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Best of Halifax 2015 has landed. This year’s mega-survey has compiled our Best of Halifax Food, Music and City awards into one super ballot—and you can vote for your favourites starting today. Right now. Do it. PRO TIP: you don’t have to fill this whole thing out in one sitting—our voting site saves your answers so that you can revisit periodically until you’re ready to tap out.
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The a-hole with a shovel got his new wheelchair! Champion of the people and scourge of icy sidewalks, Paul Vienneau’s efforts to make the city a little more accessible this past winter earned him media attention and no small amount of goodwill. That’s why a crowdfunding effort to buy him a fancy new wheelchair surpassed its $8,000 goal in only a few days. This weekend, the wheelchair arrived and Vienneau showed it off on Facebook to Halifolks.
This opens up so many things that will help me with my life. Gratitude is a weak word for what I have. I've said it a few times, and I really mean it: I sincerely hope I deserve this, and I really, really want to earn this. I'm going to try to make changes; concrete changes for accessibility in the city. Not just for people with disabilities or elderly people, but for everybody. Accessibility doesn't just serve one segment of society, it makes society better.
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Welcome to Kjipuktuk. Dartmouth councillor Darren Fisher wants a multi-lingual update (and bold rebranding) of Halifax’s highway welcome signs, and is tabling a motion tomorrow for a staff report on the subject. The current 100-series “gateway” signs only welcome HRM visitors in English. Fisher tells Metro’s Stephanie Taylor that it’s time to consider a French and possibly Mi’kmaq greeting as well. Taylor reports the idea’s been on Fisher’s mind for several years, particularly since there’s a “number of french-speaking residents within his Dartmouth district.” The cynic might wonder if this noble plan’s timing is in any way related to Liberal-candidate Fisher’s fight in the upcoming federal election. But we’re always in favour of more diversity, here at The Coast. Halifax staffers may want to consult with Mi’kmaq-language revolutionary Savvy Simon to get the right words across.
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Today marks the launch of Nova Scotia’s newest and booziest tourism initiative, The Good Cheer Trail. Think Cabot Trail, but instead of stopping at scenic vistas and hikes aplenty you’re visiting the provinces craft breweries and wineries—with a couple of historic sites for good measure. Find your D.D. and get on it.
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It’s June now, so that means Monday movies at The Board Room Game Cafe. Tonight’s screeningis X-Men: Days of Future Past, wherein a time-travelling Wolverine teams up with The Board Room’s craft beer selection and bottomless bowls of popcorn to give you a great night out.
And for those of you who prefer your cultural time travelling to involve a lot less CGI, the ongoing Scotia Festival of Music has some excellent chamber music action. The concert tonight includes Stravinsky (Septet) and Sibelius (String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56). Roll over Beethoven—you’re not back on the schedule until Wednesday.
This amazing time-lapse of fog rolling into the Northwest Arm is a reminder of how quickly weather happens. The glass-half-full response is that maybe the sun will roll back into our lives that fast.
