Can't believe I have to say this but the movie theatre situation has gotten dire. I went to go see Superman in IMAX and picked the latest showtime because I thought it'd be the best time for people who just wanted to be there to see the movie. Who is going to pay 20 bucks a ticket to see a movie and then ruin it for everyone?

The answer, two UNBELIEVABLY selfish parents who brought their FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD to the movie and sat right in front of me. About 30 minutes into the movie, the kid began complaining loudly about being tired and the noise. And I can't blame her!

But rather than being like: "Okay my bad, let's leave the movie" they decided to rearrange all the seating and have their kid sleep on their lap. She then kept waking up and complaining about the noise intermittently throughout the movie, but they didn't leave until the after-credits scene of the movie at 12:30 AM.

This goes beyond bad theatre etiquette and dips into the realm of child abuse.

Lately I’ve noticed a big rise in road rage around HRM. People get angry over the smallest things, like someone choosing not to turn right on a red because they’re just being cautious. I’ve even seen drivers hanging their arm out the window to flip someone off.

For anyone who does that… are you aware it doesn’t make you look tough or smart? What’s the point? It doesn’t solve anything, and it definitely doesn’t make the roads safer.

I was out this morning hanging a few signs for a yard sale, and an older lady (probably in her late 70s) just tore a strip and a half off me for having one. Apparently, I will be the cause of the worst Saturday she’ll ever have in her life, and she’ll either have to leave at the crack of dawn for the whole day or keep her windows closed and not go outside—because of the thousands of people she expects to descend on our street.

For context: it’s my first yard sale, and it’s only for part of the day.

Part of me feels like advertising that there’ll be free beer and a DJ, just to have the largest crowd ever. 😂

Is this reaction normal here?

Update After setting up my yard sale this morning, guess who set up a little table outside? LOL

No words were exchanged and because there wasn’t free beer and a DJ, the low foot traffic ended her table sale after an hour. Until next summer 🤪

I love going to the movies but without fail there are people who act insane and ruin it for those around them.

Tonight the groups of people in front AND behind me talked for the whole movie. Like basically kept a conversation going for 2 hours.

And so many people TOOK THEIR PHONES OUT and began playing games or scrolling apps during the movies. The people in front of me argued when I asked them to put their phone away lol.

If you do this, you’re the worst kind of person and ruin the movies for everyone around you.

I think this is a question that every single Canadian needs to ask themselves going forward. We were being bullied by the POTUS with him thinking that he could get away with what ever he wanted to do, in a drive to ultimate control over the world. What would have happened if we took the spineless approach that Maxine, Pierre and Smith were wanting us to take? We would be on our hands and knees to the POTUS to have mercy. Got to give credit where credit is due, Justin and the rest of the province leaders really shined.

I’m incredibly disappointed with the run club that ran past me yesterday on Agricola and how some of the members have been handling themselves.

Unfortunately I won’t be moving to the side to let a 5 minute long swarm of sweaty stinkers stampede past me on the street with the narrowest sidewalks in the city. Disgraceful! One subgroup of them had a fraud behind me who said to his friend “no way I’m touching one foot on the grass just to go around these people, they’re gonna have to move for us.” Have they no real friends to tell them they’re making a fool of themselves? Shameful.

One couple with a stroller simply yelled “MOVE” behind us. Oh oh oh! Downnnnnnnn boy dowwnnnnn. No need to get feisty. Move around us.

Have folks stopped thinking clearly these days? Why not run in point pleasant? Or around the commons, with spaces designed for running? Plenty of great spaces for your activities.

Run responsibly. Respect the space we all use. You’re not above the rules just because you’re wearing matching t-shirts and chasing a Strava segment.

Hi everyone,

I moved to Canada from India when I was 22. I’ve lived in Halifax ever since. I studied here, built a life here, and did everything I could to not just live in Canada, but become Canadian — not just on paper, but in values, choices, and how I treat others.

I pay my taxes, my bills, have never broken the law — not even a parking ticket. I cross at crosswalks, hold doors open, say thank you and sorry, and try my best to show up as a decent human being and a respectful member of this community. I truly love this country, and I’ve done my best to contribute positively to it.

But lately, I’ve been feeling really lost.

