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Plus, stormy weather expected on Halloween, Brad Marchand returns home to help out a grieving family, and police commissioners board approve budget for increased staffing.
Brendyn Creamer
October 31, 2025
Happy Friday, Halifax 👋
As I’m sure you know, we’re expecting some pretty awful weather today, when many kids will be trick-or-treating and while many adults are getting ready to party the night away.
According to Environment Canada, Nova Scotia can expect between 30 to 50 millimetres of rain with gusts of around 70 to 80 kilometres per hour. It’s going to be very, very gross. Not great for getting candy or stumbling home from the bar. This is all because of Hurricane Melissa, which caused devastation all around the Caribbean earlier this week. While the storm has significantly weakened, the weather is still bound to be hectic.
So, if you are planning on heading out tonight, please be careful. There’s no shame in staying home and grabbing discount Halloween treats tomorrow.
Have a spooky and safe Halloween 🎃
– B
🌡️ Traffic & Weather
Today: 🌧️ 16°
Tomorrow: ☁️ 8°
Next Day: ☁️ 6°
🚗 Driving, biking or busing today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.
POLL RESULTS
Removing the public’s ability to file complaints about municipal politicians
📸 The Coast
Earlier this month, the Nova Scotia government removed the public’s ability to file complaints about municipal politicians breaking the municipal code of conduct.
This system wasn’t in place for long. The provincial government introduced the municipal code of conduct only a year ago. However, Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) president and Yarmouth mayor Pam Mood told CBC a few municipalities received a flood of complaints, ranging from serious matters to complaints labelled as frivolous.
For now, municipal code of conduct complaints can only be submitted by municipal councillors who are within the same government as the member they’re complaining about.
🤔 Need To Know
🏒 Florida Panthers forward Brad Marchand returned home to Nova Scotia to sub in as hockey coach for a U18 team while his friend, the regular coach, is grieving his 10-year-old daughter—Marchand says he didn’t hesitate to come home, even in the middle of the NHL’s regular season.
🚓 The Halifax board of police commissioners approved budget requests for eight new 911 call takers and nine new officers, six headed to an RCMP satellite office in Eastern Passage—two officers will be assigned as special investigators for the intimate-partner violence unit.
🏠 A residential care facility caring for 10 people is closing on Dec. 15 as facilities considered institutional settings close across the province—residents will be moved into community settings with the support they need, says the provincial government.
📖 Live Art Dance and Mayworks present MAYDAY's "Confession Publique", an autobiographical dance-theatre piece from two of Montreal's fiercest women creators. Get your tickets today!*
🍔 Love The Pint? Prove it! From bold bites to legendary pub classics, every dish hits the spot. Vote The Pint for Best Pub Food in the Best of Halifax!*
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Find your new favourite author at AfterWords, Saturday November 1 to Sunday November 9. More than fifty writers will come together in venues around Halifax for on-stage interviews and conversations, panel discussions, readings, workshops, parties, and more.
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BEST OF HALIFAX
Get your votes in for the Best of Halifax 2026
📸 The Coast
Our second round of voting is still underway for the Best of Halifax 2026 and will continue until midnight on Nov. 30.
From your favourite actors and actresses to the best restaurants in the city, cast your ballot for this year’s Best of Halifax. There are seven nominees for each category. Out of those seven contenders, only one can be chosen, and it’s all up to you, our readers. Feel free to skip any categories you want, but make sure to get to the end and hit submit. Otherwise, your votes won’t count.
🗞️ In Other News
🚲 The Serious Incident Response Team is looking to return five bikes they believe were stolen within the last year—this comes after a police officer was charged for allegedly selling stolen bikes amongst other property.
🚨 RCMP have charged a 54-year-old Chester Basin man with sexual assault dating back 22 years—police say the victim was a child at the time and investigators believe there are more victims across Canada.
🔍 The stepfather of the two kids from Pictou County who went missing six months ago says he doesn’t believe they are in the woods near the family’s home—the family previously told media and police that the siblings wandered away.
