🗞️ Unknown nurse makes heroic rescue

Happy Monday Halifax,

Have you heard?! People don’t like going to work in offices anymore. 

It should come as a surprise to no one that—as companies deploy return-to-office mandates—resourceful employees have found a loophole. 

It’s called “coffee badging” when an employee badges into the office and stays only a few hours—long enough to grab a coffee and maybe attend a meeting—before heading home to beat the afternoon rush hour. 

The trend was first coined in a 2023 report by Owl Labs, which found that 58% of hybrid employees surveyed admitted to “showing face at the office and then leaving.” 

It’s making headlines again because companies like Amazon and Dell are cracking down on coffee badging by ramping up in-office requirements. It’s just another of a million signs of a growing disconnect between employees and managers on remote and hybrid work. And it’s all stupid because statistics show that employees are happier and therefore more productive when they work from home. 

I will say this though: if showing your face at places, drinking coffee and then peacing out early was in the Olympics, I strongly believe I could bring home gold 🥇

Have a great day!

– Julie

🌡️ Traffic & Weather

Today: ☀️ 25°

Tomorrow: 🌤️ 26°

Next Day: 🌧️ 22°

7-day forecast

🚗 Driving, biking or busing today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.

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

LISTEN

 NEW EPISODE : Wanderer Grounds Podcast

Last Thursday, under the lights of the Wanderers Grounds, something statistically improbable happened: Halifax was awarded three penalty shots in one game. Just to give a bit of an idea of how unlikely that is: Until 2022, the most penalties a team was given during an entire World Cup tournament was four. Halifax almost got to that total in one game. The penalties and some solid performances from Wanderers’ players led the team to a wild 3-1 win over Valour FC.

Recorded live from the Wanderers Grounds last Thursday night, this episode of the Wanderer Grounds pod covers it all—from penalties galore to Aidan Daniels’ new hairdo to Ryan Telfer’s back-to-goal play. 

Plus, defender Cale Loughrey joins the show after scoring his first professional goal and talks to Matt and Martin about weathering the storm of the season's first-half results and being on a nickname basis with CanPL referees.

🎧 Listen now

🤔 Need To Know

🖥️ Airports, hospitals and police services across Canada continued their gradual return to normal operations as they recovered from a global technology outage caused by a defective update to computers using Microsoft Windows.

🧘 Join Kyla from Shanti Yoga, on Thursdays in July, and August from 12:05 to 12:55 pm in The Halifax Public Garden at the family lawn area.*

🎭 Twelfth Night opens this Friday Night at Shakespeare by the Sea! Join us in Point Pleasant Park until September 1st. Get your seats TODAY!*

🇺🇦 UNBROKEN UKRAINE Charity Concert, July 24, LightHouse Arts Centre. Barvinok Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and NS musicians to benefit rehabilitation centre UNBROKEN in Ukraine. Get your tickets!*

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ARTS + CULTURE

New MSVU gallery director nearly a year into the job, says ‘no regrets’

A year ago, when Melanie Colosimo started as the new director of the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, she was worried about making relationships with students at a school without a fine arts program. 

Colosimo had spent the last 15 years working in various positions at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design downtown, primarily within the Anna Leonowens Gallery System, having wrapped her time at NSCAD as director of the Anna before making the leap to MSVU. 

The Anna saw 25,000 visitors per year, says Colosimo, which is radically different from MSVU, which saw upwards of 2,000 during her first year on the job. NSCAD and the Anna also ran 100 exhibitions a year, with four a week, “which sounds wild—and it is—but it was such a well-oiled machine.” 

In Halifax, however, the relationship between university art galleries and their degree programs is more similar to MSVU’s situation, as Dalhousie University and Saint Mary’s University both have art galleries in their main campuses yet neither school offers fine arts degrees. 

Says Colosimo, for MSVU students “art can be an answer in terms of posing new questions and opening new ways of seeing things.”

The Coast’s Lauren Phillips spoke with Colosimo about how she connects her own art practice to the gallery’s mandate to prioritize women as artists, creators and focus of content.