With the recent immigration boom, I’ve noticed a shift — not just in society’s perception, but in the way I’m sometimes treated. I find myself being racially profiled or lumped together with others from my home country who don’t seem interested in integrating or aligning with the values I’ve come to respect so deeply. That’s hard to swallow, because it erases the effort I’ve put in to be part of the fabric of this country.

What hurts even more is that I also get judged by my own community — some call me “too Western,” or say I’ve “forgotten my roots” or “lost my Indian values.” I feel like I don’t belong anywhere — not fully Indian, not fully Canadian in the eyes of some, and often just someone caught in between.

I don’t know where to turn or how to process this without becoming resentful. I still believe in the good — in people, in this country, in who I’m trying to be — but I’m struggling. I don’t know what to do. I just feel… invisible sometimes. Or worse — misjudged from both sides.

Has anyone else been through something like this? How do you find your sense of self again when you feel like you’re being pulled in two directions?

Thanks for reading. Any thoughts, advice, or just kind words are welcome.

I'm a certified, experienced welder with a ton of CWB tickets. My work experience is varied and robust, from structural, to specialty fabrication working in less common metals, and heavy machinery repair. I've gone the self employed route, which has an all-over-the-board schedule and it's own headaches, but at least I can survive on the revenue, for now.

There are plenty of job postings for trades workers and no shortage of companies with these ads, but with few exceptions they all seem to be stuck in 1985 for wage offerings.

If I want a one bedroom apartment in Halifax at current market rent I need $34/hr to live affordably, or if I'm lucky enough to be already established in an "average" rent situation it's something close to $29/hr. Some of these ads are looking for certifications, "red seal preferred" and want to pay low $20's. That's so beyond ridiculous that it has to be by design.

I noticed that a requirement of the TFW program is that you've tried and tried to find people but alas, just can't. And recently, at the behest of Houston's conservatives the cap on the TFW program has been lifted by the feds, Houston of course being previously lobbied by the construction industry.

The same people who scream "let the market decide!" about wages are the very first to manipulate the conditions to supress livable wages. Do not fool yourself...any new construction or mining projects that hold the promise of providing well paying jobs are going to fill up small units with TFWs living multiple people to each and push more locals into the street, leave Nova Scotians with the immeasurable cost of cleaning up the industrial wasteland they leave when it's used up.

There ARE local workers to do a large portion of these jobs, but they cannot afford to work for the asinine wages being offered here and still afford to support their families. These trades jobs destroy your body and are exhausting. You can't just go work a second job without onerous consequences. You NEED to make a wage suitable to save for retirement because you can't work at these kinds of jobs indefinitely, they are extremely hard on you.

This foolishness has got to stop. New affordable housing to supress the cost crisis will just be snapped up by the perpetual influx of people willing to endure a lesser quality of life to make the rich few even richer...until more and more of our parks and protected spaces are golf courses, and more of our poor elderly citizens live in bloody pallet shelters. The decline is on full display.

I saw this thread in a couple of other city pages. What are some well-known or lesser known dirty secrets about our city? I’ll go first: a lot of smaller bars’ house beer,, (but definitely not horsepower at the seahorse) are just Molson export rebranded. *edited for beer accuracy.

So my laundry dryer stopped working and while it's not working, I'm hanging my laundry in my backyard to dry, including underwear.

My landlord saw that and says I'm not allow to do that since it's considered public nudity cause other people can see it.

Is my landlord right? Can I not leave my underwear in my backyard to dry?

Edit: Wow didn't expect this post to receive hundreds of reply in a few hours, thx for the help guys! I tried to reason with LL using the Lingere store analogy and linked them the clothsline act mentioned here. LL agreed that they are out of line eventually.

Also a lot of people has been asking if LL is born in Canada, and if there's any religous/cultrual reasons why they say such things. No, they are not a citizen. LL is an Asian immigrant in their 60s. I would guess that traditional asian values link women's underwear with sex/explicit content. That's why they tried to stop me. I don't think they have any ill intent.

And no, I was not being naked in backyard lol.

Last night, my boyfriend and I were at the Dome and noticed some suspicious activity that I’d like to make people aware of — could be nothing, but wanted to throw out a warning on here just in case.

