience on the runway

Hey Halifax 👋

Last weekend, The Magnetic World festival occurred on the hill, bringing out megastars like 21 Savage, Dom Dolla and The Kid Laroi. I’m going to be honest, I only know of 21 Savage, and even then I don’t think I can name a single song from the guy. I just remember the time that he was arrested by ICE in 2019 for having an expired visa.

Regardless of how out of touch I am, some perusing of the local r/halifax subreddit over the weekend led me to reading a few posts from people who attended the concert. Some spoke on it’s quality, others on the age demographics, but one point that was made several times over was the crowd pushing to the front, against the barricade, to the point where Kid Laroi had to tell the audience to move back.

If you’ve ever been to a large concert, you might know how dangerous it can be to get stuck in a crowd of people all moving in one direction—especially if that direction is straight into a wall. If someone trips, they’re at risk of getting trampled. If the crowd pushes up to far, people could suffocate or get crushed against the barricade. Many of us remember the Travis Scott Astroworld tragedy, where a crowd surge ended in the deaths of 10 concert-goers and injured over 300.

Ask any health and safety expert involved in events planning and they will tell you how easy it is for a large crowd to spiral out of control. In many cases, it’s an organizational failure—mind you, I know nothing about the organizers of the festival, and do not want to make any claims that aren’t truthful—but capacity limits exist for a reason, and it shouldn’t be on the artists on stage to manage a crowd that’s potentially putting people in danger. That is part of the organizer’s duty.

I hope everyone who went to the festival had a great time. It sounded like it was an incredible event that brought in a slew of music fans from all genres and put on by folks that just wanted to enhance the cultural fabric of Halifax. I also hope that the organizers are looking at some of the feedback online and are responding to it accordingly for their next festival.

Best,

- B

📷 @creamy_yet_smooth

🌡️ Traffic & Weather

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💨 Here is Halifax’s Air Quality Index and the smoke report.

FASHION

Survivor, advocate, model: Corinne Iris Cameron walks in Paris Fashion Week

Seventeen-year-old model Corinne Iris Cameron is preparing to take on the runway at Paris Fashion Week this October—a milestone she once thought would be impossible after a devastating car accident two years ago left her with life-threatening injuries and a stroke.

Cameron, who recently graduated from high school, says her recovery journey has shaped her outlook on life and her future in modelling.

The Coast’s Warren D’Silva has more on Cameron’s rise in the world of modelling and how she carries her learned lessons with her.

🤔 Need To Know

🔥 An out-of-control wildfire in Kings County has forced people to leave their homes—a mandatory evacuation order was sent out to residents near Lake George and, most recently, streets in Aylesford Lake.

🌲 The provincial government’s proposed legislation making it illegal to block forest access roads is being criticized for criminalizing peaceful protest—the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs says this decision was made without any notice or discussion.

🌊 Nova Scotia’s ocean floor is warming twice as much as the surface, finds a new report from the European Union’s marine monitoring service—one DFO researcher says this could pose long-term risks to the lobster industry.

🎭 Get your tickets!  TAG’s Sealed for Freshness is a side-splitting comedy about a 1968 suburban Tupperware party that goes sideways as cocktails and personalities mix.  Runs until October 11th.*

🍻 Great food! Great drinks! Great times! Nominate The Pint for Best Pub Food in the Best of Halifax Awards. Nominations close today! Get your vote in!*

*Sponsored Listing

SPONSORED BY DOWNTOWN HALIFAX BUSINESS COMMISSION

Downtown Hali Hangouts

Come hangout on the Halifax Waterfront this October! 🍂🎉

The Downtown Halifax Business Commission is bringing free, fun events to the Waterfront with Downtown Hali Hangouts.

Enjoy Carnival Night on October 2, Movie Night on October 9, and a Silent Disco on October 16.

Everyone is welcome to join and celebrate fall in Downtown Halifax!

🗞️ In Other News

✈️ Airplane manufacturer Boeing is investing $1.4 million into simulation tech developed by Nova Scotia based company Bluedrop Training and Simulation Inc.---the simulations will help support the United States Air Force Sepcial Operations Command.

🪦 A former Cape Breton MLA and house speaker has passed away at the age of 69—Alfie MacLeod died on Sunday after a battle with cancer.

