Letters editor

Shame on Darrell Dexter’s NDPs for betraying our trust and handing over our protected land to commercial industry—all wildlife, especially seals, deserves protection. To add insult to injury, the ones footing the bill for this commercial activity will be the Canadian taxpayer. Enough is enough—let’s keep protected land protected! —Leif Vernest, Burlington NS

I am finally getting around to writing about Tim Bousquet and property tax reform. I have followed his writings in The Coast since he started writing about the issue. Bousquet has managed to do what a journalist is supposed to do! He did not pretend to adhere to any phony standard of journalistic objectivity, he […]

Thanks, Bruce Wark, for your editorial (“Supremely unjust,” February 4) on the Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. Aside from doubts that Khadr did kill an American army medic, the whole scenario is a philosphical minefield. If Khadr did kill someone in battle, why is it being called “murder”? Because if he’s a suspected murderer, then […]

If you have a vivid imagination, you could perhaps understand how certain MLAs rationalized that some of their expenses cited in the Auditor General’s report were used for government business. Perhaps the model ship purchased by one MLA is on display in his constituency office. Perhaps the generator purchased by another MLA will be used […]

I understand that at Christmas it is hard to shell out $50 for a parking ticket. But Halifax is not the only city who has a winter parking ban. All of Canada has! How many of you whiners have driven or ridden in a snowplow? I have ridden a few times, through snow, blowing wind, […]

I support the winter parking ban on Halifax streets. The streets are there for the efficient and safe movement of motor vehicles and bicycles. The streets are not there for the free and unrestricted use by Haligonians to park their motor vehicles. It is not a birthright that a Haligonian with a motor vehicle be […]

I have to say: I love Tim Bousquet’s city council meeting live tweets. They are strangely amusing and, well, the best coverage I have seen of council meetings. You’d have to use brute force to make me watch the proceedings on Channel 10, but the Coast Twitter feed is perfect.—Graham MacDougall, Halifax

I am writing in response to an article that was published a couple of weeks ago by Lezlie Lowe regarding a vigil being held at the Spring Garden Road library (“Screaming mad,” News, December 3). Jean Steinberg, despite her claims, did not invent, create or otherwise in any way contribute toward the notion of having […]