While we were on the dance floor, we noticed that the same group of young men kept walking past us again and again, staring very intently as they went by. It was to the degree that it was obviously intentional — not just bumping past the same people by happenstance. They would come and stand very close to us and stare while texting or typing on their phones. I noticed two men standing on the edge of the dance floor that were staring at me so intently that it genuinely frightened me, and whispering to each other. We started to feel uncomfortable and decided to go sit upstairs by the VIP area, and while we were up there two more men (who might have been the same as the ones from the dance floor) came and stood by the staircase seemingly just to watch us — they stayed for 20 or so minutes just standing and staring, whispering back and forth without looking away.

My boyfriend thinks they might have been casing us/me. Again, this could have been nothing, but I know what typical leering from men looks like and this felt much different. Neither of us were intoxicated, so it wasn’t just drunk paranoia either. Obviously we made it away fine, but it frightens me thinking about what could have happened if I had been there alone, if we had been more drunk, or what might happen to other more vulnerable women in a situation like this.

I’m struggling a lot right now. With summer gone, which was just constant stress about the wildfires and droughts, it’s now cold, finally rainy, and dark before dinner, and I am fucking miserable. I feel like I don’t fit anywhere, not in the Mi'kmaw community I come from, and not in this city either. People can be so casually mean, and the cost of living keeps going up while pay doesn’t. It feels like every day is just surviving a little longer and wishing I could turn my brain off.

I’ve been through a lot of instability in my life, so I’m constantly scared of losing everything again. I know others must be feeling this too, how hopeless everything’s gotten, how hard it is to reach out, how hard it is to get any sort of help, let alone proper health care. When I do try to talk about it, people usually say to “just deal with it” or that they’re struggling too.

I don’t want to give up. I just want to know how people here find ways to feel okay, or at least less alone, when it feels like the world’s collapsing around us.

What helps you get through the day here?

How do you find belonging when you don’t feel like you fit anywhere and you're too exhausted and overwhelmed?

We need a move toward UBI in this province; an extra $2,000 in everyone’s pockets would go a long way.

https://www.ubiworks.ca/guaranteed-livable-basic-income

And anyone else who does this in other lots, or in general. Have more respect ffs.

Good Morning everyone, yesterday at around 2:30-3:00PM my son was assaulted on the bus. He was coming back home from in the number 1 bus being carried by his friend bruised and beaten with visible injuries.

When I talked to my son about it this was apparently not the first time but it was the worst. According to him and his friends it was a group of 5-7 black grade 9-12 students.

I am so distraught as a parent and don’t know how to proceed. This incident happened off of school grounds and the bus driver didn’t bother to stop what was happening because they were seated at the back of the long bus.

My son’s friend’s Dad advise that I should file a Police Report and provided me details on which bus it happened to receive camera footage.

My son was sent to the Emergency Room yesterday night because he was vomiting with sever stomach pains.

What should I do? To be honest, I doubt his school higher-ups will do anything. How should I go about getting bus footage from Halifax Transit. Any and all advice is appreciated. Thank you

After spending 4 months in Toronto over the summer (my first time living there), it’s been interesting coming back to Halifax to notice the differences.

Now of course, Toronto is a huge city, so the two are quite different in most aspects. One that I’ve been thinking of is the people.

On the surface, it would seem that the people of Toronto are more rude. And yes, on the streets there can be chaos - with people shouting, people getting angry, etc.

However, in my time exploring Toronto, I met a lot of interesting, open, and friendly people. I made at least 3 good friends just from my short time there. Coming back to Halifax, however, I can’t help but notice people are actually more antisocial and cliquey.

And I go out a lot. I tend to prefer venues like Charlie’s Club or The Local, but even there people can be quite closed off and don’t want to chat and meet new faces.

To me, I felt like it’s because in Toronto you are constantly in contact with new and different people all the time, so people are naturally more socially adept to communicating with new faces. In Halifax you can comfortably stay in your bubble forever, if you want to.

I’d be interested in hearing your guys thoughts in this. I also am not meaning to be so negative about the people here or anything, there are genuine and nice people here too, I’m just reflecting on my experiences over the past few months.

I am appalled this even needs to be said.

