Councillor Sue Uteck: I find it interesting that you are able to condemn the winter parking ban tickets issued last Sunday evening as a “tax grab.” And yet less than a week earlier you were on CBC radio promoting the new HRM “tax reform,” a proposal designed to lower your own taxes, and raise taxes […]
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Will be parking it somewhere else
This full-time parking ban is absolutely outrageous in this time of economic turmoil. This city is so ass-backwards with the way it runs its day-to-day operations and with the way it treats its citizens. Fifty dollars for parking on the street! Where are people supposed to put their cars? Up their asses? The city’s public […]
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Winter wonderland
I think it’s absolutely wonderful that the HRM has begun issuing winter ban parking tickets, particularly on a rainy Sunday evening—the first night of the ban —when no snow removal efforts were underway. I was under the impression that the ban began on December 15, as were most people I had spoken with regarding this […]
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Taxing HRM
Tim Bousquet’s “Why everyone loses under the city’s property tax plan” (December 10) is an excellent article and those who read it will understand much about the tax reform plan and why it can’t possibly work. My first question is: why haven’t the powers that be requested information on tax reform from similar-sized areas, so […]
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Bruce Fisher on The Coast’s tax reform analysis
The Coast’s recent “opinion” piece on the tax reform issue contains a number of errors and misleading statements that need clarification. Property Tax Reform started not because of a south end Halifax lobby effort, but because the existing tax system was not serving its citizens well. As has been well-documented, the value of one’s home […]
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Every day is Love Day
I love your “Love the Way We Love” section. It inspires me and since I have discovered it, I find myself looking for others everywhere I go who might just be carrying groceries for a stranger or holding hands with a new date. I’m in love with the philosophy of this section of The Coast […]
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Yes Funswick
Calling New Brunswick No-Funswick (Events listings, November 26)? Classy. Anyone who can’t see the hidden beauty in your neighbouring province is just plain lazy. —Kyle Cunjak, Halifax
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Getting schooled
I was struck by several things in the letter “Junior high hits a low” (December 3) and felt the need to step in with my two cents. This gentleman wishes for his grandson to attend university and cites a private school that “can demonstrate that 97 percent of its graduates are admitted to university.” While […]
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Hill’s article on Ash too narrow
Dear Editor of the Coast; Last week’s article on Gregor Ash’s bid for the Halifax West riding in the next Federal Election was a good one in that it highlighted some of Mr. Ash’s interests and strengths. That being said, it also had too narrow of a focus and left the reader with the feeling that Mr. Ash is running simply to forward his own, somewhat narrow, Arts agenda. I think a truly balanced article should have shed a little light on the other side of Mr. Ash, and let us know the real reason he’s running in Halifax West:
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Unschooled children
I want my grandson to attend university. I taught in one for 30 years. Now that my grandson is in junior high school I have been interested in his preparation, particularly in mathematics and English. He is an A student with an occasional B. Early in grade 7 he received a B on a math […]
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Love Savage…but in print
On Thursdays I like to pick up a newly printed copy of The Coast, head to my favourite coffee shop, get a drink and settle in for an hour or so of reading. I work my way through most of the articles, front to back, until I get to the very last line on the […]
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Cops need more time
I feel compelled as a retired staff sergeant from HRP, once in charge of Major Crime, to comment on Stephen Kimber’s story about unsolved murders in Halifax (“Dead wrong,” November 19). A murder is one of the most difficult cases to solve unless you have the evidence right in front of you, such as a […]