🗞️ In Other News

🌊 A family is trying to find the heroic nurse—Emily—whose quick response saved the life of a 12-year-old who had been pulled out into the ocean by a rip current while enjoying a day at Conrad Beach.

📝 The blended family behind The Easy Street Diner in Fairview got candid on social media about the difficulties facing the business, and industry experts say they are not alone.

🏥 A Nova Scotia union says a shortage of respiratory therapists is jeopardizing patient care, but health agencies say they’re already responding to the issue with recruitment efforts.

🪧 Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the end of the Halifax Pride parade on Saturday afternoon. Most of the parade was over when a small group of protesters ran into the middle of the road and forced the procession to a halt. 

💻 A new video campaign launched by YWCA Canada hopes to help combat online hate and violence. Aline Nizigama—CEO of YWCA Canada—said certain communities experience online hate at higher proportions.

🌲 The Department of Environment and Climate Change opened an online survey—closing Sep. 20—to get public input on 16 proposed new or expanded wilderness areas and nature reserves.

🗓️ Things To Do

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

🗓 Improv Drop-Ins: Check out Spontaneity Improv Co.’s drop-in improv jams, play games, work on your skills, and have fun. These classes will run every Monday evening starting today. | July 22 | 7pm | $15

🗓 Halifax Dance Presents Aging Actively Dancing Downtown: These dance classes are designed to be safe, inclusive, and accessible to all, regardless of ability, mobility, or any physical or cognitive limitations. Participants learn simple movements to music that bring joy and nostalgia. | July 23 | 5:30pm | Free

🗓 Californian Margarita Mocktail Class with Mike Delic: Join this fun and refreshing evening and learn how to make a delicious Californian Margarita Mocktail with a unique twist! | July 24 | 6:30pm | $40

🗓 Haliwood Queers: Join host Rouge Fatale and a slew of queer Halifamous celebrities in a classic game of trivia tic-tac-toe. Contestants from the audience will compete for glamorous local prizes, wading through campy questions and hilarious answers to determine who is telling the truth and who is bluffing. With performances by Elle Noir and Anna Mona-Pia, and featuring sociologist Robert S. Wright, MLA Dr. Lisa Lachance, King of the Party Lou Campbell, comedian Adam Myatt, theatre darling Lara Lewis, and drag performers Abel T. Suckizone and Colin Sick. | July 25 | 7:30pm | From $15

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

⚓️ What’s In The Harbour

🛳️➡️ The Atlantic Sail container ship arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 5:20am and leaves for New York at 5pm.

🛳️➡️ The Delphinus C. container ship arrives in Halifax from Saint John at 5:20am and leaves for Southampton at 10:30pm.

🛳️ The Tropic Hope container ship arrives in Halifax from Philipsburg at 6:15am.

🛳️ The Algoluna oil tanker arrives in Halifax from Nanticoke at 8:15am.

🍴 Where To Eat & Drink

🦞 Say ooh là là to the Lobster Sausage at Café Lunette: served with warm potato salad, fennel confit, dill pickle and smooth tarragon aioli.

🍄‍🟫 Take a bite out of a veggie delight with the Fried Mushroom Sandwich from Peacock Wine Bar: served on a potato bun and topped with tarragon gribiche.

👀 In Case You Missed It

💰 Sometimes, like when it comes to housing, Halifax’s city council cares a lot about not straying into what is provincial jurisdiction. Sometimes, like when it comes to labour, Halifax’s city council is more than happy to waste our tax money on things that are under provincial jurisdiction. For $208,572 the city hired someone to reach out to local businesses, develop a recruitment strategy and then travel to various international job fairs to try and find foreign workers to fill jobs that Canadians aren’t filling. The Coast’s Matt Stickland has more on what happened at Thursday’s meeting of the Community Planning and Economic Development standing committee.

✈️ Air Canada has been ordered to pay a local family of five who were separated on what they describe as a “traumatizing” flight last year.

⚖️ A 58-year-old Nova Scotia man who was charged last year with 27 offences related to creating child pornography, sexual assault and firearms is now facing additional charges.

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