🗞 Halifax police chief steps down

IDEAS

Massey lecturer Astra Taylor on “the age of insecurity”

In a year of wildfires, floods and food inflation, Astra Taylor has been thinking a lot about insecurity. Not just in the existential sense—“we’re all going to die,” the 43-year-old Canadian American filmmaker says, even if “we don’t like to admit that,”—but in the myriad ways in which insecurity seems to surface by human design. It’s there in the uneasy disconnect between Nova Scotia’s food banks seeing soaring demand and Atlantic Canada’s biggest grocers posting 31% profits. You could feel it in the air as towering, carbon-emitting cruise ships came into Halifax’s port while Tantallon and Hammonds Plains burned.

“Once you see it, it’s everywhere,” Taylor tells The Coast. The ways we structure our society, she argues in her new book, The Age of Insecurity, make us less secure—but they can also do the opposite, if we’re willing to restructure.

Ahead of her CBC Massey Lecture at Neptune Theatre in Halifax on Sept. 8, Taylor chatted with The Coast about how to get started.

Need to know

👮🏻‍♂️ Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella has announced he will be retiring on September 15.

🗑 There are some upcoming special waste depots happening in the HRM starting this weekend. Check out the full schedule here.

🏠 The city’s new short-term rental regulations are now in effect.

❤️ Check out Hearts of Freedom, an exhibition about the 100,000 Southeast Asian refugees who arrived between 1975-1985. At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.*

🎮 LAST CHANCE: Get down with the classics and Level UP your Saturday plans at Discovery Centre's 19+ Retro Games Night! Last-minute tickets are available.*

🥳 You're invited to the Gottingen Street Festival on Saturday, September 9, from 1-6pm! Gottingen Street's sidewalks will be animated with music, vendors, and activities for the whole family!*

✍️ Join us for four days of signature events as we celebrate world class authors, storytellers, comedians, and musicians! More information & REGISTER HERE!*

*Sponsored Post

SPONSORED BY NEPTUNE THEATRE

The Play That Goes Wrong

In three weeks the riotous explosion of comedy that is The Play That Goes Wrong opens at Neptune Theatre. This award-winning production featuring TV legend Jonathan Torrens is a brilliant and highly entertaining comedic masterpiece. Torrens plays Chris Bean, the director of the Cornley Drama Society. As the group of amateur thespians fumble through their attempt to stage a 1920’s murder mystery, everything that can go wrong does.

The longest running comedy on London’s West End and hailed as Broadway’s, “funniest smash hit,” The Play That Goes Wrong is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes.

On stage at Neptune Theatre from September 27 – October 22. Book Now.

On The Coast

SPONSORED BY LIVE ART DANCE

Live Art Dance Announces 2023-24 Season!

Last season Live Art Dance celebrated 40 years of bringing contemporary dance to Halifax, this year they welcome incoming Artistic Director Liliona Quarmyne. They are thrilled to present another season of electrifying dance works. From contemporary ballet to the avant-garde, they offer something for every dance lover.

Get your subscription package today! ✨

In other news

🪲 The number of invasive Japanese Beetles in Halifax continues to grow and gardeners are feeling the bite.

💵 King's is getting a $1 million donation to double its residence capacity and update its journalism school.

🏒 Dalhousie women’s hockey coach Troy Ryan is being linked to the head coaching gig of Toronto’s new Professional Women’s Hockey League team.

🧑‍🔬 Halifax marine researcher, Kristina Boerder, tells CBC how she and her team identified a strange species on blades of eelgrass.

🐾 The Nova Scotia SPCA is looking for community support after announcing a significant increase in pet surrenders.

🥀 Cape Breton singer-songwriter Bruce Guthro, aged 62, has passed away.

🥾 Through the Recreational Trail Expansion Fund, the Province is investing $1 million into upgrades and expansions of trails across Nova Scotia.

📶 Ottawa is investing $1.2 million to provide 1600 homes in Cape Breton with high-speed internet.

🏀 Canada's senior men's basketball team is headed to the FIBA World Cup semifinals for the first time in the program's history. Canada will play Serbia at 5:45am AT on Friday.

💼 A new report from Telus Health has found that 21% of Canadians are currently considering leaving their jobs.

🧓 Wondering how much it’s going to cost you to retire? Here’s a brief overview of what you may need to retire in Canada and how to achieve it.

SPONSORED BY ATLANTIC NEWS

Summer isn't over yet!

It may be September but there is still time to enjoy a good summer read at the beach, in the hammock, or on your deck. International & Canadian authors plus your favourite Maritime author Donna Morrissey with her newest book Rage the Night

All are available at Atlantic News on the corner of Morris and Queen St.