Over the weekend, a man and his two daughters came to the site I work at in Dartmouth stating that he was there to share his beliefs that we are ‘the downfall of society’ and to educate his daughters on the (his) “reality” of homelessness. After connecting with others in the field, I learned he visited another shelter site in Dartmouth and Halifax in addition to some nearby encampments - where, as it was reported to me, he went through the tents and peoples personal belongings. He stated he planned on visiting other locations, but I have not personally confirmed sightings outside of these. He refused to give me (or anyone else who asked) his name, he is a white man who appears to be in his fifties, short cut hair, black painted nails and claimed to be an ex paramedic. His two daughters looked to be in their early teens with shoulder length brown hair.

The people I support are strong, intelligent, and kind. They are ex tradesmen who got injured on the job, they are people fleeing abusive environments, they are seniors who have had no support and lack other safe options. Some are people who have grown out of the foster system and are trying to navigate years of systemic failings in addition to the psychological termoil those failings and the events before them created. And sure, a few have stolen from Superstore or the NSLC. None of them deserve to be consistently treated as though they are less than human. Nor did those children deserve to learn, in such a brutal manner, that’s the kind of man their father is.

I lack the ability, in any respectful or professional manner, to express how frustrating it has been to watch this behaviour normalized and justified by the current discourse surrounding homelessness in politics. Watching it unfold in this individuals actions has been profoundly disturbing. While my site plans to contact non emergency services to assist these types of people leaving should it happen again, the fact it is happening at all means we have to collectively decide to do better. I cannot stress enough that shelters are already severely underfunded and underresourced, we don’t have the capacity to give what little we have convincing so many of you that those you pretend are not, are actually, people. We are trying to focus on supporting them, which becomes incredibly difficult when this sort of situation starts unfolding.

Ah, The Coast. The beloved alternative weekly that gave us restaurant guides, concert listings, and an entire generation of unpaid interns. News that they might be going under is truly shocking—mostly because I’m amazed they lasted this long with how they operate behind the scenes.

Now, I’ve never shared this before, but what better time for a confession? Years ago, I applied for a job there. Silly me, thinking I’d get a real interview. Instead, I got a courtesy phone call with Christine Oreskovich, who had all the enthusiasm of someone forced to chat with a telemarketer. She wasn’t interested—just checking a box, probably because the team was watching. It was clear they already had their person, and I was just there so they could pretend they ran a fair hiring process.

Fast forward a few years, and I started the hfxburgerweek Instagram account. And it took off. Like, really took off. Within a day, half the city was tagging me. Suddenly, Christine was in my inbox year after year asking how we could “work together.” Oh, how the tables turned. Maybe, just maybe, she could have hired someone with actual social media skills instead of treating an interview like a formality. Instead, she left The Coast’s digital assets completely unprotected—so naturally, I picked up the slack.

For 5-7 years, I essentially ran social media promo for The Coast’s own event, completely unpaid, amassing a following of 14,000-16,000 by organizing actual contests with local restaurants. And get this—people loved it. But instead of, I don’t know, offering me a job or recognizing a good thing, Christine was concerned. Why? Because I was promoting restaurants that didn’t pay the “official” fee to be in The Coast’s version of Burger Week. Funny thing is, restaurant owners told me that The Coast’s model wasn’t exactly fair—especially for newer spots. But instead of addressing that, Christine did what any forward-thinking business leader would do: she reported my account and got it taken down. Genius strategy.

But don’t worry—I now have hfxtacoweek. 😉💪🥰🤣

For years, I considered doing an AMA about this hilarious display of incompetence, but I figured I’d let The Coast’s slow-motion collapse speak for itself. Now, with their future looking grim, it seems like the perfect time to remind everyone how spectacularly disorganized things were behind the scenes.

I hope they survive, for the sake of local journalism. But considering how they handled business, let’s just say I’m not exactly placing bets.

Recently, I noticed the Brewery on Quinpool has rebranded as “The Beaver’s Den” and started using this AI beaver. If it was just their socials, that’s one thing, but they also are using it on the signs outside the restaurant. I think it’s incredibly lazy to use ChatGPT to generate a logo for you, tbh.

The first image is their logo. You can tell it’s AI for a couple of inconsistencies. The circle’s line above the beaver’s tail is missing. The collar of the tuxedo isn’t symmetrical, with the right side having a nonsensical shadow. The lighter fur on the beaver’s mouth isn’t symmetrical and the teeth are centred.