🏍️ A 16-year-old died in a motorcycle accident in Halifax on Saturday afternoon—police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact them.

SPONSORED BY NOVA SCOTIA MUSIC WEEK

Discover your next favourite artist!

Plan your fall road trip to Nova Scotia Music Week 2025 in Yarmouth/Kespukwitk from October 23-26 and be part of an unforgettable event where music from over 75 local artists, community, and Nova Scotia pride come together!

Passes and wristbands are on sale now!

🗓️ Things To Do

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

🗓 Barprov: Improv Mayhem Show: Watch Spontaneity Improvisers make up wacky scenarios based on audience suggestions at the Roxbury. | Oct 2 | 7:30PM | $17.31 |

🗓 Downtown Hali Hangouts: Experience Carnival Night on the Halifax Waterfront. Enjoy a bouncy castle, carnival games, and cotton candy, all for free! Virgin Radio’s Megan Coady will make an appearance. | Oct 2 | 6:00PM |

🗓 Open Water 2025 Exhibition: Over 40 new watercolour paintings will be on display in this exhibition, organized by the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, this annual juried show highlights works primarily from Canada. Past shows have featured Maritime artists Gary McFarland, Poppy Balser and Ron Hazell, among others. | Sept 12 - Oct 2 |

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

⚓️ What’s In The Harbour

🚢➡️ The Brilliance of the Sea cruise vessel arrives in Halifax at 7am and departs for Canadian seas at 5pm.

🚢➡️ The Atlantic Star container vessel arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 10:20am and leaves for New York at 4pm.

🚢➡️ The Celebrity Silhouette cruise ship arrives in Halifax at 10:30am and departs for Canadian seas at 6pm.

🚢 The Oceanex Sanderling container ship arrives in Halifax from St. John’s at 12:25pm.

🚢 The Hafnia Lise oil tanker arrives in Halifax from New York at 1:10pm.

🚢➡️ The CSL Tacoma bulk carrier departs Halifax for Portsmouth at 3pm.

➡️ The White Marlin heavy lift vessel departs Halifax at 4pm.

🚢 The Eagle II container ship arrives in Halifax from Moa at 5:30pm.

🚢 The Nolhan Ava container ship arrives in Halifax from St. Pierre at 6:15pm.

🍴 Where To Eat & Drink

🍨 Halifax Grill N Chill has introduced their coffee flavour ice cream, the perfect sweet treat for coffee lovers. Even if you don’t like coffee, give it a try—it might just change your mind!

🥪 Try Terra Cafe’s blueberry, bacon and brie sandwich, made with East Coast Bakery sourdough bread, house made aioli and blueberry maple reserves, a healthy helping of either bacon or avocado, a portion of brie and topped with salad greens.

👀 In Case You Missed It

🥘 There is a long tradition of companies benefiting from travel by giving out culinary awards. It makes sense. How many of us judge our travel experiences by the quality of the food we enjoyed? The Michelin Guide is undoubtedly the world’s most recognized authority on restaurants, with its coveted one-, two- and three-star ratings regarded as globally recognized standards of excellence. Once the bastion of white linen establishments, the list now embraces a broader concept of fine dining. While its focus has widened globally, in Canada, Michelin is limited to Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, sponsored by San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, is similarly famous but restricted to a rarified group of restaurants few of us could ever imagine, let alone afford, eating at. Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants awards, by contrast, are uniquely Canadian. They don’t confine themselves to Canada’s big three cities, nor discriminate by province, though there is a tendency to lean urban over rural. Although glitzy city-based restaurants often soak up the glamour, Canada’s food story is written not just in urban towers but also along our rocky coastlines, on the main streets of small towns and through farm-to-table experiences from the farms themselves. The Coast’s food expert Mark DeWolf tells all regarding three great Atlantic Canadian restaurants who have earned Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants award.

🏫 Families in Halifax’s North End are voicing their frustration after years of waiting for an elementary school that has yet to be completed—the school was supposed to open this September after a delay in 2023.

🚨 Police charge a man with a slew of weapon and drug offences after discovering the man unresponsive in a vehicle—Braydon McNeil, 24, appeared in Halifax provincial court on Wednesday.

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