It is rare that I write a Letter to the Editor, however, based on the content of the November 19 unsolved homicide article, I feel the need to clarify several points. It is disappointing that the article brought into question the experience and professionalism of our officers, particularly those in the Major Crime Unit. Our […]
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Enjoying the Tweets
Tuesday is my favourite day—I get to read all the hilarious city council tweets from Tim Bousquet. Thanks for having an excellent and much-needed Twitter commentary on the hijinks at City Hall and for making me laugh all day!—Rose Allen, Halifax
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NDP Fails Regarding Seal Hunt
It was with shock and dismay that I read Bruce Wark’s “Sealed and delivered” (Editorial, November 12). I have been a supporter of the NDP all my life, but no more. They have let us down and betrayed us in their quest to be like the other parties. For Sterling Belliveau to get up in […]
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People should wear both red and white poppies
Re: “White poppy or red poppy?” poll, November 5. Poppies remind us of peace as we remember the soldiers who died in the First World War. White poppies also remind us of the millions of innocent civilians who die in wars. War is less and less about soldiers going into battle. Today, soldiers can sit in bunkers in Nevada directing drones to drop bombs in Afghanistan. War is more and more about killing or maiming civilians and destroying their livelihoods, sometimes damaging their countries for generations yet to come. It takes a long time to recover from a war—for both
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Vaccine article missing some key points
I was disappointed Lezlie Lowe’s column this week (“Anti antigen,” The Lowe Files, November 5) on Rachael Smith-Bakhache didn’t include some critical elements. What are her religious beliefs? How was she brought up? Why does she have these views (other than hating processed, sugar-laden foods)? This lady sounds sadly misinformed and her Luddite beliefs pose […]
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Offensive comment made in “The Gomer Times”
Seth Scriver: I know that you were probably just being “ironic” or using a lazily cliched character, but using the phrase “cocksucker” as an epithet in numbers 17, 18 and 20 of your strip The Gomer Times, and then having the character using the term shoot the alleged cocksucker in strip number 21 was something […]
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Don’t glamourize crime
Does printing a how-to guide which promotes dressing up for Halloween as a local criminal create a culture of acceptance of criminal behavior (“City dress codes,” October 29)? I dunno. Maybe someone at The Coast could call the Vancouver Sun, which often glamourizes gang activity, and ask them. I thought that The Coast was more […]
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New Sobeys development an atrocity
I had my first glimpse of the new Sobeys development planned for north end Halifax in a recent newspaper feature. At first I thought it might have been inspired by Soviet East German architecture, but then I thought perhaps it might have been a project of a kindergarten class. Whatever the source of the inspiration, […]
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New name for Halifax Library
I picked up the paper this afternoon and the first thing I saw was your survey: “What should we name the new Halifax library?” (October 22). The answer came to me immediately, that it should be named The Muriel Duckworth Library in honour of the remarkable citizen, educator and activist who died in August at […]
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Canada Postal Service no longer a government service
Recently I received a small parcel from Idaho. Postal cost: $5.99US ($6.25CDN). I asked the postal clerk how much it was to mail it back. She weighed it and said, “$11.40—over 75 percent more, but,” she added, “it’s going out of the country so you don’t have to pay GST. If it were going to […]
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Glad to have public lectures posted
Thanks for posting upcoming public lectures in your Events section. It’s great to live in a university town and have the opportunity to attend lectures given by interesting, knowledgable and sometimes brilliant people.—J. Shotwell, Halifax
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Bousquet did a great job on Darwin article
Congratulations to Tim Bousquet for “Doolittle, Darwin and the ‘deeply dumb’” (October 8). What beautifully clear and understandable writing on a complex subject. Anyone who denies the fact that all plants and animals alive today, including ourselves, evolved from other forms of life over hundreds of millions of years, please read Jerry Coyne’s book Why […]