🗞️ The storm clean-up is upon us

AFTER THE STORM

Clean-up begins in earnest after post-tropical storm Lee leaves Halifax behind

Todd Ashley was returning to the south end Halifax apartment building he co-manages with his wife when she called him on Saturday morning. A tree had snapped in half, crumpling the hood of an SUV, smashing the rear windshield of another and pulling the building’s power lines down along with it.

He’d been on the phone for most of Sunday morning when The Coast visited. It had been a long one, as mornings go.

“I’ve been told they need to get all the wires out before Nova Scotia Power can come and do anything,” he said.

Ashley is far from the only one dealing with a Hurricane Lee-sized headache after the post-tropical storm’s weekend visit to Nova Scotia.

As The Coast’s Martin Bauman reports, tens of thousands of Nova Scotians are still without electricity—and now, the clean-up has begun.

Need to know

🌀 Heavy winds and high tides dealt a blow to some South Shore communities over the weekend.

🍞 Some food analysts are labelling Ottawa’s big grocer summit as “disingenuous” and unlikely to lead to change.

🔎 The DFO is investigating after nearly 100 elvers were found dead—and some were missing their heads—in several Dartmouth lakes.

🏠 Canada’s finance minister says the country-wide affordable housing crisis will take years to resolve—and requires a “great national effort.”

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In other news

🚤 A missing boat in Halifax’s Northwest Arm prompted a weekend rescue effort from friends and strangers alike.

⛔️ The HRM warned residents to stay away from shoreline areas during post-tropical storm Lee’s visit—but not everyone listened.

📉 Nova Scotia’s utility regulators have ordered Nova Scotia Power to provide a “detailed and specific” plan for how it intends to ditch coal power by 2030.

🌊 Some coastal parts of Halifax nearly looked like they were under heavy snowfall on Saturday. Here’s why.

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EDUCATION

Hundreds join student-led climate rally calling for Nova Scotia government to act: “I want them to know how scared people are”

Jane Elliott remembers her first student climate strike: She was 13 years old. A high schooler in Halifax today, she recalls the thought of wildfires and climate disaster as “abstract” in her younger years—no longer.

“I am no longer asking my friends if they’ve heard about faraway wildfires—I’m asking if they need a place to stay because they’ve been evacuated from their home,” she says, speaking with The Coast. Navigating climate disaster has become a “regular part” of her organizing efforts today, Elliott regrets.

“I’ve oscillated between hope, anxiety, anger and exhaustion, and yet the urgency to act remains the same.”

She’s one of hundreds of high schoolers and post-secondary students across Halifax calling on Nova Scotia’s government to take more drastic efforts to address a global climate emergency—one that has rippled across the province through wildfires, floods and post-tropical storms.

As The Coast’s Lauren Phillips reports, the calls for action are getting louder.

Sure things

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

🗓 HFX Wanderers FC vs Atlético Ottawa: The Halifax Wanderers have just four games left in their 2023 season to climb the Canadian Premier League’s standings in hopes of hosting their first playoff game in franchise history. | Sept. 18 | 7pm | Tickets from $20.

🗓 Atlantic International Film Festival: See the award-winning Canadian dramedy I Used to be Funny tonight at AIFF, which follows a PTSD-stricken comic who joins the search for a missing teen she once nannied. | Sept. 14-21 | Showtimes vary | Four-ticket passes from $55.

🗓 EARTHGANG at Hopscotch Festival: The Grammy-nominated Atlanta alt-rap duo headlines the opening night of Halifax’s annual hip hop festival this Thursday at the Light House Arts Centre. | Sept. 21 | 8pm | $46.05.

Find more Halifax events in The Coast listings.