Letters editor

To the editor, Regarding Chris Benjamin’s “Drive-thru madness” (Feb. 5, Sustainable City), repealing the ban on drive-thrus in St. John’s was a mistake. Driving, unfortunately, is our main form of transportation, but would it kill people to get out and actually walk into the restaurant? I’d like to see mayor Peter Kelly and my councillor […]

To hear that my institution of higher learning allowed Jojo Ruba, from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, to speak further alienated me from the community of SMU.

To the editor, In reference to the winter parking ban, I personally am at wits’ end. Halifax is robbing us blind with parking tickets this winter season! I understand that snowplows need to get through, but my shelling out $300 this season doesn’t solve the problem. My past four years here taught me that there […]

To the editor, I was excited to see the big, fancy, flag-waving car pulling up half in front of my house and half in front of the church next door February 1. “Wheeeee,” I said to myself as lieutenant governor Mayann Francis was escorted from the car and disappeared behind the walls of the house […]

Dear Lezlie Lowe, I thought” your information in “Hidden racism” (Jan. 29, Lowedown) was well-researched and well-written. You brought things to people’s attention that we may not have realized, especially locked-up black hair products in Shoppers Drug Mart. I can understand where Shoppers is coming from. If something is getting stolen 10 times more than […]

Dear Tim Bousquet and your slacker audience,  As a local non-profit, we were gleeful to see your Get Involved Guide grace the cover of The Coast last week (Jan. 29). We loved the cliche-resistant tone of the article, which catered to your average semi-apathetic “slackers” looking for info, not the warm-fuzzies. We couldn’t help but notice […]

To the editor, Regarding “Enviro shakeup” (Jan. 22, Sustainable City), I think Chris Benjamin has missed some very good news for the environment in the recent provincial cabinet shuffle. When ministers change, one department’s loss is another’s gain. In this case, Brooke Taylor is very highly respected in the agricultural community, and no one I know is […]

To the editor, I would like to commend Tim Bousquet for exposing the fact that the Nova Scotia government has not met its 2008 targets as outlined in the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act (“Environmental failure, Reality Bites” Jan. 15). The Nova Scotia government needs to be reminded that Nova Scotians are aware of […]

To the editor,  I have to agree with Tim Bousquet’s opinion that widening Bayers Road is not a solution to the traffic problem, but something needs to change there (“Bayers Road widening,” Reality Bites, Jan. 29). I own a house in Timberlea, and have rented it out and moved back into the city because the […]

Thanks to The Coast for bringing into the public realm the situation of the horses at Bengal Lancers. The Lancers are a non-profit organization and rely on public money to support their mission, which includes programs, according to their website, to “teach the fundamentals of riding and allow all the participants to take an active […]