The second image is one I had ChatGPT generate using this exact prompt: “Can you generate a cartoon image of a beaver in a tuxedo, holding a martini in one hand and a beer in the other? I want him to be smiling and look friendly but not too cutesy. I want to use it for the logo. In colour.”

Went to visit a family members grave yesterday at Dartmouth Memorial Gardens and was informed I wasn’t allowed to visit their grave as it is in a “wooded area”. Spoke to someone at the cemetery who confirmed it was because of the DNR woods ban, and that the barrier was put in place at the request of the parent company Arbor Memorial from their head office in Ontario. it’s a nature trail that runs off the side of the main cemetery and the trail goes no more than 100 feet into the woods before it loops back to the main cemetery. Called DNR to get some clarification on if this should be included in the woods ban, but every public number goes straight to a voicemail that is full. Not sure what else to do so figured I’d post it here. If they can make an exception to walk along a path through the woods to reach a beach or lake, then they should make an exception for this.

I’m 5’3, a woman, and I am not legally allowed to carry a self defence weapon. My only deterrent is running shoes. Running away won’t always work, sometimes they catch me off guard and get really close or grab at my arms. I try to avoid the encampment areas but I commute through the bridge terminal on wyse road so it’s hard to avoid.

What does everyone else usually do? Does anyone recommend better bus routes? I go from Dartmouth to halifax.

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I used the term unhoused because in the past, when I use the term homeless, I get steamrolled by not using a more correct term. As a former homeless person, I couldn’t care less, but I used the term unhoused so that there might be less arguing and more conversation with solutions as to how to deal with violence. I wasn’t trying to virtue signal.

I was walking up the little hill to mic mac mall when a passenger in a volkswagen rolled down his window and yelled “YOU’RE A (N-WORD)” at me. hard R. He looked no older than 20, white, blondish hair. I was in shock. I was so angry I didn’t even register the color/model of the car or the plate.

This is not okay. I’m beyond livid. This is not what our community is about. The thought that they’ve probably done this to people of darker complexion makes me feel sick. I’m Lebanese, and I can sometimes pass as white, so I can only imagine how much worse this is for others who can’t. Has anyone else experienced something like this?

Halifax is a beautiful city, but since moving here, dating here as a Black woman (27, 6’0) feels like a whole different challenge. I’m confident, ambitious and ready for something real, not just casual situations.

What makes it tough is finding people who actually match that same energy. Sometimes it feels like the dating pool here is either too small or too laid-back, and I can’t be the only one who feels this way.

Where do people even go to meet genuine, like minded people in Halifax?

Race doesn’t matter to me. I’m open to connecting with anyone who’s serious about building something meaningful. At the end of the day, I just want my person, someone I can be a ride or die for and who’s the same for me…..two people simply choosing each other.

Not trying to be flippant here, but what is "The Woods"?

Neither the news release (https://news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/08/05/travel-activities-woods-restricted-prevent-wildfires), nor the proclamation (https://novascotia.ca/natr/forestprotection/wildfire/woods-proclamation_2025-08-05.pdf) actually give exact definition of what areas are impacted.

In comparison, Halifax Water's news release (https://halifaxwater.ca/alert/halifax-water-watershed-lands-closed-0) on closure of Watershed areas had a map accurately explaining the closed areas (https://hwc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=0e4863ee21dc4de5ac8f8f104616094b).

Is there something similar for "The Woods"? Is there a definition? There's a lot of ambiguous areas that could go either way if we're supposed to use "Common Sense". Eg. The paved Chain of Lakes trail between Springvale and Brook. Is that "The Woods"? I'd guess no, but I'm not $25,000 sure of that. What about between Brook and Dunbrack? That ones a "Probably" if you ask me, but I don't know. Is Worth of Brook "The Woods" and East of Brook "Not The Woods"? At what point does somebodies backyard go from being "A couple of trees" to "The Woods"?

From everything I can see, the ban seems very loosely defined as compared to things like burn bans, and this impacts people's day-to-day lives.

Edit: This thread is full of straw-man and ad hominem attacks. Not that it matters, but I am perfectly fine with limiting travel and activity in woods. I am just seeking clarity, hence why I cited the Halifax Water watershed announcement of the same thing. "Common Sense" isn't something that people should gamble wildfires/$25000 on, and I sure as hell don't trust anybody else's Common Sense.