🗓️ Things To Do
Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:
🗓 Science, Spirits, and Boos: 19+ Halloween Party: The Discovery Centre is holding an adult-only Halloween party. Dress up, let loose, and explore the Centre after dark. | Oct. 31 | 9:00PM | $34.20 |
🗓 HALIFAX HAUNTED HOP BAR CRAWL 2025: This haunted bar crawl is visiting over four of Halifax’s hottest bars and nightclubs with live DJs at each stop along the way. | Oct. 31 | 7:30PM | $18.18 |
🗓 Halisí Cafe Holiday Market: Market at local cafe in Middle Sackville, featuring local vendors. There's food, drinks and lots to shop. | Nov. 1 | 10:00AM |
🗓 Spooktacular Science: A Family Halloween Party: The spookiest science day event of the year is here. Come down to the Discovery Centre to experience all it has to offer: slime, experiments, and crafts. Costumes encouraged. | Nov. 1| 9:00AM | From $17.50 |
🗓 Kevin Zhu: Paganini’s "24 Caprices for Solo Violin": This electrifying performance unveils the violin’s full spectrum of virtuosity and emotion, each caprice a masterful blend of technical brilliance and expressive depth, meticulously crafted to captivate and astonish. With a keen ear for nuance and a fearless command of his instrument, Kevin Zhu transforms these iconic works into a vivid dialogue between past and present. | Nov. 1 | 7:30PM | From $30 |
🗓 Neptune Theatre: How the Other Half Loves: Follow the lives of three married couples who are hopelessly entwined through affairs, secrecy, job promotions and dinner parties ending in disaster. Written by Alan Ayckbourn, How the Other Half Loves is a Thousand Island Playhouse production, directed by Jeremy Webb. | Oct. 21-Nov. 16 | 7:30PM | From $33.00 |
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⚓️ What’s In The Harbour
🚢➡️ The Atlantic Sun container vessel arrives in Halifax from Norfolk at 5:20am and departs for Liverpool at 9:30pm.
➡️ The Algoma Acadian tanker departs Halifax for Saint John at 7am.
🚢 The EF Ava container vessel arrives in Halifax from Portland (Maine) at 8:15pm.
➡️ The Nolhan Ava container vessel departs Halifax for Argentia at 10pm.
🍴 Where To Eat & Drink
🥪 In the mood for a seafood sandwich? Check out the fish stick butty at Stillwell. House-smoked cod fish sticks, cabbage slaw, smoked tomato aioli, black garlic ketchup on toasty LF Bakery bread.
🥗 Looking for a lunch that will help you get through the day? Look no further than the Mediterranean Lamb Bowl from 2 Doors Down, made with braised lamb, feta, cabbage slaw, olives, cucumber-tomato salad, pickled turnip, broccoli, garlic yogurt sauce and brown rice.
👀 In Case You Missed It
🎶 Music Nova Scotia's annual Music & Industry awards concluded an energetic weekend of song and celebration in Yarmouth. Capping off Nova Scotia Music Week was the awards brunch on Sunday, Oct. 26, which featured performances from Mi'kmaq folk artist Morgan Toney—who showed off his dancing skills while playing—folk artist Kristen Martell, R&B/folk artist Adina, hip-hop artist Kxng Wooz and singer-songwriter Mo Kenney. A total of 31 awards were handed out that morning, eight in industry categories and 23 in music. Halifax Jazz Festival, KAYO, Mo Kenney and Terra Spencer all walked away with two awards each, but several award wins held great significance for the artists who won them and the province’s music scene as a whole. The Coast’s Brendyn Creamer goes over all of the award winners from last weekend.
🚌 Halifax bus data shows around 54% of Halifax Transit collisions since 2020 were preventable—there were a total of 4,281 collisions involving buses from 2020 to 2024.
🚨 Five youth have been charged with weapons offences and one adult with accessory after the fact after four youths with gas masks sprayed irritant inside a building earlier this month—one youth victim later brandished a knife at one of the suspects.
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